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Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1099, 5 February 1872, Page 2

The p. s. Charles Edward is oxpectod horo from Nelson to-day. She is announced to leave the following afternoon for the North. The s,B. Waipara arrived on Saturday afternoon from Hokitika, and leaves to-day for Weßtport. The p. s. Luna arrived at Westport from Wellington on Saturday. . After landing tho hon. Mr Fox, she left the same tide for Wanganui. The Hawaiian Gazette is responsible for the following ;— " The British barque Alice Cameron, which took the crew of the barque A. H. Badger into Sydney, after she was abandoned in consequence of tho collision with the steamer Nevada, was formerly the whaling barque Syren Queen, of Fairhavcn, which sailed several seasons from this port some years since. . It is reported that she is to bo fitted at Sydney for a whaler, and that ahe will come here next spring for a whaling crew to go north." The iron paddle-steamer Ajax was wrecked near Mewstone, «t the entrance of Plymouth Sound, 18 years ago. No attempt has since been made to clear away the obstruction to navigation thus caused, and the other morning the second fatal wreck took place on the engine of the Ajax. Three men were lost in j this latter casualty, which occurred to a Plymouth fishing boat. A terrible calamity has occurred off the mouth of the Mersey. On the night of Thursday, the 16th November, cries of distress were heard by the captain of a passing steamer, but they 'gradually became fainter, and died away, and the steamer, after waiting near the spot for an hour and a half went on to Liverpool. Next day two sunken ships were discovered, and from information which has since been received there seems to be no doubt that these vessels were the Mary Baker, of Boston, United States, and the Arrow brigantine, homeward bound from Sierra Leone. One of- the Mary Baker's j boats and part of her gear have been picked up, and a dead seaman who was found in tho rigging of that ship has been identified as one of the crew of the brigantine when she left Liverpool on her outward voyage. He had evidently clambered into the rigging of the ship while his own vessel was sinking after the collision, and died there from exposure.