EXPECTED ARRIVALS.

Grey River Argus, Volume XIII, Issue 1544, 17 July 1873, Page 2

EXPECTED ARRIVALS.

Gleaner,' from Melbourne.} | ' V '•■• !){<}' Claud Hamilton, frdm'Melbourne' Albion,, from Melbourne. , „,...,.,.,-,-. Keiffiedyi ffbm'Nelson. Murray, from Nelsdnl ».■"'•s . „. „ VESSELS IN..PORT, -. f ■■ ■, ... y > Dispatch, tug steamer. 1O — -.;■; ■„"•:;/•: ■■•O-i

The three arrivals expected yesterday — Claud Hamilton, Albion, :and' Kennedy— are still in the condition of expected. There must have been] a; storm !6f extraordinary severity at sea, and the sequence has been an enormous surf along the shore, preventing • communication with any of the West Coast ports. As yetthere is, no appearance pfjthe^ weather improving. ' [it-

The enquiry atHalifax into the-loss of the Atlantic has terminated. The judgment commends the conduct of .the officers of the ship after she had struck, but condemned her management from the time her course was changed, and especially the captain's conduct in. leaving the deck at, midnight. / His certificate might be cancelled, but considering the efforts he made ( to save life, it is only revoked' for two years. The fourth officer is suspended for three months. Forty out of the .crew, of : the - Atlantic,', have reached Liverpool, among them 'tte second steward and the chief saloon steward. Both of them state that the shortness of stores had nothing to do with making for Halifax, as when the ship struck, she had four , days fresh provisions on bo'ard[ arid salt meat for eight or nine days longer. All the survivors are said; to regard the captain as solely re-. sponsible,fpr the catastrophe.,., : , . The : Halifax : correspondent of the New., York Herald says that one of the sailorsin. the Atlantic who lost their lives in- the' effort to save others turns put to '<■ have,beeh ■•&• woman. Her sex was not known until the body was washed ashbie. She had served for three voyages. " As ; a shipmate th'j&e was none more popular. She is described- as haying fewer, of^the vices incident to a Bailor's life.ithari usual ; but was as jolly atar as any of them; ! In speaking to the Herald, correspondent one of ' the crew remarked :— " I ' didn't know Bill was a woman. He used' to take .his liquor; as regular as any of us, and ! was' always begging' or stealing tobacco. ; . .He , was" agoodfeUow, thoiigh,.arid I am sorry he was a woman." This woman-tar was the only Yankee among the crew. " . „ ...