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Grey River Argus, Volume XV, Issue 1924, 6 October 1874, Page 2

There were noarriva's or departures at the port yesterday, as the steamers in port were busy shipping coal and transhipping cargo. Very probably three of Edwards and Co.'s steamers will leave to-day, but we know nothing about their destinations. Three schooners are now in the roadstead, and are expected to be towed in the first tide. They are supposed to be the schooners Alma and Oleaner, from Melbourne, and the Emerald, from Lyttelton. The clipper barque Speculator, 500 tons, is announced to be despatched from Lyttelton for Cooktown, Endeavor River, about the 15th October. The local agents, to whom early application should be made, are Messrs Nancarrow and Co., The Guinevere, Captain Tedmarsb, left Melbourne August 17, bound for Manilla, having on board 400 bags of flour. Sbe was going 13 knots when she struck on the reef. The second boat, with the third mate and five j seamen, arrived at Townsville all well. The 11 Argus," of the 25tb, says :— " With reference to the missing boats of the wrecked ship Guinevere, the loss of which was reported yesterday in our Brisbane telegram, we learn that Mr Service has received the following information from the Colonial Treaiurer, Queensland : — ' The missing boats of the Guinevere have arrived safely — cwo at Townsville, and the third, with the captain, at Gladstone.'" ' • One of the most painful features of the summer holiday season is the "boating accidents," which now as usual are almost daily reported in the papers. In nine cases out of ten of these accidents it will be found either that those in the boas were unfit to be entrusted with its management or that the boat itself was unfit for use. A very sad example of the general carelessnes which prevails with regard to boating arrangements is afforded by an accident which occurred at Teignmouth last Saturday. It seems that nine men and women belonging to a party of workpeople out for a day's holiday went out in a boat for a row, the boatman being in charge of the boat. When only a short distance from the shore it was found that the boat leaked. A panic of course immediately ensued among the occupants of the boat, the women becoming terribly excited, and the result was that the boat capsized, and five of its occupants were drowned. The fact of the boat being unseaworthy having been proved at the inquest, the boatman has been committed for manslaughter, and the affair will no doubt be thoroughly investigated In the meantime it is to be hoped that the local authorities at the various j watering-places will not only lay down but enforce stringent regulations for the protection of visitors who entrust their lives with the utmost confidence to boatmen, and frequently find too late that they are expected to pay for their boating excursions not only with their money but their lives.— "Pall Mall Gazette," July 25. The captain of the Tom Morton reports . that 18 beacons have been placed in the inner route of Torres Straits, and proved of great assistance to navigation.