BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.
[from our own correspondent.] {Wellington, April Bth. Auckland, April 4th. The Wonga Wonga left on Saturday, The Governor and Messrs Yogel and M‘Lean, the member of Parliament, and leading citizens lunched mi hoard. Toasts, speeches, and congratulations were proposed. Mr Yogel, in his speech, said the postal project was duo to the late Mr (Jrosbie Ward, who said ere long there must be direct communication with Australia and San Francisco, Auckland being the port of call. Mr-Hall said the fact of Auckland being the poet of call was due to Mr Yogel s persuasion. He had otherwise intended to -make the route to Sydney by tho Bay of Islands.
The Wonga Wonga takes 170 passengers. Nearly all the berths are taken for the next boat, Crashings : Deep Lead, 27ozs ; Kelly’s, 200 tons, 2950z5; Flying Cloud, 15 tons, 97ozs; Golden Age, four days, 1290zs ; Luna, 21 tons, 40 ozs; Dixon’s No. 1, 200 tons, 2950z5; Mountain Flower, 2 tons, 3ozs ; Manakau, 1 ton, 2350zs (2.35 ?) ; Golden Eagle, 4 tons, 51 ozs ; Shotover (Month), 520 ozs ; Kuranui (fortnight), 12540zs ; Whan, 198ozs, Arrivals—City of Melbourne from Sydney ; Inflexible from London ; Alice from London ; Kate from Sydney ; Moa from Melbourne; Crest of the Wave from Fiji.
Departures Thomas Daniel Is for Lyttelton; Prince Alfred for liorotonga ; and Coquette for Levuka.
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Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2160, 8 April 1870, Page 2
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219BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2160, 8 April 1870, Page 2
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