TELEGRAMS.

Wellington Independent, Volume XXVI, Issue 3228, 17 June 1871, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

Wanganutji : 15th— Late, Go-ahead, from Wellington, via Manawatu ; 16th, early, Wanganui, from Wellington. The s s, Rangafcira, Captain Kennei', from Dunedin and Lyttelton, arrived in this harbor yesterday afternoon shortly after 2 p.ui, after a pleasant passage of twenty houra from Lyttelton. She will sail for Napier on Monday next, returning here on or about Thursday. The 3.a. Taranaki, Captain Wheeler, sailed for Lyttelfcon yesterday afternoon. She will return here on Sunday evening nest, and sail for the North early on Monday morning, calling at Nelson and the Manukau. She will await the arrival of the mail steamer Nevada, and will bring the European mail South for Taranaki, West Coast, Nelson, and Picton. The s.s. Wellington, Captain Kennedy, is due here on Tuesday from Napier and Auckland. She will leavo for the South on Wednesday, and we understand that it is the intention of the company to place her on the West Coast, to fill the place of the Phoebe. The barque Heversham, Captain Yule, from Newcastle, N.S.W., arrived in port yesterday afternoon with a cargo of coals for Captain ■Williams, and took up her berth alongside the Queen's Wharf. She will bo ready to discharge cargo to-day. The Heversham mado the passage in eleven days, during three of Tvhich sho was becalmed. The three-masted schooner Ladybird was to leave Newcastle for this port the same day as the Heversham, and may therefore be hourly expected. She bring 3 a cargo of coals for Mr Dransfield. The ketch Falcon sailed for Blenheim yesterday morning with a cargo of merchandise. The brigantine Esther has been hauled alongside the breastwork, opposite the late 2T.Z.S.N. Co's buildings. It is the intention of Captain Campbell to lay her up for a time, m there is very little doing on the coast for small vessels at preaenb, the wool season being over. The ship England is undergoing an extensive overhal, her top sides being caulked, a portion of her deck l'enewed, and other repairs effected. Captain Harrington says that he can have the repairs to his vessel done in Wellington as cheaply and as well as in London, and therefore, to save time, he is having everything done that tho vessel requires. The s.s. Claud Hamilton, bonce, arrived at Jjyttelton on the 13th inst. The « Lyttelton Times" of the 13th inst. Says.: — There was a heavy easterly sea running into tho harbor yesterday, and the bwcll occasioned was very great, putting a complete stop to all work at the wharves. Tho barque Queen of the South and the brig Waterlily, lying at the screw-pile jetty, had to haul off to the Xnooring-buoys to escape damage. The barque Ellesmere and the brig Janet Stewart, discharging at Peacock's wharf, had to haul out at daylight ; they sustained some slight injuries. The brig William, and Maid of Otago, schooner, discharging at the Railway wharf, had also to haul out to tho buoys. A whale, estimated to try out from four to five tonß of oil, wbb captured by the Maoris on Friday to the southward of the Heads. The tveather setting in bad, the whale was anchored and buoyed until a favorable opportunity presents itself to tow it in. — " Otago Daily Times," June 12. The ship Helenslee, belonging to Messrs. Henderson & Co's line of Clyde packets, now lying at Port Chalmers, has been sold to a Canterbury firm. The price has not transpired. The ship will load for home, taking part cargo only from here, and the remainder from Lyttelton, where, we understand, she will receive a new mainmast. — Ibid.