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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 85, 9 April 1880, Page 2

The Murray arrived at Westport this r morning. ■ ■The .Kennedy, weather permitting, leaves for Karamea and West Coast porta to-mor-TOW. The Charles Edward leaves for Wellington at six o'clock this evening. The Lyttelton arrived at Blenheim from Clova Bay and Nelson this morning. The Graf ton was signalled when we went to press. The Albion was coming up the Bay when -we went to press. She leaves for West Coast ports, Newcastle, and Melbourne to- - morrow. . . The Wakatu will arrive here on Sunday, and sail for Wanganui and Wellington on Monday. The Wanaka sailed for Picton, "Wellington, and Lyttelton at' 5*30 p.m. yesterday, and arrived at Wellin Ston afc 9 30 am- tO-day. She leaves mere for Lyttelton this afternoon. The Wanaka will return to Wellington on Sunday, and sail on Monday afternoon for Picton and Nelson. The Wellington is now laid up at Port Chalmers. All the hands have been paid off "with the exception of the captain and chief engineer. The barque Anne Melhuish arrived at the outer anchorage this morning, after a passage of 13 days from Newcastle. She brings v cargo of coal for Mr J. S. Cross, jun., and •will be towed into harbor to-morrow morning. The Taiaroa arrived in harbor at 6 a.m. to-day; She left Port Chalmers at 130 p.m. on the sth, and arrived at Lyttelton at 10*15 a.m. on the 6th; sailed-at 5 p.m. same day, and arrived at Wellington at 1*45 p.m. on the 7th; left at-2-20 p.m. yesterday, and reached Picton,at 720 p.m.; sailed at B*ls p.m., and arrived here above. The Taiaroa sails for Taranaki and Manukau at 6 p m. A* decree just issued by the Chief of the -German Admiralty ordains that the word ** port" (backbord) and •' starboard " (stuerJjord), used as orders to the men at the : steering-wheel of a German man-of-war; are injf utnre to be employed in a sense exactly the reverse of that wbich they have hitherto borne. When the order to " port" is given, •or the corresponding signal is made, the wheel i3 to be turned, or the helm is to be ' put over, so that the ship's head will turn to port or to the left; and, similarly, when the order is given to " starboard," it is intended that the rudder is to be placed so that the ship's head will be turned to the right. In our own navy, and also in our mercantile marine,' the very reverse of the above is, it is also unnecessary. to mention, meant by the above named orders. As the custom on Doard German merchant vessels is, and will probably continue to be, the same as in English ships, the new order of the Chief of the German Admiralty is likely to prove a fruitful source of confusion and disaster.