LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 18, 20 January 1876, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[Press Aoenoy.] IN TERPROVINCIAL. Wellington, Wednesday. « Steamer Lun, Tuesiiy n«ght" Several csta were mide to-dny, but all were unsuccessful tbe bott-m being very rocky and irrfguar in depth, ren taring the, work of gr^ppdn • excee iauly difflou t ani uncertain, bo that the --ay's work was very unsa isfactory. The broken piece of the cable, about one and a-lial*' mi es, brought up _'e«tt-_day, *wa_ paid out in Worser'* Bay, near the pilot station, tbe end being buoyed. Wednesday. An early start was made thit mor* irig, and we we c dragging for the cable by five o'cl ck. Th .< bo'tom being rocky the grapnel slipped time after time as soon as the rope btcarae cauglt under the bow. About breakfast time we hooked something very heavy and succeeded io raising it about halt way up (the depth being 64 fathom**) when the strain became s" meni-g enormous. The rope strained and creikei and the machinery was under conquerable pressure, and very soon one too h after «nothvr fi.w outof the driving ' wheel It was though, advisable to go on as long as sound teeth intervened between the broken om-s, but the next mishap was tbat ot four co c b-eaking off *»t < nc9 close together, so that tp make another nvo ution might b-j danaerous to lif**, as he wnole of the cogs might slip and fly in all directions. Another grapnel was ti-en dropp.d down attached io a ' large Europe r^pe *>nd made fast to wh -t was Buppose f to be the cable. A couple of turn* were t>kea round the steamer's sh ft, but th« irope soon snapped. A third jirapnel was bent to a nt-w five inch Manilla hawser, which was then hooked on to the obje *t t»nd als v » passed roii,d the Bhuft, and though the rope did not .parr- it wis s en that something must go scon if the strain was k> p* up. The cable waß ace rdingly lowered to tha bottutn and buoyed. The machinery wi'l h.ve to be repaired before another • tart is made. , AncK.AND, We inesday. Waitemata election —Present s'a c of the poll t Maefarlaue, 144; Hur t, 131; Lee, 1.6; Henderson, 65, 'Ihe-e «re three returns to com-, in, but Macfarlane's return is considered certain. 'Ih- Mikado has arrived from Sydney to take the outward San Fra*:cisc > mail. She left under coutr.ct with the Pacific Mail Company on th. 12>di, and was expected to be abie to ie.ve Auckland to contract time, but the voyage was ptotraoted by continual ets erly winds. Eh the February service the City of San Franc-i. o wilt l^ave Fort Chalmers, and eitb_r the Zjalaniii* or the Gra^da from Sydney, »o tbat it is hoped the lutu'e m-iil arr-rngtmaatt. will b^ .utisitictory. Tbe Ml kado rdm.in. in the service till all the other Vtssjls are ou the station, and probably wil th.n be k.pt at Sydney as a spare vessel iv case of accident. Bioadin is a passenger by the Mikado. „$