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Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1121, 1 March 1872, Page 2

The p. s. Charles Edward left the wharf yesterday, shortly after noon, for Hokitika. She is expected to return here to-day, and leave at midnight for Westport and Nelson. The s.s. Waipara lott hero yesterday on ono of her subsidised trips to Okarito, Martin's Bay, &c. The s.s. Alhambra is expected to show up here to-day, from Nelson, and will be promptly despatched for Melbourne direct. The Margaret, cutter, has been wrecked at Levuka. In a heavy gale at the Thames, the yacht Calypso was wrecked, and otber boats damaged. Captain Leech, Harbor Master, Westport, who sounded tbobar on Monday at high water, found that there was 15ft (Hn in the old channel, and 12ft in the new channel. A private telegram to Westport reports that the Onehunga, consigned to Mr J. Munro, baa been wrecked off Oaraaru. The hull hus uone to pieces, but some of the ; car«o has been (saved. The United States sailing corvette St. Mary's has left Auckland harbour, where she remained unusually long fur a foreign ship of war. The Blanche is still there, but also leaves very shortly. In Port Underwood recently, a boat conveying wool to the Bhip Chile was capsized, and the five men iv it clung on to it for two hours before they were rescued. One of them, having lost a meerschaum pipe in the accident, swam back for it — braving the sharks— the distance being about half a mile. He succeeded in finding and recovering the pipe, and then swam back to the boat. During the late gale at Fort Chalmers, the barque Eleanor, moored alongside the hulk Bcnbnry, cast off, but before she could be brought up drifted in dangerous proximity to the Floating Dock, aud close to the rocks. A punt belonging to Messrs Macfarlane and Mills broke adrift from the Warrior Queen with machinery on board, hut was luckily rescued before damage was done, and anchored under Observation Point. The tut; Samson took the ground above this, but did no damage. The barque Seagull drove from off Observation Point, and in the evenin ;, at low water, slewed two feet on to the bank, but is in no danger. On shore, fences .were blown down, windows smashed, and trees uprooted. The paddle-steamer Golden Age did not run; the paddle-steamer Peninsula made her morcing trip to Dunedin, but did not return daring the day.