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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 73, 26 March 1878, Page 2

The Lady Barkly sailed for Golden Bay a t 10 o'clock last evening. The Lyttelton will leave Blenheim for Nelson at 10 a.m. to-morrow. The Wallace will arrive from Wellington to-morrow morning, and sail for Wanganui on Thursday. The Tararua was due at the Bluff this morning, but her arrival at that port was not notified up to the time of Our going to press. The schooner Nelson was to leave Wellington for Waitapu last evening, her owner having received a telegram to that effect. The Taranaki leaves Onehunga to-day. will arrive here early on Thursday morning, and sail for Wellington and South at 3 p.m. Up to dinner time to-day 169 tons of ballast had been put into the Celestial Queen. If it keeps going in at that rate the requisite quantity will be put on board hy Thursday. The vessel will sail for Napier about Saturday. The Tasso will finish discharging the coal portion of her cargo to-day. The timber will be landed to-morrow and as the ballast is on board the vessel will be ready to sail for Newcastle on Wednesday or Thursday. The Union Company's s.s. Wellington, Captain M'Gee, came into harbor this morning at 1 1 o'clock. She left Wellington at 3 p.m. yesterday, aud Picton at midnight, arriving here as above. The Wellington returned to Picton and Wellington by the same tide shortly after noon. Messrs M'Mcckan, Blackwood & Co.'s s.s. Albion, Captain Tozer, arrived this morning at 1 1 o'clock. She left Melbourne at 4 p.m. on Tuesday last, and after experiencing light variable winds with fine weather, arrived off Hokitika on Sunday morning; was tendered hy the Waipara, hut in consequence of the enormous quantity of cargo— l4o tons— for that port, the tender had to make two trips, aud it was not until six o'clock yesterday morning that the Albion got away; touched at Greymouth, and arrived at Westport in the afternoon; landed a quantity of cargo, and sailed for Nelson at 8 p.m., arriving here a3 above. After landing and shipping a quantity of cargo the Albion sailed for Wellington, South, and Melbourne at 2.30 p.m. The metamorphosis being effected to the Bruiser is gradually progressing, and in three •weeks time will be completed. That the vessel will be greatly benefitted thereby there cannot be the slightest doubt. As is usual in cases of this kind where heavy repairs are being effected, there is no telling where they are going to stop, as no sooner has one defective piece of timber been pulled away than another is discovered. This has happened so frequently in the case of the Bruiser that there is but very little of the original part left. When finished she will he a handy little vessel. We understand that she will be rigged as a ketch. It will he recollected no doubt (says tbe Post) that the Directors of the Union Steam Shipping Company, after some ineffectual attempts to dispose of the s.s. Phoebe in New Zealand, ultimately sent her to Sydney for sale. The old boat remained laid up there for a long time wi hout finding a purchaser, hut ultimately has been bought for the Newcastle coal trade, for which her large carrying capacity eminently suits her. The Phoebe was many years in the New Zealand coastal trade, and always was a favorite vessel with the travelling public, being a remarkably steady sea boat, and comfortably fitted up. She was re-fitted at an enormous expense, some £15,000, a few years ago by the New Zealand Steam Shipping Company, after proving herself a fast steamer, as steamers went in those days, but with the Ringarooma, Arawata, Wakatipu, Rotorua, Hawea, Taupo, &c, a demand arose for swifter steamers, costing less for working expenses, and so the old Pho.be has been relegated to inglorious obscurity as a Newcastle collier.