PORT OF GREY.

Grey River Argus, Volume XIV, Issue 1807, 21 May 1874, Page 2

PORT OF GREY.

HIGH WATER. .^ _. |: Thj Day- -1.26 a.m. ; 1.52 p.m.

ARRIVED. May 20— Dispatch, p.s. Kitchenham, from Hokitika. G. W. Mobs and Co, agents.

SAILED. May 2iPWallace,'p^sJ r M^rauu^ r for Westport and Nelson. Parser, agent.

"""IeXPECTED ARRIVALST Charles Edward, froiri ; Nelson. Murray, from Nelson. Kennedy, from, Nelson. Spray, from Lyt^ttoV , ' Mary Ogilvio. frStf^dnedin and »:amarn. Tararna, from Melbourne, ■■ Otago, from Melbourne Alhambra, from Melboprne. Alice Maud, from Melbourne. 1 . .! VESSELS JS' PORT. Kahuna, from Lyttelton. Arthur Wakefield, from Lyttelton. Dinpatohi tug steamer.

Thoffawfo'f Bay Herald, ot the ,sth inst, has the following paragraph :—" We understand that a firm, whose lepresentative is at present in the Australian colonies, would be willing to 1 undertake to build the Napier breakwater on a guarantee of five per cent, on :itscopt of construction. " j> . ;

Letters have been received; in. Wellington by the mail, from the owners. of the ship WiUiam Tapjgcptt, and from Captain 1 . Flinn. From thefte it appears that the 1 ship had some heavy' weather on the passage home,, bat made no more water in the heaviest sea than wheu lying in harbor. The crew taken (torn Wellington were discharged, according to agreement, when they' reached Queenstown, and two or more oj the Wellington men who engaged for the voyage are on their way home again, well satisfied, it. is, said, with their trip. When in Queensto wri, orders were sent to Captain Flinn to proceed on to Hamburg, and a new 'crew were "engaged. In the English Channel -(in February) heavy southeast gales were encountered, against which Captain Flinn persevered for ten days when he pat into Plymouth. That last effort was too much for his health, and at his request a new. master was put on board, who took the ship to Hamburg, where she discharged her cargo even in better condition than is usual with guano ships. The new master reported that the ship had made precisely the same quantity' of leakage in heavy sea as in 'calm -weather ; and the owners write to express their conviction, from the experience of the ship's voyage home, that if the William Tapscott had been condemned in Weliinjjton it would have been a most wanton sacrifice of property. Captain Flinn ,waa met at Plymouth, soon after putting into that port, by his father. and mother, r with whom he returned to the North of Ireland to enjoy a few weeks' of leisure to, recruit his health. The owners of the William Tapscott, we may add, have placed the entire correspondence, and the reports of the proceedings in the case, before the . American Government, the law officers of which have them now under consideration.— lndependent.