TELEGRAMS.

Wellington Independent, Volume XXVI, Issue 3196, 11 May 1871, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

Lyttelton, 10th, 12.45 p.m. — Phcebe, from Wollington. The b.b. Lord Ashley arrived in harbor yesterday afternoon. We are indebted to Captain Andrews for tho following report : — left Auckland on tho 6th at 8.30 p.m. Anchored in Tauranga harbor at 10.30 a.m. Sunday ; fresh southerly wind and fine weather throughout. Discharged cargo, and proceeded at 4.30 same afternoon. Passed Whice Island afc 1030 p.m. 6.15 a.m. of the Bth rounded East Cape in company with the Government steamer Luna. Light southwest winds and smooth water. 5 p.m. passed Table Capo. Anchored in Napier roadstead at 2.45 a.m. of 9th. Very heavy swell setting into the bay. Afc 5 a.m. weighed, and stood over to fche N.W. anchorage. Discharged and loaded ; sailed at 3.20 p.m. Passed Cape Turnagain at 10 p.m. ; rounded Cape Palisser at 11 a.m. yesterday. Strong westerly gales throughout. The three-masted schooner Lady Bird sailed yesterday afternoon for Newcastle, N.S.W., for a cargo of coal for Mr Dransfield. The barque Heversham, having discharged her inward cargo of coals, ballasted, and cleared at the customs, is ready for sea, and will probably sail to-day. The schooner Dunedin sailed last night for the Pelorus, for a cargo of sawn timber. The cutter Dawn, having undergone a thorough overhaul on Meech'e slip, was launched yeafcorday, and taken alongside the Queen's Wharf fco load cargo for Manawatu. The b.b. Wanganui, Captain Linklafcer, left; Wanganui on Tuesday afc 11.30 a.m., and arrived at the wharf at midnight on the 9th. She sailed again for Wanganui last night. Lieut. Woods, says tho Fiji " Times," is being employed to survoy tho Nanuka Passage, Fiji Islands. We (" N. Z. Herald") have been requested to publish the following testimonial : — " I, the, undersigned, Charles Grant, master of fche American whaleship Niger, beg to return my best thanks and acknowledgments to Captain Fairchild, of tho Colonial steamship Luna, for the prompt and important services rendered fco me in towing my ship from a dangerous position off the edge of the Brampton Reef, Bay of Islands, on the night of the 29th of April, and am only sorry thafc it is not in my power to remunerate hira more substantially than by thanks. — Charles Grant. — Ruseell, May 1,1871." The sloop Unicorn lately arrived afc Dumbarton with Irish lime. Shortly after boing _flrthed at the qaay, it was diecoverea* that the cargo had taken on fire afc the bottom of the hold. The discharge of the lime was at once commenced, and was continued till completed. The mast was burned almost through near its lower end, and the deck in some places was charred. While the ship Argyleshire, which has just arrived afc tho Broomielaw from Auckland, New Zealand, via London, was on her outward passage from Glasgow to Auckland, one of the steerage passengers, named James M'lntoßh, jumped overboard as the ship was Tunning dowa her easting after having passed the Cape of Good Hope. It was blowing a gale of wind at tbe time, and thero being a heavy sea on and the ship running about thirteen knots, it was impossible to put ber about so as to try and save him. Shortly before doing this he asked tho Captain for a cheque for £200 and £10 in gold, which the latter was keeping for him until fchey should arrive at Auckland He then went fco his "berth, and, having dressed himself with al! his heavy clofchcn, came on deck and deliberately jumped overboard. The poor fellow seemed to be mentally deranged for a few days previous to committing the sad act. He had been in tbe coloniea for some years, and was returning thero after having been homo for a short time to see his friends in Scotland. Our Liverpool correspondent, writing on Monday night, says: — The ship Arran, whioh has just arrived in the river from New Orleans, landed the erew — twenty-four in number — of the well-known ship Admiral Lyons,' of Newcastle, bound from Pensucola to Bristol with a cargo of timber. The Admiral Lyons was abandoned on the 20th February in latitude 35.29 N., longitude 50.52 W. She had oncountered a heavy gale on the 16th February, and lost masts, bulwarks, boats, &c, and was. in fact, completely disabled. The captain and crew were forced to abandon her. The Arran herself had suffered severely in the sume gale. —The May Queen, which am red in the river yesterday from Now Orleans, landed part of the crew of the barquo Daldullas, of Pudsfcow (396 tone), James Campbell, maßter, from Doboy, Georgia, lo Swansea, with pitch pine. She hud been abandoned at a™, the crew Buffering most eeveroly fro:;, co'...' and hui<_.-v

The mate, two seamen, and cook, were lost when the ship was struck by a heavy sea, whioh caused her to roll over on her beam ends. The survivors olung to the rigging, with the sea washing over fchem, till picked up 48 hours after the vessel had sustained the disaster described.— " Glasgow Herald." It is understood at Chatham that the fleet of iron mortar boats and gun vessels, which have been laid up high and dry at that dockyard since tho Russian war will be shortly removed round to the Thames, and used as landing places for imported foreign cattle. It is stated at Portsmouth that an attempt is ab^ut to bo made by Mr Griffith, a civil engineer to raise the Captain, which foundered off the coast of Spain on the morning of the 7th of September last, but thafc ho will receive no aid from the Government. A Swansea letter of the 11th states that it is feared eight lives have been lost by the wreck of tho barque Daring, which sunk near the Scaveweather lightship on the 9th iuet. A Porthleven letter, dated the 12th instant, states that the " Desire" first-olass mackerel drift boat of that port, was run down on the 11th instant, whilst riding to her nets on the, Lizard by a vessel supposed fco be a steamer cutting her down amidships. She was towed in by the boat warder to Porthleven. The crew, eighr, in number, supposed to be drowned. The master had his two sons with him. The steamer Zoe, bound from New York to Brest, reported by cable lost off Halifax, U.S., had a cargo of provisions from the citizens of Boston to the citizens of Paris. She was run ashore by her pilot, who mistook a light, and is a total wreck. Of 47201bs and 200 tierces beef on board, about half would be saved,