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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XX, Issue 3929, 11 June 1877, Page 2

The Union Company's s.s. Wanaka, from Poverty Bay, Tauranga, and Auckland, arrived iv the roadstead at 5 a.m. on Saturday. Upon her arrival she was promptly tendered liy the steam-launch Bella, which brought the passengers ashore almost immediately. She had a large cargo for this port, which she was engaged in discharging into lighters until about 1.15 p.m., when she hove up anchor and steamed for Wellington. We are obliged to Captain M'Gilllvray for Auckland files and for the following report of her passage : — She left Auckland at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, the Gth ; went under easy steam to Tauranga, where she arrived at 9 a.m. on Thursday. Discharged cargo and left again at 4 p.m. the same day, arriving at Gisborne at 1.30 p.m. on Friday. She remained six and a-half hours at Gisborne, discharging and. taking in cargo, steaming for Napier at 8 p.m., and making this port, as shown above. Captain M'Gillivray informs us that in consequence of the large patronage bestowed on the s.s. Wanaka since she has been put on this coast, the Union Company intend running the greater number of their fleet of steamers up the East Coast, that is, the Wanaka, Hawea, Taranaki, and Wellington. They are to make fortnightly trips, and will visit all the ports now called at by the Wanaka, in their rounds. The s.s. Southern Cross, Captain F. Holmes, steamed for Auckland and Thames at 3 p.m. on Saturday. She had, together with a few tons of general cargo, five hundred sheep, which are destined for the Thames. The s.s. Eangatira arrived at Wellington from this port, at 7 p.m., on Friday last. She will leave Wellington for Napier at 3 p.m. to-day, and may be expected here at about 2 p.m. to-morrow. She is announced in our advertising columns to leave for Poverty Bay at 5 \>.m. on Wednesday, with passengers and freight. The p.s. Manaia left for Wairoa with a full cargo and large complement of passengers, at 4.15 a.m. on Saturday. She had a fine passage up and arrived there at 9 a.m. The bar is in a fearful state, the channel, if such it can be termed, winding out in circuituous bends. She lay off the beach, which was comparatively smooth, and landed the greater portion of her cargo and all her passengers ; she also took off a number of passengers for Napier. The reason, we are informed, that the remaining portion of her cargo was not discharged was that the consignees were nob at hand to receive their goods. Anchor was hove up and she steered for Napier at 5.30 p.m., with fine weather and little or no wind, ariving at this port at 10 p.m., thus making a very fair passage of 4J hours. There seems every chance of the Wairoa bar improving should the present rain continue for a day or two. We hear that the residents of that locality have stirred themselves up into doing something in the matter, and are shortly to hold a meeting to consider thebestplan to be adopted for the improvement of that difficulty to their commerce — the Wairoa bar. The s.s. Kiwi left Wellington for this port at 6 p.m. on Friday, but as she calls on her way up at Castle Point and Blackhead, she will doubtless not put in an appearance here until this morning.