TELEGRAMS.

Wellington Independent, Volume XXVI, Issue 3318, 13 October 1871, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

LYTTEXTON— I2th, 5.30 a.m., Tararua, from Wellington. 12th, 4-20 p.m., Taranaki, for Wellington. SpiT~l2tb, 4.30 p.m., Luna, for Wellington;

The s.s. Tar.maki, Captain Wheeler, sailed yesterday afternoon, at 4.20 p m., from Lyttelton for Wellington, and will be due hero this forenoon. She leaves to-morrow, at 1 p.m., for Picton, Nelson, Turannki, and Munuknu. The 8.9. Wellington not having arrived at Nelson, up to the time of our going to pros 3, we can only surmise either that she is bar bound iv Manukau, or the Nevada has not arrived to time.

There are no less thau eight different acts in this colony relating to shipping and marine affairs. Most of these acts have evidently been copied from the Imperial Merchant Shipping Acts of 1854 and 1862, and experience has shown that they are most faulty ■where they differ most widely from the toxt of these acts. Mr Seed, in his Marino Department report, snys .—lt would be exceedingly desirable to have all these Jaws consolidated j but before doing this it would be prudent to wait until the bill which ia now before the Imperial Parliament for amending and consolidating the merchant shipping laws has passed, and then to adopt that act as a model for a comprehensive measure for regulating all matters relating to shipping in the colony, which are subject to local control and supervision.

The Inman Company's steamer City of Brussels, Captain Kennedy, which reached the Mersey on July 17, has made one of the quickest passages on record from New York to Liverpool. This vessel left New York about eleven o'clock on the morning of tho Bth, and passed the Fastnet iv a dense fog oh July 16 at half-past six o'clock. The City of Brussels arrived off the bar at Liverpool on July 17, at four o'clock in the afternoon, but was detaiued for some hours waiting for water to take her over.