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THE EXCURSION TO NELSON.

The steamer Manawatu, with the excursionists to Nelson on hoard, returned to Wellington at half -past 10 o’clock yesterday morning, after a long and unpleasant passage of thirty-five hours. The following is a resumi of the proceedings of the party since leaving Wellington : The Manawatu oast off from the Wellington wharf at half-past three on Wednesday last, bound for Nelson, with about seventy-five excursionists on board. The wind at the time was blowing strong from the northwest, which made the water in Cook Strait very lumpy. Seven hours had elapsed before the shores of the Middle Island were reached, Captain Evans steering for Tory Channel with the intention of making a part of the passage through the Sound. Just before the entrance was made, the wind lulled somewhat, and the vessel headed for the Pass, keeping outside the Sound altogether. After passing Jackson’s Head, the Manawatu was overtaken by the Wellington, from Picton, and the vessels kept company till the French Pass was reached, the steamers getting through at 5 a.m. on Thursday. The Wellington, being by far the faster boat, steamed away for Nelson, the Manawatu gradually dropping ; astern. Nelson was reached by, the excursionists about noon, after a most disagreeable passage of twenty-one hours. The Wellington got in at half-past nine. It was Captain Evans’s intention to berth Ids steamer -at the northernend of the T, but he was instructed to' take a berth at the south side. In taking his assigned position, the tide, which was running -verystrong at the time, carried the steamer against the wharf, and the Star Club’s new whaleboat, which was slung on the steamer’s port davits, came into collision with a mooring pile, which; entered the boat’s bottom just under the bow thwart. The Manawatu still continued! to go gently forward, the movement resulting in the whaleboat being tom from stem to stem. The amateur whaleboat, race was just about to start,' so . that the Wellingtonians were debarred from contesting that event. The Nelson people expressed general regret at the contrcCcm/po, mu 3 when the Champion whaleboat race came on, generously tendered the use of -a new boat to their visitors. The Offer was accepted, and the result is known, Wellington winning easily, Messrs. Webb, Johnson, .Cornish, Worry, with O’Meara, as coxswain, pulling a pretty race. The prize, £ls, was divided by the Wellingtonians. between the builder of ,the boat and theVNelsdn) Hospital, the former receiving two-thirds of .the sum. In the evening of .regatta-day, the bpatiUg' I 'men I .and bricketers, were, inyited. to a . dance at the Odd j E.ellbws’ ‘ ‘ Hall, an Jnvitation was readily accepted, a very pleasant- night being j spent. On the following -morning the cricket match-wag commenced: the evenjug being marked by a dinner given in honor of; the boating men and cricketers;-. Saturday was the last day of the t excursionists’stay in Nelsoi—the cricket match .being concluded, after ia close and interesting contest, in Nelson’s jfavbr. On' Saturday'night,' just before l the hour at which the steamer was announced to start, the Nelson Artillery Band'assembled .at the Masonic Hotel,—where a great ’ number: of : the visitors were' located;? and 'aocbnjpained the Wellington people td'the port; !a' number of ■ ; carriages i and traps Having - been provided for; their • conveyance. At the -wharf fully three hundred persons had assembled to bid good-bye, and at half-past eleven, a'i the steamer left' the'wharf, 4 'cheer after cheer was given and answered, the Wellingtoiiians feeling something of regret that they jwere compelled to leave so soon a place where they had every attention and-kindness shown to them, and where they had enjoyed themselves so well. • After getting outside the Boulder Bank, their troubles-again-commenced," a strong,' but fair wind pitching them about bn the generally smooth waters of Blind Bay. The French Pass was reached at between five and six o’clock on Sunday morning. At eight o’clock; when off Jackson’s Head, the steamer received the full force of the southerly gale, the sea being very high. Captain Evans, finding he would have hard work to cross the Strait, endeavored to make the entrance to QueeU Charlotte’s Sound, but the Manawatu, unable to-gain any' headway, was rounded and run baok to Guard’s Bay, where she remained at anchor -till midnight, when she’ started for Wellington, arriving at half-past ten o’clock yesterday morning, the sea in-, the’ Strait hav-' ing been very rough.

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New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4352, 2 March 1875, Page 2

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THE EXCURSION TO NELSON. New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4352, 2 March 1875, Page 2

THE EXCURSION TO NELSON. New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4352, 2 March 1875, Page 2

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