ARRIVED.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1507, 3 June 1873, Page 2

ARRIVED.

June 2— Nil. __. ...... . , - .sailed- - ■ -June-2==Nil. " " • f IN THE ROADSTEAD.. ' Sarah and Mary, from Melbourne :.., : expected ARRIVALS. Rangitoto, from Melbourne Tararua, from Melbourne Murray, from Hokitika and Nelson. St. Kilda, f rom Wanganui. •

The s.s. ,Alhambna;j oh her recent trip from Melbourne, left Hobson's Bay on the 26th May, at 3 p.m.; passed, the Sisters Islands the following day at 1 p.m., and arrived .off Hokitika on the 31st, at 10 p.m. Strong, sou-west winds were experienced during the whole of the passage from Melbourne. The Alhambra brought four saloon and 11 steerage passengers, with 170 tons cargo for the several ports. The brigantine Sarah and Mary is still in the roadstead waiting an opportunity to get in. After the Dispatch had transhipped the mails and passengers to the Alhambra, on Sunday, the Sarah and Mary was tendered by the tug, and the passengers of the brigantine were brought in. The ; Dispatch took the bar and reached the wharf at half -past two o'clock on Monday morning. The s.'s. Rangitoto is due here to-morrow. She will take passengers on board, and proceed without delay on her voyage round the different ports. The s.s. Tararua will call at this port on Thursday, when she will ship passengers and gold, previous to continuing her course direct for Melbourne. The Post gives the following relating to the visit paid by the Luna to Blind Bay last ■week: — -"Besides carrying stores and provisions to Cape Farewell and Mana Lighthouse, part of the object of the trip is to replace the beacon at Astrolabe, and to take up and re-paint the buoy at the French Pass, which is reported to Tbe leaky. The Luna also conveys a large number of fir plants and pines of different kinds, to be planted round the Cape Farewell Lighthouse, for the purpose of, fixing the sand, and promoting the formation of sofl on the new system successfully employed in severalplaces. : During the passage of the ship Naomi, from Liverpool to Port Chalmers, a sad calamity occcurred, casting, a gloom over all — viz.; the drowning of Alfred Williams, a fine lad of 16 years. It was on the Bth May, in lat. 46deg 6min ,S., long. 123'deg Bmin E., ■ the ship at tne : time going eight, or nine knots; with a stiff sou-wester. At a quarter to nine in the evening, Williams, who was heavily, clothed, and last seen leaning over the lee rail of the poop, with his hands in .his pockets, is supposed to have have been jerked over during a heavy lee lurch. The first intimation of the accident was cries being, heard astern by the man at the wheel. The ship was immediately wore round, and every search under the circumstances, made, but without avail.