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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 138, 2 June 1876, Page 2

f1.,!.iy:v;.v... ;- •;. ~T~ ~•■ • : i' • An alteration has beet made in the timer tables of the steamers: The Phoebe will arrive from the S.suth'ipn, -Tuesday instead of Thursday, leaving the same day for the North, and the Taupo will "arrive on Thursday "instead of Friday, sailing- the same evening for Onehunga. The Wallace- left?for WanganuUast night. The Murray left, for West C6ast"ports ; this afternoon. „ The Ringarooma with the Suez mail is due at the Bluff to-night. T '"•' '..■' • The schooner Richard and Mary arrived early this morning, from Adele ißland: with a' cargo of: stone/ which .she, discharged at the back of Custom; House Hotel. The iteam-dredger, Erskine started for Lyttelton > during, the night, and as the weather in the Straits yesterday was fine there is every probability of her being able to get through?.; 7,1 ,;,•?;■. . ■-.--.; .. ( ; The Arawata, with the outward Suez mail on board, sailed yesterday afternoon shortly before five o'clock, and arrived'at; Wellington at six olclock. this morning. According to. contract "tio/d ' she was to leave Wellington to-day at twelve o'clock: On the passage to Nelson yesterday she anchored at the French Pass for an hour, and a boat was lowered and sent away -with 'a fishing party on board; they had .bad luck, a few sharks comprising the captures: "' : 'i: /..'•' The Union Company's fine steamer Hawea, Ciptain R ; ! Wheeler, arrived 'ia 'harbor this morning at five, o'clock. She left Port Chalmers at%'3o p.m. 'on the 30th ult, arriving at Lytteltoh at 9 a,m, on the 31st; left at : 9p.m., ' and arrived "at. 1 Wellington at 12.80 p.m. on the Ist inst.; left at 231 p.m , and arrived at Picton St ;;, 7: pmf; left at 8 p.m., arriving as above, having :) experienced fine ; weather throughout. On going alongside Wellington wharf yesterday the Hawea ran into the coal hulk Eli Witnry, slightly damaging her stern. Ihe Hawea sai's North at 5 p.m.. The Otago Daily Times of Saturday, referring to the rumor that negotiations were going ort in-NeW-Ze aland for the purchase of Messrs M'Meckflri'aud Blackwood's fleet of steamers^ Ways':— ''.We now letrn that there is foundation for 'the statement, the directors of the Union Steamship Compsny of New Zealand (Limited) being tbe negotiating parties referred to. In the event of the proposal for amalgamation being completed, we presume .that the, new company will give local as well,, as .^uatralian investors an^ opportunity ot 'contributing towards the L additional capital which the concern will require/and'should the Company do so, there can be little doubt that a large amount will in a short; 'time',' and without difficulty, be subscribed l^!! this- Colony; Another scheme for providing ! a line of steamers for the Australian and New Zealand trade has been set on foot in Melbourne, and two of the promoters, Mr , James , White, , of Messrs , James White 'and Company,' and Captain Coffey , b, oth .of Melbou rne, .are no w on . board the Arawata ' 'otf : tlieir way to New Zealand; for the purpo'sei bf : 'feeling' the] pulse of ""our' trading community on the subject of the -enterpriser Snbh a scheme, however, being essentially. an Australian one, is not likely to meet with that amount of support in New Zealand -which will be accorded to the scheme for which' the s Union Company is negotiating. As the arrangement into which the Union Company proposes to enter has for its object an amalgamation of companies',™ which Australian and <New Zealand capital is invested in nearly, equrtl proportions, it i« certain, that the new epmpiny, if started, will,. be estabr lished on a basis which will inspire public confi lence in the company as a substantial and paying concern. It is as well to mention, moreover, that the fbet belonging to the new company will, v to a great extent, be' under New Zealand control."' .'"..'•