SAILED.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue XV, 22 November 1880, Page 2

SAILED.

Nov. 22, steamer Lady Barkly, 30, Walker, for Motueka. — throe masted schooner Catherine Leed, 220, Leed, for Lyttelton.

. Captain Edwin reported at 4*5 p.m. : — " Bad weather approaching ; any direction between north-east and north and west. Further fall of glass and heavy rain after 12 hours." The Lady Barkly returned from Golden Bay on Saturday afternoon. The Wakatu will arrive here tomorrow morning, and sail for Wanganui and Wellington at 8 p.m. The Wallace is at Hokitika waiting for moderate weather to proceed South. The Lyttelton arrived from Blenheim on " baturday evening, and leaveß for that port at 3 p.m. to-morrow. The Murray arrived at Hokitika yesterday, and leaves for Greymouth to-day weather permitting. The Kennedy arrived from Wellington yesterday morning, and leaves for the Weßt Coast at 3 p.m. to-morrow. The Charles Edward left Westporfc at one o'clock this morning, will arrive here late tonight, and is announced to sail for Wellington direct at seven o'clock to-morrow evening. The Graf ton will arrive here from West Coast ports to-morrow morning, and sail for Wellington and Lyttelton by the same tide at 9 a.m. The Wanaka left Wellington at noon today, will arrive here to-morrow morning, and sail for Picton, Wellington, and South by the Bame tide at noon. The Catherine Le<"d, which has been de tamed owing to the inability of the captain to procure hands, three of the orew having run away, sailed for Lyttelton this morning. Captain Leed shipped two "runners" giving them £6 each for the voyage to Lyttelton. The brigantine Borealis, on board of "which a horrible massacre was committed some few weeks ago, full particulars of which we published at the lime, arrived at Wellington from Levuka on Friday afternoon. The Union Company's steam launch Bocjuin arrived at Napier from Wellington on Saturday. Twenty vessels, of 24,900 tons in the aggregate, were launched on the < lyde during the month of September. In the first nine months of 1880, 178 vessel?, of 17,000 tons. in all, were landed, which is 43,800 more than in the same period of 1879, and larger than that of any corresponding period since 1874. The punctuality to their time-table which the Pacific Mail Steamship Company's four large steamers have achieved while carrying the mails between this, colony and San Francisco has again and again been remarked. Two of the steamers (the Australia and the Zealandia) are British-built, while American skill claims the City of Sydney and the City of New York. It may be that a wholesoaie degree of rivalry between the boats exists from this circumstance, but, whether that be so or not, the performances of each steamer since the service was established have throughout been splendid, and the American builders might almost be excused should they give way to a little enthusiasm over the following report: — Average duration of each steamer's round trip passage from San Francisco to Sydney and back, taken for three years— Zealandia, 1301 hours; City of New York, 1313 hoars; Australia, 1321 hours, City of Sydne/, 1353 hoars. There is jiist'a little in these figures in favor of the British article, but, then, our American cousins are little more than beginners in the art of iron ship-building: