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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 126, 27 May 1880, Page 2

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May 26, steamer Charles Edward, 125, Whitwell, from West Coast. Passengers: Misses Aitken, Brenmer, Mrs Aldridge, Messrs Pearson, Mackay, Bishop, Jenkins, Kaurt (2), AH, 6 steerage, and 22 for Wellington. 27, steamer Wellington, 179, Malcolm, from Picton, Wellington, and South. Passengers: Mr and Mrs Hird, Miss Johnston, Mrs Lord, Messrs Keep, Wilson, Thompson. — ketch Argus, 36, Williams, from Fern Town. — • schooner Sisters, 15, Reardon, from Harelock. BATLED. May 26, cutter Maid of Italy, 15, Clarke, for Riwaka. — cutter Planet, 12, Thorne, for Motueka. 27, cutter Dart, 16, Ricketts, for Pelorus Sound. — cutter Wave, 10, Ricketts, for Totaranui. — ketch Camelia, 19, Charles, for Motupipi.

The Lyttelton is expected to leave Blenheim for Nelson to-day. The Dido has been placed on the cradle near the Commercial Wharf for the purpose of receiving a new false keel. The Graf ton left Westport at 11-30 p.m. yesterday, and was coming up the Bay when we went to press. She sails for Wellington at 6 p.m. The Maori is on the West Coast, and may be expected to arrive here to-morrow. She is announced to sail for Lyttelton and Dunedin the same day. The Wellington, which for some time past has been undergoing an extensive overhaul at Port Chalmers, arrived here this morning at 9 30. She left Dunedin on Monday, and Wellington at 230 p.m. yesterday. Captain Malcolm, late of the Penguin, is in charge of her. The Wellington sails for Taranaki and Manukau at 9 p.m. The Taiaroa left New Plymouth at 5 p.m. yesterday, and was signalled when we went to press. She will come into harbor about 8 o'clock to-night, and is announced to sail for Picton, Wellington, and Lyttelton by the same tide at 9 p.m. The Charles Edward left Nelson at noon on Thursday, the 13th inst., for West Coast ports, and arrived at Westport next day at 9 a.m.; left for Hokitika at 1 a.m. on Thursday, and arrived there at 11 o'clock same morning. It was intended to leave there on Sunday morning, but such fearful weather came on that the steamer could not move until the following Sunday, the 23rd, when she sailed for Greymouth arriving there by the same tide ; was detained there until Tuesday (on account of Monday being a public holiday), when she sailed for Westport, arriving there at 9 o'clock same evening; after a stay of one hour, sailed for Nelson, arriving here yesterday at 6 p.m. The Charles Edward sails for Wellington at six o'clock to-night. At present there is a large tonnage at the Lyttelton wharves, from Home, Australian, and coastal ports, and the harbor is very busy. The New Zealand Shipping Company alone have at present ten ships in port, their aggregate registered tonnage being 10,092 tons. This represents a carrying capacity for wheat of quite 14,000 tons, the whole of which is alongside, the vessels being either busy discharging or loading. The island of Amsterdam, on which the captain of the British ship Vancouver saw smoke and lights on the 16th December last, which led them to believe that, as the island is known to be uninhabited, the crew of a shipwrecked vessel, probably the Knowsley Hall, had found refuge on it, is the northemnfost of an isolated group lying in the South Indian Ocean, in about the same latitude as •the Cape of Good Hope and the south-west-ern corner of Australia, and about midway between the two points, but somewhat nearer the latter than the former. The island was, as far as is known, first seen in 1623 by the Dutch ship Leyden ; and in 1633 it was named New Amsterdam Island by the^ famous Anthonio Van Diemen, after the ship in which he was sailing when he saw it, and which was called the Nieuw Amsterdam. It was visited in 1837 by Captain Wickhain, in Her Majesty's ship Beagle, and is stated by him to be 2685 ft high, four miles long from east to west, and about four miles wide from north to south. The island is in parts covered with a light sandy soil, producing tall grass and shrubs, and there is a small dram of water half a mile inland on the leeward side of the island, but otherwise there is little on it to Bupport a shipwrecked crew.