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Feb. 16, cutter Midge, 16, Eure> from Wai tapu. — cutter Maid of Italy, 15, Clarke, from Biwaka. 17, 3'eatner ; Murray, 78, Conway, from Wanganui. Passengers: Mr and Mrs Vause and child, Mr Brisk, Mr Katterns. — steamer Pafcea, 50, Gibbons, from Patea. .. — steamer Kennedy, 136, Dillon, from Wellington. Passengers* Mrs Oxiey, Mr Bishop, Hunchliffe. _ — steamer TaJaroa, 228, Petersen, from Picton and Wellington. PasseDgers: Misses Jordan, Wilkins, Myers, Mesdames Pollock, Thompson, Jones, Peerard, Christopher, Macalister, Avery and child. Messrs Henry, Trolove, Craig, Smton, Wilson, Coppina, Peerard, Raine, Black, Naylor, Christopher. |-„ SAILED. Eeb. 17, steamer Taiaroa, 228, Petersen, for Pictobj Wellington, and South. Passengers: Misses Newman, Cusack, Aitken, Davis, Barley, Bucbholz, Lewis, Mesdames Pinney and child, Pilkington, Lewis, Tidd, JBuchholz, Gowland, Messrs Reeves, Charles, Owen, Lewis, Reynolds, Blick, Wagstaff, Coiins, Barr, Richardson, Blackett, Father Perant. — • ketch Camelia, 19, Charles, for Motupipi. — cutter. Wave, J l2, Ricketts, for Bark Bay. _^__ . The Lady Barkly leaves for Golden Bay at half-past seven to-night. The -Patea arrived from Patea early this morning. .She returns to the. same port at 6 p.m. to-mbrrow. The Graf ton arrived at Wellington at 10 p.m. yesterday, and sailed for Lyttleton two lours later.' The Lyttelton left Blenheim for Wellington last evening. The Charles Edward reports the Greymonth bar silted up; the tug boat Dispatch found only four feet of water to-day, and ■was, unable to tender the Albion. The Taiaroa arrived here at 10 a.m. today, having left Wellington at 4 p.m. yesterday. She sails for Picton, Wellington, and South by the* Bame tide at 1 p.m. The Albion arrived at Hokitika yesterday, *nd should reach here to-morrow morning. She is announced to sail for Melbourne via West Coast ports and Newcastle at noon. - » The Kennedy, left Wellington at 12 o'clock last night, and arrived here at noon to-day, light; southerly; winds, were experienced daring the passage across. The Kennedy sails for West Coaßt ports to morrow at 4 pm. The Murray, from Wanganui and Opunake, arrived in harbor at 4 a.m. to-day. She left Nelson for Opunake %t 6 p m. on Friday, arming at 11 a.m. on Saturday; left for Wanganui at 6 p.m. same day, and entered there at 3 a.m. on Sunday ; sailed for Nelson at 12*15 pm. yesterday, and arrived here as above Experienced S.W. weather with heavy sea in the Straits. The Murray sails for West Coast ports on Friday. The steamer Wakatu is undergoing a thorough overhaul alongside the Commercial Wharf. Several alterations have been made on deck and in the engine room. A new propeller has been shipped, which being larger than the old one, is more in proportion to the power of the engines, and will in a measure keep them from " racing" so fast as they did formerly. In addition the Wakatu is being cleaned and painted all over. The London correspondent of the Auckland Star writes:— The steamer Somersetshire, ■ with between 200 and 300 passengers, including a number for New Zealand, sailed for Melbourne and Sydney on December 13ih. When off Gravesend she was run into by the steamer Droraeda, and had her port life boat smashed, ' and received other damage. On the following morning she ran into a barge, and next morning grounded off Southend, but floated shortly afterwards, and proceeded on her voyage. By this time the passengers were naturally somewhat alarmed, but with the exception of one seaman having "been washed overboard nothing of importance occurred till Thursday night, when the Somersetshire collided for the third time in as many days with an American schooner, the Hattie Macfarlane, which ran into her, causing a large bole just above the water mark, and carrying away her jibboom. The Bchooncr .was dismasted Tbe Somersetshire stood by the schooner till daylight, when both put into Plymouth. The reason of this extraordinary series of . accidents is presumably the dense fog which prevailed when the Somersetshire started ; but why she started under such circumstances is not explained. On the. steamer's arrival at Plymouth, a writ for £400 damages was served on her at the suit of the owners of the injured vessels.