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Grey River Argus, Volume XVI, Issue 2152, 2 July 1875, Page 2

The s.s. Otago, Captain M'Lean, .arrived in the roadstead early yesterday morning, and was promptly waited upon by the p. 8. Despatch. She was tendered and sent on to Hokitika, bnt the tue could not return to port until 9 p.m. The Hokitika mails were landed here in case she could not be tendered at that port, and will be forwarded by coach this morning Captain Payne, chief harbormaster, has been furnished with a suggestion by Mr Geo. H, Johhstone. of Buninvong, for providing better means than the corked bottles usually employed for setting afloat information of a ship in distress or sinking. Re proposes that vessels or buoys should be made of sbtne metal, say copper, with an aperture sufficiently large to admit, packages, and to be closed with a screw lid, which should make the vessel air-tight. Into a cap should be" fitted an iron mast, with fixei yards, from which a bell would be suspended Such a vessel afloat would be more durable than a bottle, 'and would, by its constant ringing,, more easily attract attention. — Argus.