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Grey River Argus, Volume XIII, Issue 1546, 19 July 1873, Page 2

Th'es.B. Kennedy left' yesterday afternoon on, her return trip to Nelson, with ; a cargoof' coal and a good compliment of passengers. The s.s. Waipara, Captain Quance, arrived yesterday afternoon from Hokitika, with the passengers and cargo transhipped ex Claud Hamilton, from Melbourne, and Albion, from Nelson and other New Zealand ports. We have to thank Captain Quance for his courtesty in bringing on our Melbourneifiles. As the vessel was not entered at the Customs last night we are unable to publish her manifest. The Sarah and Mary, from Greymouth, arrived at Melbourne on July 9. At a meeting of chief mates held at Newcastle, it was resolved to demand LlO a month. The French ironclad Atlantia has arrived at Sydney from Noumea to refit. She afterwards visits New Zealand. From the Melboxirne Argus, of the 11th instant, we learn that the Aborigine, of Messrs • Chesney and Co's line of packets Was loading cargo for the Buller and Charleston, and that the Zephyr, which left the; Coast on the 25th ultimo,, arrived there on, the 6th instant, and was taking in cargo for Hokitika; ' The steamer Claud Hamilton is on this occasion commanded by Captain Sinclair, who was formerly chief officer of the Gothenburg. ; She experienced strong westerly' and nortn- ;• ."iwest winds with heavy rain throughout the passage across, the barometer standing very low. one night as lpw f as 29 ,° ■ 10f. ; • . . . ! The Yorkshire on the Bth instant shipped a • • ' J new rudder, and' '6n the following morning a diver went down, ; and Ascertained th^at it | was all right to put the wopdlock in. She . , i • j sailed for London on the 11th instant, taking „,;.,7 second-class and 19 steeragepasseh^gersfrom' Dunedin, in, addition.! to r.163 priginal ,Mel- ' b'burne passengers, whom she had on board when she put in at Port : Chalmers on the • f 21th ult., with a damaged rudder.' "The mail services of both the P. and O. ■ and the Messageries Maritimes Companies," , r writes the Straits limes, "have been augmented by new and elegant steamers, but it would appear that all the increased tonnage ' : and greatly extended passenger accommodation of these companies is still insufficient to • meet the Enstern passenger traffic, i? we may judge from the difficulty experienced of : late in securing cabins or berths in the steamer 1 from Galle to Suez One large steamer re- ■ cently had to take all her passengers via ., Bombay, that they might go home by the Bombay steamer." ' Tho famous Bessemer ship has just encountered an unexpected rival in the floating cabin devised by M. Alexandroviski, the in- . • vehtdr of the ''under water vessel." The construction is very much the same as that :''-■' of the Bessemer, but the cabin, instead of being attached to a pivot, literally floats in a kind of tank placed amidships between the r engines. The invention was tested a few days since by the Grand Dukedbnstantine, in his capacity : as ' head of the department , with a perfectly satisfactory result,' all'efforts to shake the cabin proving utterly unsuccessful, and the pitching as well 1 as the rolling ; ; motbn of the vessel being completely counteracted. M. Alexandroviski^ leaves for Eng- !■.',: land shortly in. order to patent his inventiop, i .-.-•intending'to visit France- a-littfcrlater with the same object/; j ... v:^ i ;