ARRIVED.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 166, 16 May 1879, Page 2

ARRIVED.

May 15, steamer Pelorus, 20, Watts, from Havlock. — steamer Lady Barkly, 30, Walker, from Golden Bay. — schooner Australian Maid, 17, Gilbertson, from Awaroa. 16 steamer Wellington, 287, Anderson, from Tarauaki and Manukau. — steamer Kennedy, 13G, Whitwell, from West Coast. — steamer Taiaroa, 228, Petersen, from Picton aud Wellington. SAILED. May 10. steamer Wellington, 257, Anderson, for Picton and Wellington. — steamer Lady Barkly, 30, Walker, for Motueka. — steamer Wallace, G4, Dillon, for Weilington. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Sterner Murray, from Opunake, to-morrow Steamer V. ellington, from Picton and Wellington, May 20 Schooner Croydoj Lass, from Wellington Schooner Richard a id Mary, from Lyttelton Schooner Awaroa, from Wanganui Barque Arrogant, from Newcastle Barque Cbaudiere, from London Tbe Lady Barkly returned from her weekly trip to Golden Bay late last night. The Croydon Lass sailed from Wellington from Nelson yesterday, and may be looked for here to-morrow. The Pelorus, from Havelock, brings a number of exhibits for the Sydney Exhibition. She returns to the same port tomorrow at 1 p.m. The Arrogant, with 500 tons of coal, left Newcastle for Nelson on Monday last. She is consigned to Mr J. S. Cross, junr. The Natal Queen will finish discharging cargo to night, and be ready for sea to morrow, when she will probably sail for Newcastle. The Taiaroa arrived in harbor afc 2 pm. to-day, having left Wellington last night and Picton early this morning. She sails for Taranaki and Manukau at 4 p.m. The Kennedy arrived here from West Coast ports this morniug, and returns there at 10 p.m. to-morrow. She will bring up tbe We3t Coast portion of the 'Frisco outward mail. No notice has yet been received of the arrival of the Murray at Opunaki. On her return she is advertised for West Coast ports. The Wallace left for Wellington this afternoon at 3.30. She leaves there again for here to morrow evening. The Wellington arrived in harbor at 4 a.m. to-day. She left Onehunga at 1-20 p.m. on Wednesday, and reached New Plymouth at 6-45 a.m. yesterday ; landed passengers and cargo, and sailed for Nelson at 10-40 a.m., arriving here as above. Fine weather was experienced throughout the passage. The Wellington sailed for Picton and Wellington this afternoon. The Hokitika correspondent of the New Zealar.der writes .—A peculiar incident happened here yesterday, when the captain of a schooner bound for Greymouth, got moored to tbe Hokitika wharf before he made the discovery that he was at Hokitika and not the Grey. There is not the slightest resemblance between the two ports, either as seen from the sea or from dry land, and how the captain came to mistake the one for tbe other in broad day is strange, more especially as he had been into Greymouth before, countless times. He disappeared very smartly when he discovered his error. The following is extracted frcm a letter ■which recently appeared in the Saturday Advertiser .-—Owing to the recent loss of their coasting steamers, the one following immediately after the other, the Union Steam Ship Company have been unable to offer travellers the accommodation they are entitled to look for. Prompt steps, however, have been taken to augment their fleet. They bave not only forestalled tbe two steamers building on the Clyde, by closing for the purchase of a vessel at Home, in every respect equal to the Taupo, and which they expect in the colony by the end of July but they are also in treaty for a fourth, of a still better class. By next spring the company look forward to having at their command steamers possessing speed and accommodation far excelling any hitherto plying in these waters, either intercolonially or on the seaboard of New Zealand. In the meantime the directors ask the public to rest assured that ere long every inconvenience arising from the loss of the Taranaki and Taupo will be more than remedied —Yours &c, W. R. WnEELEK, Secretary.