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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 110, 9 May 1878, Page 2

The Wallace left Wauganui for Nelson at 1.30 p.m. to-day The Lyttelton was due at Blenheim from Wellington this morning. The Taiaroa leaves Lyttelton to-day, and will arrive here on Saturday. The Albion leaves Melbourne for Hokitika to-day. The Uno has now completed loading, and will probably sail for Wellington to-night The Arthur Wakefield left Waitapu for Wanganui with a load of timber on Sunday last. Another vessel, the barque Mendoza, has been chartered to load with wheat at Timaru for London. The Murray arrived at Wellington from Nelson at 830 this morning. She leaves there for New Plymouth direct this evening. The Wellingoon leaves Wellington this evening, will arrive here to-morrow, and sail at 11 a.m. on Saturday forPieton and Wellington The Kingarooma will arrive here about midday on Saturday, and sail for Wellington, South, and Melbourne by the same tide at 2 p.m. The Charles Edward has doubtless experienced very strong head winds since leaving Wellington. She was signalled when we went to press, and will leave for ihe West Coast soon after arrival. The Kennedy was unable to leave Greymouth to-day. She reports the bar having silted up during the night, and only workable now when perfectly smooth. She will Bail to-morrow if the sea moderates. One of the largest vessels that has come to New Zealand arrived at Port Chalmers en Monday last. Her name is the Glendarefell, and she brings 15 passengers and, 3600 tons of cargo.: The passage out occupied 84 days. The ship Golden Sea sailed from Auckland for Callao on Sunday last. She has on board 72 passengers, and Copper and Bailey's circus and menagerie. The Union Company's s.s. Taranaki, Capt: Malcolm, parrying the Nelson and West Coast portions of the San Francisco mail, arrived in harbor last evening at il o'clock. She left Onehunga at 2 p.m. on Tuesday] and arrived off Taranaki at 7 a.m. yesterday; landed mails and passengers, and sailed for Nelson at 9 a.m., arriving here as above. Experienced fine weather throughout. The Taranaki sailed for Wellington and South at 11.30 this morning. A. curious coincidence, almost unknown in shipping annals, occurred on board the barque Chaudiere this afternoon. During the morning the donkey-engine on board the. hulk Hera was busily engaged in rattling salt out of the Chaudiere, and so great was the friction that a large wooden block suspended aloft, through wb'.ch the rope runs, caught fire and in a very short time was in flames. As soon as the seizing burnt through the block fell on deck, and the noise ifc then made attracted the attention of the man at the engine, who quickly acquainted the chief officer with the fact. A tarpaulin on which ?he block fell was slightly burnt, being discovered in the nick of time.