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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 111, 18 April 1876, Page 2

The Wallace arrived trom Wanganui at 8 o'c'ock this morning. She brought six racehorses, a number of eheep, and several passengers. The-Taupo leaves Onehunga for the South to-day, weather permitting. The Murray is bar- bound at Greymouth. She reports a heavy northerly gale. The Kennedy is detained at Westport. She reports a heavy flood ia the Buller river, and that all the Went Ceast bars are irapaasable. There is no news yet of the Otago which was due at Hokitika from Sydney yesterday. The departure ot the Lyttelton, for Blenheim, is postponed until to-morrow on account of the-weather. The Ocean Bird arrived at Oamaru yesterday, from Wanganui, after a hard passage ol a fortnight. The Kgmont, which was stranded in the Patea river last Wednesday, was to be told by auction for ths benefit of the underwriters this morning. A surf boat built by Mr T. R. Taylor for Mr Bartlett, of Opunake, was lauuehed la*t Saturday. She is 27ft long, 6ft 6in in beam, and 2ft 6 in deep. The keel and bilge pieces are shod with iron. She is copper fastened throughout;, and will carry four tons, or, in fine weather, sixteen bales of wool, fehe ?■? thoroughly well finished; and reflects consider abe credit on her builder. The favorite little Bteamer Wall-iee returned to harbor after a other trip to Wanganui at 7.45 this morning, and reports leaving Nelson at 7.30 p.m. on the 15th, experiencing a plea mint passage with moderate head wind and I- mooch sea; crossed the Wanganui bar at 10.50 a.m. on the 16th; on the 1 7th discharged cargo and took on board 6 horses, 100 sheep, and eundry other packages of goods; casting oif her moorings from the wharf at 2.30 p.m., proceeding down the stream with the schooners Hannah Broomfitli and Cora in tow, but unfortunately the former stuck on the flats where she had to be left after several unsuccessful attempts to dislodge ber, the Wallace proceeding to sea with the former cast oif her charge at 445 p m., and shaped a course for Stephen's Island, arriving abreast at 1145, finding the weather in the Straits rather thick with drizzly rain, which became much denser alter midnight, within the limits of Blind Bay. * ■ ' ■.j , . " i