PORT OF GREY.

Grey River Argus, Volume XIII, Issue 1587, 5 September 1873, Page 2

PORT OF GREY.

HIGH WATER. This Day- -8.31 a.m. ; 9.1 p.m. ARRIVED. September 4— Murray, Conway, from Nelson, via Hokitika. . .... ' sailed! .., September 4— Sarah and Mary, Glover, for Lyttelton. . , September 4r-T. B. Parker, Pame, for Wariganui. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Charles Edward, from Nelson. Albion, from Melbourne. Claud Hamilton, from Melbourne. Sea Bird, from Melbourne. VESSELS IN PORT. Dispatch, tug steamer. t Wild Wave, from Lyttelton. Three Friends, from Charleston. Crest of the Wave, from Lyttelton. Mary Ogilvie, from Westport. Murray, from Nelson, via Hokitiks. The Harbor Department has now completed the erection of leading channel lights at Greymouthj and a description of the same, for the guidance of , mariners, appears in another column. Shipmasters are cautioned, that the lights are only guides from the flagstaff to the foot of Arney streafc> and distinct from the leading lights . over the bar. The lights, which are two in. number, colored red, and elevated fifteen and twenty feet respectively above high-water, lead shipping through the deepest water at the lowest part of tte Cross Channel. Two coal-laden schooners for Coast ports were towed out yesterday by, the Titan. The s.s. Murray, Captain Conway, from ' Nelson, Westport, and Hokitika, arrived last night, and immediately commenced taking in her return cargo of coal. She will leave for the North to ; d;iy. One of the Anchor line of steamers parsed the port yesterday, bound for Hokitika. Captain Leach,' of Westport, has received instructions for. the erection of a signal staff —at the Ngakawhau, and the necessary balls, masts, and gear, are now nearly complete for placing hi position. The ketch Emerald cleared at Lyttelton , for this port on the 29th ult. . The clipper ship Jubilee, Captain Moncknian, was to sail from Lyttelton on the 30th

____nlt. for Londou. In addition to a full cargo ~ BEe^bßs-tm-i>oaifd-a.8.39.6QZ gold, valued at 1/18,155 33 6d, being the largesircargo-ofgol/L - ; shipped from Canterbury. The ketch Wanderer, which was wrecked at Timaru, was a yessel of about 40 tons, and was built in Nelson by Mr Flowerday,' be.tween two and three years ago, who sold her to her present owner, Mr Hem~y. Mankelow. She was . commanded by Captain C. M'Lean, who is well known, having been in the coasting trade for a number of years. . .A person who has inspected the submarine . boat for mining purposes says :— The thought struck me that a vessel of this class might be made useful in more ways than she was ; !at present intended for. First, if two of these boats, filled with proper gear for lashing to a vessel when sunken, I think the lifting powers of them would lift a good sized vessel to the surface ; then with a steamer to tow the latter into shallow water, such ships S3 the Eangitoto would not long lie on / — that bed of seaweed. 9 \ Messrs N. Edwards and Co. are advertising for tenders for the constrnction of four pontoons for operations connected with raising ■. the Eangitoto , '; Afaw friends of Captain L. P. Stevens, . ; late Acting Deputy Harbor Master inDunV - edin, met at; the Pier Hotel, and presented >■ that. gentleman with a valuable gold hunting ■ ; watch, as a; mark of their esteemj for, the :■. .: kindly manner in which he acted in the' dis- !",. 'charge of his duties. ' „ | There has been a race from Sydney .to Melbourne between the steamers Hero, Wjent- ... t worth, and You Yangs. The Wentworth (a ",' "new; vessel, belonging to the-A.S.,N; Com- '' 'pany)i was the faycrite in the betting. (The -three sailed within a few miuutes of jeach other. The Hero passed the Wentworth going down Sydney Harbor, arid was thefirst in Hobson's Bay, after a stormy passage, by' ... several (hours. The Wentworth I andJYou '■'' ' Yarigs arrived almost side by side.'