PORT OF GREY.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1258, 10 August 1872, Page 2

PORT OF GREY.

HIGH WATB*. This Day— 1.27 a.m. ; 1.45 p.m. To-horrow— 2.3 %m ; 2.23 p.m. ARRIVED. August 9— Nil «AIUU>. August 9— Nil VXPKOTXD ARRIVAI* Garibaldi, from Lyttelton Isabella, from Lyttelton Wallace, from Nelson Wallabi, from Wanganui Jane Anderson, from Dunedin Tararna, from Melbourne Charles Edward, from Weatport Murray, from Hokitika Jane Anderson, from Dunedin VESSELS IN PORT. Dispatch, tug-steamer Kate Conley, from Melbourne

Tbe barque Kate Conley will positively sail to-day for Newcastle direct. She is expected to take « large number of passengers. The b s Taranta, from Melbourne, had not arrived at Hokitika up to the closing of the Telegraph Office last night. She may now arrive at any moment, and will be despatched for Nelson, other New Zealand ports, and Melbourne, via the Bluff. The steamer Lioness sailed from Hokitika for Westport on Wednesday, for the purpose of towing into that port Messrs Spence Bros. «nd Co* brigantino Alma, which has arrived there from Melbourne direct. information has been received in Dunedin that the well-known schooner Aurora, belonging to that port, had been totally wrecked while endeavoring to come out of Catlin's River, bonnd to Oamarn, with a cargo of timber. It is the intention of Mr Thornton, Proviaeisl Engineer, of Canterbury, to bore on the site of the anchorage ground at Timaru, with the view, if there be a sufficient depth of cUy, to put down screw mooriug*. In 1596 the Dutch explorers in Nova Zembla oonstracted a small wooden hut. Captain Carslen, in a fishing expedition between the 9th of September and tbe 4th of November list, made the tour of Nova Zembla, during which he discovered this house had fallen to rains and completely covered with ice. In it be discovered 150 objects of interest; amongst other things books which, after nearly 300 year>, are in a good stat9 of preservation. The collection is to be placed in the mnseam of Amsterdam.