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Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1233, 11 July 1872, Page 2

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Per Charles Edward, for Westport: 56 tons coal, N Edwards and Co. The brigantine Sarah and Mary is announced to sail to-day for Melbourne direct. She has excellent accommodation for passengers. •.••■• The s 8 Tararua, from Melbourne direct, is due at Hokitika to-day, and will most probably be tendered at this port to-morrow. The ps Charles* Edward sailed yesterday forenoon for Westport and Nelson. The ketch Jupiter, from Greymouth, arrived at Lyttelton on. the 3rd inak The harbor improvements at Belfast, Victoria, continue to be a great success. The Marten, schooner, with a full cargo of timber, crossed the bar, and sailed up the river to Moyne wharf without the aid of a steam tug. The Elizabeth shipped 300 sheep from the Queen's wharf for Melbourne, and having been tusged down the river, crossed the bar with ease. . A change in the command of the N.Z.S.S. Company's as Wellington has taken place, Captain Carey, late of the s s Keera, succeeding Captain Kennedy. The Cnited States navy costs' the Government upwards of 20,0«K),000dol a year. An American paper remarks : -" This is worse than boarding a five dollar mule at a livervstable at six dollars a week." Sixteen vessels, of 17,700 tons, were launched on the Clyde in the month of April, compared with thirteen vessels, of 17,700 toon, during the same period of last year. : The Italian brig Paslina, from Marsailles, with wheat, put into Plymouth. Sound on the 28th April, and landed one of her seamen far advanced in a very severe case of smallpox. The rest of the crew were so panicstricken that they refused to live with the sufferer in the forecastle, where he was found lying in a frightful state of neglect. The quarantine medical officer at Plymouth, Mr Fox, demurred to the cargo for several feet round where the man lay being sold for purposes of food.