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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 110, 17 April 1876, Page 2

The Otago from Sydney is due at Hokitika to-day. The Wallace sailed for Wanganui on*Saturday night. The Ptimbe arrived from the North last nisht, and will sail for Picton and South at noon.to.dayIn our list of pss:engers by the Taupo, which arrived from the South on Friday, the names of Dr. and Mrs Bakewell and family were accidentally omitted, The Union Company's s s Hawea, Capt. Wheeler, came into harbor at 11 o'clock on Saturday evening. She left One-*unq-a at 11 am. on Thursday, but being too late on the tide to cross the Manukaii bar, anchored for the night under the Heads; cros. ed ehe bar ou Friday morniner, and proceeded under easy Bteam to Taranaki, arriving there at 7 a.m. on Saturday; landed passengers and cargo and proceeded on to Nelson at 8.30, arriving here as above, having experienced fine weather throughout.' She sailed fcouth at 11 a.ra. yesterday. The barque Crq Du Village arrived at Wellington on Saturday last. She reports as follows :'-— Left Adelaide on the night of the 23rd March; experienced mode-rate westerly weather; came through Bass' Strait on the 31st with a strong S.W. breeze, which con tinued up to the Ist iust,; frora thence until Saturday had tolerably floe weather, principally from the north; on the Bth the weather commenced to thicken up frora the N.W"., and on tbe same day entered Cook's F*trait, tightiug I'encarrow light at half-past 9 p.m. It th.n commenced to blow hard from the N., and all. Sunday and Sunday night it blew a heavy 'gale, which split three ot the jibs and the upper loretopsdl The lower foretopsail whs blown clean out of the bolt-ropes, and the topgallant bulwarks were stove in. During Sunday she shipp-d a heavy sea, which sma-hed the skylight, and half filled tho cabin with water. During the height of the gale .the vessel labored very heavily, taking in large quantities of water, causing the pumps to be almost continually going.