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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 229, 8 October 1879, Page 2

The Kennedy left for West Coast ports at 4 p.m. to-day. The Lyttelton leaves for Blenheim at 5 p.m. to-morrow. The Wallace leaves for Wanganui at 7 o'clock to-night, Tbe Patea arrived from Patea early this morning. The Claud Hamilton arrived off Greymouth at 10 30 tbis morning. The Wanganui sails for Westport and Greymouth at 8 p.m. to-morrow. The Wellington leaves Onehunga this afternoon, will arrive here to morrow night, and sail for Picton and Wellington at I p.m. on Friday. The Waitaki leaves Wellington at 4 p.m. to-morrow, will arrive here on Friday afternoon, and sail for Taranaki and Manukau, witb the outward San Francisco mail, at 3 p.m. on Saturday. The schooner and brigantine which were lying at Tonga last week windbound bave taken tbeir departure from that place. The Murray leaves Westport to-day, will arrive here to-morrow, and sail for Wellington at eight o'clock in the evening. The launching of the Charles Edward is proceeding rapidly, the present flue weather favoring operations. She is expected to be afloat to-morrow or Friday. Tbe Arawata, with the Suez mail, left Melbourne for New Zealand ports to-day . She will come as far as Nelson this trip. An Auckland paper says:— lt is stated that Mr Winter, the purchaser of the wrecked steamer Taupo, has returned from the Australian and Southern ports, having been successful in finding experienced men and appliances for raising the vessel. Operations are to be commenced shortly, and the venturers are sanguine of success. The position of the vessel has undergone little or no change, and Captain Farquhar was able, on Wednesday last, to walk through the cabin and over the lower deck, dry shod, at low water. The Rotomahana made the run from Melbourne to Port Chalmers, a distance of 1330 miles, in 3 days 16 hours, by far the shortest on record, ber trips from Dumbarton to Plymouth, and thence to Melbourne being equally rapid. Tbe most competent judges in Europe have pronounced ber " one of the finest steamers ever constructed," acd possibly the fastest of ber size afloat. In her first day's run across from Melbourne she covered 362 miles, or at the rate of over 15 knots per hour. Steaming at that speed she consumes about 40 tons of coal per day, making thirteen knots with only four of her six boilers in use and burning but 25 tons of coal. The men sent to the Sandspit last week for the purpose of recovering the spars, gear, &c, of the barque Messenger, returned here yesterday afternoon, having left the Spit at noon on Monday. They report that the vessel is completely buried in the sand, only a small portion of her being visible. Owing to the prevalence of N.W. gales the party have not been able to do much towards saving the spars and rigging. Once wben they were on board they cut away the weather rigging, and with tbe first gale tbe masts toppled over, and are now dangling by the vessel's side, being held by the lee rigging, which could not be cat adrift owing to the heavy sea running. So far the only things recovered are a compass and a few odds and ends. Tbe Maori passed close to ihe wreck yesterday afternoon, and Captain Bernech reports that her decks have burst, and very little of the bulwarks are to be seen. The only spar standing is the jibboom. None of the cargo will be saved, but it is expected that when the wreck breaks up the .spars will wash ashore. The Maori arrived in harbor at 8 o'clock last oight. She left Port Chalmers at 330 p.m. on September 23, and arrived at the Bluff at 7-30 a ra. on the 24th; sailed at 11 a.m., and reached Preservation Inlet at 9 p.m.; steamed on to Dusky Sound at 1 a.m. on tbe 25th, arriving opposite the copper mine at 7*30 a.m.; left at 9 am for Martin's Bay, which was reached at 6 a.m on the 26th; sailed at 9 a.m., and called at Big Bay, arriving at Jackson's Bay at 4 p.m.; left at 10-30 a.m on the 27th, and arrived alongside Hokitika wharf at 8-30 a.m. on the 28th. Tbe Maori was detained tbere by a heavy gale until October Ist, when she sailed at 11 a.m. for Greymouth ; arrived off there at 1 p.m., and after a stay of three hours, and there then being no chance of crossing the bar, owing to the heavy sea running, proceeded on to Westport, wbich was reached at 10*30 p.m.; left for Greymouth at midnight on the 4th, arriving thereat noon on the sth; filled up with coal, and left at 2 p.m. on the 6th, arriving at Westport at midnight; sailed at 1 30 a.m. yesterday, arriving here as above. The Maori sailed for Lyttelton and Dunedin at 10 o'clock this morning.