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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 97, 11 April 1876, Page 2

ThepMurray loft !or West Cosst ports this morning. , : : The Kennedy; will sail for West Coast ports on Friday. Th 3 Awaroa will sail for Wanganui tomorrow at 10 a.m. The p'.aqt (or the new gasometer was landed from fh^Boldoh to-diy. The Lady Birkly his not yet returned from her trip to the Lighthouse. The barque Queensland was towed into harbor "by the Kennedy thia morning. The Lyttelton arrived at Weil ngton yesterday, and returned to Bleuh im to day. The. Woodbine, will compete her ballasting to-morrow> and suil for Newcastle on Thurs-, day. The vessel lately built by Me?s-s Freeman Brothers" will be laanchei ' this evening at half-past ten. The Wellington leaves Wellington for Picton and Neißon tomorrow, will arrive here on Thursday morning, and sail for Taranaki and Manuktiu the sime day. A pasEe.iger by the Colima in ber last trip from i- an Frnncisco, who tigns himFclf "A Survivor,'', wr.ttts as follows to the Wellington Airgiis';— X was persuaded to lake a steerage poßs'ige 'by a friend who came up to 'Frisco in the Macgregor. I thought if steerage fare was as he- represented it 1 could survive. Now I have been travelling for 26 ye*rs, around the wotld several time*, across it in all navigable routes, and been in some pretty light, but I never was starved until I came oa board the <\)ljmi. What was served ti us as if a and coffje was a dirty wash that no person couid name by tat ng it, the bread wbs thjß\-ehtapesti ship btead that could be bought, no sugar nor butter, the salt beef aud even the b-»rreler were rotten. The doctor told us to theow it overboard, but the cvp 'am said it was good enough. The barrels wtre co rotten "'that the i chains were nearly all broken off. Those of us who hal money kept alive by purchasing food from t^e cook. You all know that, this ship broke down a few days afier ;lpaving Honolulu. Now, I'm no Btearaboat-sailor, doVt profess to know anything at all about, the varmints, but I. would like to ask someone who is \ o*ted if it ib se 1--msn'jks to trim a ship 1 9ft 4in aft and lift 2in forward and' drive i\x\ speed? All the freight .that could be got at was stowod as far aft ns~poBS ble and 90 fathoms of cable Etawed close A% the. stern ruil. Now I think that if the ca^fe ,'had. been taken forward after ilia first break down b!io would have pot along all right. I would also ask if it is customary to stop the engines' to 'furl a sail in ehip9 carrying H.B.M; mails, r. :