TELEGRAMS.
Ly.ttei,ton : March 9—3.30 p.m., Taranaki, from Port Chalmers. The schooner Ruby, Captain Fraser, from Kaikou'va via Porirua, arrived in port yesterday afternoon. The schooner Maid of Otago, whiob put in liere on Monday last, for shelter from the late S.E. gale, proceeded on her voyage on Wednesday night last. Tho schooner Spray, Captain Clarkson, sailed yesterday morning for Queen Charlotte's Sound. She will take in a cargo of sawn timber at the Grove saw mills, and proceed from thence to Lyttelton. The barque Anne Melhuish, which arrived in this harbor on Friday last, has discharged her inward cargo of coals, taken in ballast, and is ready to proceed to sea to-day. Tho dispatch «Bed in discharging her inward cargo, and getting her ready again for sea, reflects great credit upon her enterprising owner, Captain Williams. The s.s. Tararua, Captain Hagley^ from Melbourne via Southern ports, arrived in this harbor yesterday, at 12 30 p.m. She will sail again this afternoon for Melbourne, via Lyttelton, Otago, and Bluff, calling at Oamaru and Timaru. By the latest telegrams from India and tho East wo learn that Admiral Cockburn is devising protection to Indian ports and seas. An enquiry has been specially sent out to report upon the Indian harbor improvements. The foundering of tho steamer General Outram off Bombay coast in a cyclone, is reported. Sixty lives were lost, and twenty saved. Commander Brookes, of H.M.S. Ringdove, was drowned accidentally iv Yokohama harbor. H.M.S. Juno, with 300 marines, is to relieve a battalion of troops at Yokohama. A Sydney telegram says that when the barque Tavietoek was off Newcastle on the 22nd, Captain Moody ordered the mate to burn a bluo-light for a pilot. He then threw a lifebuoy overboard, and immediately jumped in after it. A boat was lowered as speedily as possible, but foiled to find him. At daylight the tug steamer came alongside, when Captain Moody was seen floating a short distance off. He was picked up and placed under medical treatment. Pilot Jenkins is being prosecuted in Sydney before the Water Police Court for disobeying the rules of the Navigation Board. An Adelaide telegram in a Melbourne paper says that the entertainment given by the officers of H.M.S. Blanche in aid of the funds of the Sailors' Homo was largely attended, and proved very successful in augmenting the funds of the institution. The Blanche would probably leave Adelaide on the 27th.
TELEGRAMS.
Wellington Independent, Volume XXVI, Issue 3144, 10 March 1871, Page 2
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