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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 46, 22 February 1879, Page 2

Tbo Murray leaves for Wanganui and Opunake as soon as the weather moderates. The Lyttelton arrived at Blenheim at 9 o'clock this morning. The Wallace arrived at Wellington early this morning. She leaves on the return trip on Monday. The Kennedy reached Westport at 9 this morning. She reports heavy sea and raining hard, no chance of sailing again at present. The Charles Edward reports no chance of leaving Hokitika to day, raining, blowing westerly, and heavy sea. The Taiaroa arrived in harbor shortly after »w o'clock last evening, and sailed for laranaki and Manukau by the same tide at 8 p.m. Me^KuTa^^ ing. The Samson sails on Monday morning for West Wanganui, where she loads with coal for Wellington. The Wellington arrived at Wellington early this morning. She leaves there on Monday afternoon, will arrive here on Tnesday morning, and sail for Picton and Wellington by the same tide at 10.30 a.m. The Stella got up steam last evening, but the weather at that time being anything but promising she did not proceed to sea. She will sail this evening, weather permitting. The Albion left Wellington yesterday afternoon in place of the Taupo. Passengers for the former vessel will be conveyed by the Hawea, which leaves Wellington on Monday, to Port Chalmers where the Albion will await her arrival. The New Zealand Shipping Company have received advices that their chartered steamer Stad Haarlem sailed from Plymouth for New Zealand on the 12th mst with 600 immigrants. She is expected to reach Lyttelton about March 29, and after landing her passengers will proceed to Wellington, afterwards returning to Lyttelton, where she will load for England. The steamer is 2792 tons register, with engines of 450 horse power. Much interest is attached to the arrival of this steamer, inasmuch as she is the first ocean steamer that has sailed direct from England to this colony, and is looked upon as the pioneer steamer of a line which ultimately will be the link connecting New Zealand with the mother country, The Stad Haarlem is advertised in our columns to leave Lyttelton for England about the 10th of April, via Magellan Straits or Cape Horn, thus avoiding the discomforts of a voyage through the tropical waters incidental in the passage through the Red Sea and Suez Canal. As she possesses superior accommodation for passengers of all classes we hope to see her liberally patronised on her return trip.