PORT OF GREY.

Grey River Argus, Volume XVI, Issue 2052, 6 March 1875, Page 2

PORT OF GREY.

HIGH WATER. This Dav_9.s a.m. ; 9.31 p.m. To-mokrow-9.45 a.m ; 10.16 p.m. ARRIVED. March s— Nil. SAILED. March s— Nil. EXPECTED ARRTVAIS. Charles Edward, from Nelson. Murray, from Nelson. Wanganui, from Oamaru and Danedin. Spray, from Lyttelton. Sarah and Mary, from Lyttelton. Emerald, from Lyttelton. Edith Reid, from Dunedin. Granite City, from Danedin. Lizzie Guy, from .Lyttelton VESSELS IN TORT. Dispatch, tug steamer. Samuel Merntt, from Newcastle Isabella Anderson, from Oamaru. St. Kilda, from Melbourne Star of the Sea, from Wellington. Richard and Mary, from Wellington. Forest Queen, from Wellington: Lizzie Guy, from Lyttelton.

The schooner St Kilda is expected to be taken to sea to-day by the p.s Dispatch, bound for Melbourne direct. The s.s Otago is due on Monday from Nelson, when she wil] be tendered and despatched for Melbourne direct. The s.s Tararua is also due on Monday from Melbourne direct, when she will take passengers for Nelson, all other New Zealand ports, and Melbourne via the Bluff. The schooner Lizzie Gny sailed from Lyttelton on the 27th for this port, with a cargo of produce. The Rev. L. Fison, who has just returned from a three months' cruise among the South Sea Islands, communicates to a morning contemporary the following fresh and interesting matter relating to that particular piece of atrocity, known as the Daphne outrage :— "In the statement of Jonah Vinda, one of the Fijian sailors on board the Daphne, we were told that two girls were brought on board that vessel, when she was lying at Savo, by a white man who was living on the island j that the condition on which he procured them was that they were to be returned before nightfall,; that the vessel got under way after dark, taking away the two girls, in spite of the frantic outcries of the white man from the shoie, and that the girls themselves cried. In a subsequent letter I referred to a statement in the letter of Bishop Patterson, published by the Society for the Diffusion of Christian Knowledge, to the effect that the white man had to barricade himself in his house to save himself from the anger of the natives. These faces were i represented in our Legislative Assembly, and elsewhere, to be purely imaginary, and I came in for a considerable share of abuse. Herewith I forward you; the testimony of Hugo Gorovaka, a native of Savo, written by his own hand in his own language, together with a translation by the Rev. R. H. Codrington, M.A., of. the Melanesian Mis* sion, to whose kindness I am indebted for this valuable piece of evidence."