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Grey River Argus, Volume XVI, Issue 2078, 7 April 1875, Page 2

The s.s. Murray is expected here to-day I from Hokitika, and will leave in the evening for Westport, • The schooners Strathnaver, T. B. Taylor, • and Lady Don arrived alongside the Hokitika wharf on Monday morning's tide, the two first-named being towed in by the Lioness, and the Lady Don by' the Titan. The s.s. Waipara is expected here to-day from Hokitika with the Greymouth portion of the Albion's cargo from Melbourne. She will then leave on a trip for Jackson's Bay and southern ports. The s.s. St. Kilda was expected to arrive here either last night or early this morning, from Wanganui, with a cargo of cattle and sheep. The s.s. Albion left Port Phillip Heads at 6 p.m. on the 31st ult, and cleared the Straits at 3 p.m. next day; experienced strong easterly winds and heavy head sea the first four days ; afterwards northerly winds and thick weather to arrival off Hokitika at 8 a.m. on the 6th ; left at noon, and arrived off Greymouth at 1 p.m, when she was tendered by the Dispatch, which was waiting for her in the roadstead, The tug returned to port at 9 o'clock last night. A strange story (says "Atticus," hi the Leader) reaches me from Flinders Island. In one of the bays of that little-known coast is to be seen at very low tide, imbedded in the rocks, the timbers of a foreign ship, built upon the model which was in vogue some hundred years ago. The sailors and sealers who occasionally visit that desolate shore say that she must have been a Spaniard, and there are legends that dollars and doubloons might be found if a systematic search were made with proper appliances. But it is not more probable that the wreck is that of the ship in which La Perouse explored these waters, and that the ill-fated French circumnavigator lost his life in Bass Strait ? Possibly the next time the Victoria or the Pharos is among the islands they may inquire into the truth of the story, and try to decide the nationality of the wreck. The fate of La Perouse is at least as interesting as that of Leichardt. We are happy to be able to state that the Janette, ketch, reported as missing at Lyttelton, has arrived safely in Napier, all well on board. It appears she was blown off the __Cj?astL-TP nrie rifthfl late-gal An