TELEGRAMS.

Wellington Independent, Volume XXVI, Issue 3179, 21 April 1871, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

Wan&anui : 20th— 10 a.m., Wanganui, for Wellington. Greymouth : 30th— 10.30 a.m., Luna, for Wellington. Messrs M'Meokan, Blackwood k Co's s.b. Gothenburg, R. G. A. Pearce, commander, arrived in harbor yesterday, at 4 p.m., from Melbourne via the South. She left Hobson's Bay on the Bth instant, at 3 p.m. ; cleared the heads at 6.15 p.m. ; aud passed Swan Island at 4 p.m. next day; experienced S.W. winds for the first three days, and afterwards light variable winds. Passed the Solander at 9 a.m., on the 13th, arriving at Bluff Harbor at 4 p.m. ; sailed the same day at 6 p.m., and arrived at Port Chalmers at 2.50 p.m. on the 14th. Sailed thence for Lyttelton at 5 p.m. on Saturday, and arrived at 1.15 p.m. next day. i The a.s. Taranaki, left Nelson on Wednesday night last for Taranaki and Manakau, with a full cargo end a very large number of paßßengerß. A late Sydney telegram in a Melbourne paper says that a pantryman on board the Derwent, named Jeremiah Self, hanged himself on Saturday with a linen pocket hankerchief, which he fastened to a brass peg in the closet of the vessel. f [On Sunday the 4th, at HobartTown, a boat from Recherche Bay laden with produce was capsized at the passage mouth. Tho boatman's wife and a man were drowned ; but the boatman himself succeeded in getting on the keel of the craft, from which he was rescued by a pilot boat, after being 14 hours in this perilous position. We learn from the " Lyttelton Times" of the 19th that a violent gale which increased into a hurricane, blew there on the night of the 18th, and placed several vessels in great jeopardy. The schooner Volunteer had been lying alongside the brig Windhover, taking in a cargo of coals, and had not quite completed • her loading. Coming into collision with the hvig, a portion ot her butts starteJ, causing her to leak. The pumps were set going, but it was found that to keep her afloat some of the cargo must be thrown overboard, as neither buckets nor pumps could keep her free. Fortunately assistance from tho brig &nd the pilot service was ready, and the vessel was secured, or she would have shared tho same fate as the Golden Isle schooner. Several other craft wore in great danger. An " Argus" telegram from Portland, Victoria, on the 3rd says : — The Barwon steamer, bound from Adelaide to Sydney with a cargo of breadstuffs, etruok on a rock off Capo Bridgewater, at four o'clock this morning, not far from where the Admella was wreoked. There was a good deal of consternation among the passengers, but the oaptain, with great presence of mind, headed her in to the sandy beach between Bridgewater and Capo Nelson, and ran her ashore. The passengers were then landed safely. There vm a thick fog at tho time ol the accident. The steamers Rakaia, Xaikoura, and Ruahine, are advertised in the " Sydney Morning Herald," for sale by public auction or private arrangement. It is rumored that it is the intention of the A.S.N. Co to purchase these Teßoels, and place them on the line between Sydney and San Francisco via Fijis, and probably the Wonga Wonga and City of Nelson ■will be placed on the coastal line of New Zealand. The " Eastern Budget," which possesses a nenri- official character, has reason to beliove that an understanding has been arrived at between the Powers on the question of the navigation of the Dardanelles. Tho appendix to the Treaty of Paris, known as tho Convention des Detroits, under which the Porte is bound to exclude foreign ships of war from the Dardanelles and the Bosphorus, with the exception of a limited number of vessels for the service of the embassies snd the protection of the mouths of the Danube, is to be abolished, In future no restrictions whatever are to be plactd on the power of the Porte to admit ships of war into the Dardanelles. As to the Danubian question, it is understood that tho International Danubian Commission is to be continued, though the subject will not be directly dealt with at the Black Sea Conference. This entirely agrees with the viows of Austria in tho matter, although the initiative of the arrangement did not proceed from the Austro-Hun-garian Government. Tha Commission will, it is B«id, in future sit in London, instead of in Paris, where a sort of permanent conference Tor the fulfilment of the international rights and obti»!itions created by the Paris Treaty has existed since 185 G.