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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 112, 11 May 1878, Page 2

The Wallace will leave for the Coast on Monday afternoon. The Kennedy is still detained at Greymouth. The Lady Barkly should arrive from Golden Bay this evening The Ringarooma left Wellington for Nelson at 5.30 this morning, but wa3 not signalled up to the time of our going to press. She will sail for Wellington, South, and Melbourne at 3 p.m. to-morrow. The Awaroa came info harbor at low water last evening, and was berthed alongside the Commercial Wharf. The schooner May sailed for West Wanganui last evening for a load of coal. The Wellington sailed for Picton and Wellington at 1 p.m. to-day. She leaves the latter port on the return trip on Monday. The Elizabeth Curie sailed for West Wanganui yesteruay afternoon. She will load there with coal for Wellington. The ship Lutterworth, which was in Nelson in September, 1876, arrived at London from Singapore on March 23. The Taiaroa has been detained at Wellington. She will leave here for Taranaki and Manukau at 3 p.m. on Monday. The Maori leaves Lyttelton to-day, and will arrive here to-morrow afternoon. She sails for WesS Coast ports on Monday at I p.m. The Charles Edward arrived at Westport this morning. She reports a strong gale and heavy rain, and no chance of proceeding until the weather moderates. The Tasso will ship a ?arge quantity of potatoes here for the Australian market. The Standard, Planet, and Maid of Italy brought cargoes to day for her from across the bay. The Murray arrived at New Plymouth from Wellington tlm morning, but owing to tie heavy N.W. gale she had been unable up to the time of our going to press to communicate with the shore. The Chaudiere will probably finish discharging cargo on Monday next. She will then take in a number of barrels, of cement which had to be landed on the wharf in order to get at the Nelson cargo, and it is expected that she will sail for Wellington on Wednesday or Thrrsd; y. She will load there for the old country. A private letter from London received at Sydney, states that owing to the success of the Cape route, Messrs Green, Anderson, and others have purchased the Cuzco, Lusitania, and Chimborazo from the Pacific S.N. Company for £210,000. The Melbourne Argus of the 23rd ultimo, speaking of the investigation into the loss of the Chimborazo, says:—" The decision of the Marine Board at Sydney is tbat Captain Hall's certificate is to be suspended for six months. The punishment is ludicrously disproportionate to the offence. If the Chimborazo hrd gone to pieces, and the coast had been strewn with the corpses of her passenge.-s and crew, with her valuable cargo, and with the wreck of a noble piece of marine architecture— her master would have been legally and morally responsible for the terrible disaster. By a wonderful stroke of good fortune this calamity was averted, but the culpable negligence or temerity of Captain Hall was so great as to deserve a commensurate penalty, if only as a warning to other master mariners occupying similarly responsible posifons. Tne tempiationa to make a rapid run from port to port in coasting voyages are so great, while the meaus by which it is accomplished are so full of peril to life and property, tbat these adventurous experiments require to be sternly discouraged and repressed. Bat such a decision as that which, has been jast given by the Marine Board in Sy. rey in the case of Captain Hall is more likely to encourage than to restrain other ' smart ' skippers who may be addicted to huggirg the shore, and proceeding at racing spe:d along a coast where the unnoticed inset of a current, a- d a few minutes' fog, are sufficient to f'oom a magnificent vessel, with all on board, to total destruction.