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Grey River Argus, Volume XIII, Issue 1538, 9 July 1873, Page 2

,:The available wharf space has been fully occupied since the recent arrival of the barque Kate Conley and'the smaller coasting craft. They had an addition to their number yesterday by the arrival of the Waipara in the evening, and a reduction by the departure of the Kennedy on the morning tide and the Murray on the night tide. The Waipara is .. i at present under ■: command of Capt. Quance, Capt. Bascand having not yet sufficiently re- i covered from his illness to resume duty. . The : schooner. Lizzie Guy,; the first of the . Westland Freight Company's vessels which has visited Hokitika, was towed to sea by that Company's tug^boat^ early on Sunday morning. She conveyed away a fair amount, of timber, m logs, -for the Melbourne market, : shipped by Messrs Findlay.and Hawbrth, as ■ ' ! well as a quantity of hides shipped by Mr • ' DowUng. • ■ '■■■•■' ./■■ - . Fears are now begmning to be publicly expressed that some mishap has occurred to " Messrs Patrick Henderson and Co.'s clipper, < 'the Otago, which sailed 'from ; Port Chahners ,a, if or Glasgow in the begmning of February, under the command of Oapt. G. R. Stewart. The last Melbourne steamers brought no " telegram of her arrival at her destination, and up to the date when the steamer left : Melbourne, the Otago would have been ; nearly four and a half months out, ; the passage usually occupying 80 or 90 days. Some- : ' thing unusual has happened, but it is to be hoped that our next news from ' Melbourne -■:•;. will bring a telegram announcing her' arrival ' . „ ; at .Glasgow. .-, - ; ....•- : , _ : : 'A^remarkable story of the foundering of a ship and the death of her captain has 'been communicated to us by Messrs Bury, Leech, !; ::and Co., the agents of .the:barque Lindsay^ „,,,.,, n which has arrived, at Melbourne frpm ; Christiana, Norway. It is ccntainedinthefpllow- ■ 'ing sfcitement by the master of the barque, Capt. A. M. Bull :— " On the 3rd February, i • ' 1873, in lat. 48deg.45min:' north, lont^deg. 53min. west, we fell in with, the Satellite, of '!•; Liverpool^ bouhd r from Cardiff to Rio de , Janeiro with a cargo of coals. Found the . vessel in a sinking state, and sent a boat. with four 1 men and the mate to her. The mate ' r ■''■; found the captain of the Satellite in his cabin, and he refused to leave the ship. The ..; i j , ; mate stayed pn board some time; endeavoring to persuade ,the captain to leave her, but was "' unable to do so. The cook, who was the ■ '■'* bnly other person on board, left the sinkiug „; ship and came on board of our vessel. We „ .stayed with the, Satellite until she sank, at ■^^about half -past 1 o'clock p.m., and also waited about for some considerable time afterwards, iii the hope of picking up the captain. . We, however, saw .nothing of him, 1 and tKen proceeded on our voyage. The , cook said that the brew had left the Satellite 1 'on the night b'efore(2nd February) in a boat at about 10 to 11 o'clock. I saw nothing pf. ' them. 'On; the 15th February, 1873, fell in with the Rovina, of Aberdeen, bound from Liverpool to New Orleans, and we placed tKe cook on board of that vessel, at his re- •' quest.— A. M. Bull, Master of Lindsay. " — Argus, June 18. „,..,