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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 147, 19 June 1878, Page 2

The Wallace left Wangauui for Nelson this afternoon. The Kennedy leaves Wellington for Nel■on this evening. -The Lyttelton left Blenheim for Wellington this morning. " The Charles Edward left Greymouth for Westport and Nelson at noon to-day. The Lady Barkly leaves on her usual trip to Golden Bay at 7 o'clock to-night. The Arawata leaves Melbourne to-day for New Zealand ports with the Suez mail. The Taiaroa, which only proceeded as far as Lyttelton last trip, leaves there to-morrow and will arrive here on Saturday. The Maori arrived at Lyttelton from Nel- , son yesterday afternoon. The Taranaki left New Plymouth this morning, will arrive here to-night, and sail for Wellington and South at 10 a,m. morrow.--The Albion arrived on the Wesfc Coast this morning, and was to be tendered at Hokitika this afternoon. She will probably arrive here hy to-morrow's tide, and sails shortly after arrival for Wellington, South, Hobarton and Melbourne. The Wellington arrived at Wellington this morning. She leaves there on the return trip to-morrow afternoon, and will arrive here on Friday morning. The. Awaroa sailed for Wanganui this afternoon with a full cargo, consisting principally of coals. Owing to the absence of wind she had made but little progress up to the time of our going to press. Although the Tararua is not posted up as having arrived at the Bluff it is probable that she has reached that port ere this. On her last trip she got as far as Lyttelton before anything was known here of her whereabouts. 1 The wreck of the Blackbird on the Australian coast lately, was caused by the chief offler mistaking a white patch of rocks for a shoal of fish. On the engines being reversed the steamer came off the rocks easily, but Strange to say she had not gone above a mile further on her course when she struck on another patch of rocks and became a total wreck. The Murray arrived in harbor at 2-15 p.m. to-day from New Plymouth. She left Nelson at 1-38 p.m. on Thursday, and was off the Sugar Loaves at noon on Friday, when the wind, which had been blowing fresh from the N.W., increased to a gale, with a heavy westerly Bea and t,hick rain. ,The coast line not being discernible Captain Conway stood out to sea and hpve the vessel to until daylight next morning, when she Btood into the roadstead. Signalled to the shore, but having received a reply to stand off the Murray's head was pointed seawards, and after steaming a short distance she came to an anchor. At 7 p.m., as the wind and Bea kept on increasing, the anchor was hove up, and the steamer. stood further out to sea! On Sunday morning she again stood in to the roadstead, but the unwelcome signal was run up on shore, "Too rough; boats cannot put off;" The wind now Bhif ted io the S.W., and the Murray took shelter under the Sugar , Loaves. At 4 p.m. the steamer Taranaki airrived from Wellington, and as the sea had then gone .down a. little boats put off from the shore and took the passengers and mails from both steamers. The sea, however, was too rough to admit of the cargo being landed, and the Murray again took shelter under the Sugar Loaves, while the Taranaki passed on tothe Manukau. Yesterday morning the former steamer went into the roadstead, and after landing cargo and shipping twenty tons, sailed for Nelson at 4-30 p.m., arriving here as above. Experienced S.W. winds across the Straits. The Murray sails for West Coast ports at 2 p.m. to-morrow. „ It will be remembered that when the ship Zelandia arrived here on her last trip from London she. had to go into quarantine in conBequence of small-pox having broken out amongst the crew, and their clothing was destroyed. Some of the sailors sued Captain Sellars in Wellington for the value of the articles destroyed, but were nonsuited. However, from the Maritime Register we see that on the arrival of the ship in London, the men again sued the captain, but were a second tune nonsuited.—Post.