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Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1326, 29 October 1872, Page 2

The p. s. Charles Edward from Nelson, Westport, and Hokitika, arrived in the river last night at eight o'clock. She leaves again to-night for the north. The date of the sailing of the ss. GoAhead from this (port for Sydney, has been altered to Thursday. In the Resident Magistrate's Court at Kelson, on Monday, the 21st October, the case of Creagh v. Syiuons was heard. This was an action by tho plaintiff, who had been master of the defendant's steamer Kennedy, for wrongful dismissal, for which LSO damages was claimed. Mr Pitt appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr Acton Adams for defendant. Crengh's evidence was to the effect that he held an English certificate as , mate, and a "V ictorian as master, and had been in defendant's employ live years. lie was appointed master about six months ago, at L2O per month, to be paid monthly, by verbal agreement, which was not subsequently varied. Ho was discharged without explanation, defendant saying "You and Dillon leave the ship." On his return he reported tho grounding of the ship on thn beach at Arahura during his watch, which is kept by the second mate. The Kennedy was also grounded in the entrance of the harbor twice lately. The Resident Magistrate decided for the defendant, judgment to be enured for the plaintiff for the amount ' paid in only, and plaintiff to pay defendant's costs, remarking that he thought the right of dismissal reserved in the contract made out, and farther that by the plaintiff's own letter thcro was some ground for dismissing him. A despatch from Oporto, received in L'sbon on tho 28th August, states that the steamship Fersevcrance went ashore during a fog at the entrance of the harbor, and was a total loss. Thirty poMons were (hownod. tat Ton Company's steamship Nevada, which left Philadelphia on 20th August, anchored at the mouth of tho Thames Kiver, took lire, and burned to the water's edge. The cargo was composed of rags, wool, merchandise, and gnsoline. The captain ani crew escaped in boats, saving nothing. The lire is supposed to have resulted from spontaneous combustion of the wool, which ignited the gasoline. The loss is estimated at 75,000d01. The propeller Metis, Captain Burden, was wrecked six miles off Stoningtou shore, Connecticut, on tho morning ot tho 30th August, A dreadful storm prevailed during the latter part of the night, and about four o'clock the propeller waa struck by a schooner, knocking a hole in her bottom. She h'llcd immediately. The passengers were aroused, and warned to secure lifepreservers in a short time. The lower part of the boat, An., went down about five miles from shore. A largo number of the passengers and crew climbed the upper deck, which parted from the hull and floated. The waves rolled high and the rain continued, but the upper works struck tho shore just below tho Ocean House, about eight o'clock in the morning. The Thetis had on board over one hundred passengers, and forty-live deckhands, waiters, &c, half of whom would probably bo saved. Captain Burden, and George B. Hall, agent of the line were saved, having been washed ashore on fragments of the wreck. They refused to go in lifeboats.