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May 9, steamer Charles Edward, 125, Whitwtll, from Wellington. Passengers: Miss White, Capt. Bendall, Dr Hudson, Messrs Reeves, Young, Jones, M'Ginu, and Campbell. - — steamer Murray, 78, Conway, from Wanganui. Passengers: Mrs Nicholas and 2 children, Messrs Garland, Tunnicliffe, and White. — steamer Lady Barkly, 30, Walker, from „ Golden Bay. 7 passengers. — cutter Midge, 16, Eure, from Waitapu. i— ketch Argus, 33, Williams, from Croix- . dies. 10, C.G.S. Himemoa,sß2, Eairchild, from Wellington. SAILED. May 9, steamer Lyttelton, 86, Scott, for Blenheim.

Captain Edwin reported at 12.46 p.m:— "Bad weather approaching ; any direction between north west and west and south Glass will rise soon, but fall again within six hours, and wind backing." The Lady Barkly returned from Golden Bay yesterday afternoon. The Lyttelton sailed for Blenheim at noon yesterday. The Kennedy is detained at Hokitika by a heavy eea and flooded river. The Charles Edward's departure for West Coast ports is postponed till noon on Wednesday. Owing to the heavy sea running, the Murray will not leave for Wellington till 6 o'clock to-morrow evening. The Albion will come off the hard tomorrow night, and sail for Melbourne via West Coast ports and Newcastle at 9 a.m. on Wednesday. The Rotorua, with a supplementary Suez mail, arrived at tha Bluff this morning. The Taiaroa leaves Wellington this afternoon, will arrive here to morrow morniDg, and 9ail for J?icton, Wellington, and South by the same tide at 10 a m. The Graf ton will airive here from West Coast ports on Wednesday morning, and sail for Wellington, Lyttelton, and Oamaru by " the same tide at 8 a.m. The master of the schooner Clio telegraphs to us wishing to be reported as having arrived at Lyttelton from Waitapu. The C.G.S. Hinemoa arrived here from Wellington this morning, after a stormy passage across, having left that port yesterday afternoon. Stie comes here for the purpose of conveying the Railway Commissioners to Wellington, and will leave for that port to morrow morning. The kstch Comet, bound from Lyttelton for Waitapu, was lying at Guard's Bank on Saturday. Her master wished to be reported. The schooner Sisters and cutter Dauntless, ■which left here for Havelock on Saturday, returned to port yesterday in consequence of meeting with bad weather. During the height of the gale thi9 morning the barque Brisbane, which was lying alongBide the Railway Wharf, broke the chain with which she was moored to the wharf, and the other warps that were out not being sufficient to hold her, she drifted rapidly down the harbor, on her way striking the Albion Wharf with such force as to break the lamp erected there. Fortunately one of her anchors was ready for letting go, and it having been dropped, the barque was brought up before any damage was done. She was afterwards taken to the Railway Wharf and securely moored. The J\.Z. Times of Saturday says :— " We have pushed enquiries relative to the statement made to us about the. fires on board the ship Caroline, and have failed in obtaining confirmatory evidence. The passengers who gave the first report have disappeared, whilst others who have been interrogated upon the subject aver that gross exaggeration Las been practised. It appears that three alarms of fire were given, but instead of bunks and partitions being burnt no damage whatever was done. We give this explanation with much pleasure, and only repeat that we are not in a position to publish the names of those passengers who, actuated apparently by a spirit of sheer malice, deliberately propagated falsehoods to cast discredit on the ship. Such . meHdacity cannot be too severely reprobated for it acts detrimentally upon the travelling public by bringing passengers' statements into contempt. How can passengers expect the Press to ventilate their grievances when bo little dependence may be placed upon what they say ? It ia the old story of the wolf again."