PORT OF NELSON.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IV, Issue 105, 6 May 1869, Page 2

PORT OF NELSON.

AERIVED. May 5, steamer Gothenburg, 459, Underwood, froni' Melbourne and Southern ports. Passengers —■Mr and Mrs Biddle and family (4), and six in ' steerage. '"..-.*'- — steamer Stormbird, 68, Doil n , from Pieton '~ and Wellington. Passengers — Messrs Malcom, Ward, Ayers. Hayes, and Maloney. 6, steamer Phoebe, from South. SAILED. May 6, steamer. Stormbird, 68, Doile, for Wanganui, Taranaki, and Manukau. 5, ketch Rambler, 47, Hamilton, for Havelock. .IMPORTS. Stormbird, from Wellington; 1 bale, 4 cases, Edwards & Co ; 2 bales, Lightband ; 1 parcel, Tingle; I do.,Pringle; I do., 1 truss, Salter; 11 pkgs, Order. EXPORTS. Midge, for Wairau: 125 cases, 1 qr-cask whisky, 10 half-chests tea, 100 bags sugar, I bri almonds, 2 do. rice, 3 casks currants, 1 cask ale, 8 tons coal, 4 pkgs. 1 cask vinegar, 62 sheets iron, 2 casks tar, N. Edwards & Co. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. ARRIVED. Lyttelton. — May 5: Airedale, from Wellington, at 1.40 p.m. Napier. — May 5: Blanche, from Wellington, at 5 p.m. Hokitika. — May 5 : Alhanibra, from Melbourne, at 7 p.m, SAILED. Lyttelton.— May 5 : Wellington, for Dunedin, at 1.15 p.m. The MA. and N.Z. Co.'s steampship Gothenburg, Captain Underwood, left Hobson' Bay at 3 p.m. on the 22nd, passed Port Phillip Heads at 6 and Cape Schanck at 8 p.m. Sighted the s.s. Alhanibra off Goose Island and passed the Swau in the evening. Moderate weather with heavy cross seas was experienced on the run across. The S.W. Cape was made on tbe morning of the 27th. An noon on that day, in long. 165.15 E., a steerage p.isscnger, named Joseph M'Donald, a gunner of the Riyal Artillery, who was bound for Wellington, jumped overboard in a state of delirium tremens. The lifeboat was lowered, the engines reversed, and every effort made to save the poor man, but withont avail, as he sank to rise no more before the boat could reach him. There was a fresh southerly breeze at the time, and a nasty cross sea The boat having returned to the ship, she proceeded on her course, reaching Bluff wharf at 7 a.m. on the 28th. Sailed at 4.30 p.m. same dav, and arrived at Dunedin at daylight on Thursday morning; left Port Chalmers at 11 p.m., having been detained to bring on the salmon ova, and reached Lyttelton at 4. 15 on the Ist inst. Received on board 3000 bags of grain, and sailed at 4.30 on the 3rd, arriving at Wellington on the 4th, at-9.30 a.m. Discharged cargo, and sailed for Nelson at 2.30 p.m., arriving at daylight yesterday morning, having 90 tons of cargo for this port.