SHIPPING.

Grey River Argus, Volume XIV, Issue 1750, 14 March 1874, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT OF GREY. HIGH WATER. This Day- -6.7 a.m. ; 6.59 p.m. To-morrow—7.42 a.m. ; 8.16 p.m. ' v >— «w . ARRIVED. March 13 — Kennedy, s.s, Conway, from Nelson, via Hokitika. „ „-..■ sailed. March 13— Nil. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Murray, from Nelson. Charles Edward, from Nelson. Lizzie Guy, from Lyttelton. Omeo, from Melbourne. Otago, from Melbourne. Alice Maud, from Melbourne. Cleopatra, from Lyttelton. VESSELS IN PORT. Waipara, from Hokitika. Sarah and Mary, from Westport. Kennedy, from Nelson.

The only af rival yesterday was the s.s. Kennedy from Nelson, Wo^tport, and Hokitika. She will leave on her return trip this afternoon. The s.s. Omeo is due here on Sunday from Nelson. She proceeds to Melbourne, via Newcastle, and is sure to take a large number of passengers. The schooner lizize Guy, from Lyttelton, with a cargo of produce, has been in the roadstead since Thursday, waiting for the return of the Titan from Westport to tow her in. The schooner Cleopatra was to leave Lyttelton for this port about the 11th inst. About 3.30 a.m. on Saturday, the policeman on duty on shore in Port Chalmers noticed flames rising from a vessel at anchor in the bay, and immediately launched the police boat and went off to her. He found it to be the ketch Isabella, whose mainsail was oh fire. The mate made the following statement :- He and other two seamen were sleeping on board in the cabin when he heard something fall on the deck, by the noise of which he was awakened. He got up immediately, and found a fire on deck, and on going to it found it to be the mainsail on fire. The sail had been furled round the mainboom in the xisual manner : the coupling by which it was fastened to the mast having been burned, the boom had fallen on the deck, and had caused the noise which awoke him. He and the other two men got buckets and quenched the fire with water, but before this could be accomplished, the sail, gaff, and boom had been injured. The damage done is about L4O. There was a glass signal-lamp fasted to one of the mainboom topping-lifts, about 12ft from the deck. On the top of the lamp there was a piece of canvas placed to keep the wind out of the lamp, and he thinks this must have caught fire, and some burning pieces of it fallen on the mainsail directly below it. The lamp was still burning when Sergeant Neil was on board. The canvas alluded to was burned, and the lashing which tied the lamp to the topping-lift was 011 fire. Notwithstanding the mishap, she weighed anchor, and sailed up to unedin the same morning. -Otago Guardian, March 2.