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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 100, 15 April 1876, Page 2

The Otago will be due at Hokitika from Sydney on Monday. The-Murray arrived at Hokitika yeeterday, and was to sail for Grey mouth, We*tport, and Nelson to-day. She reports the Hokitika bar very Bhal ow. The Lyttelton arrived from Blenheim yesterday morning, and will return to that port on Thursday. The Kennedy sailed for West Coast ports this afternoon. The Phoebe leaves Onehunga to-day, will arrive to-morrow night, and Bail lor the South at noon on Monday. The Albion, with the Suez mail is due at the Bluff to-day. The Hawea, which has been bar-bound at Manukau, will arrive here to-night and sail lor Picton by the same tide, arriving at Wellington to-morrow evening, and sailing at once /or Lyttelton, where she will arrive on the following morning in time for the ra^es. Passengers and mails by the Hawei for the Ringarooma will be transshipped into that Bteamer either at Wellington or Lyttelton. The Wallace returned to port, after her usual round of West Coast ports, at 9.15 p m. on the Hth met, and reports having left Nelson at 7.4 i a.m. on the srh, after a pleasant passage arriving at the Buller at 5 a.m. on the 7lh; landed cargo, and departed for Hokitika at 9 15 p.m., experiencing the weather very thick throughout the night with northerly wind aul heavy showers of rain, arrived off the bar at 830 a.m. on the Bth, and found a strong fresh running out, with sea increasing, at 9 30 signals run up at flagstaff '■ bar safe,;' ani the Wallace shaped tor the eutraDce under a full head of ste^m, makgood progress until reaching the narrows, when she began to stagger, making a slight lee way, but under an excra spurt she became tbe vie! or, arriving at the wharf none the worse for her battle witii th» flood. At Hokitika, owiug to the V9locity of the steam caused by a heavy flood and boisterous elements outnde, she was detained a prisoner until the 12ih, when shd took her departure for Greymouth at 10 20 a.m., arriving on the same tido; after discharging cargo and coiling, made arrangements for leaving at I a tn. on the 13th, but owing to a strong breeze from the S.W., which brought home a tumbling ssa on the bar, delayed starting until 1.20 p.m., retching the Buller at 10 p.m.; leaving again at 12.30 a.m. on the Hth, experiencing fine weather accompanied with a moderate breeze from the S.W. until arrival here as above.