HIGH WATER AT NELSON.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 294, 23 December 1879, Page 2

HIGH WATER AT NELSON.

December Morn. After. Wednesday 24 ... 5-27 G'22 Thursday 2f, ... g4S 71-> Friday ac ... 7-:> s 8 •_>" ARHrVEI). Dec. 22, steamer Lady Barklv, SO, Walker, from Motnrka. 23, steampr Waitaki, 229, Kdie, from Ticton, annd Wellington. SATLKD. Dec. 2.1, steamci LiJv I3.irldy, 30, Walker, for Golden Biy. " The Lady Bark'.y sailed for Golden Bay this afternoon. The Kennedy is still detained at Grrymouth. The Patea is expected to arrive here from Wellington to-morrow, and sail for l'atea the Bam c day. The Wakatu arrived at Wangamii yesterday afternoon. The Lyttelton lenves Blenheim for Nelson this afternoon. The Wallace leaves f < r Waniranui at 10 o'clock to night. The Murray arrived at Westport from Nelson this morniug. She experienced a very heavy passairo and remains at Westport till the weather moderates. The Charles Edward left Wellington last night, hut pnt back ac;ain. She will leave again to morrow evening, bringing over the cricketing team. She leaves for West Coast on Saturday at 1 1 a.m. The schooners Mary Campbell and T. B. Taylor, overdue from Grey mouth, should show up any hour now that the wind has changed to S.W. The Maori leaves Lyttelton this afternoon, ■will arrive here to-morrow afternoon, and Bail for West Coast ports by the same tide at 5 p.m. The Waitaki arrived iv harbor at 2.20 p.m. to day, having left Picton at eight o'clock last night. She sailed for Picton, Wellington, and South by the same tide. The damage sustained by the Uno yesterday, was confined to the loss of a portion of her false keel. Fortunately she rested on an even patch of rocks, otherwise the injury would have been more serious. The steamer Tui, while on the pissage between Wanganui and Wellington recently, lost her mainmast, which snapped close to the deck. An examination revealed it to be in a rather rotten condition. The New Zealander of Saturday says: — Two woolships, the N.Z. Shippine Co.'g Rakaia, and Shaw, Saville and Co.'s St. Leonards, left our port yesterday morning for London, taking colonial produce valued at £150,000. The ftakaia weighed anchor at 6-30 a.m , and as she was swung round a gun was fired to inform those interested that she was starting-. By 7-55 she had disappeared behind Point Halswell, and two hourß later a telegram was received from the Pilot Station saying that she was fifteen miles out. Before she moved from her apchorace the St. Leonards began to show signs of lite, some of the sails being partly unfurled, and the spare cable attached to the anchor drawn in, and those who watched the two vessels thought that they would get out of sight in a few minutes of each other. But for some reason she remained at auchor till 11-50 a.m., when she got away, firing a gun when she had taken her course. As a half gale was blowing all day yesterday, both Vessels got a splendid start, and should pass the Chatham Islands this evening. The time of their arrival at Home will be anxiously watched for, as not a little money depends on the result.