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Colonist, Volume XXXV, Issue 7265, 9 March 1892, Page 3

The Charles Edtrara is due at Westport this morning, and proceeds to Greymouth and Hokitika. The Aorere is due at Patea this evening from Wellington, and returns to Wellington to-morrow. The Kennedy leaves Wellington this evening, for Nelson. She remains here a day or two for cleaning and overhaul. ., The'Waverley \yill arrive from, Wellington tbis morning, arid sail at 2 p.m for West Coast ports. - The Murray leaves Hokitika this morning for Crreymouth, Westport, and Nelson. .' ! The Rotorua' left for Pioton, Wellington, and South at 4.30 p.m yesterday. The Mawhera is due here early this morning, and sails at 3 p.m for West Coast ports. The (irafton will arrive this. afternoon, and sail at 3.30 p.m for Wellington direct. The Penguin leaves Wellington to-day, will arrjve here to : morr6w-morriing, and sail at 6 'p^m for Picton and South. '. : """ v^The Mangana 1 will arrive here on Friday "in'orning, and sail for Picton and Wellington at 6 p,m same day. ......... The Elsie sails for Motueka at noon to--day. ■ •■■ '- ■" The Lily sails for Mctueka at noon today. . A boat containing a number of sailora tolonging to the English warship Bell Isle, capsized in the Liffy, at Dublin, February 3, and four sailors were drowned. The British steamship Victoria, from Philadelphia, January 19, for ■'■ Hamburg, reported at London, February 3, that she had on board the crew of the Norwegian barque Florida, reported abandoned at tea. /The ' French steamer St Andre arrived at Antwerp, February 4, from Harve. She had j collided with and sunfrth'e Danish brig Shot, off Fecamp. All the crew of the latter, with Ifhe exception .of, a-boy, ■ were drowned. ' The steamer La Normtfndie, which sailed j from Harve, on January 23 for New York, collided with 'and sunk the tug which had I been towing her. Five persons were drowned and one seriously injured. The ' Lyttelton Times ' of February 29th ' states that the cargo steamer Bangitira took a'' large, cargo of produce from that port ; indeed, her insulated chamber contained no less than 41,000 carcases of mutton and lamb from Lyttelton, which is the largest number ever taken from one^NewZealand port in one bottom',; on :' January 31 the schooner Glenon, of St John, New Brunswick, sailed into the harbor of Bridgeport with the. British Jack floating from her mizzen, in direct violation of American laws, providing that a foreign ensign must be accompanied by the stars and stripes.;. flag was perceived by the people 'oh' the' Socks, and cries of ''Haul it down, shoofiiV were raised. ' Captain Trowbridge, of the schooner, drew a pistol,' and swore that he would shoot the first man who laid hands on the halyards/ • When the vessel finally reached the wharf four thousand angry men met him. They .were joined by a few armed milidamen, who attempted to tear, down the flag,-but they were driven off at the revolver's muzzle by the cksw. ; An American flag was hoisted on' an adjoining sohooner and greatly oheered, while the English Jaok still floated alone. on the Glenon. . ( ' gome curious facts are revealed in Lloyds' latest shipbuilding lefcurns, one of them being the recent increase in jibe construction of sailing ships. Five years ago only j) per oenfc of veesels in course of construction were of thia filaßS, ,but since then a steady rise haa. taken^lace, and bow th&re^ are -SSper oent o) t]be whole.- - : Mspy■o^ c a fr " v essela-are-in. te'nded^for foreign oountries..- -jhe Uuite4 kingdom ifl'far in* idvtfnfte^^ji^^OMJßi cottlfff in thii induii'ry.