TELEGRAMS.

Wellington Independent, Volume XXVI, Issue 3254, 18 July 1871, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

Lyttelton : 17th— 3.1.0 p.m., Lord Asmey, from Wellington. The s.s. Phcebe, Captain Worsp, is advertised to sail for southern ports on Thursday, the 27th inst. Wo understand that she has heen chartered to bring the members of the G-eneral Assembly to Wellington, and will arrivo here on the morning of tho 12th August. Sho will tako to Lyttelton, ex Edinburgh Castle, 253 tons railway iron for the Provincial Government of Canterbury. The s.s. Bangatira is due here to-day from tho South, and will leave again for Napier tomorrow. The s.s. Gothenburg is due here from the South on Friday or Saturday, ancl will leave for Melbourne, via the West Coast, Bbortly after arrival. The s.s. Kangitoto is appointed to leaveMelbourne to-day for Hokitika, and may be expected here about the 25th. Tho 8.8. Taranaki, Captain Wheeler, will be due here on Wednesday, at midnight, provided that the Nebraska arrives to her time at Auckland with the European mail, and will, in that case, be despatched ou Thuraday, for Lyttelton and Otago. The s.s. Wellington, Captain Kennedy, will leave Port Chalmers to-night, loading tomorrow at Oamaru, ancl Thursday at Lyttelton. She will leave this port on Friday next for Manukau, calling at intervening ports. The barque Camille hauled alongside of the wharf yesterday, and will commence discharging coal to-day for Mr Dransfield. The barque Tell will finiah discharging her inward cargo to-day, and will sail for Newcastle to-uiorroiv. No less than twelve vessels passed through the Straits, steering to the westward, yesterday. They were eeen from the outer signal station, and consisted of two barques, two brigs, three top-sail schooners, a brigantine, and the others were fore-and aft schooners. There was a heavy southerly swell on yesterday outside the Heads. The s.s. Wanganui, Captain Linklater, arrived in harbor last night about 9 o'clock. She left Wanganui on Saturday at 7 a.m., and Nelson at 7 o'clock yesterday morniog. Had fine weather across the Straits. She brings 17 passengers. H.M.S. Virago sailed from Sydney for England on the 28th ult. The Napier Port light is, as we on a previous occasion surmised it would be, a failure. The lamp was lighted on the night of the Ist inst, and burned brilliantly till about 3 a.m. It was visible at a distance of 15 miles. On a hrecze springing up a strong draught was created within the lamp, and the whole of its interior became thickly coated with lamp black, which effectually prevented any light penetrating through tho glasses. This would not have been the case had colza or whale oil heen used. A new lamp will now have to bo procured, in which those oils can be burnt. Wliile on this subject we may remark that the light is useless as a guide to coasting vessels to keep clear of the Pania rcof, inasmuch as they would have lo steer six miles out of their course, and round the reef, before they could perceive it. The light may, however, bo of somo service as a mere port light, but a much cheaper construction would have answered equally as woll or better for that purpose. — " Hawke's Bay Telegraph." Further accounts ot the wreck of the Queen of the Thames are thus givon by the " Cape Standard" of the 4th May :— " We have lato accounts from the wreck. The Bismark left the Queen of the Thames some ten days ago. While there was a strong galo blowing there was no communication between the land and the wreck, and for thirty-eight hours the men who were employed on bonrd in taking out cargo wero kept in the tigging- The sea during tho galo made a clean sweep of the deck. Nothing is left standing but a part of the wheelhouse. Some idea of what the seas were like can be imagined when we state that the iron galley-house was torn from the deck and twisted to pieces as if it had been brown paper. The -.e.sel hud heeled over more, but it is thought by competent persons that she will hold together for twelve months, and that everything she has in her will be taken out. Her being floated again is very doubtful ; but even if she is not, her speculators will have made a very good thing out of her. The copper ore in her alone is worth £10,000. The salt water will not affect this portion of the cargo in any way ;it will all be recovered. Up to the end of last week 1,600 bales wool had beon landed, and the Bismark, with 100 bales on board, had left, or was just about leaving, for Port Elizabeth." A boat accident of a very dangerous character occurred at 7.30 o'clock tliis morning. The boat belonging to the barque Frowning Beauty was manned and under orders to take a hawser, which was coiled up in the boat, from tho barque to the Lord Ashley, for the purpose of hauling the barque alongside that vessel. The boat proceeded a little distance, und then capsized, throwing the crew to struggle with a heavy sea. The accident would certainly have been fatal to some had it not been for the prompt action taken by the crew of the whaling barque Albion, which immediately sent a boat to their rescue. A dingy was also put off from a cutter that was anchored near, and with their assistance at hund, the whole of the boat's orew were saved with but little difficulty. — " Auckland Evening Star," July 11.