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Colonist, Volume XXXV, Issue 7209, 14 March 1892, Page 3

Ihe Kennedy is due at Westport early this morning, and proceeds to Grejmouth and Hokitika. The Waverley was dae at Greymouth yesterday from Hokitika. The Murray is due at Foxton this morning from Westport. The Charles Edward goes on the crad'e to-day for cleaning and overhaul. The Lady Barkly sails for Golden Bay at 9 to-night. The Elsie sails for Motueka at 5 p m today. ■ . The Mahinapua will arrive from Wellington this morning, and sail at 6 p.m for Taranaki and Manukau. The Mangana arrived from Wellington yesterday, and sails for Picton, Wellington, and South at 8 o'clock this evening, She brought about 80 tons of cement for the proposed road round the Rocks. The Penguin leaves Wellington .this afternoon, will arrive to-morrow morning, and sail by the same tide at 10 on the return South. The Grafton arrived at 8 a.m on Saturday, and sailed at 5 p.m for Wesi Coast ports. She returns here on Wednesday. The Mawhera arrived at 4 p.m on Saturday, and left same tide at 7 for Wellington direct. She returns here to-morrow morning, and sails at 9.30 a m for West Coast ports, being a day earlier than usual. We hear that the Union Company intend, at the end of the present month, to discontinue running the s.s. Mangana between Wellington, Picton, and Nelson, and that she will be put on the Island trade. The Mangana will probably be replaced by a steamer the size of the Grafton.- ' M. Press.' During the week ending March 6 eight vessels, with a total of 3287 tons register, arrived at the Dunedin wharves, and nine vessels, with a total of 5611 tons register, left them. Tbe imperial yacht of Napoleon, L'Aigle, in which Eugenie made her vojage to Egypt, was lately up for sale at Cherbourg as the Rapide; but, as the highest bid was only 90,000 francs, she was withdrawn and will be broken up. A sum of 102,000 marks has been set apart for the creation of a Biological Institute in Heligoland,, thus carrying out the wishes of German scientific men. The fi?hiDg grounds on the whole of the North Sea are to _be explored, and educational courses in biological subjects will be given. The results of these scientific researches will be published periodically. The steamer Egyptian Monarch, from New York, which arrived at London on January 22, reported that early on the morning of January 16 she sighted an American wooden vessel on fire, and judging by the smoke and odour, she was laden with petroleum. Two men were seen clinging to the bowsprit, and the Egyptian Monarch's lifeboat waß hastily lowered, but before it touched the water the bowsprit fe.-l out of the hull and the men disappeared.