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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 147, 13 June 1876, Page 2

The Taupo left Onehunga at noon yesterday, but did not cross the bar until 12.45 p.m. to-day. '"-.'-• • : The Wallace was bar-bound at Wanganui fit noon, to-day. She reports a heavy gale blowing. r The Kennedy, which left here on Sunday, is., not yet reported as having arrived at Westport. ; ' ' " -- * ' ■ The schooner Awaroa returned from Motueks this morning. She will sill for Wanganui at 10 a.m. to-morrow. The schooner Uno arrived this morning from Adale Island, with a cargo of stone, which she discharged at the back of the Custom-House Hotel. The Wellington will leave Wellington for Picton and Nelson to-morrow, arriving here on Thursday at noon. She will sail for the •North at 2 p.m. *■• The- tyttelton- left Blenheim for Nelson yesterday, but in the face of the strong southwest windthat is blowing she has not yet put in an appearance here. The Murray will sail for West Coast ports on Thursday, weather permitting. She will take 25 'Italian immigrants, who will arrive per Wellington, for the Jackson's Bay special settlement. .'To the north of the Buller bar a large deposit of shingle is now forming with an apparent .. steady increase. It in no way impedes the fred navigation of the channel, but appears to be the commencement .of the formation of a continuous shingle bank to the northward similar to that existing in the days of Westpprt, when houses stood where seagoing crafts now Bail.—' G. It. Argus. r By the end of April, England w ill possess the strongest and most formidable war vessel {hat has ever floated, and one which, singlehnnded, will be fully, a match for any fleet upon the sea?. The Thunderer and Devastation" have already no rival among foreign navies, for, though the Russian Peter the Great will, like them, have its I4in of iron plating "when completed, their four guns are of thirty-eight tons each, while the guns of the Feter the Great are but thirty-five tone. But- this hew ship, the Inflexible, is covered with plates of iron from 16in to 24in in thickness (with spaces between) and will carry four guns of eighty-one tons each, that will penetrate ifOiu iron plates at a mile distance. She is al«o calculated to steam at fourteen knots an hour. With heart < of oak on board this ship of iron, we think Great Britain need not fear just yet for her naval supremacy.