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Grey River Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 4926, 10 July 1884, Page 2

Commander Edwin wired "urgent" the following yesterday afternoon :—" Bad weather is expected between north to west and south- west; glass rise, but will fall again after twelve hours, with wind breaking, and sea continue as now ." The s.s. Charles Edward arrived at Westport yesterday morning, and the s.s. St. Kilda at Wanganui. There was a strong fresh in the river yesterday in consequence of the late rain. The Penpont, from Westport, eight days out, was sighted off this port yesterday afternoon. The U&ion Company's steamer Mahinapua leaves jDunedin (calling at Oamaru, Lyttelton, and Wellington) . for the West Coast ports on Sunday, 13th inst. manager of the New Zealand Shipping Company received the following cablegram from Hobart yesterday :— " Arrived, s.s. Ruapehu, from London. Passed the s.s. Coptic off Cape Connella. The Coptic left Plymouth three days before the Ruapehu." Writing under date London, May 2, the correspondent of the Auckland Star says: — I learn that the close rapprochement which I formerly mentioned as obtaining between the White Star and Shaw Savill Shipping Companies has led to those two corporations combining to share the New Zealand trade, and, if possible, take the "shine" out of the New Zealand Shipping Company in the matter of direct steamers. The White Star people having intimated their willingness to run the lonic and Doric to New Zealand at their own risk, an arrangement was come to whereby the Shaw Savill Company agree not to run their own steamers in opposition. This is practically, therefore, an amalgamation of these two companies, and it ought to have a powerful influence on the direct steam trade to your colony. A sum of £450 was placed on theFijian Estimates for 1883 for a lighthouse on Naisilai Point, since known as the spot on which the Syria was wrecked with such loss of life. It would be interesting to know how much of the proposed lighthouse it was supposed would be constructed with the sum so set aside.