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Grey River Argus, Volume XVI, Issue 2169, 22 July 1875, Page 2

;.:•• Owing to the heavy sea running on the bar yesterday there were no arrivals or departures at this pot The departure of the s.s Vlaoriami p s Wallace has consequently •beeridelayed Should th- weather moderate, the Maori will leave today for Jackson's Bay; theßuff, and Dunediu ; and the Wallace; for Hokitika. ; .The brigantine.Eliza Firth has arrived at Hokitika The Lizzie Guy is loading timber there f>r Timaru. ; 'Mr Finlay M icarthur, formerly master of jthe Wallace, is now chief officer of the new steim.er Taupo. Tbi ba que B*'encai-.hra. ab King's Island, has suSWe ipo severe^ during the late heavy gains that the urchnsers h ive abandoned all further : efforts to floather. Steps, however, are, t-eing taken to recover the remainder of tha cargo,- consisting c'ni fly of iron pip^s. We have already published an account of the perilous voyag* of the s s Macgregor from Sydney to Auckland- A private le ter received by a Melbourne merchant from a frieud wlw^ went from Melbourne to Sy Iney, and, thence to, San Francisco in tho Ma,cgregor, explains how it was that the steamer was i - - so , helpless in the storm which she ericouniereH" The writer says :— " The vessel is ; :ladett. down with 2000 tons of coa 1 , 300 tons more; than she ' should have." This is , not the first .complaint we have heard 61 the overloading of San Francisco mail steamers;" ;-'■■'• : "', '.'. . ' .V . -: .