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Grey River Argus, Volume XIII, Issue 1645, 12 November 1873, Page 2

The only arrival ypsterday was the s.s Omeo, from Nelson. She was promptly waited on by the p.s Dispatch, which transhipped her passengers. The cargo she brought from the coast ports was landed at Nelson, and will be brought on by first steamer. Up to the hour of closiug of the Telegraph Office last night, we had received no information of the arrival of the s.s Claud Hamilton off Hokitika. As she would most probably be detained until the 6th, she is almost sure to arrive to-day, and to bring the result of the race for the Melbourne Cup. Captain John M'Lauchlan, long known in charge of tho steamship Omeo, is now master of the North Pacific Company's ■splendid large steamer Golden City, trading .between San Francisco and Japan. The prominence which New Zealand has attained in the eyes of our home countrymen, and the lari^e increase to her commerce cannot be made more manifest than in the fact that Messrs- P. Henderson and Co., the eminent shipbuilders oE Glasgow, have now on the stocks six magnificent vessels intended specially for the New Zealand trade, which it is intended shall be named after the six leading centres of the colony — Auckland, Nelson, Uuuedin, Canterbury, Wellington, and Invercargill. These ships are to lie constructed with the finest lines, intended to be clipper ships, and to be fitted up for the passenger trade. They will be of large tonnage, and possess great carrying capacity. The building of these ships, the laying on of others of large tonnage, owned by the wealthiest of our shipmasters, has had the effect of completely destroying. the monopoly of Messrs Shaw, Saville, and Co., who wUI in future have to load to some other part of the world, if they insist upon having a trade exclusively to themselves. — "New Zealand Herald," Oct. 23.