GREY RIVER SHIPPING.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXII, Issue 2677, 14 February 1866, Page 4

GREY RIVER SHIPPING.

By the arrival in the Manukau yesterday of the schooners Excelsior and Fairy, we have Grey River papers to the sth inst., from which we make the following extracts: — Last night, about six p.m., that well-known resident 'of the North Spit, the Christina Thompson, was safely got into her native element, and tracked up into the lagoon, where she lies safe out of the force of the current. From parties here who have had more than one year's experience of the season and river here, great watchfulness should be at this time exercised by shipmasters in looking to the moorings of their vessels ; and as the lessons afforded by former freshets should not be lost, we would strongly advise all who can to shift from insecure berths, and get their vessels up stream into Whitford's Bight, where, in the midst of the heaviest fresh, they can be in perfect security. The captain of the Emma Jane reports leaving Huia, on the 21st January, having met with heavy unsettled weather all the way down. On the 26th was 30 miles off the Grey, when, falling in with a strong S. W. gale, he was compelled to bear up and : ran for Totaranui; got off the Grey again on the

31st, and at 9 am. attempted to enter ; but, at the last moment, when on the verge of the bteak, the wiad suddenly fell calm, and she stuck upon the fciouth Spit. She is, however, in an easy position, and in another tide will, in all probability, get off, nor is there any damage to he apprehended before she is got off. As soon as the state of the tide allowed, the captain discharged cargo, and made every exertion to lighten her to carry her .over the point, but in the succeeding tides the surf was not heavy enough to help him effectually. A narrow escape from another boat disaster occurred yesterday afternoon, by the capsizing of a prahm, manned by one of the best and most experienced crews on the river. They had proceeded as far as the ferry above the Arnold junction, and, at the same place where White and his mates met with a similar disaster, the boat in a moment was underneath the surging torrent, and each man struggling in the water. By great exertion all lives were saved, and most of the heavy goods secured, of oourse damaged.