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Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1261, 14 August 1872, Page 2

The m Tararua arrived off Hokitika at an early hour yesterday morning, but was unable to be tendered. In the afternoon she ■teamed np to Greymouth, bat by the time the reached the roadstead, an increasing j southerly wind and sea made it doubtful whether she could be successfully tendered, and the Dispatch did not proceed outside. The Tartrua came to anchor in the roadstead for the night, but the weather is so broksn that, in all probability, the circumstances will be less favorable to-day than they were yesterday afternoon. She is understood to have a large cargo for Hokitika and for this port. The steamers Murray and Wallabi were in j readiness to sail yesterday afternoon for Westporc and Wanganui respectively, but, in consequence of an unfavorable change in the weather, with every indication 'of a dirty night at sea, both vessels remained in port, awaiting a change. The steamship Albion sailed from Nelson for the West Coast At two o'clook yesterday afternoon, and, with ordinary weather, should arrive off this port to-day, bat the s*a off Cape Farewell yesterday mast have been more than the majority of ship-captain's would care to encounter. The schooner C. Taylor has arrived »t Newcastle, from Mauritius, in ballast, having been unable to obtain any cargo for Australia. It has been ascertained that the cause of the sinking of the Saxonia, at Newcastle, was one of the plates being chafed through by the chain fastenings of the piles of the wharf, alongside which the steamer was' loading, and the damage was not discovered until the ship was sinking. Tenders have been called for raising her, which it is expected will be accomplished in about eight days. Mr R. Forbes, of Lyttelton, received a letter dated London, Juno 15, which has the following statement respecting an over-due vessel : — We are informed the Agamemnon, with your goods, has just pat into Rio, bat there is no information as to the cause of the vessel putting into this port. In a letter dated Falkland islands, April 3rd, addressed to Messrs Virgoe and Co, of Melbourne, by Captain Paddle, of the ship Monarch, which lef c here in the beginning of February, he states that owing to the heavy weather encountered, and the straining of the ship, she sprang a leak, and he found it impossible to proceed farther without repairs. He reached port on Good Friday, when he was recommended to discharge cargo until the ship ceased to make water, ana it was feared it would be two months. before he could leave port,— .4 rgiu, 29th July.