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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 136, 31 May 1876, Page 2

■*-,;. ■• .-• • '*, • ' ThetKenhedy leaves Westport for Nelson tord«yr :; - ; """ * - - -*• The, Wallace arrived from Wanganui this morning •'''-' The Murray arrived from Weit Coast this morning. Trie 'Taupo should arrive from the North early 'to-morrow morning , and will sail for Picton and South at 1 p m TtfeParry finished discharging her cargo of sugar this morning, and hauled alongside the Albion Wharf for the purpose of taking in ballast. , \ ■*■■'..■■ r ■ The Taranaki left Wellington for Picton and Nelson" this afternoon, and will sail for the North at 3.30 p.m. to-morrow, carrying the ontward San Krancisco mail. The topsail schooner Jane Anderson sailed into harbor tbi* morning, after a good passage from Oamaru; She brings a cargo of breadstuflVcbnsigned to Messrs Sclanders and Co, Mabin, Levitn, and Neale & Haddow. The schooner Uno has made another quick trip to Adele Island and back. She left here on Monday, arrived :at Adele Island yesterday, 'ioa.de i up with stone for the' new. Government Wharf, and arrived here this morn- - ing. ' ' :: '"'' .'.'.'• The jketch Emerald, from Lyttelton, arrived at 12 o'clock last night. Left Lyttelton .Heads at -0.30 a.m. on Sunday, carrioi light lair winds to The Brothers, which was passed at 3 p.m. on Monday, when the wind freshened to a wholesale breeze, and Tounded - Steven's Island at 8 p.m. same day, fromthence^ light variable winds and calms till arrival" as above. She brings a cargo of grain consigned to Mr Mabin, The" European Mail says : — " It will be interesting to Australians to hear that the Brotherly Love, the vessel on board which the great navigator, Captain Cook, serrel his time, as a ship's apprentice and obtained his certificate as. mate, is how afloat and trading ¥ on the Tyne, having just left South Shields * for $Jie ; Baltic., When we consider it. was in the "year. 1743 ' that Cook learned his first lessons of seamanship on board tht Brotherly Love, and that the vessel is still sound in her timbers, it would be a gracious act on the part of the British nation to preserve this fine old craft Wa grand momento of one of her early exp'oTers.^ There was a considerable amount of speculation at ; the ..Put this morning as to what a strange steamer that was lying at the outer anchorage, could be. The pilot boat went outio.her, and on its return it was learned that the'; stranger was the steam dredger E'skihe bound for Lyttelton from. Glasgow via - several intermediate ports, Adelaide being the last at which she touched. She left there on the 16th instant, and experienced easterly weather e«er si.ice with the exception of tjw.o ('ays. | She has been v'hree- days in the Straits trying to nuke way against a heavy south-east gale that h^s been blowing, and last night.. was'' for fu-e hbu 8 off Stephen's Island. uhVer a full head of steam without-- making a single mile Captain Strelds therefore preferred to run for Nelson and.:rem»in here uniil the gale abates. The Erskine is a terriblrf vessel to roll, and being very light in the water, drawing only 7 feet aft and 3 feet 6 inches forward, she makes bad weather where a vessel better adapted for sea going purposes would scarcely feel it. -cThe- following report of her is from the South .Australian, Advertiser of April 29: — " The dredger Erskine hove in sight early on Eriday morn nz, and at first loomed up like a very large steamer, bu'-, as the strange craft approached the s 'at ion. the illusion wis dispelled. It. was difficult to determine what she was intended for, seeing a long low hull' with round bovr and very good delivery, but on (boarding she was found to be one of the latest, improvements in dredges It will be remembered that a few months back a hopper touched here for a supply of coal, in order to prosecute the voyage to Lyttelton, and the present stranger is the dredge which is to work in conjunction with her in deepening operations. It was intended that ttiey should have reached New Zealand simultaneously, but Sone delay occurred in the builder's yards, and the hopper was sent away much before the dredge was re*dy. The Erskine is about 136 ft long, 150 tons register, with* 'an engine of tbirty-flve horse power, which at presant is driving the suraw propeller. When she reaches New Zealand, the whole of the mid-ship section will be removed -to make way for the ladder, which descends to the bottom in 18 or 20 feet of wa>er, and curries the chain of buckets wherewith the debris is elevated. At present the trunkway is filled io and decked over, so as to make as good a -sea-going vessel as possible out of a flat barge. She is rigged as a three-ranted schooner; and whed it Ins been practicable to carry ciuvas it .his ben of great sesrice in steidying her in "the fearful rolling in which she occasionally indulged. Being quite ready for f 83a, she sailed frjni Port Glasgow on

the Bth of January, and eight days after put inti Belfast, where a change of masters was tffflcted. She then made a start with flho weather and light winds, until getting away clear of the land, when there' were some ' heavy gales. On January : 27th, she called at Gibraltar, and steamed up the Mediterranean with very fine weather She coaled at Malt* on February 5, and then went on again at about s'x and a half or seven knots per honr until reaching Port Said. She proceeded throueh the Suez Canal and had a continuance of fine weather until well down the Ited. Sea, where sime heavy gales obliged ths craft to seek shelter under the lee of an island. On the 28th February she touched at Aden for more coal, the engines being quite equal to expending about four tons per day, and then proceeded on to Galle with fine winds. On the 1 8th April she left Albany, and made a very good passage thence to Adelaide. She will coal here, and make another start in a few days."