TELEGRAPHIC.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXXII, Issue 5804, 5 May 1876, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

Port Chaj-miks, Wednesday. Arrived: T.iranaki, from Lyttelton, at 9.30 a.m. Nelson-, Thursday. Arrived: Taupo, ss., fiom New Plymouth, early.

Northern 'Wairoa.— The brigantine Hannah I'roomheld, Captain Ddvr-on, mastui, k Gently ai lived heic, had a veiy peiilous voyige fioin AVan^anui. She loft theie Apnl 'I'd, with .1 li'-jht northerly wind which uicieawd to .1 <;ik Tlie wind veered fioin N.E to N.W., blowing and i.iimny veiy li.ud, the se.i being veiy urn fused fioin tlio violence of the j;ilo, thogliss lifting veiy high and falling equally low until the Kaipan Heads wcie made, which wis rot done till the 20th. The vessel ciossed the b.u and worked up the river, ariivmg .it the Kopmuonthc 27th. A topsail schooner was sighted ab mfc "20 miles outside the b»r, hooding W.S.W., t>-it too far .vway to m.ike hei ont.[Correspondent.] Sir Heniy Jlt'^eher, the owner oP Cape C'lesir .■nil much of tho neighbouring land, lias jn .t ind built for him a steamer of 270 tons, ami ()') hoise-pp.ver, to be u->ed Ijotli us a yacht and to ciui-.e .iliout in ieaich of deiolicS vessels, wlikh .ae not uncommon in that quaitor. As hei daily consumption of co^l ia only four ton-i, the Bte unoi c m kooi> tit se.i 30 days at a timo She is also piovidcd with u steel- wire hawHoi foi towini;. T'ie etpenment i» a curious one The Admiralty have ordered two veisels, to be named the Ins and Mercury, to bo commenced forthwith. They will be of aboui ft, BOO tons and 7,000 hoisp power; and being built of Hteel, a voiy high lato of speed is confidently expecl^d. The protection of tho mercantile commeice in time of war is the objpet held in view, and several more of these most valuable clas 1 ) of vessels are to be built.