Fbom: Nhwcastlk.—Northern Star, barque, 327 tons (March 30). Loch Naw, barque, 277 tons, Peter een (March 31). Excelsior, barque, 380 tons Spruitfc.
SHIPPING TELEGRAMS,

Wellington, April s.—Sailed : Waihora, for Syd ney, via Auckland; Penguin, forLyttelton. Passen firs: Mi3ses Acland, Hennessy, and Boag, Mesdames eetham, Rowell, Edwards, Murray and child, Rev. Murray, Hon. Mr Parker, Messrs Hall, Turnbull, Luckie, Fife, _ Duncan, Robertson; and 4in the steerage. " ... •-■ '..'■' BjyuiT, April s.—Sailed last night: Taupo, for Melbourne, with 7500 sacks oats ; 4 p m. to-day, Te Anau, for Melbourne, with 169 passengers for all "ports. ..-.■•

THE DIRECT STEAMERS,

■The b.s. lonic, from London, which arrived at Hobart on Thursday evening, left again at 4 o'clock yesterday morning, bouad for Wellington.
..The b.s. Takapuna, Captain J. Grant,.from Nel son, via Akaroa and intermediate ports, arrived at Port Chalmers at 1.40 p.m. yesterday, and steamed direct to Dunedin. HrW. H. Bowen(her purser) reports leaving Nelson on the 2nd. inst. Called a JPieton; and reached Wellington at midnight; left again at 4.30 p.m. Bame day, and arrived at Lyttelton at 9 a.m. of the 4th; sailed again at 4.30 p in. same day, called at Akaroa, and after landing cargo, mails, and passengers, left again at 10.30 p.m. same day, arriving aB above, haviug experienced fine weather throughout. The American barque Alice Beed was towed to sea yesterday morning by the b.s. Plucky and sailed in ballast for Newcastle. From that port she either goes to the Chilian coast or to China. The b s. Grafton took in cargo at the Battray street whart yesterday, and after embarking passsngerß, Bailed at i p.m. for the West Coast ports, via limaru.
