PORT OF GREY.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1487, 10 May 1873, Page 2

PORT OF GREY.

HIGH WATER. This Day— 9.l a.m. ; 9.17 p.m. To-morrow - 9.37 a.m.; 9.54 p.m. ARRIVED. May 9— Nil. SAILED. May 9— Nil. IN THE ROADSTEAD. " Jennie Grey, from Onehunga EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Charles Edward, from Hpkitika. Waipara, from. Hokitika. St. Kilda, from Wangamii. Gleaner, from Melbourne. Murray, from Nelson. Alhambra, from Melbourne, via East Coast ports and Nelson. VESSELS Ilf PORT. Kennedy, from Nelson. Dispatch, tug steamer. Amaranth, from Kaipara. Elizabeth Curie, from Lyttelton.

There were no arrivals or departures at the port yesterday, owing to the heavy south-westerly swell coming home on the bar. The Kennedy is still a prisoner. The Charles Edward and Waipara are expected to arrive from Hokitika every tide. The s.s. Alhambra is expected to arrive here from Nelson to-night or to-morrow morning, when she will be despatched for Melbourne direct. Captain Campbell, of the schooner Energy, which arrived in Auckland harbor the other day from Tahiti, with a cargo of cotton and cotton seed, informs us that when on his passage from Rarutonga Island to Tahiti, he picked up in latitude 24 S., longitude 149 W., a boat with a native in it. The man was a complete skeleton when taken on board. After having given him a small portion of spirits and water, and a little food, Captain Campbell was enabled to gather the following from the man : — The native, in company with three others, had left one of the Poniuto Islands in the boat, an open one of about 25ft length of keel, for the purpose of proceeding to another island only a short distance off. After having been out on the water for a few hours a heavy squall suddenly struck the boat aud capsized her, she being under sail at the time. Two of the natives were drowned. The survivor and the other native succeeded in righting the boat and bailing out the water ; but they found that all the boat's gear— sail, mast, oars, &c, except an old broken oar — had been lost, and, thus being without any means of propelling the boat, she drifted away out of sight of the island. They found a few cocoanuts in the boat, which, however, were soon consumed After having drifted about for 19 days, one of the men fell or jumped overboard and was drowned. It was three days after this that the boat with the one native was picked up by the Energy. The man stated that he had had nothing to eat or drink since leaving his home excepting the one or two cocoanuts. Captain Campbell doubted that the boat could have drifted so far in the time, viz.. '900 miles in 22 days, but on arrival at Tahiti the man was recognised by several of the residents there as belonging to the island uatned above. The buil-ier of the hoat also recognised the one picked up as having been made by him. The native when the Energy left Tahiti was doing well, had almost regained his strength, and was to be forwarded to his home by the first opportunity. — Southern Cross.