BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2450, 22 December 1870, Page 2

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

SAILED. Lyttelton: Deo, 21, 6.15 p.m, Airedale for Dunedin. C.5 p.m, Omeo for Dunedin. The ship Chile, from the Bluff, hound to Timaru, was signalled while passing the Heads this morning. The s.s. Omeo, from Melbourne via Northem ports, arrived at Port Chalmers at 1 mm. The p.s, Wallace, from Oamaru with passengers and cargo, arrived last evening. Her wool freight was discharged on board the May Qnecn; her passengers, cargo, &c., were’ forwarded to Dunedin. The ship Hydra, from Newoaatle, arrived, at the Heads at noon to-day. On signalling for a tnif, the Wallace at once proceeded to tow her in. The s.s. Airedale, with the English mail on hoard, from Lyttelton, arrived at 2 p.m. The Geelong, for Timarn, sailed last evesing. The ».s. Tairoa, from Martin’s Bay, the Blnff, and Molynenx arrived at Port Chalmers Jetty at 11. 20 a.m. this morning, and at soon left for Dunedin. Reports sailing from Martin’s Bay on the 15th inst., arriving at the Blnff on the 20th at 5.30 a.m. She reached the Molynenx at 2.30 p.m., took on board 15 bales of flax consigned to Messrs Driver, Stewart and Co., and crossed the

bar at 3.45 this morning, arriving as above stated. She experienced westerly winds and i gales thronghont. On the passage from this port to the Bluff an accident to the pin of the shaft occurred, causing a delay of about three days. The opportune arrival of the Tairoa at Martin’s Bay with provisions, &e., was a great boon to the settlers as considerable inconvenience had been for some time felt from a scarcity of necessary supplies. No greater argument needs to be used for regular communication with the settlement. Great privations must have been experienced by the settlers.