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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 12, 13 January 1877, Page 2

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Jannary 12, steamer .Taupo, 461, Carey, for Taranaki and Manukau. • ~ ■ ' .1 — steamer Lady Barkly, 30, Walker, for Havelock. •*-'••"" 7: yp — ketch Standard, 10, Fletcher, for Marabau. y : ' y'• -.cutter Maid of Italy, 17, Clarke, for Biwaka. 13, steamer Wallace, 6 _, Dillon, for Wanganui.

---„..- The Ringarooma, with the Suez mail, will Tie due at * ( the "Bluff to-night or tomorrow mbrnin& c d.rly..T 7" ' 7 The Wellington leaves. Onehunga to-: _tto_rbw,-swill arrive on Monday night, and . sail for the South on Tuesday. . The^Kennedy arrived from West Coast ports tbis morning with 10,000 ounces gold for transhipment to Lyttelton. She sails for . Wellington to-morrow at 6 a.m. - The; Awaroa crossed .the, Wanganui bar 7 last evening.. She has twenty excursionists ; on board. Should she, meet with fine weather - she may be looked for some time to-morrow. : TheA:uckland:yacht Secret, belonging to Messrs' Nicol arid Hulme, and commanded by • C^ptMtt came into harbor this T morning'at 6-30, "and anchored opposite : the 7 C^mmereial Wharf. She left Lyttelton at - I*3o p. nf. On Wednesday last, and cleared the . Heads* at 235 p.m., with a light S.E. wind, since which time she has had moderate wea--7 ther. Sihe'.wiU sail for Wellington after con-testing-the;ya_ht race here. 7. Messrs M'Meckan, Blackwood,- and Co.'s s.s; Arawata, Captain Underwood, came into p; harbor a_t J 7 a.nr to-day. She left Hobson's 7 Bay at 4 p.m.. on the^ 4th instant, and cleared ■77 Port Phillip Heads -at 6-4s a.m., passing Curtis'; Island - at; .5 p.m. on the sth. Fresh ■wester|y winds : and fine weather prevailed during* tl|e ,run ; across, and the Bluff was _ xeached'at ; 4 a.m. on the 9th; discharged 40 tons cargo, and left at 4 p.m., arriving at , Port Chalmers at 4-30 a.m. on the 10th; landed' -ISO , tons' cargo, and sailed at i-25 j>.m., reaching Lyttelton at 7-25 a. ni. on the Ilth; ga%d v ag&n at 520 p.m.', and arrived, at Wellington'at'7'4o a.m. yesterday; left 'at : , 7*20 pnrfrarid arrived here at 6-40 this morning. We have to thank the, purser for favors. 7 She sails..,f or—Wellington at 7 o'clock this 7 evening, ahd leaves there at noon to-morrow. The Rotorua ,has already had, a trial jof ' her powers.-with one of the. crack Melbourne boats.-^She left.Port Chalmers half an hour in advanceof ;tbe Arawata, the latter steamer amvihg.hpjf an hour .before her arriyaL Tbe 7 Kotor4%:'|e_t' 'Lyttelton on Thursday; after-, ■;--.: noon, followed, forty minutes after by thb Melbourne boat. By midnight the Arawata Tj was abreast />f'her, when tlie Rotbrua muffled? :v» ■ her"Ug|ltl sq.'that she should not be seen,and v--7 at day^pf .was Ihead of the Arawata: Both yesselonterea' Wellington steni .for stem, : >; the Itßt6fu% being the closest' to jthe land, .7 and Caji^n Underwood attempted' to ; hedge ; her in, wth "the intention of getting her : to r stop, but it was no use, and the two steamers' 7 7 shot alongside Wellington wharf together. ' -The Ro_6r_a-again left last evening twenty .-7 minutes in advance of her opponent, which at midnight was close behind the New Zealand boat, and from that time Captain Mac--7 farlane dtd notf see her until daylight this '■■■ morning? !.M J __rawata then' being a mile 7 ahead. The Melbourne boat came through ;.'_ the French Pass shortly before- daylight and -the Rotorua at 4 a.m. During these races Tboth .t^aJ-i_r_' were .firing upT, vigorously, though the Arawata being somewhat grassy on the bottom never ran more than 13 knots . per hour. It must be remembered, tfiat tbe '■■■y Arawata has engines of 280 horse power, while the 'Rbtofiia, which is nearly the same size, has engines of only 172 horse power. ,