ARRIVAL OF THE WELLINGTON.

Evening Post, Issue 274, 23 December 1865, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE WELLINGTON.

The 8,8. Wellington, Captain Francis, from the North, arrived in port this morning, at eight o'clock. The Nelson Examiner of Thursday last furnishes the following:— The Tararua arrived from Sydney yesterday afternoon without the English mail, no intelligence of it having reached Sydney up to noon of the 15 th, the P. and O. Company's vessel being again at least six days behind her time. We suppose the Prince Alfred's departure from Sj'dney will be delayed as long as possible, so as to afford a chance of the New Zealand mails being sent on by her to Auckland. Should that vessel leave Sydney without them, we may expect to get the mails, we suppose, by the iiangitoto from Melbourne, as we did those for last month. The Tararua has had a narrow escape from shipwreck. Throughout her passage from Sydney she experienced thick easterly weather, and since the day she left had not been able to get a sight of the sun. The vessel it appears, had overrun the distance assigned her, and on Wednesday morning, a little after two o'clock, the weather being exceedingly hazy at the time, she ran on shore under full steam, at Cape Farewell. Fortunately the tide was rising, and by lightening the vessel of her deck cargo* B he was got afloat again after an hour's detention, and as far as can at present be ascertained without damage to the hullThis accident proves the necessity of what we have for years advocated — the erection of a lighthouse in the neighbourhood of Cape Farewell, and which we are glad to hear the Government has in contemplation to immediately place there. Had the Tara- { rua been wrecked, the loss would have been

heavy, as the value of ship and cargo cannot, we suppose, be estimated at less thacf^ £50,000.