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Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1215, 20 June 1872, Page 2

The S.S. Albion returned from Hokitika early yesterday morning, was tendered by the p. 8. Dispatch, and sent on her trip to Melbourne. She took from this port 12 passengers, and 21730z of gold. The 8.8. Waipara ran up from Hokitika yesterday morning, with the Greymonth portion of the 8.8. Albion's cargo, and left in the evening for Hokitika. The schooner Mary Van Every, from Dunedin, was towed to the wharf hut evening by the p. s. Dispatch, after a long trip of neatly three weeks. She brings a general cargo. The schooner Elizabeth Curie, bound for Wellington, was towed to sea last evening by the p. 8. Dispatch. The following particulars respecting the loss of the Clara Sayers, barque, bound to Mauritius ' from Sydney, appear in the Maurititu Commercial Gazette, of the 4th April:— "Captain J. flobb, of the ship Pandora, from Calcutta to the Mauritius, reports that on the 29th of March about Ideg north, off Rodrigues, he was boarded by a. boat from that island, reporting the total loss of the barque Clara Sayers, Middleton, master, from Sydney to Mauritius,' on the reef 8 southward to the Rodrigues on. the 21st March. One man was drowned when leaving the wreck, and another died shortly after landing; the rest of the crew and passengers are safe and well on shore, and proposed to leave for Mauritius in the schooner Wizard, which was shortly expected there.' The Clara Sayers was owned by Messrs J. Frazer and Co, of Sydney, and is insured for L4OOO. The captain of the ship St. Magnus, which arrived at Calcutta on the 22nd February, reporta that on the Oth January, when in lat. 39 S., lon. 19 E., the ship experienced a violent gals. At four o'clock on the same afternoon a man was passed on a piece of wreck, and about half an hour afterwards another and a larger piece of wreck was passed, on which there were ten men. About a quarter of a mile to the windward .tho captain saw a great; quantity of wreck, having the appearance of a deck-house, a quantity of seamen's chests,' the entire deck of a house, and also the half of a mast, with white hoops, and ari eight-squared, spar painted lead color. About five o'clock the captain wore ship to try and render assistance to the unfortunate men, and in doing so pasted companion doors., skylight, binnacle, accommodation ladder, and a quantity of small wood painted white, blue, and green. A small window, painted green, was picked up, bat unfortunately the weather was. too rough to enable .the vessel to approach ! the men on the floating wreck ; and unless they succeeded in keeping afloat until some other ship approached, there can be little doubt as to their fate. Possibly the little window, and the description given to the wreckage, may give 'some clue to the name of the ill* fated vessel, which no doubt was caught 'and capsized by the same gale through which the St. Magnus passed.