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Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1142, 26 March 1872, Page 2

The 88 Kangitoto is expected from Melbourne to day, and will be dispatched in the evening for Nelson, all other New Zealand ports, and Melbourne. The as Wallabi and Kennedy have been delayed for want of coal, owing to the river being ao low and the shoots at the mino having been washed away during the last flooJ. The Kennedy left at ten o'clock ]!"*• Tiifht- and the Wallabi will leave toTbe Southland- News reports:— The ship Christian M'Ausland takod an unprecedently large and valuable cargo from Bluff Harbor. She has now over 3000 bales of wool on board, and will take another 1000 bales, besides about 400 tons ot preserved meats and tallow. By the powerful hydraulic wool-pros recently erected at Bluff Harbor a considerable improvement has been effected on the method hitterto adopted of pressing and stowing the wool. Tinough the enormous pressure used (300 tons) four bales are now' stowed away in the same space that three occupied in previous ships loaded at the. Bluff, and from the apace thus economised on board this ship alone, the owners will realise .nearly LI3OO more than they could have done in previous seasons with similar freight. A commission has been appointed to enquire into the silting up of Hobson's Bay. They report that the Victorian Dredging Department is in a moat scandalous state of disorganisation, and thfct dredges lay unused for years, and that in the dredging yard waa found surplus iron stock sufficient to last the colony for fifty years to come.