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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 18, 21 January 1875, Page 2

The p.a. Charles Edward, T. Wliitwell master, ariived here at 4 p.m. yesterday, having on board the outward San Francisco mail. She left Nelson on'Tttesday, the 12th, trith a fall cargo and about 40 passengers for Karamea ; wind N.W., and 6ne weather. Pasted Cape Farewell at midnight, arriving off Karamea at 8 o'clock the following morning; crossed the bar at noon, landed passengers and cargo, and sailed for Westport at 1 p m. next day; passed the p.s. Wallace bound for Nelson, and arrived there at 5 p.m. Landed cargo, and Bailed lor Hokitika at 3 a.m. on the 15th, arriving there at 2 p.m.; discharged cargo, and sailed for Greymouth at 3 p.m. on the 17th, arriving there at 5.30 same day. Landed cargo, and sailed for Westport at 7.30 a m. on the 19th, arriving there at 4 p.m. same day; discharged sixteen tons cargo, and sailed for Nelson at 7.30 p.m , arriving as above. Passed the s.s. Murray, bound for Weetpart. The Eastern Monarch, emigrant ship, bound for New Zealand, with nearly 600 Goverment emigrants, had a narrow escape fiom Bhipwreck on the Low Sunday Isles, near the Equator, which are now omitted from the maps. Crossing the Line had been celebrated in the usual way, and the Sailors, it is stated, had too much whisky. A passenger writes : — We were awoke on June 5 at five o'clock by the noise of the hands rushing to and fro on deck. In about two minutes we were all ordered on deck. I cannot say how we dressed ; some were crying, and all running we knew nofc where. As soon as we reached the deck we discovered that the ship was only a stone's throw from a large rock. In a minute more we should have been all to the bottom. The watch were asleep. A passenger discovered the danger and ran to the cook, who ran into the cabin and pulled the mate out of bed. When the mate caw the danger he was greatly alarmed. They were all equal to the emergency, and in a minute we were t&lQ.—lnvergordon News.