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Manawatu Herald, Volume II, Issue 19, 28 October 1879, Page 2

The stenmer Tui arrived at Foxton at 8 p.m. on Fri lay, having left Wellington the previous evening, sailed again for the same port on Saturday, t.ikinar a return cargo of railway iron, nnd 120 sheep The steamor Stormbird left Wellington at 3 p.m. on Friday, crossed the b-ir at daylight next morning, and nvilo fust to the wharf at 6 o'clock. Onle.iving Wellington an accident occurred on thi? vessel, rotnltinsr in the drowninsr of ono mm. pirticiilars of •which appear elsewhere. The Stormbird sailed again for Wellington on Saturday afternoon, taking 100 sheep, in addition to somo timbfir. The schooner Zior, Captain Bell, arrived in port yesterday morning from Greymouth with a cargo of 96 tons of coal. Captain Bell reports having loft Greymouth .on Wednesday last, and experienced light winds and fine weather throughout; so light were the airs, thnt the gaff-topsail was not struck from the time of leaving Greymouth, until after entering the river, the only point when the breeze was at all fresh beinjj off Cape Farewell. The Isabella, for Wellington, and Cissy, for Auckland, were towed out of Greymouth at the same time as the Zioi 1. Her outward cargo is nof yet arranged for, but it will probably le timber She will hnul alongside the wharf 'to-day, and begin discharging her cargo of coal for the Railway Department at once, should the only available berth not be occupied by a steamer. The schooner Martha Roid'arrived in the river on Sunday afternoon from Wanganni, which port she left the previous evening, at 8 o'clock, and sailed up to the wharf in about an hour after crossing the bar The schooner, which came in ballast, began taking in her car,?o of sleepers yestetday, and will, probably, if undisturbed by a steamer, complete her loading by to-night The steamer Stormbird may be expected to arrive here to-day from Wellington. A schooner, supposed to be the Hannah Barratt, was off the bar yesterday. The Huia Is advertised to leave Wellington to day for this nort.