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Grey River Argus, Volume XXIII, Issue 3917, 18 March 1881, Page 2

The s.s Hero from Melbourne will be tendered this morning, weather permitting. There were no arrivals or departures yesterday. The s.s Murray arrived off the bar early in the morning, aud after looking at it steamed away to sea. .-»*„• Lifeboat rescues show a total, of 570 lives and 26 vessels saved from destruction. In the same period tbe Lifeboat Institution granted, rewards for saving 120 lives by iisblog and other boats, and other means, making a total of 690 lives last year, mainly through its instrumentality. Altogether, since its formation the society has contributed to the saving of 27,596 shipwrecked persons. ; It should be mentioned that the operations of the National Lifefoat Institution now cover the whole coasts of the British Isles, | and that all the lifeboats of the United Kingdom belong to it, with the exception of a score or co of lifeboats which are under the charge of harbor trustees 'and othftr local bodies — The Review, London. Assistant-Surgeon Glazier; at Key West, Fla., reports to the Marine Hospital Bureau that fishermen returning from the coast of Florida with fish in an apartment of their boats communicating freely iwith the surrounding water have had them die suddenly on reaching a certain kiud of water distinguishable by it 3 color. There is nothing as to the origin of the poisonous qualities of the water that affect the fish in this way j but the prevalent opinion seems to be that' there is something emptied iato the bedi of the fresh water cour :es from volcanic on geyserlike springs, and; that as soon as the water thus impregnated reaches the sea;- it: kills every living thing that comes under its Infinenca. — > ew V ork Maritime Review.