PORT OF GREY.

Grey River Argus, Volume XV, Issue 1884, 20 August 1874, Page 2

PORT OF GREY.

JP^IP" HIGH WATER. l r ffl»t)Ay--2.32a.m. ; 2.53 p.m. ARRIVED. August 19— Nil. SAILED. August 19— Kil.-. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Omeo, from Nelson. Charles Edward, from Nelson. Murray, from Nelson.. Spray, from Lytteltqn. Wanganui, from Oamaru. Tararaa, from Melbourne. Otago, from Melbourne. Jessie, from Nelson. VESSELS IN FORT. ' Kennedy, from Nelson. Annie Brown, fronTAdelaide. Alice Maud, from Melbourne Dispatch, tug steamer. Sarah and Mary, from Wellington. Emerald, from Lyttelton Richard and Mary, from Wellington

Td& Alice Msuti -was not towed to sea yesterday, owing to the dirty weather prevailing on the coast. She will be taken out today by the Dispatch. The s.s. Kennedy does not go to Hokitika, but returns North this irip,, and may leave this forenoon for Westport and Nelsou. The s.s. Omeo is now overdue, and may be looked for from Nelson at any moment. She will, on arrival;' take passengers for Melbourne direct. An aquatic novelty is described by the "South Australian Advertiser." The Beltana, it say's, is the name given to a craft at Port Adelaide, which has attracted considerable attention, and is likely to create another flatter amongst yachtsmen when the craft gets into sailing trim. She is a yacht of 28ft measurement between theperpendicu'ars, 6ft sin beam, and sft 6in depth* Hitherto; she has been sailing on the Murray Lakes, where her qualities caused Lhe boat to eclipse all competitors there, 'and having no more to : conquer, her owner transported her overland to the Port. Some idea of her shape may be gleaned from the fact that: she' would not stand upright withoiit. ballast. The maiumast is 36ft longY ttie bobm 28ft, and the other spars in proportion. She ia so novel in appearance, and. so unlike a cutter, that in describing her a yachtsman said she was a perfect sailing machine. Her advent now is rather inopportune, as the yatching. season being closed there is no foeman in conimis- j siba to race with her ; but doubtless some j lover of aquatics will make up a matchwith ' the new Beltana. ..:.. ■ On_June2the screw steam yacht Cecile, i belonging to Lord Alfred Paget, vice-corn- j niodore of the Royal Thames. Yacht Club,; fell in with a large merchant steamer, theVulture, broken down, off Beachy Head j Although the crew of the Cecile 1 numbered! only thirteen hands, including the n>ble| owner and a friend of bis who happened toj be on board, no time was lost in taking the) distressed steamer in tow. But owing to the! large size of the Vulture, added to the en-j cumbrance of her broken propeller, five knots an hour was the highest speed attainable, so; that fifteen hours elapsed- before the gallant little Cecile came to anchor in Itchen Bay.' '—■" European Mail." .'