SHIPPING. PORT OF GREY.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1169, 27 April 1872, Page 2

SHIPPING. PORT OF GREY.

HTGH WATEB. Tins Day— l.ls a.m. ; 1.40 p.m. To-morrow— 2.7 a.m ; 2.37 p.m. -ARRIVED. April 20-NiL SAILED. April 26-Nil. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. 10, from Melbourne Mary Cum mine, from Melbourne Magnet, from Melbourne . Murray, from Nelson Kennedy, from Nelson Gothenburg, from Melbourne Albion, from Melbourne Tararua, from Melbourne Wallabi, from Wanganui VJSSSELS IJf POBT. Dispatch, tug-steamor

Tho ss Kounedy is announced to leave here for Westport and Nelson on Monday night The missionary schooner Southern Cross, ' Captain Jacob, left Auckland for Norfolk Island and Melanesia on the 1 lth. Among the passengers were the Rev Mr Codrington and Captain Tilly. The Right Rev Bishop C<>wie, the Htm. W. Swainson, and others, assembled on the Wynyard pier to bid fufewell to the rev. gentleman. A Hawke's Bay paper says that Captain Fraser, who has : commanHed ihe vessel Dayspring for eight years, and who is about to leave fot England, has been presented by the Sabbath School teacherers to the Presbyterian Church of Victoria, with an address, accompanied by a purse of sovereigns, as a mark of esteem. .The Freemantle Herald reports that "on Sunday, the 10th of March, the colony of Western Australia was visited by a storm such aa hasnever before been experienced. Perth and Freemantle suffered from its effects more than any other districts. In Freemantle the gale was particularly disastrous, toppling chimneys over, unroofing houses, displacing ceilings, and putting passengers out of their penpendicular. The' shipping in the bay was for a long time in a most precarious situation. One after the other the vessels in harbor parted their cables, and drifted hopelessly on to a lee shore. The Rio, Laughing Wave, and G. H. Peake went aground at Woodman's Point, all sustaining more or* less damage. The ■ Bio has been brought off, and has returned to her anchorage The other two vessels, at the time we write, are atill aground. At Bunbury, the Midas, a vessel chartered by a New Zealand linn to take a valuable cargo of timber, among which were a number of 70ft piles for a jetty at Dunedin, dragged her anchors, went ashore on the bar, and became a helpless, hopeless wreck in a cople of hours. She has since been sold by auction, with her cargo, for L 255. Strange to say that at the Vasse, only 30 miles from Bunbury, the gale was not felt at all. H.M.S. Clio, which was anchored in Gage's Road at the time of the gale, W to steam at the rate of five knots an hour Vmartls her first anchor in order to Keep her around. Had«the gale continued for a ranch longer time than it did, she would have had to leave her anchorage. The extreme fury, of the storm lasted only for about hours, but during that time the wind worked welL Telegraph posts were torn down, tele--graphL* ■■■■■' '■ ■; -"^interrupted for several days, ami tho roam ouairUuunr-iTy fallen ±»coo ia all parts of the country." TSno^Kanigsberger Zeitung has an interesting account of tho Prussian torpedo boats, three of which are already finished and v in the port of Dantzic ; three unfinished, destined for Kiel, and a number under construction. The boats are cigar-shaped aud shot-proof against the rifle and mitrailleuse. In the bow is the rudder, and in the stern an observatory, with a peep-hole about the size of a thaler, tho funnel hardly 3ft above water and of very small diameter. The whole boat is about 40ft long, and the only paifs abovo water is the funnel and observatory. The bridge is ona level with the water, and protected by a double shield. It is of a grey color and very fast. It will carry tor--1 pedoes whose construction is unknown, dash into an enemy's fleet, especially at night, blow up the ship, and make away again. Batavia, November 24 — The first mate (M'Lachlau) and seven men of the Taeping, who were landed on November 17, left in tbe boat eighteen hours after the disaster, and were picked up by the Omer and Julie, Sabatier, five days afterwards. They report that the vessel was broken up when they passed the spot in the Omer aud Julie,, the reef being surrounded with chests of tea. The missing boat of the Taeping was picked up by the Serica (since passed St. Helena) ; it contained the second mate and four men, who have been lauded at Anjier.— New York HeraUl During the year 1871, 658 lives were rescued by the lifeboats of the Royal National Institution, in addition to .')l vessels saved from destruction, and the Lifeboat Institution has granted rewards for saving 230 lives by fishing and oftier boats, making a total of 888 lives saved last year mainly through its instrumentality. The iuaiitution has contributed from its formation to the saving of 20,752 shipwrecked persons, for which services 915 gold and silver medals and L 36,673 in money have been given as rewards. A great novelty in marine architecture has lately been constructed by Messrs Simons and Co, at Renfrew. It is an iron steam vessel, combining in itself the respective properties of a powerful dredger, a steam-hopper barge, and a screw tug steamer. The peculiar arrangements of the vessel have been patented, and it is intended to use it in commercial seaports in North America to keep them clear of silting aud obstructions. It is stated it is capable of lifting, conveying, and depositing 1000 tons per day. < A formidable addition to the smaller warlike vessels will soon be made at Chatham Dockyard, consisting of the iron composite gunboats now building there— the Kestrel, the JRifletnan, the .Frolic, the Fidget, the Badger, the Aerial, and the Zephyr. These handy little vessels do not draw much water, and will be armed with very heavy guns. '