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Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1267, 21 August 1872, Page 2

The 8 8 Kennedy, Captain Creagh, arrived at the wharf yesterday from Nelson via Hokitika. She left Nelson at 8 p.m. on Saturday, and experienced fine weather throughout the passage. She returns to Hokitika to-day, with a cargo of coat The ps Dispatih took a long run to the northward yesterday morning, and succeeded., in securing two schooners, the Kaiuma and Sarah and Mary, both from Lyttelton. , She took them both in tow, and brought them to the wharf cv one trip. They are both produce laden, and ore consigned to Messrs Nancarrow, Henderson and Co. The schooner Spray, from Lyttelton, for Hokitika, was off this port yesterday. The s s Alhambro, from Melbourne direct, is due at Bluff Harbor. She was hot to leave Melbourne before tho 14th inst

The schooners Wild Wave and Wanderer have both sailed from Hokitika for Lyttelton, with cargoes of timber. The Agent-General has discovered what many of our merchants have also found out, that freight to New Zealand is cheaper by way of Melbourne than by direct vessels. Di Featherston suggests the expediency of the Colonial Secretary ascertaining the rate of freight at which railway plant could be conveyed from Melbourne to the chief pores of New Zealand, as it can be sent to Melbourne at from 17s Gd to 25s a ton, while tho freight from English ports to New Zealand is from 458 to 50s a ton.