TELEGRAMS.

Wellington Independent, Volume XXVI, Issue 3094, 5 January 1871, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

Nelson : 4th— 7 p.m., Phoobe, from Picton. Lyttelton : 3rd — Noon, Lord Ashley, from Wellington. Poet Ciialmebs: 4th— 9.55 a.m., Rangitoto, from Lyttelton. The 8.8. Wallabi cleared out for Westport yesterday, at noon, with a largo shipment of cattle and sheep— about 60 of the former and 200 of the latter. The ship Melita hauled alongside the wharf on Tuesday afternoon. Consignees are called upon by advertisement to pass their entries. The s.s. Wanganui, Captain Linklater, arrived in harbor on Tuesday, evening at seven o'clock, after a fine passage of twelve hours from Wangaganui. She left for Wanganui last evening on her return trip. The e.s. Phoebe, Captain Worsp, arrived in harbor at 9 o'clock on Tuesday night, after a lengthy passage of twenty-three hours from Lyttelton, which was caused by the vessel having encountered very heavy weather from the northeast. She left at an early hour yesterday morning for the north with the outgoing mails via San Francisco. A Bupposition might be ventured concerning the wreck lately discovered near the mouth of the Tautuku, and described in our issue of yesterday. According to the Canterbury and Nelson papers of February and March 1860, the ship Burmah, having on board an unusually large cargo for Otago, Canterbury, and NeWn, and including a valuable consignment of first-class horses and cattle, together with twenty-one passengers, loft London at the latter end'of August 1859, for Lyttelton, which port she never reached. She was last heard of when spoken by the Regina, in long. 97 E. and lat. 48 S., within 14 days' sail of New Zealand. This was on the 17th November, 1859. The opinion of the special constable, as published by us, was that the wreck, which he describes as that of a ship, had plainly been lying upon the beach for some years, though a miner had informed him that he had been pros- • pecting on the beach in July 1869, and had then seen no traces of it 5 but it is possible that in, comparing notes of such a district as that a mistake might arise as to the precise locality spoken of. The constable also states that on the ship's nameboard were sis letters partly obliterated, of which it was impossible to make out any but the first one, which appeared to be a B or an F, the initial letter, of course, of the name of Burmah being the former letter, while the word itself consists of six letters.—" O. D. Times."