SHIPPING. PORT OP GREY.

Grey River Argus, Volume XV, Issue 1870, 3 August 1874, Page 2

SHIPPING. PORT OP GREY.

HIGH WATER. This Day— l.23 a.m. ; 1.45 p.m. ARRIVED. August I— lno, Bonar, from Hokitika. Master, agent. SAILED. August I— Nil. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. "Wallace, from Nelson. ■ Charles Edward, from Nelaon. Spray, from Lyttelton. Emerald, from Lyttelton Wanganui, from Oamaru. Annie Brown, from Adelaide. Alice Maud, from Melbourne Albion, from Melbourne. VESSELS IN TORT. . Waipara, from Hokitika. Oreti, from Oamaru Gleaner, from Melbourne Alert, from Lyttelton

Owing to the very heavy sea running on the coast yesterday, there wera no arrivals or departures at this port. The s.s. Albion is expected here to-morrow from Nelson, when she will take passengers for Melbourne direct. An examination of the Torres Straits mail steamer Flintshire, in the Fitzroy Dry Dock, Sydney, discloses, we learn from the "Sydney Morning Herald," that she has sustained the following injuries:—"Starboard Bide, extending from the forefoot to about 60ft aft, the garboard streak and keel have received considerable damage; the keel and plates have been cracked, and on the second streak the rivets and butts have been started ; but the principal leak on this Bide is where the keel and garboard streak is broken through near the forefoot. On the port side the garboard streak is cracked through for some length, similar to the damage on the starboard, but the second and third streaks have been more or less injured. There are two very large holes on either side of a frame about 35ft from the stem, and a portion of the Reef Rock lias been forced right through the iron plating into the hull of the steamer. The damage to the floors and frames has not a? yet been ascertained, but she will be released from the Government dock forthwith, and will be taken into Messrs Mort and Co.'s dock for substantial repairs." The report by the captain of the barque Palace as to the proposed existence of shipwrecked mariners on one of the Sisters' Islands, has caused attention to be directed to the fact that the ship Roderick Dbu, which left Melbourne for Newcastle, 20 days ago, has not yet been heard of. The Roderick Dhu was a large new iron clipper ship of 1642 tons, built at Sunderland, for Messrs WiJliam-on, Morgan, and Co., of Liverpool, for their Calcutta trade, but was chartered from them for a voyage to Australia. She arrived here in command of Captain Calvert, on May 24, consigned to Messrs Cormell, Hogarth, and Co , and after discharging a Jareje and valuable cargo at the Breakwater-pier, left this port f»r Newcastle, en route to San Francisco. She .cleared Port Phillip Heals on June 25, and since then has not been heard of, although it was expected that she would have made as good a run round as any of the large iron clippers which left here about the same time for the same destination. Heavy gales from N.W. to S.W. prevailed in the Straits about the time she sailed, but they were not of such violence as to have imperilled the safety of so fine a vessel. When the Harlech Castle left this port some time ago, and no tidings were heard of her at Newcastle, it was thought that the captain, taking the advantage of strong fair winds, had stood right away for San Francisco, or that the ship might have got dismasted, and would probably be heard of at some New Zealand port, and similar hopes may now be enter, tamed concerning the Roderick Dhu.— "Argus."