PORT OF GREY.

Grey River Argus, Volume XIII, Issue 1542, 15 July 1873, Page 2

PORT OF GREY.

HIGH WATER. '. .. This Day— l.s7 a.m.; 2.23 p.m. ARRIVED. July 14-Nil. .^.v,™.., .... , ... ..saiijbsiv,,,. „.,w , -. ... •.-..„,..: July 14— Nil. . ' ( ' ; EXPECTED ARRIVALS. ' ''■'■ . ! ' i Gleaner, from Melbourne. . Claud Hamilton, from Melbourne Albion, from Melbourne.] , Kennedy, from Nelson. . .' Murray, from Nelson. ;^ j . VESSELS. IN PORT. Dispatch, tug steamer. Kate Conley, from Melbourne. Lioness, from Hokitika. i

There were no arrivals or departures at this poat yesterday, owing to the heavy seas sent home by the recent south-west gale. The barque Kate Conley will most probably be towed to Hokitika by the Lioness to-day. . , The next steamer from Melbourne direct is the Claud Hamilton due off Hokitika on the 16th inst. She will come on here, and take passengers for Nelson^ other New Zealand ports, and Melbourne, via the Bluff. The s.s. Albion is expected here on the 17th from Nelson. She takes passengers for Melbourne direct. : ' The Hokitika Freight Company's brigaritine Sea Bird was towed in by the p.s. Titan on Saturday afternoon. , ; A steamer from Nelson arrived at Hokitika yesterday, supposed to be the Kennedy. ' The schooner Isabella takes 50,000 feet of timber from Hokitika for Dunedin. The schooner Arthur Wakefield, now building at Wangarei, Auckland Province, for Mr J. S. Cross, junior, of Nelson, was expected to be launched on the 4th instant. She is spoken of as one of the best finished crafts of her class ever turned out of the yard of Mr Derring, her builder. i AU the European Governments except the French have determined to resist the increase of the' Suez Canal tolls. . Baron Lesseps , proposes .a commission on the subject at Constantinople. The missionary schooner Southern Cross haying been found unseaworthy, ' another is about to be built of much larger dimensions (130 tons, the old one being9s), with auxiliary steam power to steam four knots when calms and other circumstances render it desirable. • • The last voyage, of the Nebraska from Auckland to Honolulu occupied 20 days, during three days of which a terrific N.E. gale was experienced. . A gentleman who was on board states that the gale was the most severe he had ever been under, but the vessel behaved splendidly. The want of proper wharf accommodation at the port of Nelson for steamers trading to the Coast, has (says the Colonist) been for some time felt by the owners, Messrs N. Edwards and Co., who, having purchased the Albion wharf, have commenced to enlarge it very much, so as to meet their requirements. The contract for the work has been secured by Mr W. Akersten. The hearing of the charge of stealing the schooner Florence against Captain Seaton has been remanded for a week. The Florence reached Auckland on Saturday, under the charge of Captain Simpson.