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Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 632, 5 February 1870, Page 2

The s.B. John Punn, Captain Carey, arrived from Hokitika on Wednesday night with a large number of passengers, .ir.a'iy vi whom, however, wt re intending visitors to the Auckland waters to see the Flying Squadron. Siie left again at midnight on Thursday, with a slight addition from here to her numbers, consisting of parties who .have been awaiting the chance of a steamer to Westpoit for several days past. This compulsory waiting is due to the regular communication having been broken up by the Murray, Kennedy, &c. , taking northward trips. Thep.3. Charles Edward, Captain Holmes, arrived from Hokitikn on Thursday at midnight, and sailed again last night at the s&n'e hour for Westport, Nelson, and Northern jports. Her report -says that she left Dnnechn on Thursday week at 1 p.m. , arriving at Lyttcltr.n the following day at 11a.m. Sailed again at 10 p.m. the same day, and experienced a strong N.W. gale to Nelson, where sue arrived on Sunday at 4 a.m. Left for this coast on Monday at noon. Met a strong S.W. gale in Blind Bay, and came to auchor fur shelter Tinder Bush End until Tuesday morning. Arrived at the •Buller on Wednesday, at 4 a.m., ami left again at II p.m. th-5 same day, arriving at Hokitika at 10 30a.m. on Thursday taoriiurj;, leaving again in the evening for the Grey, arriving as above. She brought about fifteen passengers. The Charles Edward, as usual, ■will on her return from the Marmksu to Nelson extend her voyage to Lytttlton and Dnnedin, leaving the latter place on her return to the Coast about the 141 h iust. The regular trding schooner Ceres. Capt. Hcg!ie3, from Melbourne, arrived off the bar yesterday, but vn\s unable to enter, on acconnt of the absence <»f the p.s. Dispacli, As the latter vessel, however, will be here, to-night, the schooner's enforced detention an the roadstead will not t»e of long duration. A vcrdiofc <»f L5P, 000 hits been given against the Onnard Company, for sinking an Aus trian chip. We extract the following from the Melbourne. Argus, of January JG:— "The new iron cMppt-r Bhi"i) Looh Ness, wl>ich arrive I at -the Heads from the Clyde on January 13, anchored off Gellibrand's. Point late the same nigh 1 . The Loch Ness is another of' Messrs Aitken, Lilburn, and Co.'s Cly<!e line of dipt ers, to which the Ben Nwvis/Cl'inrahal'l, Loch Awe, Loch Katrine, and other ships belong. The. Loch Ness has, if any thing, finer lines than these ships j and Jierprese-it rapid voyage out, with a heavy cargo, and in most unfavorable trim, is no bad indication of her sniling capabilities. The greatest day's speed got out of her, with a good ficsli breeze, wag 302 knots. Tho Iot:b Ness was launched in September hist, from the establishment of M<»<?ra, Barclay and Curie, -at "Whiteincb, on the Clyde, where she was 1 built under special survey, expressly for the Australian trade. Tlie best material lias been -employed in her criiißtinictinn,',a^,?l the -workmanship and tinish nre of an equally eubstanti tl aud elegaut dosaiption with those of her.predeoewsors in the same Hile.; She is fitted up with all the newest mechanical impro>cments, both .on deck ayd aloft, and her cabin is at once a model of luxury uid Comfort. r lhe dimoiibioiiß of the Lf-ch Nes? arc : jib -follow : — Length, 225 f t; )n-aiu, 36ft ; deith of liotd, The comnmnd of this fine ship has been given 'fco Captain Thomas . Mriklejphp.rfonuerly; oft the shipß Nelson, "Bruce, and Ciufntromi, nnd Who is no stranger tptbis j>ort. Captain Me:k'ejobn reports, that he left Ilie Clyde nn October 2{\" With regard totheLaiif;bin^ Water, which wns wrecked in Fdveaux Straits, oil tlie 14th ultimo, the following s'rangc stoiy ai pears in the b'ovthltnid Tiwm. It s;iys — ' % \\ hetber am s rti.f mji^nctic S3 nipalhy exists lu:twttn milivi-iuals aud inanimate ol jeut'bspii il nalists ii »j- b> st explain ; but a singular circuinita- ru iiuiitiojitifl t<i us by Ca] tain (iib-on wisii tl sceii) t« establish gome niy.-terioKseon-]:tciiin bftwecn Mr Duibridgeand tl:ev6s?el vntkeil ii; (he Stinits tJ:c otli«r day. It ■npjifiiifi that M'inu coi-Hdeii.blc (inn. 1 Pg<> tlic l.itughiii" Wiilui 1 \a as 1^ my in >.tl..i>u lluilur,

whoro Mr Dutbridge saw her, and iimhe- | diatoly took a fancy to her t insular name. , Tliat-^L'ntle'inansooit'a?ter went to the Thames diggings, ayd took up'a.clftim, which he christened after tho brig,- and now she has a -me and laid her timbers" to bleach on the bfjich almost at his door, at the vory op; (r ite end of the island, as if ahe had a conucioua desire to "ho buried near to one who lv>(\ furmcd a sort of attachment to h^r fit iiist eight.'" 1