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Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1464, 14 April 1873, Page 2

■'i 7' ; i — ~ * ;•-."> -i---.i-.-X ,Thfl s.b Kennedy left yesterday forenoon for Wesiqport and Nelson, . / : ,Thes.s Alhambra, fromNelsoni bound for Melbourne, arrived late on the tide yesterday. t - The Despatch ran. out and waited in the roadstead until she arrh ed, so as to save the ocean steamer the loss of a tide in working, the ports. _ The Alhambra arrived about 2 p.m., transhipped her passengers and cargo and.pass,d^in -to Hokitika. . The Dispatch returned to port at ten o'clock jiast night. A steam yacht was launched at New York • for, a. jWellknown banker of that, city on^ March 2. * She was named the Aloyca, andisj 200 ft long, and pf 2500 tons burden. This is one of the largest, if npt,the largest, pleasure yachts ever built. ' * ' ' ' new iron-clad steam-ftigate Raleigh was launched at Chatham on March 1. '.\ The 'Ainericatf steamer G. : S. Wright, missing, for some time, has been found wrecked on the coast of. British Columbia; She had twenty souls on board. , All were drowned. : The steamer was ill found in sails, and her steam power put. of order. „. ; > Tne" ship Chacabuco, from San Francisco^ for Liverpool, ran into, the ship Torch, in the Irish Ckannel, on MarbK 2. The Chacabuco sank a few minutes ,after ( the collision,, and twerifeV^ot her ship's company were drowned. The Torch also went down, but all on board were saved. The;:; barque Boyne, : ior Falmoutb, was wrecked in Mount's Bay^ on the south-west coast of England. Fifteen of the crew were lost. 1 . . -■/,,-.■:!!.•> .: s "fte hull of the "Hera was towed' to N^elspnf by the Wallace, and placed pn the beach for examination. THe bottom was found to be in the,best state.^fjpreseryatipnijand with some few exceptions,' the. sheets" of copper perfectly sound. Most probably she will be converted : ipto ; a hulk ,for coal, ber ;great strength »nd size making her peculiarly suitable for this, andi without incurring much expense. IlSi^-ASitchor. line steamer Murray (says the Nelaonr(7otot«£) has :lieen moved : from the stocks, • and now Jies ; alongside the - Government wharf, where she has received her masts,; .and tlie general work Of trigging out the. boat will be proceeded with without delay -. We* rd rain at present from commenting on the improvements which have been' made.iar.this vesseli but -when Completed, we have no hesitation in stating that it will be foand these have been executed in the best possible manner, reflecting alike great /credit on thd wprkmed, and on the port where such work haS been turned out. • * . ' ' ! The p.s Result returned from the! "Ngakawhaayeste/Fdfty, <joaMadenr~SheTepoits the' ketch Standard ashore, }y.oang William the gallant ssipper having" ventured to hug the shore top closely, and got washed by breakers, high and dry ! on the sandy beach. His tigM little craft is not damaged, and has Been" already, jifted ,on the ways preparatory to -latiricliihg: It was, and probably still is, the intention cf| her owner to take in a cargo of coal for Nelson.— WWestport Times,t t Times, April 8. The following telegram, explanatory of the sale of the Wanganui and St. Kilda appears in the "Wellington papers of April 3 :— " At a meeting of the Wanganui Steam_ Navigation Company today, it was decided to adopt the directors' leport, which Ur^ged the shareholders to accept LiO.OOO for the Wanganui and- St iKilda, i and wind-up the. com- > pany. Several speakers urged the sale, the St Kilda now wants L3OOO spent on her, and will soon want a new bottom, and the, Wanganui not improving with age.. She will' want new boilers in a year or so. The St Kilda is laid up, and can only leave the port with a special permit.* 1 ' :