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Grey River Argus, Volume XV, Issue 1867, 30 July 1874, Page 2

The s.si ! Murjcay,' carrying; 'the^English mail via San Francisco, sailed for Westport and 1 Nelson yesterday at 11 a.m. ■ k) .' The s.s, Q^ago arr^vedfrpmthe. North yesterday "afternoon, ' aiifd was tendered % evening by the.p s. jDispatch, which transshipped her' passengers and cargo, and the ..ptajeot then left for Hokitika. ....;,- „-; , The Bruce Herald,' in referring 'to the ..Surat, : states ,that W^tson^the, diver, and his party have been ' busily' engaged' 'rigging , the wreck of „the.. Snrat r but owing to the frost they canhbf do much'" HHe'is ..sti^l, keeping together,. and when clearer! of 'the "Tailway'irbri," sbriiethin^'might'be 'dohjß - It will be' remembered that about six months ag^^twoj/Ve^sois— the Ocean Wave, and the Emul bus-broke'froiri" their' ; a ! iich { 6r- ■ j .age,, .on^a fine cahn night, in consequence of a trem'end<'us swell, evidently the result of a ..great.^tormj which had. .taken place at no 1 very great" distance J frdm ' the ' cbast:' ;; The ' former of these was broken to pieces, on the beach, the crew having a difficulty iii caving, taeir.liyes-— the latter being stranded, holding" together, witbbut much damage, broad-aide-fco the beach.. Every effort, has been made to' agam' float 1 her, %ut' as" y'e'6 without snecess, and at is feared she must remain .Jwhere^Bjaow^is, tossed by the waves. The *~Fim3li>ui t amvedaf,P^ ago, from Nova ; Scbtfa7-with emigrants, and' v is ! most "built," otherwise ; she ' could' have never sustained" the severe strain;: „she o encountered ; on .the night of .the disaster ' when being stranded on' the 1 beach. -^ Daily () .j Timm. ...I :r-.,,, :....,. ,„,- y , ...... ...,:-• v A'tf the "last T sittmg' of the A'dadeiny of Sciences in Paris, a'paper was received from ..Mr.R. F. Michel on an 'apparatus recordujig: „ 1 automatically the : vicmity, of, an .iceberg. The recent loss of" lhe r Evir6pe, said to have: encountered a block of ice, ; led this gentlema'^to consider whether there might not be 'some reliable' Wjiyj of t avoiding such cbntin-' gencies, ■which are jwell" known to be mqstf ■ % c ;&equent in, : the. , preasent ( . season, . when der : " A ; .tached. icebergs .come, ,'dbwiri '■, iik f shoals from r .;•;•■ *he (> Nbrih : Pole, -and' a real^^ : d^ger, to 'ships 1 between^^^^.Europe.jEmd^Nprthr America. ( • , .In, the. day.^ime.thpse^iuge ,[ Hjasses- are seen .vVjfrom'j enormous, distances: {when ' there is no .'■f.-^Pgj?fi4i*?^. Ji'heye the sun shines upontheni';' they are then easUy avoided. a ßut in, the . ; : -j O yicinty ; .of [Newfoundland, fwhere'rfogs : are jso intense as to require constarit' ringing of the v r Ul beU ; andjey,enrfinng.pf jguns.tp. avoid collision ,j 0 jn;,a,s|a literally with ships, pther means must .ba employed^" ascetain -.he vicinity of an iceberg. "Thw is always iCr\ • J(> l compMued. by a,.great ; ..fell in the .tempeta(n r,:toe ; pf r .thei wate^iwlthin, a' yery extensive : .,fj radjus,; and,.it',is jjn.jthisj iciroumstance' M,J ;, ; -ilichel founds *;his'p)an; which consists! in rviivh^ying a birmetallic, ..he'licpid (i tiiermbme(ter. , ..-fixed.; to thejjsidef.of'th^'shipa.. When ih'e ' the temperature of the sea falls below a < er- ; , tain limit the needle that, marks the degi cca 1 tti -is by striding; against a an tall „ -metallic scr.ewy whereby^an , electric, current , ; i-i.,iß instantly; closed, :beli; to 'ri ng, lr W.hich will at once warn the officer ondutjf. — ' : ll_;: j ;