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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 348, 31 December 1875, Page 2

The Murray tailed for Wanganni last nipht, ■ , ' The Chatles Edwa'd left Westport, for NeUon, last night. An, alteration hsring been rendered necessary in the time table of the Lady Barkly, we are requested to call attention to the fact that she «iii not leave here for Motueka and Golden Bay until the afternoon of Saturday, the Bth of January. The Taranaki will arrive from Ficton and South on Tuesday next, and sail the same day for the North, The Ladybird arrived this morning from the South, and sailed by the same tide for the North She will sul for ficton on the 7th cf January. . .„ Tfie Lj;ttetobh leaves Blenheim to-i'ay. for Nelson, with a cargo of |heep, and will return to Blenheim on Monday afternoon. The QaifO arrive! at the Bluff, from Melbourne, this tacroing. The schooner Awaroa arrived from Wanganni last evening. The-,8.8- LofdAshley, an oldjN. Z. trader, recently experienced very Jrottgh weat' er during her voyage from Sydney to New Caledonia. She iefo Sfdoey ia October ia«t, with the mails, about 6 o'c ock in the evening. The weather'wa^B then fine, but the barometer indicated an approaching change, and about 2,o'epsk. on the following m^ ruing the etorm stnjck them, and abouf'Sso/cloqk a tremi ndouaV sea broke aboird, tearing away everything .on deck, end filling the engine-room 6 t or 7it deep wiih water, extinguishing the flrts The vessel was thrown on hetbeimends, and Ihe wnt.r invaded the cabinsV All on board believed themselves lost, Captain Woods and his ofikera^alone retaining their presence of miad. AD hands set to work to clear the wreck and pump her clear, but, t Le fires being out and the pumps choked with rubbish, the sea gained upen them. Ciptsin Wools, upon this, to ligatun her, threw overboard 15 horses which tiHUinbtred the deck the bridge fittiug 0, &c/, and, thus r^lievid the vessel sowly righted, and by Friday they were len^bled to re-light the fires, and tlmf allied, and by continuous pumping till, od ■- s Monday, they were enabled jo proseed. The vessel was then but 40 miles from Sydney. , The remainder of tbe^jfoyage was flae. •On , the arrival of the' vessel at Noumea, the -passengers, recognising tbe energy an i pluck ot Captain WooJa. worthily seconded by the chief officer, Mr Henderson, entertained;them at a dinner. M. Pelleiier, Mayor of NoAimca, Mr Gillie*, English Consul, and several' kad"ing notabilities were present to testier, their h gh appreciation of Captain Wood's aonduct tinder trying circumstanced. |