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Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1385, 8 January 1873, Page 2

The only shipping event yesterday was the departure of the s.s. Waipara for Westport. The s.s. Kennedy is the next boat expected from Nelson, but her whereabouts was not known yesterday. The Imperial German squadron, which is now fitting out for a voyage round the globe, is to consist of five men-of-war, under the command of Captain Werner, who will receive the rank of admiral. The expedition will sail via Madeira and the Cape Verde Islands to Barbadoes, thence to New Orleans, Cuba, Jamaica, and Hayti Towards the end of February next the squadron will sail southward to Pernambuco, Rio La Plata, and round Cape Horn to the Fiji Islands and Australia, returning home by Japan, China, Siam, and the Cape of Good .Hope. The voyage is expected to last more than a year and a half. The Collingwood, a new iron clipper ship built by Walter Hood and Co., of Aberdeen, and now on her maiden voyage, arrived in port yesterday from London She is a smartlooking, well-finished vessel of over 1000 tons register, and is intended by her owners, Messrs Devitt and Moore, of London, for the Australian trade, in which, judging from appearances, she ought to occupy a prominent position both with passengers and shippers. Her voyage out, however, has not been very propitious, and has been accomplished under considerable and unforeseen difficulties, the worst of which was her getting seriously crippled aloft during a sudden and severe gale encountered off thette lsland»"D»»teir d > Acunha_-- JBi « ico ~' l;na? ~w me the master, —€Hpfsui Calthrop (well-known in the Sydney trade), has been seriously ill, and the comm&nd of the ship devolved on Mr Ismay, chief officer, who has brought her into port. During tiie same gale one of the crew, who went under the name of William Patterson, but was supposed to belong to a German family of distinction, was killed by the fall of the mizen topqallantmost, and four others of the crew were also severely injured, and disabled from duty by the fall of other portions of the wreck. On Ist November, the day after the disaster, a Norwegian ship showing the following signals (international code) -JLKH-BLM-BLJR^ and WCV, bore down to the Collingwood and made offer of assistance, and help was also tendered at the same time by the British ship Palmyra, 62 days out from London to Kurrachee, and and again on 9th November by the British barque Scawfeil, 65 days out from London to Colombo. Sefore that date, however, the wreck had heen cleared away, and a new .foreteßmast^uJi, ujr, .anjj.. the^mizentop. thrcp. deeply sensible of the kindness shown to him by the masters of these vessels, takes the Dreseat opportunity of acknowledging it— Argue, 28th nit