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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume III, Issue 231, 29 September 1868, Page 2

The following is a list of steamers lost on the coast of this colony since 1856, which has been furnished to the Auckland Express, aud since corrected by Captain Kennedy of the s.s. Airedale: — William Denny, North Cape ; Victory, Wiokiiffe Bay; Ada, Motinua; Lord Worsley, Openikaj Oberon, and Oscar, New kiver, Invercargill ; White Swan, Flat Point, East Coast ; fecotia, Bluff; Queen, Cook's traits ; South ..ustralian, Coal Point ; Wonga Wonga, and Eleanor, Grey River; Tasmanian Maid, Taranaki ; H.M.S. Orpheus, Manukau; William Miskin, Timaru; New Zealand, Maid of Yarra, Titauia, Ballarat, Wakool, Samson, Hokitika ; City of Dunedin, off Wellington; Pride ot Yarra, Blanket Bay ; Star of the Evening, Gable End, Poverty Bay; Gundagai, Patea; Taranaki, Tory Channel; Cleopatra, Cape Paliser ; Alma, Sumner Bar ; Alexandra, White Cliffs; Phoßnix, Auckland Wharf; Emu, Motutapu ; Aphrasia, Bay of Islands ; Pioneer, Manukau Bar, Total number of steamers lost, are 33. Why is a gentleman paying a solitary visit to his racing stud like a man who has to shift for himself ? Because he is left to his own race horses (resources). A Melbourne telegram gives tbe followiug items of intelligence:— The Government have decided to form a railway to the Ovens, which has caused great dissatisfaction in the Western district.— The Government intend to erect a Royal Mint on the site of the Exhibition Building. — The water in the Van Yean reservoir is rapidly decreasing. — The Royal • Artillery are ordered to Ceylon. — The barque Dayspring arrived on the Bth inst. at Melbourne from Hong Kong. There was great mortality among the Chinese passengers, 70 having died ot scurvy on the voyage. Prince Dejatch Alamayou * I have seen the world,' the son of King Theodore, in charge of Captain Speedy, and attended by an Abysinian man servant, Shellika Kassa, reached Plymouth on July 14. He is an interesting little lad, tall for his age (seven years last April), and already^much delighted with England; exclaiming, ' Oh, this beautiful country ; I shall never go back.' The servant, who is a very intelligent man, on going over the arsenal observed with regret, 'Theodore should have seen 1' -A little Abyssinian slave girl, a protegee ol Sir Robert Napier, was also brought by the same vessel. '. -The Sultan, eats only once a day, drinks nothing but water, and, what is most extaordinary in an Ottoman Soveriegn, never smokes.