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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 149, 15 June 1876, Page 2

The' Lyttelton will sail for Blenheim tomorrow evening. The Murray vill sail for West Coast ports as soon as the weather becomes more promising. The Alhambra left Melbourne yesterday, ani should be heard of on the Coast by Monday. The schooner Bonnie Lass essayed to start for Greymouthrvia Riwaka yesterday, but meeting with the squall which passed over here lfist evening, turned tail, and came into harbor again. The Wellraarton arrived from the South this morning, after a very rough passage (rom Pictons- Having a large quantity of cargo for this place,:.eho will not sail for the North until to-morrow afterpoon at 3 o'clock. Tbe Union Company's s.s. Taupo, Captain Worsp, arrived off the Lighthouse last evening at 8.30, and came into h_rr-or at midnight. She left the Manukau Heads at 12.45 p.m. on Tuesday r arriving oil Taranaki early yesterday morning; proceeded on to Nelson at 7 a.m., ( arriving - here as above.- She sailed South at ,1 o'clock this morning. M'Meckan, Blackwood, and Co.'s s.s; Otago, Captain- Calder, left Port Jackson at 4 p.m. on the'7th inst.; experienced light S.E. winds with 'fine' weather until arrival off Hokitika at 9 p.m. on the 12; left on the 13ih and arrived at Greymouth same day; left again at 5 p.m., and arrived off the Lighthouse at 3.30 p m yesterday, entering the harbor at 2 i o'clock this morning. She sailed for South and Melbourne at 2 p.ir. to-day. The Wallace returned from another trip to Wanganui at 1 p.m.to-diy. She left Nelson at 6.45 p.m. on the 10th inttant, experiencing light and variable winds across the Straits, crossing the Wanganui bar at 11 a.m. on the Ilth;; on the 12th discharged cargo, and made arrangements for leaving on the afternoon's* tide, but owing to the prevalence of a heavy sou-wester, ber departure was postponed until the 14th, when 130 sheep and 70 pigs were Bhipped, leaving at 2.15 p.m., with a moderate westerly wind, which chopped round to the N.W, about 7 o'clock, blowing hard and causing a nasty sea; about midnight, when' abreast of Stephen's Island, the .wind again backed to west, continuing until off the Croixelles, when it shifted to a strong S.W.