NOTICE OF MAILS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume III, Issue 291, 9 December 1868, Page 2

NOTICE OF MAILS.

Local Mails. For Appleby, Upper and Lower Moutere, Mo•tueka, and Hiwaka— CJose every Monday and Thursday, at 8.30, a.m.; arrive every Tuesday .- and Friday, at 4 p.m. Also, for Motueka, ppr steamer as opportunity offers. F«r Oollingwood, Motupipi, Takaka, and Slate■ford—By every opportunity, per steamer or ' . sailing, boat. • For Stoke, Richmond, Hope, Spring Grove, Wakefield, and Foxhill— Close at Chief I'ost Office daily at 2.30, p.m..; -arrive at Chief i'ost Office daily, at Ilo'clock, a.m~. 4fer Tadmor — Close every Friday, at 2.30, p.m.; arrive every Monday, at i 1 a.m Tfor Waimea-west— Uoseevery Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, at 2.?0 p.m. ; arrive every Monday, .Wednesday, and Friday, at 1) a.m. For Wakapuaka — Close every Wednesday and Saturday, at- 2.30, p.m.; arrive every Wednes day and Saturday, at 11 a.m. •For Haveloek, Blenheim, and Picton, overland — Close on the 15th and 30th of every month, at 4 30 p.m.; arrive on the 14th and 29th. ITor Westportj Charleston, Brighton, and St. " Kilda, per steamer as opportunity offers'. SYDNEY J. DICK, Chief Postmaster.

The Gothenburgh, left Hobson's Bay -on -the 57th ult., at 4 a.m., passing the Heads at 7 a.m. ; arrived «t the Bluff at daylight on the 2ud inst. ; left at 4 p.m. same day, arriving iu Port Chalmers on the 3rd, at 4 a.m..; left again at 4 p.m. on the 4th, arriving in Lyttelton next morning at 10 a.m., sailed for Wellington same day at 7.30, arriving at 1 p.m. ou the 6th, discharged cargo aud sailed •at midnight ' on 7-thj encountered strong head winds during passage and arrived at Nelson at 2 p.m. yesterday, During the GothenbuYgh's stay in Melbourne she was put on the slip, •where she had a thorough overhaul, machinery taken to pieces, aud "bottom cleaned aud newly -painted. She briugs the New Zealand portion of the Suez mails. The Stormbird, on leaving the wharf at r :tWelliugton on Friday afternoon, met with .an accident which delayed her for some •. time. A piece of rope became entangled ■wiili the fans of her screw, and the services of a diver had to be called into requisition to get it detached. He made jse»eial descents, and experienced great -cUflicultyJn getting, it away; but even:tua}ly he succeeded, and *he vessel sailed about midnight for Picton. Lord Eldou, althoagh a' great stickler :for.4he ChurcJh, seldomor never attended public wo/snip. A parasite spoke of him to a;friend as a * pillar of the Church.* ' Say., jratlieiy a Wttress,' was the reply j £or you u«7er Jsee him inside.'.