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Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1162, 19 April 1872, Page 2

; Tho steamer Alhambra arrived off Greymonth at an e&rly hour yesterday morning, and was tendered by the Dispatch, by which hjuijul ■ ii v in' n i vt poiNvugcili ncio Dtllppxl and landed* On returning to the port the Dispatch, had similar experiences to those of the steamer Murray on the previous evening. , The channel is wide and shallow, and, ■taking the ground as -she came in, she remained hard and fast for some time, the sea making .a clean, breach over her, to the detriment.of the personal appearance of the passengers, but with no more than trifling . injury to the vessel herself. It appears "by telegram from Westport that whiles the - Murray, on the previous evening; hung upon '. one. of the Jiumniocks in the .channel, she ' underwent a'severe buffetting, losing some of her bulwarks, having her deck-house stove in, and having had one of her boats carried away. The damage she sustained will probably entail detention for a day or two at Nelson. . . --.-. The staamer Kennedy, after a short delay . for the arrival of the San Francisco mail, J left Nelson on Monday last, arrived at Westport on Tuesday, and at Hokitika yesterday morning. She sailed from Hokitika for Greymouth hut evening, and got into this' ' port without difficulty on .the same tide. She was 'shortly afterwards 1 followed by the Waipara, which brought a large cargo tran- ” shipped from the * steamers ' Albion" and Albsmbra, with a small quantity of local - freight. Both vessels sail this evening— the Kennedy for the North, the Waipara, \for Hokitika. s Fiji papers to the 17th March, whiah have ■ been received, state that the local Court had resolved, to sell a British vessel, under a decree for wages, after a protest on the part of the envoi, and interference of the captain of the German corvette Nymphe. News has been received that. a terrible hurricane ravaged the island of New Cale- . donia last month. The schooner Trene was ' wrecked, and considerable damage done to the ciops. The members of the New Guinea Search . Expedition have presented a handsome testir monial to Lieutenant Gowjand, R.N, who wa» in command. . H.M.S. Cossack is taking in stores at Sydney preparatory to a cruise in the Pacific She will leave in the course of a few days. The whaler Chance, which has arrived at ' Sydney, suffered "severely in the late gales, and lost spars and sails. Mauritius papers are crowded with particulars of the hurricane experienced recently on the island. The hurricane raged from the 13th to 16th February. No damage to any extent had been iuflicted on the plantations, bnt the marine casaulties we're numerous and disastrous. An Italian barque, which had been driven into port through stress of weather, had ten of her crew swept away. The William Fairbairn, a largo iron clipper ship, of about 1300 tons, M'Kenzie, master, from Liverpool, bound to Bombay, with coal, was towed iuto Fort Louis on tho 22nd February totally dismasted, ana with - her bulwarks washed away. .The ship .was caught in a terrific gale on the 13th February, and .in addition, to, being dismasted, she had her poop deck completely .gutted, and her canvas blown to shreds. The cap- , fj tain and several of the crew were also injured. Another sufferer was the M6hari, . from Singapore. The ship Staffordshire bad aleo several spars carried away, ami was otherwise damaged by the 'violence of the weather. By advices from Western Australia': wo Icarn that severe hurricane* had prevailed along the West Australian coast, and that. disAUn 16 shipping had been unpleasantly numerous. Anutog the names of the vessels which suffered were those of the. Laughing Wave, Bio, Sea fiipple, and 0. H. Peake in Oage's Roads, and the Mildas in Geographc 'Bay, off Bunbnry, sixteen mile? north of Lockville.