PORT OF GREY.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1228, 5 July 1872, Page 2

PORT OF GREY.

HIGH WATKR. Tina Day— 9.44 a.m. ; 10.4 p.m. ARRIVED. July 4-Nil SAILED. July4-Nil EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Gem, from Melbourne Charles Edward, from Nelson Sarah and Mary, from Melbourne Murray, from Nelson Wallace, from Hokitika VESSELS IK FORT. Dispatch, tug-steamer 10, from Melbourne The steamer Wallabi, from Groymoath, arrived at Wanganui at half-past ten o'clock yesterday morning. The schooner Crest of the Wave, from Dunedin, was towed into Hokitika on. Wednesday, and the schooner Kaiuma, Wild Wave, and Emerald are reported as having arrived in the roadstead. The Louisville Ledger says :-— "The Holland arrived at New York on the 24th of March, after a long and boiaterous trip, with 600 passengers on board, being at least 200 more than she bad accommodation for. The vessel had been at sea but a few days when it was discovered the stock of provisions was very light In less than a week all the flour, potatoes, and other vegetables were exhausted and the passengers were reduced to a diet of ship biscuit and hone beef, and this of the poorest quality, and doled out in the smallest portions. Starvation began to stare the wretched emigrants in the face, although the ship's officers and crew seemed to have plenty of good and healthy food. To all appeals for a fair division of this food among the emigrants the officers and crew only answered with curses and blows. Sickness broke out among the emigrants, and in their desperation some of them made an effort to secure more food, but were knocked down and kicked and beat by the crew. Many of these miserable people, men, women, and children, were exposed on deck to the cold, and were badly frozen. To euch a degree of starvation were these emigrants reduced that when their scanty allowance of food was issued to them, they had to fight for its possession, the desperation of the half-starved passengers, under the impulse of self-preser-vation, leading them to try to take by force from the weakest their share of the wretched food The hone beef was absolutely half rotten, and t its stench almost stifling, yet the emigrants were forced to eat it to pave them from a horrible death by starvation. The limbs of many women and children, as well as a number of men, were so severely frozen that in many cases amputation will be necessary. A report of tne sufferings of .these emigrants was made to the authorities in New York." The agent of the Cunanl line has received information of the loss of the steamer Tripoli, from Liverpool for Boston. The Tripoli went ashore on South Tusker Rock, off Carnsore point, on the Irish coast. The crew and passengers were saved, but the vessel will be a total loss.— A despatch received from Wexford, Ireland, giving some particulars of the disaster to the Cunord steamship Tripoli, from Liverpool for Boston, says that the accident occurred at four o'clock yesterday morning when most of the passengers were asleep. Carnsore Point, off which the steamship went ashore, is the most southwesterly extremity of the Irish mainland. Several sailing vessels which were in the vicinity took off the passengers and landed them at Wexford. The luggage of the.passengers was subsequently secured by other vessels and carried to Queenstown.

It is probable that this spring will witness • terrible naval engagement fought off the British coast The conflict will be no sham affair; it will be an earnest pounding with the monatrous artillery of modern times, hurling those Titan bolts of five hundred weight apiece which are to be the pleasant *' medium" of future sea fights. But the peculiarity about this tremendous battle is that there will be no enemy ; the action, for all the thundering discharges and frightful noise of war, will resemble those friendly suits in our courts where there is a difference of opinion, and people go to a kind of amiable loggerheads to get the opinion of the judges. In a word, the British iron-clad Hotspur is intended to attack the British iron-clad Glatton, in order to test the real strength of revolving turrets, the advantages and disadvantages of the system under fire, with other points, which can be proved only by actual experiment. It is a pity that the Glatton cannot return the Hotspur's missives, as that wonld ahjo test the fixed tunet and steam gun-carnage of the* asttdfknt. But there must be a crew on board to effect this ; and, perhaps, the British Admiralty hardly sees its way to such a thorough programme. One reflects pensively unpon Don Quixote's famous experiment with his sword-proof helmet, to make which took so long— and then, alas ! his Toledo clove through it at the first stroke. The good knight patched up the casque and wore it, aiming no more strokes ; but if the Glatton proves a failure in any way, England will be warned in time, and cease bunding turret vessels of such a patera. " This cannonade," says the London Telegraph, "ought to be thoroughly carried out, since only thus will it be worth all its cost ; and it must be expensive work to be blazing away at our own navy. A very little of such crucial experimentalising ought to go a long distance indeed toward teaching the Chief Constructor of our Navy what to build."