BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.
PORT CHALMERS. SAILED. March I—Asterope,1 — Asterope, ship, for London; and Cantero, barque, for Newcastle. March 2— Timaru, ship, for London. POST OP LYTTELTON. ARRIVED. March 2 — "Wellington, from Wellington. SAILED. March 2 — Ahuriri and Airedale for Port Chalmers. PORT OP WELLINGTON. : ABBIVKD. March S — Omeo, from Lyttelton.
: — *" UitPABAHKHn) Rapid STBAMmo. — TheLrrerpool, Hew York, and Philadelphia Steamship Company's Royal Mail steamer City of Brussels Captain Kennedy, arrived ' in Liverpool on December 13 from New York, after a run of unparalleled rapidity, she having made the ran from that port to Queenstown in seven days 22 hours and 3 minutes, and to Liverpool in eight days 13 hours and 41 minutes, making allowance for difference of time. This is about two hours and forty minutes less than the previously shortest voyage on record. Throaghout the whole run she steamed at a very high rate, and with remarkable steadiness and regularity, loeging 37, 330, 320, 336, 346, 371, 365, 353, and 266 miles each day in succession. The City of Brussels had fine weather with moderate breezes and light winds till Saturday, when she had a fresh gale from the north-west.
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Southland Times, Issue 1218, 4 March 1870, Page 2
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191BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. Southland Times, Issue 1218, 4 March 1870, Page 2
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