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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 5, 6 January 1880, Page 2

The Lyttelton is expected from Blenheim this afternoon, and is announced to return there at 7 p.m. to-morrow. The Lady Barkly left on her usual weekly trip to Golden Bay last night. / The Grafton resumed her voyage to the -West Coast late last night. The Kennedy leaves Greymouth this afternoon and Westport to-morrow afternoon, arriving here on Thursday. The Charles Edward arrived afc Wellington this morning at 7 o'clock, and leaves again this evening. The Murray is due at Westport this afternoon and at Hokitika to-morrow morning. The Waitaki, oh her excursion trip from Wellington to Picton on Nc'w Year's Day, \ had 150 excursionists. The Wellington, which leaves Lyttelton this afternoon, will probably bring the Suez mail here. She wilf arrive on Eriday. The Wakatu is expected " to arrive here from Wanganui to-morrow morning. The Orient steamer Garonne left Ply- _> mouth for Australia on January 2, with 359 passengers. The Zealandia, with the New Zealand mails, .leaves Auckland for San Francisco . - this afternoon. The Waitaki, with the ' Southern portion, arrived at Onehunga this morning. ■- The Taiaroa arrived in harbor afc u-30 a.m: to-day, having lef fc Wellington yesterday afternoon, ani Picton late last night. % She sailed for Picton, Wellington, and South, by the same tide at 220 p.m , with a large number of passengers, a portion of whom were immigrants by the Opawa, and who are now bound for Lyttelton. „ The Western Monarch, which arrived at Wellington from London one day last week, is under the command of Captain John Watson, who was here in charge of the ship Ocean Mail some five years ago. The N.Z S. Co.'s ship Opawa is rapidly ' loading for London at Wellington. She has already on board 3000 bales of wool and 50 casks of tallow. The Rotomahana made an excursion on New Year's Day to Great Barrier Island, about 60 miles from Auckland, with 350 '-people on board. When leaving Port Fitzroy she struck on a rock thafc was marked on r - the chart but not buoyed, and slightly heeled over. On her return to Auckland a diver - was sent down to examine her and it was , found that she had sustained ho injury whatever. -*'