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Grey River Argus, Volume XV, Issue 1833, 20 June 1874, Page 2

The p.s. Charles Edward sailed for the northern ports early yesterday morning. The clipper brig Alice Maud is announced positively to leave the wharf this day for Melbourne direct. She has good accomodation for a number of passengers. The p.s. Dispatch returned from Hokitika about 1 30 a.m. yesterday, and on the following tide towed to sea the si-hooner Mary Ogilvie, bound for Dunedin with a cargo of coal. On this trip, as on his last, Captain Faulkoner makes his passage south about. The first of Messrs M 'Meckan. Blackwood, and Co.'s vessels from Melbourne direct to this port will be the steamship Tararua, which is expected here on the 28th. The s.s. Otago, ofthesaine line, arrived yesterday, at Bluff harbor and as she comes by the ports, her departure from here for Melbourne, need not be anticipated before the 25th inst. The s.s. Omeo leaves for Melbourne direct on the 2nd proximo, and the Claud Hamilton, for New Zealand ports, on the 10th. Messrs Sims and Brown, North Shore, Auckland, are building a large three-masted schooner or barquentine, of 300 tons builders measurement, or 160 tons register. The following are her dimensions:— Length of keel, 114 f t; beam, 23ft ; depth of hold, 114 ft. The same firm are also building a small Bcrew steamer for Messrs Webley Brothers, of Taranaki, which they intend to place on the trade as a cargo boat between New Plyand the Waitara. Her dimensions are : — Length of keel, 56ft ; beam, lift ; depth of hold, sft ; builders' measurement, 32 tons. They are also building a cutter, the dimensions of which are as follows : — Length of ! keel,' 48ft ; beam, 16ft ; depth of hold, 6ft ; ' builders' measurement, 51 tons, or 30 tons tons register ; coppered and fastened throughout.

The wreck of the Surat was purchased by Messrs Guthrie and Larnach of Dunedin for L7OOO at a public auction, and the purchasers have since Deejxnmploying various means to ggi^^«^ 6^-. m ""fy^jy recovering cargo "Hie entrance to the river"near the bar, and and in the roll of the sea, but notwithstanding the severe hammering she has lately received from heavy seas, the ship Surat discovers no decided indication of breaking up. She holds together marvellously well, but has undergone a change of position. When she first went ashore her bows were down and her stern up ; but now this is reversed —the ship having settled down so much by the stern that her poop is only just awash at low tide.

On, the 4th of June there were in the port of Lyttelton,. seven English, ships, namely. City of Agra, Varuna, Apelles, Portland, China, Kakaia, Ballochmoyle. There were also 13 barques and 11 schooners, making a very fair show of shipping in the harbor. At Port Chalmers there were on 2nd June no less than 14 English ships, namely, Trevelyan, William Davie, Margaret Galbraith, Dallam Tower, Scimitar, City of Tanjore, Himalaya, Durham, Undine, Asia, Wild Deer, James Nicol Fleming, ■Buckinghamshire. Janet Court. In Wellington on the same date, there were five Engish ships, namely, the Macallum Mohr,- Golden Sea, Wennington, La Hoguo, and Inverallen. This makes a total of 26 English vessels in the three harbors.