TELEGRAPHIC.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXXII, Issue 5730, 8 February 1876, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

KENNbm 's 15 vy. Mond.iy. The Nes 1 . is loading aud •ails to monow.

Mercuuy Bay, Monday. The Ocean, ichooner, is loading for Auckland ; Orpheus for Napier ; Glance, for Tauranga. Tn^ AgucH McDonald, Endeavour, and Bonnie ai o also loading. A barque ia just coming.

IU'iSKr/L, Monday. The Golden Isle ai lived last night. She had been blown down to the Noi th Cape, ha\ ing boon hove-to during the lato gales. Anivals : Fawn, Policeman, Speedwell, and another ketch.

■Wellington, Monday. The R.M. s.s. City of San Francisco beat tho Alhambia iu tho trip to Ly ttelton by over tlnee hoius.

Iattelton, Monday. Auived : City of San Francisco, s.s.,fiom tho North, at 3 p.m. Sailed : City of San Franoisco, h.b., for Dunodin ; Flirt, brigantino, for Auckland, with 700 sacks wheat, 100 sacks oats, 12 cases bacon, 10 kegs butter, 5 cases cheeso, 12 sacks beof.

Dunkdin, Monday. Anived : Ship Coiona, from London on NoTember 2. She brings 318 pasaengon. One adult diodlait week fioiu tyi)hi« fover, and two caies of typhoid aie now 1 aging. A case of puerpeinl fever is aUo on boaid. The vessel is quarantined. The steerage passongors_ weie quaiautined, and the cabin passengers will not bo admitted to pratiquo until thoir luggage is fumigated.

An exceedingly useful na well as ingenious woik (snyq the Melbourne Arriitt.) has ju»t been perfected liy Captain W. Clayton, of this port, who tako3 moio than a passing inteiest in matteiBiiuutic.il. Captain Clayton was formeily in tho 1\ iind N.Z. Company's fleet, and lattei ly in the s.s. Lady Darling, and knows something of intercoloni.il voyaging, .and he, moreover, brought out the s.s. liingaiooma to this poit. His intention is a tidal dial made of cardboard, on which can bo ascei tained the hour of high water at tho various ports and headlands from King George's Sound in "Western Australia, all lonnd tho east coast, and as f.ir north as Poit D.irwin. All tho adjacent islands, including Tasmania and New Zealand, are included, and by the use of one almanac, tho timo of high water can be nt once seen by a lefeienco to the dial, which is made of oulinary cirdboaul and only about (Jin. in diameter, and takes up little or no apace. To mastcis of vessels engaged in tho cnastiil and intercolonial tiades this caid would prove of signal nervico. Notes won DhPAimiENT ok Ch\rente Inferieuiie, Franct.— The commerco of the Chaiento Infeiieuio may be consideicd essentially British ; it is of the simplest character, consisting virtually of the impoit of coals and the export of brandies ; it is conducted in a very quiet manner under perfect organisation, and, whilst oni idling tho pioducers, contributes Lugely to tho public levenues of both England and France. Tommy Charente, tho nearest poit to Cognac, is the m.iin outlet of the tiade in brandy, which since 1810 has piogioased enoiinously, tho value of this one article of oxpoit having about doubled in each 10 years since tho ditp mentioned, and now exceeding €5,500,000 hteihng pei annum. Tho most jem.uk ible ineiease lwi t.iken pl.ico fiom 1804 to 1874, during -which peuod I had the honoiu of holding her Majesty's commission as Consul foi the Chaiuite lnfuiiouie, tho tonn igc of lintish sliips .it the 1'oit of Tonnay Chaiento alone having augmented in that timo fiom 2(>,000 to 5(5, 000 tons, the value of impoited goods fiom £' 10,00) to tl'AOOO, and of e\poits fiom £1,000,000 to i,'i.000,000.— Nautiuil Mm/a inc.