TELEGRAMS.
r Bi-trFF, 4th — 7 a.m., Rangitoto, from Port Chalmers. Wanganui, 4th— 9.5 a.m., Rangatira, from Wellington. Picton, 4th — 7.45 a.m., Phoobe, from Wellington ; 10.20 a.m., Pha>be, for Nelson. Napieb, 4th — Early, Go-Ahead, for Wellington. NEL9ON, 4th— 7 p.m., Taranaki for Picton.
The s.O. Taranaki arrived at Nelson on Saturday morning last, and was placed on the " hard" to have her bottom scraped. As she left Nelson for Picton at seven last night, she may be expected here during the morning, and is advertised to sail for the South at eight o'clock to-night. We have been informed by the Collector of Customs that on Sunday, tho 26th March, a piece of wreck, apparently portion of tlie wheelbouse or roundhouse of a large vessel, waß picked up at Ohftriu Bay. Some smaller pieces of wreck were also found on the beach, which had, apparently, formed part of cabin fittings, The whole had evidently been in the water a considerable time. Telegraphic information has been received by Mr Gandy, agent for tho cutter Dawn, to the effect that the vessel had floatod over the Mauawatu bar, having received little or no injury. A portion of the cargo has been wet, but moßt of it io undamaged. Captain Henderson's body has been recovered, but no particulars as to how he met his death have as jet been received. The s.s. Wanganui, Capt. Linklater, arrived from Otago via Lyttelton yesterday afternoon. She brings 43 Wanganui excursionists who have been visiting the South. Latest adviceo show the Cerberus to bo slowly, but safely and successfully, wending her way to Melbourne. A letter from Lieut. Panter, her gallant commander, dated Galle, February 3rd, gives a further account of her progress. He Bays he arrived at Galle all well two days before, having made a good passage of 17 days (21 days was the expected period of the yoyage), and was coaling, and cleaning her engines and boilers. As soon as that was finished, which he hoped would be next day, he would be off again for Batavia. From thence he intended to go to Sourabaya, at the east end of Java, co as to get as far.to the eastward as possible before he made his final start to Australia. Tho weather was awfully hoY, and with the thin topsides of the Cerberus it was almost unbearable. In one part of the ship ho had to give up altogether, for the thermometer etood at 130 deg. He should, he •wrote, be very glad when ho headed down south, and got a little cool weather. If lucky, he expected to arrive at King George's Sound by the end of March, and at Melbourne by tho middle of April. Galle wns the last place from which ho could write to Australia until he got to the Sound. At Galle he found that he "had not enough money to pay for coals there, so he had to get them from tho Peninsular and Oriental Company, giving a bill on the Victorian Treasury for £731 15s 6d. Hitherto he had drawn on Mr Verdon ; but as he waa nearer to Melbourne, ho decided to do as he bad done. In a postscript Lieutenant Panter says he would suil next evening. In another letter which has reached Melbourne, Lieut. Panter saye, speaking of the unbearable }j eft fc : — »I am afraid it is beginning to toll on my men, as I have nithev a largo sick list." It is, we understand, the intention of the Victorian Government to promote Mr Panter to the rank of captain in the colonial service, to Trhich rank Captain ~Pnjnr this also promoted when ho arrived here in the Nelson. His commission — which has, of course, nothing to do with his rank in tho Eoyal Nayy — ia to date from the day he took command of t,ho Cerberus. His action in respect to the coals coincides sufficiently with what has been done here on behalf of the veeeel, for tho Oriental Bank Corporation havo kindly given him credits in all tho eastern ports where they havo branches, and Mr Kendall, the Melbourne agent of the Peninsular and Orier.tal Company, has, in the handsomest manner possible, sent instructions to the Sound to the effect that all tho company's stores, coals, &c, are to be at the disposal of the CerberUß in caeo of need.--" Argus," March 16.
TELEGRAMS.
Wellington Independent, Volume XXVI, Issue 3166, 5 April 1871, Page 2
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