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Grey River Argus, Issue 126, 1 November 1866, Page 2

I ffe cc craft were in the ofting last uiaht, 1 W C< 1 as being the Itambler, from MclW£ Glengarry, from Hokitika, and the Isabella, from !&lanukau. The latter is a ff. | new vessel on her maiden trijf. ■f | The fine schooner Wild Wave, from jf % Christchurch, has been 14 days pn the pas- ./ ? a = cie i having lost a week in attending t • the H Juno, wrecked on Farewell Spit. Pariieui.'M liirs of the services she rendered that vessel be found in the report of the dfuno's ,:-i.- wreck. ' ..-..• 'j I The schooner Fairy left Manukau on the \ m^' am^ cx l )C " eilcc 'f a strong N.E. breeze [JwwgP-thc Sk^jpy days, and light winds dur*S^7j»g the rest of the'pasfagc. Sighted Cape y»Farewell at 4 p.m. pn the 23rd, and arrived jprpff the Grey yesterday at 4 a.m. ; was towed Jpinby the William Miskin." She brings 17 $&&; -'passengers. Jfe2s^The> long-expected steamer Willliam Mis- - kin made her aimraranee in the river on Tuesday afternoon, having arrived at HokiL tika. pn the previous day. Hrr lengthened Jj passage has bepn occasioned by ihe fearful Sj£ weather slip experienced after leaving the V Buft; which compelled her to seek refuge % repeatedly in several of the inlets and sounds it on the coast. Her coal also became exhausted \ » during the passage, and she had to use fircir£>\ wood, until reaching Oknrita, where a ton • s^ i^f coa ' s " Nvas pi'ocrred. The "provisions also ' ; short, and the carpo had to be broached. ■;:-■ jfc'aptain Hepburn, cm his arrival at Hokitika, ; '.Jaivas .presented by the passengers with an ad- [■-;. |^rass, ; expressive of their high appreciation | |||||his conduct in the trying circumstances MHJ|||er which the passage" was made. She j^pjgs. her departure hence for Dunedin via ■lutt*t4»is^inormng. Yesterday afternoon, ■file did a "good stroke" in towing. She Jaowcd out the Emerald Isle bound toPakihi, '• jaujd the Harriet for Eiebmoiid Eiver, ai:d she ; ::.|)rcught in ihe Wild Wave from Obrist- { phuroh, and the Fairy f rein "Manukau. The ! par Mas delightfully sniccth, wide, and deep r ,-.: r- The 0.5.5.. Company's Eoyal Mail s.s. Albion, .Edward Kidney, commander, left Port Phillip Heads at 4.15 p.m. on the ]21h & ult., arrived at Bluff Harbor on the 17th, K ! !a yil{£. experienced during the voyage mode■^^ji winds, with veiyligLt tins tea,-

left again at 4.30 p.m.,.. and had frash N.W; winds until afrh al at Otago Heads at 12 v.:n. on the 11th; Captain Kidney then hovc-rto until- daylight,, and anchored at Port Chalmers at 4.15. 15 a. m; ; left. at G p.m. on the 2Jth, had light variable winds until arrival at Lyttelton, at noon -on the 21st; left at 4.30 p.m. on the 22nd, and arrived at Wellington on the S.'h'd,' haying experienced, for the first part, liglit N.E.. ami afterwards strong N.W. winds ; left at 1.35 p.m. 24th, met with a heavy gale from the N.W., with J very thick weather, owing to which brought j up. a,tG.3O in Guard's Isay ; weather moderating left again at 4.50 a.m. on the 25th, passed through French Pass at G. 15 a.m., and arrived at Nelson at 9. 10 same morning ; left at 11.15 p.m. on the 26th. and arrived off Hukitika at 10.45 p.m. on the 27th. The Panama and Company's steamer Airedale, which arrived and sailed on Sunday, left Manukau on the ISth ult., and arrived at Taranaki thp following day, where she discharged 78 tons of cargo, and sailed again the same afternoon for Nelson ; reached that port at daylight on the 20th, and same day transhipped 41 passengers into the s.s. Lord Ashlej', for the West Coast, and 23 into the Rangitoto, for southern ports : remained at Nelson for live days, and sailed for Hokitika at 10 p.m. on the S/ifh, and brought up in the roadstead at 3 a.m. pn the 27th, and sailed for thjs port th_e same night, t)i route . for Sydney, Tho schooner Emma Eliza, from Nelson, arrived at Hokitika on Sunday. She left Nelson on the 18th. The clipper-schooner Dancing Wave arrived at Hokitiko, from Melbourne, on Satnr r day. She left on the 15th. v * r c made an error in stating that the Bruce called in at the P-jilcihi on lipr way from the Grey to the Bullor. She did not do so until her return. Pakihi Hakjjor. - The Went Cua4 Times has Leen supplied by Captain Kcrlcy, of the Bruce, with the following particulars concerning the Pakihi Harbpr . — J 'Pakihi is a mere cove situated about nine miles to the southward pf the Steeples, and immediately under and to the northward of Robinson's Point, which fprnis one side of t|je entrance to it. To the north the entranep is bounded by another bluff point, but of a less altitude than Robkson's. The passage bptwceu tie tv.-o is not more than 50 feet wide, and ]20 yards long. The cove ia in shape nearly a perfect oval, but of no extent, not being more than 3UO yards in length from north to south, by about 150 yards in its widest part, which faces the entrance. It is surrounded by a sandy beacli, and at Ipw water is quite dry. There is, however, a rise and fall of between five and six feet, so that small vessels, can enter, but, of course, lie high and dry when the tide is out. At the mouth of a small creek, which runs into the cove on its southern side, is a large rock, the only one it contains. As we have before observed, the entrance is extremely narrow, and at low water is not navigable, excepting to boats, as two rocks jut out from cither side and nsaily overlap each other. These are covered at high water tp a depth of about Jive Let. A huge mass of rock, which at a former period must have been detached from Robinsons- Point, lies at the foot of it, but separated from the main land by a narrow channel. Outside this rock is good anchorage in live fathoms, and there the Bruce lay during her few hours' stay oil" this place. Of course it is merely an open roadstead, fully exposed to gales from S. W. to N.N.E. The cove is sheltered from all but a westerly blow, a nasty swell, however, rolls round the point during heavy S.W. weather. The coast to the nnvtjnvnrd of the cove is low and sandy, as «*» beach extends for nearly nine . inil'js towards the Steeples. To the southward the coast is bold and rock bound. It is said that a good sized river, navigable to. a vessel of a light draught of water, joins the sea about three miles north of the cove. When the Bruce left, the cutter Dart was lying inside the Pakihi discharging, and at half-tide the diggers were walking round her.