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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 83, 7 April 1880, Page 2

The Fatea is on the gridiron nearflie Commercial Wharf getting cleaned and painted. The Lady Barkly sailed on her weekly trip to Golden Bay yesterday afternoon. The Lyttelton leaves for Blenheim via * CloVa Bay at 10 o'clock to-night. The Murray sailed for West Coast ports this morning. The Kennedy leaves Wellington for Nel*on to-night. . The Charles Edward left Greymouth this morning, and will leave Westport this evening. She may he expected here to-morrow afternoon. The Hawea sailed for Picton, Wellington, and South at 5 p.m. yesterday. The Wanaka left New Plymouth at 10 a.m. to-day, will arrive here to-night, and sail for Picton and Wellington at 5 p.m. to-morrow. The Rotomahana will be the next steamer for Melbourne, leaving Wellington on Monday. Passengers will be forwarded to her by the Wanaka to-morrow. ' The Stella arrived here at six o'clock this morning from the French Pass. She was at Anchor at Totaranui last night. The Stella sailed by the same tide at 8 o'clock, and proceeded across the Bay for the purpose of laying down a buoy there, after which she Will steam on to Wellington. The Union Company have made an alteration in the date of their steamers leaving the Manukau. In future the Southern steamer will sail from there on Tuesday, instead of Wednesday as heretofore, and proceed as far as Lyttelton, returning to Wellington on Sunday, and leaving there for Picton and Nelson on Monday. The steamer leaving here on Tuesday will proceed right through to Dunedin. The Wanaka, which left Onehnnga yesterday, is the inaugural steamer of the new service. The barque Especulador, schooners Elizabeth Curie and Onward, and ketch Lucy James will be sold by auction at Lyttelton to-morrow. The following letters appeared in the N.Z. Times of April 2nd:—". Sir,— Would you kindly insert the following letter from Captain Whitwell, in reply to a sensational paragraph that appered in the Evening Post » day or two since, to the effect that the Charles Edward and Graf ton had narrowly escaped colliding whilst navigating the French Pass. The Charlie being a favorite passenger boat with the public, such false statements, if not contradicted, might prejudice the passenger trade very considerably. —I am, &c, Charles A. Deacon, Agent Anchor Line Steam Packets. — " Wellington, Ist April, 1880. Mr C. A. Deacon, Anchor - Line Steam Packets, Wellington. Sir,— The paragraph that appeared in the Evening Post about a meeting of the s.s Graf ton and Charles Edward in the French Pass, and the consequent danger, is entirely wrong. The steamers passed each other about a mile south of the Pass, where there is room enough for all the steamers in New Zealand to navigate without danger. — Your, &c, (Signed) Thomas Whitwell, master Charles Edward."