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Grey River Argus, Volume XVI, Issue 2251, 26 October 1875, Page 2

The three-masted schooner St Kilda, aftei a few days' detention in the roadstead, wa! towed in on Monday morning by the Dispatch, and at once proceeded to discharge her cargo. Sbe is announced to sail foi Melbourne on Thursday, The Waipara, with several passengers, including the Provincial Secretary, and delegates representing the Oddfellows of Greymouth, returned to Hokitika on Mondaj morning. The Charles Edward, with the San Francisco mail, sails for Nelson via Westport, on this morning's tide. The creation of a harbor at New Plymouth is attracting some attention. Captain Casey has written to the Auckland Herald, pointing out that the creation of a Central Penal Establishment would be the cheapest and most effectual way of procuring one. , The proposal to turn the sea into the Sahara desert, and to make a great African lake, to open up to the commerce of that country, which .was gaining ground, has been rret by a protest from a notable geographer, who says that the result would be to change the climate of Europe and throw England back to the glacial period. He contends the hot winds from the Sahara kept back the northern snow line. Messrs Owen and Graham inaugurate the .Auckland agency of the new mail service, and take for certain the agency of the first boat leaving Auckland on the 22nd, of November. It is to be decided yet whether the firm will take the permanent agency. An English paper contains the following : — " The New Zealand emigrant iron-ship Orari, capsized at Palmer's ship-yard, Jarrow-on-Tyne, was on Monday successfully raised and righted." . The original cost of the Bruce was L 19.000, . and she was to all intents and purpose a new boat, having only arrived from the .Clyde, where she was ''built;, on the 28th August, - 1874. To replace her with an improved edition of the hapless craft will be the firat care of the Company. That no time might be lost in the accomplishment of this great end, the Company despatched a cablegram by the Alhainbra, which left Hokitika on Saturday week. It was addressed to the Clyde— containing orders for the construction of another steamer with all practicable speed. The Bruce was a fine vessel of 204 tons register, barque rigged, and of the following dimensions :— Length of the hull, 170 ft, over all, 180 f t; width of beam, 32ft ; depth of hold, 10ft 6in. She was handsomely fitted up in every particular, and was a great favorite in the coastal trade. The master of the schooner Susan fell overboard near Auckland on a dark night, and the vessel went a quarter of a mile before she could be brought to. The captain was burdened with heavy clothes, boots, and top coat, but swam after the vessel, and succeeded in reaching her. He was rescued, but those on board could not see him from the schooner until alongside. The schooner Echo has been wrecked at OpotikL, She was insured in the New Zealand office for LIOOO. •■' The schooner Dauntless, which was stranded on the reef at Levuka, has arrived at Auckland. She will be repaired immediately. :At the North Cape, lasb . week, there was washed ashore a large ship's yard, painted white ; also a quantity of wool and a ship's life-buoy,, with part of the vessel's name painted: on it; The name began with "Zem;" the remainder of the letters were obliterated. Evidently some wool ship has come to grief. . The whaling barque Bartholomew Gosnold has arrived at Russell from the Antarctic whaling groundß with 2150 barrels of oil, all told. She is forty months out. She had put into Aboukir Bay, Solomon Group, the ship leaking badly. Landed part of her cargo on the reef, and lightened the ship, which stopped the leak, and proceeded to . Russell for supplies. Captain Wills states he fonnd Solomon Island in a state of warfare and cannibalism.