TELEGRAMS.

Wellington Independent, Volume XXVI, Issue XXVI, 27 July 1871, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

Nelson: 2fifch— 7.4-5 a.m., faranaki, from North, with the San Francico mail. Ltttelton: 26th— 3 a.m., Nebraska, for Dunedin. . Spit: 26th— 1 p.m., Eangatirn, for Wellington. Shippers and intending passengers per s.s. Phoebe, for the Southern ports, will sco by the advertisement, that; the departure of this vessel has been postponed until Saturday, the 29th insfc., at 1 p.m. The s.s. Eangitoto, Captain Mackie, was to leave Nelson this morning at 4 a.m., and may be expected to arrive this afternoon . She was unable to leave Nelson yesterday through stress of weather. The s.s. Rangatira is due to-day from JNapier, and will leave again on Friday evening for the South, calling at Kaikoura and Oamaru. _ . , The s b. Taranaki, Captain Wheeler, arnved at Nelson yesterday morning, having been bar bound in Manakau several days. She succeeded in landing her Taranaki cargo on her way south. She is expected to here in the course of the day, and will leave to-morrow for Lyttelton and Otago. Tho s.s. Wellington, Captain Kennedy, has been detained in Nelson by a strong northerly gale ; and will sail for Northern ports a3 soon as the weather moderates. The clipper ship Excelsior, Captain Lees, lias arrived at Auckland, having left Gravesend on the 29th March. On the 16th June, •while running down the easting, a heavy eea broke over the ship, which carried away the skylights, stove tho stern posts in, filling the saloon; carried away part of her bulwarks, store in the boats, and did a great deal of other damage. Strong southerly winds prevailed till passing Tasmania on the 30th June. Had fair weather thence, and made the Three Kings on the 6lh July. Had strong winds down the coast, and arrived in Aucklandharbov at 8 o'clock on the evening of the 7tb inst., thus completing the passage in 99 days, or 93 days from land to land. The schooner Aurora is missing. She left Auckland for Port Albert some weeks since, and his not, up to latest dates, been hoard of. The Merope, from Canterbury, experienced a S.W. gale on the 16th and 16th February, in which she lost a quarter boat and part of bulwarks.

The Jessie Ellingwood, from Sundswell to Melbourne, which put into St. Helena, Dec. 27th, leaky, has been condemned. It is reported by cable from New York that the Dayepring, from Newcastle to Melbourne, foundered at Monte Rosa.

Tho captain and nineteen of the crew of the Queen of tho Thames, have arrived in the Roman (s.), from the Cape.— "Homo News." Another addition has been made to our improved gunboat service by the launch of the Bonetta from the shipbuilding yard of Messrs 3. &G. Ronnie, at Greenwich. The Bonetta is one of the new class of gun vessels, being built on the principle of the Staunch, but larger, and will be armed with one 18-ton gun. The sister vessel, the Arrow, built and engined by the same firm, was launched a few weeks eince.

A new schooner of about one hundred tons register arrived in this harbor this afternoon from Muhurangn, where she was recently launched from the yards of Mr John Darroch. The schooner has not yet been christened, but will in all probability bear the name of Yogel. She appears to be a splendid craft ; and beats up harbor remarkably well. Tho schooner has been built to the order of Messrs Lillewall and Eafcti-fly, and is for sale. She is built of the very best materials, is well coppered nnd cop-per-fastened, and has fche very best sails, and chains and anchors that could be procured. This vessel will be a valuable addition to the coasting fleet.— Auckland "Evening Star," July 22. The " Loud propelling wheel" consists of two disks or annular rims, secured upon a shaft at an angle varying from a right angle about fifteen degrees, so that the two disks intersect each other along a right line passing transverely through the shaft. The inventor's idea is that the wheel acts upon the water like a,n oar in sculling a boat. Mr Loud 'a right to the patent wns strongly contested by Senator Cole, but the matter was finally decided in his favor by the Supreme Court of the district of Columbia, and a patent was issued to him on May 3, 1870.—" Scientific American." A paper has been read at the Institute of Civil Engineers on Phonic Fog-signals, to bo used at sea, or along coasts. It was shown that the best means for producing the required sounds were the whistle and the trumpet ; blown by a steam-engine, they would be loud enough. But the author, Mr Bcazley, has long believed that the vast dynamical power afforded by the rise and fall of tho tide will some day be made use of to produce the required noise. If so, this power could be applied in situations whew etoam -engines could not be introduced.

The Boston Telegraph Night Signals have lately been adopted, by purchase of the patent, in the Italian Navy. They have been adopted in the Navy of France three years since, and by the U. S. Government at the commencement of the late rebellion ; and to use the words of Secretary Welles, " were of incal culable value during the war." These signals are the more highly appreciated by the Italians from the fact of the application and combination of the Italian national colourß, viz : rod, white, and green. They are in process of adoption by several others of the great maritime Powers, and are also applicable for army purposes. Private advices from China state that Captain Pease, who is charged with piracy in and about the King's Mill group of islands in the North Pacific has been arrested by the Spanish authoritiep of tho Phillipine Islands, and sent to the United States Consul general Seaward for trial, either because of his claiming to be an American citizen, or from the fact that the sufferers were Americans. Unfortunately, as the case is one which involves tho death penalify in case of conviction, Mr Seaward has no jurisdiction, and he must send him, with the witnesses to he nearest American port. Mr Seaward says in a letter to a friend here, that he intended to send him to Ban Francisco for trial in the United States Courts by tho steamer China ; but the death of one witness, and the illness of another, compelled him to defer the departure until the next steamer. The particulars of the crime or crimes oharged upon Captain Pease have not reached us.— "San Francisco Chronicle."