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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XL, Issue 186, 28 July 1876, Page 2

The Murray sailed for West Coast ports at 2 p.m. to-day. The Lyttelton lelt Wanganul st midnight, and rray be looked for here this evening. The Hawea left Onehunga to-day, will arrive here on Sunday morning, and will sail for the South on Monday at 2 p.m. The City of New York has at last got out of Port Chalmers, being tmo days behind her time. The ship Camperdown is advertised to sail from Wellington for San Francisco on the 7th August. Home papers mention the launch on the 13th May of another steamer for the Union Steam Shipping Company. This 1 st addition to their fleet is named the Waitahi and has been built on the Clyde, by Messrs Winf>ate and Co. under the direction of Mr John Darling, the resident engineer at Glasgow for the Union Company. She will run between Dunedin and Oamaru, taking the place ot the ps. Samson. Her gross tonnage is 400, her nominal horse-power 900, her class at Lloyd's 100 Al. The ceremony of namin? her was performed by Miss Douglas, a native of New Zealand. By an exchange we are enabled to clip the foilowing from the Glasgow Herald of the 23rd May;— Dumbarton. — "Yesterday Messrs Wm. Denny and Biothers lanrchel from their building yard, the ss Wakatipu, an iron ecrew Bteamship ot the fallowing dimensions, viz— -90ft by 33ft by 25ft; gross tmnage, 1750 She will be fitted with compound direct-acting engines of 250 horse-power by Messrs Denny and Cj. The usual ceremony of naming the ves<el the * Wakatipu ' was performed by Miss Agnes Rugsell Carrie, of Glasgow. Tlie Wakatipu will be placed on the intercolonial trade of New Zealand and Australia, and wiil ba under the charge of Mr Mills, the energetic manager of the Union Steamship Company (Limited) ofDunelin, Otago. The Wakatipu will be handsomely fitted up for a large number of first and second-class pavengfrs, and will be the largest steamship in the trade." The above Bteamer was to leave Glasgow on the Ist July under the command of Captain Cameron, who is well known in Dunedin as master of the barque Otago, and latterly his been in charge of ths Ben Ledi, one of the Glasgow and Melbourne liners.