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Grey River Argus, Volume XIV, Issue 1694, 8 January 1874, Page 2

The only arrival yesterday was thep.s. Titan, from Hokitika and the only departure the s.s. Waipara for the same porb. From telegrams received it seems scarcely possible that the Claud Hamilton can reach this port until Friday, when she will bn despatched with passengers for Melbourne direct. , , . ; The ketch Redcliffe has been wrecked on All-day. Reef,. Otago. One of the hands., named 'Williams, was drowned. The vessel was partially insured. The, following paragraph -appears in the Waikcito Times of the 27th December:— "The following was picked up at the Waikato Heads on tho 23rd instant by Mr James S. Gibbons. It is written on a small 'piece of paper and was enclosed in a bottle — ri 'Ship Ma>conomo, lat. 49 S.. long. 130 E. ship sinking, 14th January, 1872.'" During a heavy gale on-20th • December, the schooner Onward, timber laden from Kenepuru, was standing out of the Sound, when she was struck by &> heavy Bqua'll, ...which carried away every stitch of canvas. -Ou the i-ame day the Waihitpai, from Wangauui to Pict»n with a cargo of cattleV horse 3, and pigs, was met by a heavy gale, and was in great danger of being lost, all hands being employed .on the. afternoon and night of the 20th in bailing her with bucWots. as the, .pumps were choked with the sand ballast. : The fine iron barque Queen of the South 1 arrived at the Heads, and was immediately .boarded by Coxswain Moore, , who brougnt her up to her anchorage off Carey's Bay. Captain Adair reports leaving New York on .the 15th August with light S.W. winds which continued until the 24th ; tho wind then was variable for some time, and afterwards came from the southward with mdi;- -: cations of bad. weather. he vessel was in consequence made as snug as possible, and at 8 ( a.m. next day the wind increased to a ' -perfect hurricane ; when in lat. 48 N., long. 60 W., the wind suddenly changed to the west, and came down with such tremendous force .that the danvas was blown out of the gaskets, and the ship was on her beam ends under bare poles.; The main and mizen topmasts were earned away, also the rudder- -. heads, two boats, compasses, boat-skids, and • deckl water-closets,, and the galley was clean swept of everything moveable. The cook— t vW.:Thdmsonj, belonging to Hamburg— was unfortunately carried overboard, amid the •. iwreck.> During the gale, which lasted two days, the ship was hove-to; the weather moderated, nn :t.li«.2fiKhVtan»l tfco ]>aiY£u»4>on>~ awayifo^ St. George's, Bermuda, for repairs; _after refitting there, the hatches werb opened, "andtEe cargo seemed to be in good order.— DttilyTinits.rc V\,\ :'f j Messrs Mitchell Brothers, of Lygon street, ' fGarlton, inform us that having seen the ship's • figurehead which was recently picked up at King's Island, they can almost positively n 'identifyit as that of the ship Queen of the • Coloriiefr, in which they sailed from Sydney J ;'toj;San Franciso in 1869." When' the vessel 'wtoin'lat. 10.37 >'„ and long/1 19. 40 WJ, ; she was "caught in a cyclone^ in which she sustained considerable damage, including the loss of her figurehead. The Queen of the . iColdnies was a vessel of 1346 tons, and her figurehead would be about the size of that which is now to be seen on the Sandridge ' : : Pier.' ! The colors; moreover, were white and green, another point of resemblance. On the other hand, a correspondent at Creswick •" writes to say 1 that according to the descrip- , -1 tioos given df the figurehead, it is not at all .unlike, that, of the shipMpnarch, ,a 1300-toh ship' wliich left Melbourne about two years . -ago; and had & rough passage home. -ArguL Although the last vessel wrecked on the coast,: %hp. hull of ;the. { Sussex has' been the first .to disappear. At low water the Victoria ToWercan still bo seen, and she is said tfilia well worth looking^ after. The Sussex suddenly disappeared, and but few of her timbers were washed ashore— many, in faci, the- bulk of them^ went ont to sea to cause to mariners,- Argtis. !