SHIPPING.

Grey River Argus, Volume XIV, Issue 1753, 18 March 1874, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT OF GREY. HIGH WATER. This Day- -10.19 a.m. ; 10.38 p.m. : , __.. ARRIVED. 'March 17— Charles Edward, p-3., Whitwell, from Nelson and Westport. Passengers : Mr and Mrs Linton, Mr and Mrs Crewdson, Mr and Mrs Hunter and two children, Mr and Mrs Barrio and three children, Mrs M'Laughlin and three children. Mrs Mac Gilveray and three children, Mrs Berndt, Miss Whitwell, Miss Bock, Miss M'Lean Miss Martin, Messrs Harrison, Bergoff.. Entwistle, Roberts, Allen, Clarke, Scott, Pizzy. Seaton, M'lvor, Taylor, Brown, Monroe, and, eight others Waipara, s.s, Bascand, from Hokitika, with a large number of excursionists. ' ' SAILED. March 17- Nil. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Murray, from Nelson. : Wallace, fr6m Nelson. Kennedy, from Nelson. Cleopatra, from Lyttelton. Otago, from Melbourne. Alice Maud, from Melbourne. Albion, from Melbourne. Claud Hamilton, from Melbourne. VESSELS IN PORT. Charles Edward, from Nelson. Waipara, from Hokitika. Lioness, tug steamer Lizzie Guy. from Lyttelton. Arthur Wakefield, from Wanganui

The only arrivals yesterday were the p. s. Charles Edward, which put in an early appearance from Nelson and Westport, and the Waipara at night from Hokitika. They both brought a large number of passengers, principally visitors to the race meeting. The schooner Rose of Eden sailed into the Buller on Monday morning. She left. Wanganui for Greymouth with 120 sheep, but being unable to Bail southward she put into the Buller. The s. s. Ino, intended for Westport local trade, arrived in the Buller on Monday, from Hokitika. She is a well-built, serviceable boat, and well-suited to the trade for which she is intended. Her lines are graceful, and she has the appearance of possessing very good sea-going qualities. On board, not a foot of space has been lost, her cabin, although necessarily small, is comfortable. Her length of keel is 72f •, 1 ngth overall 76ft, beam 13ft, depth of bold sft Sin, draught of water, light, 4ft 6in, when loaded 4ft 9in ; the engines are 12-horse, nominal, but will work up to 25 ; she will carry 50 tons of coal, and steam 6 knots per hour. It will be percieved by advertisement that her first trip is to the Ngakawhau for coal ; we wish her success, and congratulate the port upon her arrival. — Buller News Messrs John Elder and Co., of Glasgow, recently launched the largest vessel afloat. The vessel, which has been .built for the Pacific Steam Navigation Company, is 460 ft long, by 45ft wide, and by 37ft 6in deep, and is of 4820 tons, gross. , This steamer is to be fitted with compound engines cf 650-Lorse power, nominal, will be barque-rigged, and will have iron masts ; and for the convenience of loading and discharging cargo, five power* ful steam winches have been fitted up. She has capacity for 4500 tons measurement, exclusive of 900 tons of coal. The ship is divided into eight water-tight compartments, and has eight small boats, one of which is a Bteatn launch. (She will have accommodation for 140 first-class, 50 second-class, and 800 third-class passengers. The saloon will be 41ft by 40ft wide, giving accommodation for 140 passengers dining together. The officers and crew will number 120. When the ship left the ways she was named the Iberia, by Mrs Roberton, wife of Professor Roberton, of Glasgow University. | All the laws relating to sailors are hard and ud just, and two cases have lately turned up in Victoria that show the urgent necessity of a change. In one, the seamen on board the barque Glenshee complain that though their last voyage was far less than a fortnight/and the weather was fine all the time, they were without animai food of any kind for four days, living, as one of the crew put it, "oh a potato a day." In the other a man sued for a month's wages, which was acknowledged by the captain to be due, but because the plaintiff had joined in the sailors' strike for the eight hours movement a. short time back, the captain took the vindictive course of holding back the money due to him for the whole term of six months for which lie had shipped, and the bench supported him in his tyrannical course. This was done notwithstanding that the man was engaged by the month, and that it was the custom till the strike to pay monthly wages