TELEGRAMS.

Wellington Independent, Volume XXVI, Issue 3204, 20 May 1871, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

Nelson : 19th— 7 a.m., Taranaki, for Picton Hokitika: 19th— 8.30 a.m., Rangitoto, from Melbourne The e.g. Phcebe, Captain Worsp, is duo hero X>n Sunday from southern ports, and will leave on Monday for Picton, Nelson, Taranaki, and Manukau.^.The Phoebe was tho first vessel that was taken into tho now Port Chalmers graying dock, where she has undergone a thorough cleaning and painting. She left the dock on Tuesday last, sailed on Wednesday, and arrived at Lyttelton on Thursday. _ Sho will leave Lyttelton to-day at 2 p.m., arriving liere as above. The s.s. Ahuriri will leave Manukau on the 22nd inst., calling at Taranaki, Opunake, and Wanganui. At the latter port she will ship a cargo of horses for Dunedin. Sho will call at Wellington on the 2Gth inst., on her passage south, and will leave here the following day lor Otago, Tia Lyttelton, Akaroa, Timaru, and Oamaru. The s.s. Rangitoto arrived at Greymouth at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon, but tho weathor was so boisterous that it was scarcely anticipated that they would be able to tender her until to-day. The s.e. Gothenburg is due hero on Sunday from the South, and will leave for Melbourne, Nelson and West Coaßfc on Monday. The s.s. Lord Ashley is due here on Sunday, and will leave again for Napier, Tauranga, and Auckland on Monday, As stated in our issue of Saturday, tho s.s. Phoebe had got her nsse into the Port Chalmers Graving Dock on Friday evening, Capt. Worsp, her commander, being determined, by hook or by crook, to have her cloaned and repainted ; and it is only due to his energetic applications to the Dock Trust, together with arrangements with the contractors, Messrs Connor & M'Kay, that we now have the first vessel in the Graving Dock, simultaneously with the first San Francisco steamer beiug in ©ur harbor. Before daylight on Saturday morning, Captain Worsp and his crew warped the Phoebe into the upper end of the dock, and as the water was being pumpod out, the vessel's bottom Was cleaned. The powerful engines ior pumping out wero found to work splendidly ,and onthisoccasiontooquickto allow sufficient water to be left in for cleaning purposes ; they had to be stopped several times during the operation of cleaning. By the afternoon the dock was dry, and the first coat of red lead commenced, which is now finished. It is now 20 months since the Phcebe was docked in jSydney, during which time quite a field of mussels and other molusca has congregated on her bottom, in some instances from Bix to seven inches in thickness. On being cleaned her bottom looks in fine order, not a dent being Tisible. While in dock she has been a great source of attraction to the numerous visitors to the Nevada ; in fact, yesterday there were not fewer than 2000 persons from Dunedin -visiting both vessels. The port throughout the day was crowded, all sorts of conveyances overland, and the Harbor Company's steamers feeing well employed, as also tho watermen. — "Otago Times." With a view to facilitate the reporting of shipß from the most important points oa the coasts of the United Kingdom, and to establish the International code of signals, which is now in genoral use at home and abroad, the "Shipping Gazette" has long since had in active operation signal stations at tho following places, viz. : — Aldborough, Bridlington, Slamborough Head, Grimsby, Yarmouth Broad9tairs, Deal, Dover, Dungeness, Yarmouth (1.W.), St. Catherine's Poiut (1.W.), Prawle Point (near tho Start), Penzance, Roche's Point (Queenstown), Holyhead, &c. At all these signal stations the International (Commercial) code ia the only code recognised, and vessels of any nation which make their nameß known by this code in passing the stations, are promptly reported in the *' Shipping Gazetto" and to the owners if required. To these signal stations has just been -added one of considerable importance to vessels approaching the Scilly Islands, or which may be driven near there for shelter. A station is now in full operation on the highest .part of Peninms Point, on St. Mary's Island, and the exact position is marked on the charts ss the Old Mill. Vessels approaching from the south can with safety go within a mile of the point, and ships signalled hy the International code are reported, by telegraph, by a special correspondent appointed for the purpose.