TELEGRAMS.
PICTON : 19th— 6.10 p.m., Wellington, from Wellington ; midnight, Wellington, for Nelson. NelsoK: 16th— 11 p.m., Taranaki, from the North, with tho San Francisco mails; 20lh— 10 a.m., Wellington, from Pieton.
The U.S., N.Z., and A.M.S.S. Company's b.b. Nevada, Captain Blethen, left Honolulu on tho 30th July, connecting there with tho the s.s. Ajax from San Franeisc.7, July 20th, ■with passengers, mail, and general cargo for New Zealand and Australian ports. She arrived afc Auckland on the 16t,h, at 3.30 p.m. ; left Auckland at 6 a.m. on tho 18th ; arrived at Napier at 9.30 p.m. on tho 19th ; left at 11 p.m. for Wellington, and arrived here at 6 p.m. yesterday. H.M.C.S. Luna, Captain Fairchild, arrived yesterday from a trip to tho various lighthouses, &c, in Cook's Strait. She left Wellington at 12 10 a.m. on Tuesday last ; arrived at Capo Campbell at 6.55 ; landed stores, &o, and left at 11. 30 for Mana Island. Arrived afc 5.45 ; landed stores, &c, and started at 2 30 a.m. on Wednesday for Pelorus Sound ; arrived there at 8 a.m., and anchored near Richmond Rock, and when the tide suited, jumped a hole in the rock, and removed the old beacons. Al 6.30 a.m. on Thursday steamed to the Freucli Pass, and lifted the buoy and jaoorings, and returned to Polorus by 12.30 p.m., having left a boat with two hands to paint the French Pass boacon. Owing to tho N.W. swell setting into tho Sound, hardly anything could bo done on the Richmond Sock. Left at 5 p.m. for the French Pass, arriving there at 6.45; anchored on Shell Bank, and at daylight next morning moored tho buoy in its proper place, and started at 7 for Nelson ; arrived at 11.30 ; landed oil, &c ; shipped stores for Farewell Spit ; started at 1.30 for Astrolabe Roads ; arrived there afc 4.45 ; took out the old beacon (bent over by a sailing vessel), in Hapuka Reef, and fitted the two old beacons removed from Richmond Rock as a new one. Afc 3 a.m. on Saturday steamed for Farewell Spit ; arrived there at 7 a.m. ; mntica «tnres, &c, and started at 11.45 for Pelorous Sound, passing between Capo Stevens and the Tow en* Kock», n»J inside Rangitofco Islands. Arrived at Richmond Rock at 7 p.m. ; had beacon fixed by 7 a.m. on Sunday, and at 9.30 a.m., and steamed for Wellington, arriving as above. Tho s.s. Lord Ashley, Captain Andrew, left Port Chalmers on the 16th at 425 p.m., under easy steam, with strong south-west gale throughout ; anchored off Oaniaru the following morning afc S o'clock, a heavy sea setting in ; loaded, and proceeded at 8 p.m. ; had light S.W. winds to Timaru, where she anchored at 7 a.m. on tho 18th ; landed mails nnd cargo, and received 40 tons grain ; there this a heavy swell on afc times ; left afc 345 p.m. : light N.W. winds to Lyttelton ; arrive:! there at 6.30 a.m. ; sailed tho samo day at 7 p.m. ; had light N. winds and heavy S.E. sea ; arrived hero at 4.30 p.m. yesterday. The ps. Go-n-Heud, Captain Doile, arrived from Rangitikei, with a full cargo of wool and tallow, for the barque Edinburgh Castle, arrived in harbor at 3 a.m. yesterday, and Bails again this evening for Wanganui. The ketch Falcon left here at 5 o'clock on Wednesday evening last, with a cargo for Blenheim, and returned hero on Friday evening at 5.30, with a full cargo of wool and flax for the Edinbnrgh Castle ; the time occupied to and fro being only 4Si- honrs. The ship Milita, hence, arrived at Gravesend on the 21st June. Tho ship Asfcerope sailed from Gravesend on tho 23rd June for Canterbury and Timaru.
TELEGRAMS.
Wellington Independent, Volume XXVI, Issue 3282, 21 August 1871, Page 2
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