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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 234, 2 October 1880, Page 2

The Hawea Bailed for Taranaki and Manukau at 5 30 p.m. yesterday. The Lady Barkly sailed for Golden Bay yesterday afternoon. The Murray leaves Westport. for Hokitika to-night. The Lyttelton left Blenheim yesterday for Nelson, and will return there on Monday at 10 pm. The Charles Edward left Westport this morning, will arrive here to-morrow rooming, and return to the West Coast on Tuesday, booking for Karamea. The Wanaka leaves Wellington at noon on Monday, will arrive here on Tuesday morning, ar d sail forrPictonj Wellington, South by the^same tide at 930 am. The Dido sailed for Waitapu this morning. She loads there with timber for Lyttelton. The Cora, after discharging a portion of her cargo at the Commercial Wharf, hauled alongside Mr Levien's wharf this morning. and will land the remainder there. The Robin Hood is rapidly discharging her cargo, and will get away for Newcastle in the early part of next week. The Union Company notify in tfieir time table for the present month that they will issue tickets %> excursionists to Melbourne available over either the A.S.N. Company's or Messrs Howard Smith and Son's Lino between Melbourne and Sydney at the following rates:—Saloon, £2; steerage, 15s. We clip the following from the London Telegraph:—On^Saturday morning the final trial of the new steamer Albert Victor, which is henceforth to ply between Folkestone and Boulogne for the South-Eastern Railway Company, took place. : A large party of gentlemen left London by nn early train, and arriving at Folkestone Harbour, found the vessel waiting for them. The embarkation was quickly effected, and the journey began. ' During the night previous the wind had risen, and it was not, therefore, surprising to find that the sea was a little rough. Bu|. Whether owing to the immense power of the engines: which the slip possesses, or to the fact that the upper deck on the top of the , saloon is raised rather high, the vessel rolled heavily. This "was the oaly defect in an otherwise most satisfactory passage. So splendidly did the machinery (of an estimated h.-p. 2,800) do it's work, and so well did the steel bow of the vessel go through the water; that the passage of nearly thirty miles was made in an hour and thirty one minutes, the return journey being actually completed in an hour and a quarter, probably the fastest c- on record. To the fittings of the ship and its general appearance too high commeuda dation cannot be given. It,ia in all respects an admirable steamer/ and if it'rolls less, as •it probably will, when ballast and luggage are in it, it must command the patronage of a large number of. passengers. If tbe passage can be made.as yesterday, in one hour and a quarter, a great step will have been made in Channel travelling.