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Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1345, 20 November 1872, Page 2

The b s Tararua pwsed this port yesterday morning. At tide-time she was tendered at Hokitika, and returned here! The p s Dispatch was out waiting for her, and quickly transhipped her passengers, sending her on to Melbourne direct. The tender did not return to port until about one o'clock this morning. The s a Waipara, lengthened and otherwise improved, according to the description given elsewhere, arrived at Hokitika yester- i day, having called at Lyttelton and Westport, on h6r passage from DunediD. She was expected to loave Hokitika [for Greymouth at a late hour la »t night. . Tho p s Wallace passed this port yesterday morning on the way to ■ Hokitika, which port she is to leavo on her return trip northward. The schooner Isabella, coal-laden, was towed oat yesterday afternoon, leaving the wharf once again bare of shipping. Outside she got becalmed, and came to anchor for a few hours, but would, no doubt, be able .to leave daring the night. It is rumored that Captain Rentier, late of the Rangatira, has been offered by Mr Houghton, the new ownet of the Star of the South, the command of that vessel at the end of the year. The launch and trial of a boat for one of the missionaries on tbe Island of Efatc, New Hebrides, took place on tho sth. at the building yard of Mr George White, Williamstown. The friends of the mission supplied th*. innds through the Rev J. Clark, who gave the order. Although the day was decidedly unpropitious, one lady and several gentlemen mustered to assist in the ceremony. The boat is constructed upon White's patent lifeboat principle, and is capable of carrying 30 persons, ft measures in length, 28tt ; beam, Gft ; depth, 2ft 2in. It is clinchbuilt, of half -inch Kauri piue, and is copper fastened, 'and fitted with brass knees and rowlocks, &c. The floating properties of the _baat consist in 12 water-tight compartments, built with two thicknesses of half -inch pine, five air-tight chambers on e*ch Bide and one at each end, the one at the stern being fitted aa a Ib«lter~!or^fsVißlons"or~clotßes. Tne «rafb is made cither for rowing or sailing, and is equally manageable fall of water or empty, the water only acting as ballast. Hence its great buoyancy, and its ability to live in almost any Bea. The trial was highly successful, and tho boat will be a decided acquisition to the missionary for whom it has been'sccured.