TELEGRAMS.

Wellington Independent, Volume XXVI, Issue 3285, 24 August 1871, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

Lyttelton: 23rd— 8.40 a.m., Tarauaki from. Wellington. Poet Chalmebs : 23rd— 9.35 a m., Nevada, from Lyttelton. 5.5 p.m., Claud Hamilton, for the Bluff, with San Francisco mails. The b.s. Gothenburg, Captain Pierce, left Port Chalmers at 4 p.m. on Sunday, and arrived off Oamaru at 1.30 p.m. on the 21st, having been detained outside by a dense fog for 12 hours ; left Oamaru at 3 30 p in., and arrived in Lyttelton at 12 noon on the 22nd ; left Lyttelton at 7 p.m., and arrived in Wellington at 4 p.m. on tho 23rd. The Gothenburgh sailed last night for Melbourne via the West Coast. The various British steamship lines between England and America have lately made important alterations in their form of bills of lading. The effect, among other results, is to relieve companies from liability for any damage to any goods which is capable of being corcrerl by insurance, whilst it is likewise stipulated that freight payable by shippers is to bo paid whether the ship be lost or not lost ; also that in case tho whole or any part of the goods Bpecified in the bill of lading bo prevented by any cause from going in the next steamer, the shipowner is only bound to forward them by succeeding steamers of the line. The ship Macduff, about which some fears were entertainedconsequentupon the finding of what was considered to be a piece of her headboard, was signalled off Cape Otway, 8G days out, on the 7th inst. H.M.S. Clio was to leavo Sydney for Bris bane on Auguafe 7th, with the Marquis of Norznanby. During the Clio's absence the Commodore hoists his pennant on H.M.S. Blanche. If the Megcera does not arrive shortly, the Blanche will visit Hobart Town towards tho end of the month. By telegraphic intelligence from Hoba\t Town on Saturday we learn that tho barque Golden Ago, of this port, has been wrecked on Vaneittart Island, while on her passage from Newcastle, N.S.W., to Melbourne. Vansittnrt Island (better known as Guncarriago Island) is one of Kent's Group, and is situated about 15 miles north of Capo Barren, and it appears that Captain MTntyre and the crew of the barque had made their way from Vansitturb Island to Barren Island, and from thence to Chapel Island, which is in the track of the steamers proceeding through the Straits. From this islund they were picked up by the T.S.N. Company's s.s. Southern Cross while on lier passage from Melbourne to Hobart Town, and will return by her to Melbourne this week. The Golden Age was a vessel of 381 tons, a well-known trader out of this port, and was owned by Messrs Reid, Poole & Co, and Capt. M'lntyre. She left Newcastle, N.S.W., on the 13th ult., with a cargo of 570 tons coals for her owners, and meeting with tho late heavy gales on the east coast, put into Twofold Bay for shelter, leaving there again on the 29th ult. The vessel is insured in tho Derwent and Tamar Insurance Ofllce, and the cargo also is covered by insurance but not the freight. She was in very good order, having recently had about £1000 laid out on her in repairs.— " ArgUß," August 7.