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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 101, 29 April 1878, Page 2

Capt. Edwin reports :— " Watch barometer, tad weather approaching, any direction between north and west and south-west, and further fall of glass soon." The Arawata, with the Suez mail, will be due at the Bluff this evening. The Ringaraoma leaves Melbourne to-day for New Zealand. The Charles Edward 'arrived 'at Westport this morning. The Australia will leave Auckland with the outward Ran Francisco mail to-morrow. The Lyttelton arrived from Blenheim this morning, and will return to that port on Wednesday. The schooner Elizabeth Curie left Oamaru for Nelson on Saturday with a cargo of breadstuffs. The ship Mataura, Captain Brown, which left Wellington on January 27, arrived at London on April 22. Thebarque3 Rialto.and Carnatic are now nearly loaded at Wellington, and it is expected that they will get away at the latter end of this week. Both vessels take home a number of passengers. The Wellington arrived at Wellington early yesterday morning. She left there this afternoon,- will arrive here to-morrow morning, and return to Picton and Wellington in the afternoon, taking passengers for Napier, Gisborne, and Tauranga. The Taiaroa steamed to the outer anchorage at 5.30 p.m. on Saturday, and remained there until the arrival of tho Kennedy from West Coast, when, after receiring that portion of the outward San Francisco mail, she sailed for Taranaki and Manukau, arriving at the latter place at 8 a.m. to-day. The ship Gainsborough has been fitted with a new iroa bowsprit at Wellington. It is a massive piece of work, containing no less than four tons of wrought iron. The Gainsborough sails for San Francisco tomorrow. Among the passengers on board the Tararua, which arrived here yesterday afternoon, are some twenty-five Lascar seamen, Wiio are en route for Melbourne. They recently formed the crew of the ship Ellora, ■which sailed from I yttelton for London the other day, and as they are unable to stand the frieid climate they had to be replaced by tougher metal. The timber trade at the Pelorus Sound appears to be on the increase. Messrs Webb and Co., the owners of a sawmill there, have o .-dered a steamer for the purpose of towing logs to the mill. She will be built at Wellington, and is to be constructed of wood. The steamer will be 60 feet long, 10 feet wide, and 60ft deep. The engines are to be on the compound principle, and will be supplied by the Victoria Foundry. Messrs M'Meckan, Blackwood & Co.'s s.s. Tararua, Captain Sinclair, arrived from Melbourne and South yesterday afternoon at 6.30. She left the former port on the 16th, and reached Hobarton on the 18th, sailing the same day for New Zealand ports; called at the Bluff, Port Chalmers, and Lyttelton, and arrived at Wellington at 11.45 a.m. en Saturday; left at 4 a.m. yesterday, and arrived here as above. The Tararua sails for Melbourne via West Coast ports this afternoon.