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11, steamer Hawea, 461, Wheeler, -;: from Taranaki and Manukau — Passengers : .I,._f__ Bparduian, Mesdames Embling, King and 4 children, Ward, Stanton, Masters MorK. ton, Lightfoot, Luckie, Messrs Embling Hill; 5 .: Harris, Drake, Marshall, Cooke Goldsworth ; .;( 2 )» Napper;- Jacobsen, Collins, Al'Daß, Hi&h-'. ; >derson, Duggar, Dacre. : Xi : \ —^steamer "Charles Edward, . 125, . Whit- j -' "well, from Wellington — Passengers : Mrs i r Webb, Messrs Christian, Kumborough, Bedford, Bowdeh> White, Hale,: Parker. >-. — -' ketch Standard, 10, Eletcherj from Croixelles. ;: . j SAILED. January 10, cutfer Three Brothers, 10, Weatrupp, for Moutere. — - schooner Australian Maid, 17,; GilbertV soil, fot Awaroa. v '. ■•■ 11, steamer Hawea, 461, Wheeler, if or Pic„:toh and South. ;

■X X The Charles Edward arrived from Wellington this morning, and will sail for the .Coast at 10 a.m. "tb-morrow. ; She will re- ; ' torn on Wednesday morning with excursionists for the Regatta. - ;.J : The Lytteltoii arrivedat Wellington from Kekerangu this morning. She -will. 1 leave toy .morrow for Blenheim, where she will remain '.-.. tiitil Monday,^ when she will leave for Nel- " son with excursionists. 1... -.' .-:-l> The y- : Wallace was detained at Wanganui by ; : ;:;T»d weatherglass night, but will leaye this ' evening. -: .\. ;-•' V-= : \ The Kennedy arrived at Greymouth from ; "..-; Hokitika this morning, jand will sail for Nel.,Bonvfa Westport to-uight. JheiMurrayis still at; Westport but '.vill ■sail for Hokitika to-night. She will bring * ; up excursionists, arriviug here on Tuesday. The Taupo left Pieton at 830 this morning, and was signalled when we went to press. She will sail for the North at 5 p.m. to-morrow. "*-.- ■' ' ' _ _ The schooner Australian Maid sailed for Awaroa last evening. '.. .- The Union Company's s.s. Hawea, Captain Wtt-eler^came into, harbor early this morning. She .left Onehunga at. 4*30 p.m. on :.. Tuesday, and arrived oif Taranaki at 5 a.m. yesterday; and embarked passengers arid landed cargo, sailing for Nelson at Jo*3o^aum., arriviug here as above! Ex-perienced-fine weather as f ar as Hew Plympjttth, thieuce had light S.W. winds, which .continued until the steamer got into tha Straits,-; when it veered round to the S.E., \ andlat lOj o'clock last night was blowing -heavy,^accompanied .by a high sea. On . reaching Blind Bay the sea got smoother, and continued so until arrival here as above. \Tfe : __aw.a sailed South at 4 p.m. to-day. The Awaroa. still maintains her. reputation -/', for milking fast passages. She left here on v Taesday afternoon, and aarived at Wanganui ■ ;. yelferday afternoon, thus accomplishing the passagein iless than 24 hours. - A parliamentary paper has just been issued relative <td the deaths of seamen serving in British -vessels during the pastyeari From . this 1 it appears that a total of 4076 seameu of ■ al^class-a 1 were reported to the Board of T&de i as having died from various causes in X 1975, 357~were mates, _ midshipmen, 14 qiKtrter-Tnastecs, 117 boatswains, 1440 able sesubehf 374' ordinary seamen, 290 apprentices an* boys, 9 surgeons, 302 cooks and stewards, .^carpenter-, 27 sail makers, 64 in. minor capacities, 98 engineers, 223 firemen, 4 "afcbwaways,'! and 656 whose, ratings are un- . ;fa^ownfe The. causes of death, compiled ia accordance with the returns of the RegistrarVr General, show little variation as compared ; ■with' previous returns, and the total numbers exhibit a decrease as compared, with 1874. and.iß73- : But, as a matter of fact, the statistics in this return do not at all indicate --■ accurately, the number of deaths that occur afloat _mong seamen. The ; ret'urn contains some ort lie cases of deaths in British colonial Bbips, and also many, if not most, of the class o^meil^ who die abroad after their discharge sick' from British ships. . But it does not , .- -, - infefude^ the cases of men wbo die under' •..__ sittiilar -circumstances in the TTnitedrKing-. .dom— in the Dreadnoaght Hospital, and else-;