TELEGRAMS.

Press, Volume XIV, Issue 1888, 4 May 1869, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

•Wbl-CINGTON May 3, 250p m, Lord; -Asl4ey^fron_--Napier; ■■240-pm-,-- -Galatear-forl .^^yand^^.pjtn).Wellington,for Kaikpura. \ Nelson —May -10 am, Airedale from; North; 3pm, Airedale.for Picton. I Poet CHAt.MBBPM-May _y 3 a in, Eleanor,! barque, from Newcastle; 9a m, Hydra, ship,; _S.emjNow_oastto. • i -r'-;•? -S7«sH t.r ':Y :Y ■ ;Y} >V' V r ' : j ■' --V." .r: r::-. .'[> j

——- , . 1 , Thq Gpthenburg, Captain XJhderw?q6{3,; eaileft'-w 4 v p m yesterday for Wellington,; ■ -NelsoarHokitikaj-and Melbourner : Jiuj.sf Phoebe* Captain. E ; Wheeler,: sailed last* night for Wellington and Northern? ports. .xU >!.;.;.; ok ; The Celceno will clearthe Customs this day for London. --■■";_.'■-.-va 1 J. j , I:Wfa.T£faWfa&lif.. doaditfg at- the>Raawayj wharf for jAuckl^nd.; ;; ._(..;. .7/ ! The CoftngwbocLis~now taking in grain toj previous, to leaving thtfwharfc I l \ i 2i: >^ftJPjbcpbeh loaded, yesterday at-Peacoek'sj •Mbm> ,tsking ; ',in a --.a large, cargo - jgwas?j» •being , grain.r; :■: . ■_ $>> ,-. [■•. y\ The's s Wainui, Captain Leys, arrived, sin harbour at 630 pjcu on Sunday. She lefli Port Chalmers on Thursday .nighty arrived afc ; Oameruoh"jraffl^jmbrrung; Jeffr^£o am;; arrived at Ti&Lir^.^ and sailed agtiih at nbon next day V "amved at on Sunday, left atlQam, ~£ffl£ tf lufcve& ;in Lyttelton .as above, having 'ttifperwnced light NE winds and fine weather during the passage. " The>irt?nclad .frigate Hercules has made a triattrip at Portsmouth. She is the heaviest plated snip in the navy, her armour being jZijne, inches thick at the water-line.; She also h^vieß,tVarmament <l in the service, ~ payingeight guns of eighteen ton^.-eia^inai central battery. Her total with guns and" stores, is 12,000 tons. Her engines are the most powerful.evee donstructed, and were worked up to 8000 horse-power. Her mean ; Speed was fourteen and three-quarter knots, ,81$ ehemade two runs with the tide at the extraordinary rate t>f sixteen and:' : three* guar^r : knots, or nearly nineteen miles an onr, the greatest speed ever attained~by a ▼easel so heavily armoured. The trial excited much interest, and the results were highly ; satisfactory.—" Durham Chronicle," Jan. 8.