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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 105, 22 April 1876, Page 2

The Taranaki sailed for the North at Noon to-day. The Hawea is expected from Picton and South to-night, and will sail for the North by the same tide. The Wellington was to leive Onehunga today, and will sail for the South at 9 a.m. on Monday. The Arawata is advertised to leave Melbourne for the Bluff to-day. The Kennedy reports from Hokltika to-day that there is some prospect of her getting out to morrow morning, as both the rivers and the sea on the bars are going down. The Otago was detained b r the weather last night, but Biiled for Worington this morning. The Wallace will leave for Wot Const port? to-morrow morning at 9 o'clock. The Murray left Westport for Nelson this morning, and will arrive to-morrow morn'ngi The barque Queensland will be towed otit by the Murray to-morrow morning. The Boldon is still lying at the outer anchorage, wait ins? for a fair wind to make a start for the Bluff The Lady Barkly, with the Health Officers on board, went out to the Fernglen this uiqrn-. ing, and had not returned when we went to press. The Barkly. we understtnd, has been engaged to land the immigrants, but until her, return from the ship it would not be known when the landing would take place. Preparations are being made for luunching an iron boat thut has ju^t been built by Mr Moutr»y. bho is 67ft in length, with a 13:t beam, and the bold U sft deep. She will be ringed as a fore and aft schooner.' and is expected to carry 60 tins on a draught of 4ft 6in Everything will be got in readim as tonight, and on Monday morning she will be drawn to the water's edge near the Post Office and hunched at hisch tide. The, ss. Albion, Captiin Clarke, left Melbourne at 11 a.m. on tie 1 1 inst. for Sydney via New Zealand; cleared Port Phillip Heads at 2.30 pm ; passed the Solan iers at 11 4) a ni. on th.9 lfith, an i arrived at the Bluff at 7 a.m. on the 16th, having txperienc?d fine weather with light breezes; left at 4 p m. the same day, and arrived at Porb Chalmers at 7 a.m on the 17th; left at 4 pm. for Lyttelton, had a strong head wind with heavy eca, and arrived at 2pm, on the 18th; left for Wellington at 6 p.m. on the 19th, and arrived at 10.30 a.m. ou the 20th; left for Nelson at 4 P m. on the 21st, and arrived at 8 o'clock this morning. She will sail for Melbourne via Wißt Coast to-morrow morning. "A vessol named the OneiJa, which recently arrived at Po;t Phillip from London, experienced some fearful weather during the voyage. While in lat. 42Jeg. 27min. S., and lon. 11 ldeg. 38min. E., on 12th March, a terrific gale arose. At 3 am. the sea was lashed into ungovernable fury, and tremendous bodies of water came thundering inbanrd, the sea overrunning on both sides, and almost burying her. At 330 a.m. she was struck on the port quatter by a lump of a sea, which burst in the windows and filled the saloon. The door of one of the second cabins was also stove, and the apartment filled. About 20 minutes to seven a.m. the sea, which had continued to rise in its might, rolled in over port and starboard bulwarks with irresistible and almost appalling force, smashing in the doors of the midship house. on deck, and forcing its way through and through, completely gufctel the cabins, to the utter coneta: nation' of the passengers, who were all washed out of their berths, »nd were knocking about am ngst the wreck of smashed partitions, broken chests, bedding, stores, &c , and, in an agony of terror that they bliou d be washed overboard. It was about this time that an infant of some fourteen months old. Darnel Willie Bell, son of one of the passengers, was torn by the sheer violence of this disastrous sea from its mother's arms, who was suckling it, and carried right through the cabin overboard beyond all hope of rescue. Ihe unfortunate mother was newly sharing the lamentable fate of her child, but was siezed by the arm and vas firmly he'd by her hu*>b»n<i, just as the was being carried out by the same reaietless wash ot water which swept away h-.r iufitnc The father was also etruck by a, boh, and driven foremost through a partition into the next cabin". The b»ggnga and e- fleets of the seco'id cabin pa c sengers were also washed Gverbo^rJ. Ultimately the cyclone abated, aud the vessel, in a somewhat shattered condition, proceeded on her voyage, and reached Port Phillip on the sth of Apri). Captain Clyma btlieves that the ship was cauuht in the end of a cj clone, beginniog at N.N.W. ana taking off at W.S. W.