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Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1120, 29 February 1872, Page 2

The B.S Rangitoto was tendered by the Dispatch yesterday forenoon, landing a number of steerage passengers, and receiving a — itor6P^#'a^Qf,JaQld^r_warfc.d_by_the Dispatch, on the same tide, towed in the schooner Nancy with a cargo of oats from Invercargill, and towed out the schooner Thie9 Friends with a miscellaneous cargo for Brighton. The Greymouth portion of the Rangitoto's cargo had been transhipped to the Waipara, and brought up by her from Hokitika, from which pjrfc the Murray also arrived. The paddle.steamer Charles Edward, from Kelson, arrived at midnight. She will leave 1 at noon to-day for Hokitika. " When the s.s Rangitoto left Melbourne the Kate Conley aud Mary Cumming were loading for Greymouth, the Sarah and Mary, for Hokitika, and the Maid of Erin, for Westport The ketch Warhawk returned to Hobson's Bay yesterday, from the wreck of the ship Sussex at Barwon Heads. She brings up about GO tons of recovered cargo, consisting chiefly of iron, and. the securing of this was attended with some difficulty— Argus, Feb2o. Tho 8.8 Aldinga went under the shears at the railway pier, Williamstown, yesterday, and had. her new boilers, which came round from Adelaide in the s.s Claud Hamilton, y lifted in. The work was accomplished speedily and succesifully, and the Claud with the Aldinga in tow was away from the shears at 1 p.m. The completion of the repairs and alterations to the Aldinga will now be rapidly pushed on — Argus, Feb. 20. The barque Indus, coal laden, from Newcastle to Dunedin, has foundered off the Dromedary. The crew reached Bega in an open boat. A report has reached Sale, we learn from the Oippa Land Times, that the Mary Ann, schooner,' Caplsin LimscLow, from Melbourne, with a full cargo, was wrecked on a sandspit close to the entrance of the Lakes, on Wednesday, in attempting to take the bar. As the weather has not been severe, there is some hope that a portion of the cargo may be recovered. No particulars have come to hand as yet, but it is known that no lives bave been lost, though the vessel is said to be badly damaged. Operations were commenced lately by the harbor authorities for the removal from Hobson's Bay of the sunken hull of the ship Eliza. The stem, stern, and sides of the Vessels are to be broken up by means of gun* powder explosio l, and the timber, as it is loosened aud detached, is to be hoisted into punts ard towed to a place where it will not be in anybody's road. The work, like tho removal of the ship Lightning f rum Corio Bay under similar circumstances, is likely to be tedious ; but fortunately in this case there is no cargo to hinder the workmen. Operations are still being prosecuted with rigor at the wreck of the Sussex. The divers are busily at work, and daily large quantities of the cargo are sent up from tho hold to the surface and despatched ashore on a raft constructed of wood and manned by five or six hands. Owing to the breakers, the voyage, short as it is, is attended with dangers, for once or twice some of the men : have been swept off, but they nave always been safely rescued. It is intended to break < up toe between decks in orde rto get at some ' of the cargo which is beyond the reach of , the divers.