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Grey River Argus, Volume XVI, Issue 2154, 5 July 1875, Page 2

The p.s. Charles Edward will leave to-day for Westport and Nslson, carrying the outward San Francisco mail. The three-masted schooner St. Kilda, bound for Melbourne with a full cargo of coal, was towed to sea on Saturday morning by the p.s, Dispatch, The s.s. Waipara arrived at the wharf from Hokitika on Saturday morning, and after shipping a cargo of coal, sailed at ten p.m. for Wanganui. . The ketch Sarah and Mary, Captain Grubb, left Lyttelton on Sunday, the 27th June, at 9 ajin., with a. light: easterly wind, >which lasted till s. am. on Tuesday,.then abreast of Cape Campbell, when the wind set in from the northward, and blew; a heavy gale, forcing the vessel to heave-to till noon on Wednesday, when all acoDce the wind came up from the S.S.W, and blew a moderate breeze till 8 p m, when Cape Campbell was passed at that hour. , At 2: p.m. was running under a reefed squaresail, and all signs of .more wind. At 12 p.m, when passing the Brothers, a heavy squall struck her, taking the sail, yard, and all belonging to it, clean overboard, ran then till abreast of Stephen Island with a reefed staysail, passed that island at noon on Thursday, and passed the Spit light. Rounded Cap Foulwind at 7 a.m. on Saturday, passed Fox's at 4 p.m, then light land breeze till arrival. She was towed in at 9 p.m. on Sunday, making a passage of six days. The New Zealand Steam Shipping Company have received from Home tenders for. building two Splendid new boats, larger than theHawea. Their directors have recently . taken up the whole of the balance of the 1 Company's shares, which will provide funds : for repairing the whole of the present fleet. Within the past year the bank overdraft has been reduced from L 45.000 to L 20.000, and large dividends paid. To enable them to compete with the Union Company, they will get new boats of a superior class, and in a few days tb enlarge the capital to L 150.000 by the issue of new shares. " Captain Johnston, of the Marine Depart- , ment, was a passenger by the Ino, which : arrived yesterday from fPicton and Tory Channel. Captain Johnson carefully examined the channel, with the view of determining, the most suitable spot for placing leading lights .for the guidance of mariners. He placed two beacons in the channel as an experiment, before deciding upon a permanent spot for a lighthouse, as he is desirous of learning from captains of steamers their opinion as to the suitableness of the positions he! has at present fixed upon.—N. Z. Times, 26th June. '. A telegram from Auckland in the Christchurch Press of the 28th June is as follows : The schooner Pacific left Timaru about the :. 3rd June, bound for the Manakau, but up to the present time nothing has been heard of her since her departure. This fact, coupled with.the knowledge that fearful gales have occurred on the east coast of the South Island immediately after her date of leaving, make her owners and the friends of those abroad seriously alarmed for their safety. The captain ofjthe schoonerJPearl, which arrived this morning, describes the gale as the worst he ever was out in. Three vessels i which had run from Timaru were blown aßhore. It is possible that Captain Bradsbaw may have taken shelter in the Bays, in an unfrequented part of the coast, or have found the S.W. wind veer to the west in Cook Straits, and so go round by North Cape.