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. April 17, steamer Murray, 78, Conway, from-Wanganuii Passengers : Messrs Fell, Eastwood, Marks, Bettany, Barnett, Slade, Campbell, and 5 others. — steamer Kennedy, 136, Dillon; from Weft Coast. Passengers: Mrs Hartshorn, ; v. Mrs Monckton and family (7), Messrs Norman, Roskrud Re, Spencer, Caplin, Fitzgerald, Cpoke, Croll, Davis George, and Devereaux. SAILED. April 19, steamer Lady Barkly, 30, Walker, for Motueka. The Charles Edward leaves Hckitika for Greymouth tui3 afternoon. The Murray leaves for West Coast ports at 5 p.m. to-morrow. The Kenuedy leaves for Wellington direct at 10 o'clock to-night. The Lyttelton leaves for Blenheim at six o'clock this evening. The Maori leaves Lyttelton to-day, will arrive hers to-morrow, and sail for West Coast ports by the same tirie at 2 p.m. The Hawea # arrived at Onehunga yesterday morning. "She leaves there on the downward trip tc-morrow. Tho Wakatu will arrive here tomorrow morning, and sail for Wanganui and Wellington at 3 p.m. The Taiaroa left Wellington at 2 o'clock this afternoon, will arrive here to-morrow morning, and sail for Picton, Wellington and South by the same tide at 2 p ra. The Isabella Pratt has finished discharging cargo, and is now ballasting alongside the Commercial Wharf. The Anne Melhuish was towed Nto the outer anchorage by the Lady Barkly this afternoon, and will probably sail for Newcastle to-night. She took on board as ballast over 100 tons of acrap iron from the " Anchor Foundry. One reason why foreign vessels can be more economically managed than American, may be fourtd in the statement made by the Nautical Gazette, which under the caption of " Sea going Beggars," gives the following, •which it vouches for, and offers to produce •* reliable witnesses if the case is investigated. "An English barquentine left Mauritius, 15th August, bound to Falmoutb, England, for orders. She ought to have had on board lit least 120 days' provisions yet we fiud on the 28th September her speaking a ship from San Francisco, and oblaiuing flour, tea, &c. The vessel passed in sight of St. Helena, and would not go in for stores. Again off the. Western Islands we fiud this vessel Begging provisions which she obtained. Ou the one hundredth day from Mauritius, she arrived at Falmoutb. Three weeks before sbo arrived at Falmouth she had not displayed a side light, for she had only a month's supply of oil when she left Mauritius, and when that was gone, the binnacle - was lit with a ' sluah lamp,' and all the paint oil, also sweet and castor oil from the medicine chest had been used for lighliug the cabin, &c."