PORT OF GREY.

Grey River Argus, Volume XV, Issue 1892, 29 August 1874, Page 2

PORT OF GREY.

HIGH WATER. This Day- -11.17 a.m. ; 11.39 p.m. To-morrow— 11.58 a.m. ; 0.0 p.m. ARRIVED. August 28— D'spatch, p s, Kitchingham, from the roadstead. Cx. YV. Moss and Co, agents. SAILED. August 28- Charles Edward, p.s, Whitwell, for Westport and Nelson. Purser, agent. Ino, s.s, Bonner, for Hokitika. Master, agent. IN THE ROADSTEAD. Florence, from Wellington. Cleopatra, form Wellington. Eliza Firth, from Melbourne. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Mary Ogilvie, from Dunedin, Kennedy, from Nelson. Murray, from Nelson. Spray, from Lyttelton. Wanganui, from Oamaru. Otago, from Melbourne. Jessie, from Nelson. Albion, from Melbourne. VESSELS IN PORT. Dispatch, tug steamer. Sarah and Mary, from Wellington. Emerald, from Lyttelton Richard and Mary, from Wellington Star of the Sea, from Hobart Town.

The p.s. Dispatch returned to the wharf at 10.30. p.m, and reports in the roadstead, ready to be towed in this morning, the schooners Florence and Cleopatra, from Wellington, with railway material, and the Eliza Frith, from Melbourne, with a general cargo. The channel is in fine order, and they will all be brought in this morning. The s.s. Murray, with the San Brancisco mail, did not leave Westport until last night, and maybe expected on this morning's ti le. The p.s. Charles Edward left yesterday morning for WVstport and Nelson, and the s.s. Ino for Hokitika. The >ew Zealand Insurance Company j have chartered the schooner .Swallow, and she proceeded to Tairoa recently, conveying Captain Clayton, Mr Anderson, shipwright, and. a number of carpenters, with all the implements necessary for floating the schooner Onward recently wrecked there. If the wind continues from the westward they will probably attain their object, but should it shift to the eastward we are informed that from the exposed position in which the vessel lies, she will rapidly break up.— " Southern Cross " The Torres Straits Mail Company has been singularly unfortunate in losing two vessels within the first year of its enterprise. The Sunfoo was lost in the China Sea, and now the Flintshire has come to grief off the coast of Queensland. The Sunfoo was lost on a journey between Sin.apore and the China ports on a track constantly traversed by the P. and O. Co 's mail steamers and those of the Messagerie Imperiale, and those large mercantile steamers which now crowd that highway of traffic. The Flintshire has been lost near s Cleveland Bay while on a track constantly traversed by coasting steamers. They are" very discouraging catastrophes, and may, perhaps, tend to diminish the reputation and damp the energies <f a company which is striving hard to establish a new line. The following particulars of the results of the sealing season at the Snares, are furnished by the " Southland Times " :— ■' The cutters Rosa and Pilot have returned from a sealing cruise to the Snares, after a very successful trip. Two parties, consisting of 12 men, landed from the above cutters on the 10th June on the Snares. After landing her patty, the Rosa sailed for Stewart's Island, and on the 25th June, in company with the Awarua, sailed again to work the reef off the Snares. The Rosa's party succeeded in obtaining 58 skins on the reef, and the Awarua's party 17 skins. A lively competition seems to have been carried on between the crews of the Awarua and the cutters, as we find the Rosa watching the Awarua, and landing her men' just where the Awarua was bound to; and in the meantime the Pilot taking another crew to the next rookery, and in this way the cutters seem to have outdone the Awarua altogether. After assisting to work the Snares, the Pilot, with a party of two men; ran down to Preservation, where they suc|ceeded in picking up 27 skins. The Rosa and Pilot left Stewart's Island on the 2nd inst! to bring the crews away, and after tw<j> attempts succeeded on the 6th. After an eight hours' run they arrived at the South Cape. They report having seen two large sperm whales off Port Adventure, on their way to the Snares, and further south they passed through a very large school of black fish, which, according to the statements of old whalers, denotes whales in the vicinity! The Rosa brings 477 skins, and the Pilot 503 skins, which have been disposed of to Mr Ji Waddel, of Bluff Harbor. i

The annual races from China to England between the tea clippers, with the first of the new crop, have terminated just as those to Australia arc commencing. Of late years the single steamer which loaded for the Colonies has invariably di-tanced the sailing vessels, and it was not until the present season— when it was steam v. Bteam— that anything like a race occurred. The Legis r lator was loaded first, and got away on 16th June, followed by the Anioy on the 21st— the former, though having the advantage of a start, beiug heavily handicapped with a number of poits of call, while her rival came through direct to Melbourne. The Legislator had a portion of her cargo landed in Sydney at 3 p.m. yesterday, when the Amoy was telegiaphed as having passed Cape Ooway. She will be landing her cargo in Melbourne just as the Legislait r is resuming her voyage for that port and her teas will arrive here simultaneously with those per the latter steamer at Melbourne. The opening sales of both cargoes in the two cities will probably take place on the same day; so that, for 1874 at least, honors are divided. — " Sydney Morning Herald. "