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Grey River Argus, Volume XIII, Issue 1638, 4 November 1873, Page 2

The schooner Cleopatra .arrived in; the roadstead from Melbourne yesterday morning. Both tugs spofca; her, but ehs was not brought in, owing to the heavy sea running on the' bar. She will' be- 1 brought to the wharf the first opportunity by the Dispatch. The one arrival on yesterday morning* tide was the Titan, by which Hokitika, East Coast, and European mails were received. The s.s Go-Ahead, expected from Wanganni ■ and , Westport, did not arrive yesterday morning as expected, having, no doubt, been detained, in consequence of the state of the weather. Notwithstanding the ugly look of the weather yesterday morning, the steamer Kennedy took her departure shortly before the outbreak of a violent thunderstorm The steamer Wallace arrived in Hokitika on Sunday night. Her Greymouth mails were forwarded by the Titan. Mr Joseph Warne picked up yesterday a hermetically sex led bottle on the NineMile Keach, Charleston, which contained a small slip' of paper and a lock ofhanv If genuine, and from the '• appearance" of the paper we; ("Herald") have ho; reason to doubt it, it may be of some service to nautical men -as illustrative of the peculiar setting of ocean currents. 'The, paper is in soihe 1 parts scarcely legible, and had the following inscription on it :— " This piece of ha— a— is— the head of— devcal Maham by himself and whosoever doth find it is informed that it is his personal property, ship Sussex off C. Horn, January Ist, 1570." A contemporary says : — " The pioneer vessel of : the new Calif ornian service, the Macgregor, is described "in the 'Mercantile Navy List and Maritime Directory,' published by authority of the Board of Trade, as a screw steamship of 2051 gross tonnage, and 1826 registered tonnage. Her engines are of 330 horae-power. She was built at Kinghorn, in Fifeshiie, ! last year. She is 338 ft long by 34£ ft beam, and the depth of her hold is 24ft 9in. She appears to be in every respect a first-class vessel. ; The Supreme Court, in Wellington, has been occupied for three long dreary days in listening to a most uninteresting and tiresome case, of a' dispute among the shareholders of the New Zealand Steamship Company. It appears at the first outset of the Company the directors comprised nearly all the shareholders, &nd made thiDgs pleasant for themselves by allotting paid-up shares amongst | certain of their number in such a* manner as was disapproved of by Mr D. Anderson, the plaintiff in, the present action. , Before the case came to a close, the whole Court — Judge, jury, and counsel— were in- a hopeless Bea'of fog; and now that the verdict has been given for the plaintiffs in several of the Courts, people are as wise as ever as to who 'has had. the best of it.

Only a few months have elapsed since regular monthly communication by steamer was established between the islands and the port of Auckland, and already the vessel is found unequal to the requirements of the trade. The. Star of the South, which left for Levuka on Tuesday week, had to shut out at least 50 tons of cargo, which will' be a' great disappointment to dealers in Fiji. The trade is rapidly increasing. „, ;