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Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1355, 2 December 1872, Page 2

The p g Wallace returned yesterday morning from her trip to Hokitika, and will leave for the north to-day. "* The schooner 10, Pearn, master, arrived in the roadstead on Saturday morning, and was speedily brought to the wharf by the psDißpatch. She has made rather a long' trip of it, having left Port Philip Heads en the 14th ult, with light easterly winds; cleared the land on the 16th ult, with strong easterly weather, veering round to N.E., and remaining light winds and calm through 88^ 8 ; Wbld trying from N.E. to N.N.E. Sighted Mount Cook on the morning of the 27th, tearing S.E, distant sixty miles,' bnt did not reach the roadstead until the 30th, owing to the strong set of the cur--4e it to tho southward, She is as usual consigned to her owners, Glenn Bros, and will commence discharging cargo this ieo irins. The s s St Kilda, Captain Flowerday, arrived from Wangauui, on Saturday mornmg, with a cargo of sheep, cattle, &c. She did not cross the Buller bar this trip, but tv as tendered there by tho p s Result. The 8 s Bangitoto, Captain Mackie, after making a round of the New Zealand ports, arrived in this roadstead on Saturday morning, and as soon as the tide permitted she was tendered by tbe p s Dispatch, 'which transhipped her passengers and cargo. The Kangitoto then passed on to Hokitika, where she would be tendered the same tide. The Japanese barque Fu-Ju-Mam arrived at San Francisco on the 23rd of August, from Hong Kong, with a cargo of tea. This is stated to be the first vessel flying Japanese colors and manned by Japanese which has entered an American port. At Saltburn-by-the-Sea, a small wooden aox was picked up from the Burf on the ahore, containing two pieces of envelope, with the words "the Arrow," written in pencil, apparently very hnrriedly, on one of them, and on . the other, • written in a similar manner, "We are sinking fast, all hope is gona" ' There is, it is said, a horrible cargo floating about the German Ocean. The animals afflicted with the rinderpest at Hull were sent out in lighters, and it is said that they were sunk. One, at any rate, has not sunk, but ig still sailing with its cargo of putrifyini? carcases .on board. The unfortunate maater pf the steamtug Kent saw this lighter floatinghither and thither upon thl sea, and went alongside. In his own words, he found "she wasloaded with dead cattle the smell from which was fearfuL "