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Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1124, 5 March 1872, Page 2

\mended manifest per Alhainbra : 15130z lldwt gold, Union Bank of Australasia; 1500oz, Bank "New South Wales. The &b. Kennedy is announced to leave this port on Wednesday evening for Westport and Nelson. TheAlbiou arrived at the Bluff from Mel* bourne on 'Saturday, and sailed tho sawe iii»ht for Dunedin. She will coins on round here, and be despatched about the 10th for Melbourne direct. Tho ship Whirlwind has arrived at Por^ Chalmers, from Hong Kong, with 350 Chinese. ' . ' The Hydra, from Newcastle to Port Chalmers, met with bad weather, and threw 100 tons of coal overboard. A vessel which lately arrived in liobson s Bay has a hintoty of her own. The ship in question is the Rurik, a barque flying the mercantile flag of the Russian navy. The Rurik was for years a steam-yacht for the use of the Emperor Alexander. She now carries, not an Emperor and his fortunes, but deala and battens. Some ocean racing took place between tne ships Hampshire and City of Hankow, from London, and the Loch Earn from Clyde to Melbourne. The London ships hod a neck and neck race, the one having left Plymouth on November 23, anil the Hankow having passed the Lizard on the samo day. The Earn loft the Clyde ou November 20, and all three, which curiously enough are Clyde-built ships, arrived in Hobson's Bay within an hour of each other.