DEPARTURES.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 2977, 10 January 1881, Page 2

DEPARTURES.

January. B—Botorua, s.s., for Northern ports and Sydney. Passengers — Mrs Collins, Judge Kenny and Mrs Kenny, Miss Smith, Messrs Cato, W. Carruthers, Galloway, Jobbcrns, Warbriclc, Somerville/'Hi'll, Hood, Davie, and Darkey, and Master Collins. 9—Arawata, s.s., for Southern ports and Melbourne. Passengers—Mrs J. T. Johnson and child, Misses Hamer and Oakley, one Sister of Mercy, Hon. Col. Whitmore, M.L.C., Messrs C. Monteith, Hamlin, Fuszard, Brett, May, C. Stuart, Young (2), and Jobberns.

The Union Company's s.s. Rotorua resumed her voyage northwards at 6 o'clock on Saturday night, The s.s. Maori, Captain Anderson, returned from tho Wairoa via Mohaka at 5 o'clock on Saturday evening bringing a full load of wool, fruit, and grass seed. _ She is to sail again for the same place to-night. The Union Steamship Company's s.s. Arawata, Captain W. O. Sinclair, arrived from Northern ports yesterday morning at 4 o'clock. The following is a report of the passage, for which we have to thank the purser, Mr W. Dalgleish : —Left Auckland on the 7th inst. at 11.30 a.m., and arrived at Gisborne the next day at 2 p.m.; _ left again that evening at 6.30 o'clock, arriving here as above. Experienood fresh head ■winds throughout the passage. The ketch Three Brothers tendered for the cargo, some 20 tons and a horse. The steam launch Boojum tendered for mails and passengers, landing those inwards shortly after 7 o'clock, and leaving the wharf with those outwards at 11 o'clock. The Arawata steamed for Southern ports and Melbourne shortly before midday. The s.s. Result, Capt. Baxter, leaves for the Wairoa at 8 o'clock on Wednesday morning, taking excursionists to the Wairoa races. The Union Steam Ship Company's s.s. Boojum is advertised to leave for the Wairoa at 7 o'clock on Wednesday morning, taking excursionists and also cargo. The New Zealand Shipping Company's chartered barque Alexa clears at the Custom House this afternoon, and will sail for London as soon as the wind gets favourable. The life-boat was taken out this morning to practice her crew under the command of Harbor Master Kraeft. She was kept on the break of the bar for a short time, and then taken round tho ships and home by the Bluff. It is intended to havo another practice on Saturday, when the beat is to be capsized on tho bar.