TELEGRAMS.

Wellington Independent, Volume XXII, Issue 2567, 5 September 1867, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

BITHPF, September 2. Sailed. — 4.30 p.m., Tararua, s.s., for Dunedin. PORT Ciiai.mebs, September 2. Arrived.— 9 a.m., Egmont, s.s., from the Bluff. September 3. Armed. — 3 p.m., Collmgwood 1 , from Newcastle. Sailed. — 2 p.m., William Miskin, s.s., for Hokitika j Gothenburg, s.s., for Hakitika. September 4. Arrived. — 6.40 a.m., Tararua, s.s., from the Bluff; Wainui, from Lyttelton. Nelson, September 4. Arrivnd. — 8 a.m., Claud Hamilton, s.s., from Wellington ; 11 a.m., Phoebe, s.s., from Taranaki. « On Tuesday the s.s. Wanganni made a trial trip round the harbor, and the result wus highly satisfactory. The 8.8. Taranaki, Captain Francis, arrived in port on Tuesday nti p.m. She left Auckland on the 30lh ult, arriving at.Tauranga at 8 a.m. on the following day. Left the same day at noon, and arrived at Napier at 4.30 p.m. on the Ist lust. Took her departure from Napier at 3.45 p.m. on the 2nd, and cumo into harbor aa above. The Lord Ashley was leaving Napier for Auckland as the Taranaki came to anchor. The Taranaki had One weather throughout the passage. We are indebted to the courtesy of Mr Kebbell, purser, for files. The three-masted schooner Rifleman, Captain Christian, from Christchurch, viaKaiapoi, arrived her© at six o'clock yesterday morning, after a passage of twenty-four hours from Kaiupoi. She brings ft cargo of grain, consigned to Mr J. Martin.

The ship Jonh Knox, Captain Jenkins,- from Sydney, bound -to Ly tie! tori, arrived 'in port at eight o'clock yesterday morning, after- a rery rapid passage of eight days. She left Sydney on the 26th ult, and experienced fine weather to Cape Farew«ll. In the Straits the ship was suddenly caught in a southerly buster, and lost her main and main-topsail yards, consequently Capt Jenkinv has put in here to repair damages. The French Protectorate barque lonia, ib from Tahiti and Tongataboo, and was towed to sea from the former place by H.M. s.s. Topna. l£M. b.s. Clio left Tahiti for Valparaiso in the early part of May, but returned again after having been out ab^it three weeks, with the loss of her mainmast; uuvr replacing it, she sailed again about the latter part of July. The American gunboat Tuacarora, was cruising among the Islands. H.M. s. Falcon left Tahiti for Maldon Island in July. A cutter named the Charlotte, belonging to New Zealand, was purchased by King George for £800.— Sydney Eerald. The report given by Mr Burasfcall of his endeavours to enlist London capitalists in favor of his scheme for establishing an ocean steani line, the news of the launch of the Somersetshire, and the approaching departure of the Great Britain, all conspire to direct attention, at tho present moment, to the Cape route, as supplemetary to the other mail routes for correspondence and as offering to immigrants bound for these colonies advantages not otherwise attainable. It is no small matter, in yew of the early establisment of a Cape lino, that the great companies are getting gradually converted into a due appreciation of the virtues of colonial coal as compared with the English article. In caseg of the Great Britain, the economy of each kind as been duly tested, and the result is that for the homeward voyage Australian coal is now exclusively used. Great things are expected of the Somersetshire. Sho is ovor 2000 tons register, has engines working up to 1500 horse power, and, as might be supposed, her owners have spared nothing that could .add to her stability or sailing qualities. The Somersetshire was launched on the 4th of June, and may possibly be " in Hobßon's Bay within three months. There can be no doubt that the loss of the London tended very powerfully to check enterprise in ocean steaming between England and Australia. But the distrustful feeling engendered by the sad event has now suficiently subsided to permit of confidence taking the place of timidity, and in great part we must thank the Great Britain, with her regular and safe voyaging, for the result. If the Somersetshire answers expectations, she may peradveuture, take her place as the Pioneer ship of a Cape line doing the distance under fifty days. — Australasian.

H.M. s. Charybdis, 21 guns, 1506, tons Captain Algernon Lyons, arrived at the man-of-war offing on Thursday afternoon from Wellington via, the Kawau, She reports having left Wellington on the 13th instant, and had gales and squally weather during tho greater part of the passage, which was made under canvass, until ariving off the Kawau early yesterday morning. Steamed into the Kawau in order to land a number of birds and animals at the private residence of his Excellency the Governor, and came on as above. H.M. s. Ciiarybdis will undergo sundry reSittings at thie port, after which she returns to Wellington to bring up lria Excellency the Governor to tho Kawau before proceeding to Melbourne, to await the arrival of H.M. s. Galatea, with his Koyal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh. Southern Cross 24th of August.