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Grey River Argus, Volume XIII, Issue 1566, 12 August 1873, Page 2

and Mary, Captain Parrell, left Melbourne. on the. 2(sth; July, but did not clear the Heads until the 29th in consequence of jbaffling winds. It was ,not until, the . Ist instant that she was enabled to blear Bass's • Straits, ,on which day, she, took her departure from Swari Island. The weather during the whole of the, passage wa3 favorable, , and • enabled * the ' Sarah and Mary to make one of the best passages, during the season. In — crossing the bar an accident occurred to one .pC.the; seamen .through a roller breaking -.on « 'board, the 'bar bemg'very rough, and a nasty jumble prevailing." -Many spectators thought at one time that' the schooner was in trouble, but such was neve^ the case, as, with the • exception' of the tiriavoidable" washing, and the before-mentioned casualty, Captein, Far- ; His vessel in without difficultiy. The bar certainly was, heavier that It : has been prudently workable for^|qme time past, r-bTifthe' '-admirable ma^er i£' wliich both, the Dispatch arid,' '.the; stow were managed _ enabled the latter to come to the wharf without any damage,- except the carrying ( of one of the deck houses. ;, She ■lisas r usual,,, consigned to' her. owners, Messrs ".Kennedy Bros., _an.d wiU, commence, to discargo this morning. „-.'', ■Ar.'i'The ; s.s.! Claud Hamilton is expected to t!-.ai;ri»B off Hokitika to-day from- Melbourne direct. She will come on here, - and take (''pasaengers for all New Zealand ports via the iußJtoff.i'3 ;The next steamer' from this'port for Melbourne direct is the Albion; which may be looked for on Wednesday. From priyateinforniation we learn, that the ,' Lizzy Guy 'sailed frbiri Melbourne on the 3ist ult for Hokitika, and that the Sea Bird was, - orr her arrival, to succeed to that port. The Circe had ndt ! arrived at Melbourne, but was - to be laid on the berth for Greymouth. j;ViOa Thursday last, 1 at the Patent Slip, Echuca," the Riverine Herald states, ,'f'was ! launched perhaps one ot the finest, if not the finest, of the many river steamers built' on this point of the Murray 'The. Sarah Jane, so called after the owners litble : daughter, who very gracefully performed the christening ceremony, is the property; of Captain (Davies, one of our most enterprising and in- ' dustrious river skippers. She is built of the best redgum "timberi ' and measures 110 ft ;fromstem to stern; with i 18ft breadth of beam, and 7ft depth of hold. She is intended itpibe fitted with 60-horse power engines, arid .wiU.be. registered for 120 tons burden, Customs measurement., (Intended for the lower river trade, she I 'will plyfor the present as a •tbarge, between Echuca and 'at 'the' close of the'season her engines will be 'fitted arid housing completed."' „.. According; to a letter fronvPuerto Blata, San' Domingo, complete satisfaction has been given for' an insult to the British flag in February last, when three political refugees 'v^ere forcibly, removed from the British viceconsul's house, whither they had gone for protection. Influenced ;by the resolute de- .'. mkri'd .'^or- redress': by ; Captain .Lorraine,, of H.M.S. Niobe, the Dominican Government ordered the restitution of the prisoners arid tithe rehoisting of the consular flag with a t , 'salute of 21-* guns. .! ; : ' Referring to the circumstance recently re;P.orted rthat Captain iEffered, of the ship , jQhiidcrs,; passed during ■ the voyage from London to Melbourne, a quantity of floating wreojc when about 160 miles from the Crozet [Islands, a correspondent of -'the Sydney j jSioming Herald^ iwrites :— "The 1 tJrozet Islands are a little to the southward of the . usual track of ships bo'uri'd! frorivEurope to „ these f Colonies, but: with..* Icoritiriuance'of thick weather might easily become the scene of disastrous shipwreck. The Princess of ( iWales,j so;Horsburg states, was wrecked here in k !Mlarqh, 1821, and, the k crew, remainedl on 'the island until, . January, 1823, when they were ,rescued by the/sealing; schooner Philo. . Now; il' think! it. quite possible .that; some' of : btir^ni^ssing ships might have been lost on ieither jthe^Crpzets, Prince Edwards, or . on •Kergueien's Islands duringwthe last two or :j iihre'e' ' years, j and that the passengers,. and t crews might be fstjll- [living there— sealers' 'aiid wialers' visits, to : those; places -are now 'things of the past." „.-<,. i • .