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Grey River Argus, Volume XV, Issue 1917, 28 September 1874, Page 2

The s.s. Albion arrived at the Bluff on the 26th, from Melbourne direct. She will come on round the ports, and be despatched from bere about the 2nd proximo. As the river yesterday was running bankhigh, there were no arrivals or departures at the port. The flood continued to increase during the night, owing to the constant rain; but the vessels in port held well to their moorings, The s.s. Waipara attempted to take the bar in the forenoon, but she found it was impossible to make head-way against the tremendous enrrent then running in the river, and waa driven on the tail-end of the uoith spit, wnwe she uotv lies broadside on to the sea. Further remarks regarding her •will be found in our local columns. She had on board a large number of passengers, we are informed, his Honor Judge Richmond and, also, the Stephenson-Burford troupe. Captain H. Macmeikan, who has so successfully commanded the Titan since she came to the Coast, left on Friday for Melbourne in the Otago, to take command of a new tug named the Rescue, recently brought out from Home to ply in Hobson's Bay. All will, we are sure, wish him success in his new vessel. Mr George Bignell, long and favorably known as mate on the Waipara, the Lioness, and lately on the Titan, succeeds Captain Macmeikan in the latter vessel. |S With regard to the recent storm}- weather we have had on the Coast, and, as it appears all through the Australian Colonies the Melbourne "Telegraph," of the 15th inst,, says:— "The accounts from all quarters are of stormy weather, and detention of intercolonial mail steamers. The Ellora and Dandenong, from Sydney, are both overdue, the former having the English mails for transhipment to the Nubia on board. The Derwent, with the Tasmaniau mails, was detained all Sunday at Launceston Heads, and the New Zealand mails are also overdue. From Hobart Town we learn that there has not been such severe weather there for years. The steamer Tasman, which, sailed from Melbourne on Saturday, had a stormy passage, having lost a large number of sheep. At Sydney the fiercest gale known there commenced on Sanday, and continued yesterday. It appears from our Sydney telegram that the last has not been heard of dismasted ships, as the Knight Commander passed one with her mainmast gone by the board.