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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 121, 21 May 1880, Page 2

ARRIVED.

May 21, steamer Murray, 78, Conway, from Wanganui. Passengers: Mrs and Miss Adams, Messrs Nichol, Wilson, and 2 steerage. SATLED. May 20, steamer Wanaka, 276, M'Gillivray, for Picton, Wellington, and Lyttelton. Passengers: Mi 33 Pharazyn, Mesdaines Foley and 6 chi'dren, Pharazyn, Parkinson Messrs Morley, Foley, and Parkinson. 21, barque Brisbane, 339, Williams, for Timaru. — steamer Wakatu, 78, Evans, for Wanganui. — ketch Prospect, 21, Westrupp, for Pelorua Sound.

The Wakatu sailed for Wanganui this afternoon. The Kennedy leaves for West Coast ports at 7 o'clock to-night. The Lyttelton leaves for Blenheim at 10 o'clock to-morrow night. The Murray leaves for Wellington at 5 o'clock this evening, and may be expected back on Sunday morning. The Charles Edward has not yet been able to leave Hokitika, so that the prospect of her connecting with the outgoing San Francisco mail is very slight. The Graf ton leaves Wellington this afternoon, will* arrive here to-morrow morning, and Bail for Westport and Greymouth at 1 p.m. The Wanaka sailed for Picton, Wellington, and Lyttelton at 4> p.m. yesterday, and arrived at Wellington at 8.30 a.m. to day. The Brisbane hove up anchor early this morning, and set sail for Timaru, where she is under charter to load wheat for London. The actual steaming time of the Orient, on her last passage between Plymouth aud Adelaide, was thirty-four days, one hour and a half. A steamer ±rom the South was signalled this afternoon, but she appeals to have been bound through the Straits, as she has not yet turned up here. The Taiaroa left Wellington at two o'cock this afternoon, will arrive here tomorrow morning, and sail for Welliugton, Taranaki, and Manukau, with the outward San Francisco mail, at 4 p.m. For some time past Mr J. Lukins of the the Port has been engaged in constructing a boat to be propelled by a screw which, in itself, is a novelty. It has been designated the "boomerang " propeller, and in shape very much resembles the weapon used by the Australian natives. The screw vrill be moved by a shaft, which in turn will work an innumerable number of cog wheels, the multiplying power of which is 10£, that is to say for 'every turn of the shaft the propelle: will revolve ten and a half times. Steam is to be dispensed with altogether, the shaft being turned by those in the boat, and as there .is room for a dozen to work this will not be a difficult task. The boat is only a Bmall one, being 14 feet on the keel, and 17ft overall. She has been named the Boomerang. The machinery was tried this morning in the presence of our reporter and worked admirably. Mr Lukins expects to get about five knots per hour out of his boat. The Boomerang was launched this afternoon, and to-night will make her trial trip.