TELEGRAMS.

Wellington Independent, Volume XXII, Issue 2592, 2 November 1867, Page 4

TELEGRAMS.

Lyttelton, October 31. Sailed.— -12.25 p.m., Wainui, for the South.

Blpff, October 31. Arrived. — 10.10 a.m., Airedale, s.s., from Dunedin.

Sailed.— 4.ls p.m., Airedale, for Hokitika. Poet Chalmees, October 81. Arrived. — 10.30 a.m., Ethels, barque, from Mauritius.

The ketch Falcon is still lying at Port Underwood.

The e.s. Rangitoto arrived atthe Buller nt halfpast ten on Monday morning, but the bar being j impracticable, and sho being two days behind time, Captain Taverner went on at once. The s.s. Storm Bird, Captam Doyle, arrived ! from the Buller afc half-pas*, two o'clock yesterday afternoon. She left the Buller at 1 p.m. the previous day, and experienced fino weather and light S.W. winds during the passage. Captain Doylo reports that on Friday morning, while the s.a. Kennedy was discharging at the Mohikinui, a heavy flood suddenly came down the river, and drove her out to sea, sweeping her decks and placing her in imminent danger for somo time, as she had no steam up. All the cargo that had .been landed was swept away by the Heod. The e.s. Wanganui, Captain Linklater, arrived from Wanganui at 4 o'clock on Thursday morning. Sho crossed the bar at Wanganui afc 11 o'olock tho previous morning, and had a rather rough passage down. She does nofc leave on her return trip till Monday. A Thousand Miles in a. Yawl.— Mr Macgregor sends to tho Times an account of a Toyage of 1000 miles ho mado entirely alono. He says : — " Soven Treelss ago the Bob ~Roj yivwl, of three tons, was launched at Limchouse, and on the same day I started for Paris, sailing along the French coast, and being towed up the Seine. I stopped a fortnight in Paris, living on board my yacht, which was moored afc Point de Jena, and then at Sfc. Cleud, whero wo had an English regatta with tho very best English oarsman, and very valuable prizes, but only a few hundred spectators to witness so novel a scene. I then sailed with the current, and was towed part of tho way down'tho beautiful Seine. This wasafedious business, and far moro dangerous and j troublosomo than coasting or open sea work. From Havre I 6tarted in a south-west gale to sail acro33 to England, and was becalmed after aboufc 60 miles, bufc finally reached within ten miles of tho English coast, when the night was dark thick and the sea so high, thafc I had to lie too all night and sleep on deck wrapped in the mainsail, with my ship's light lashed alongside. Thus I drifted 20 miles, but next day reached Littlehampton, aud waa veady for a good English bed, having had little more than four hours' sloop on any night for a week. Numerous adventures, a few hardships, and much excitement occur in .voyages of this sort ; and when every single thing has to be dono by your own hands you learn to appreciate tho noedlws.-i duties often imposed on tliose who serve ua. Entering tho narrow French ports was dangerous, especially afc night ; and frequent collisions in them added to the risk. In leaving Havre my bowsprit was broken, but I managed •to set tho jib again when oufc afc sea. The healthful life in the open air and constant occupation of body and mind make a voyage alono by no means unpleasant, and certainly not at all lonely ; and I cannot help thinking thafc two months spent in this actiro manner might go far to cure the common malady of ennui which grows upon idleness pampered with luxury."