ARRIVAL OF THE MARY SHEPHERD.

Auckland Star, Volume I, Issue 121, 30 May 1870, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE MARY SHEPHERD.

The fine ship Mary Shepherd has again made her appearance in these waters after an absence of nine months. She is still com nianded by Captain R. Peek, and most of the officers who were here last year accompany him. The Mary Shepherd, from the time of her final departure from England, hai had a very pleasant passage, and the passengers have arrived in good health, no sickness of any kind having occurred during the voyage. The ship brings a large general cargo, and forty saloon and second-cla?s passengers. She has also a quantity of powder on board, which will necessitate her lying clear of the shipping ill it lias been removed.

The Mary. Shepherd left the East India Docks and passed Q-ravesend on the Ist of February, and experienced fine weather down Channel. When off the Start Point she encountered a heavy gale from S.S.W., during which she lost her jibboom. Captain Peek then ran back to Dartmouth, and having repaired damages, resumed his voyage on the 10th, after a detention of five days. Strong N.E. winds prevailed, and on the 23rd ot" February Teneriffe was sighted; the vessel lay becalmed here for two daya. Had very good N.E. trades, and crossed the Equator on the 14th of March, in long. 20 deg. 30 mm. W. On the 19th of March Mrs. Allender, a passenger, was confined of a daughter; the child was christened after the ship. The S.E. trades proved very steady, and in 30 deg. S., 25 deg. W., a strong gale was experienced. Passed the meridian of the Cape on the 18th April, in 41 deg. S. lat. On the 17th, spoke the ship .Rifleman, from London to Sydney, 73 days out. On the 26th of the same month was again in company, both vessels running down with strong westerly winds and fine, weather, between the parallel of '47 deg. and. 48 deg. S. Passed Tasmania on the. 15thinstant, and experienced S. and E. winds across, sighting Cape Maria Van Dieman on Friday last. Passed the North Cape the same night at 10 o'clock, and the Bay of Islands at 2 a.m. on Saturday morning. Had fresh N.W. winds along the coaßt to the island of Tiri Tiri, when the wind fell light, and hauled more to. the westward. Worked up the gulf, and auchored in harbour at two p.m. yesterday, having made the passage from Dartmouth in 108 days. Passengers—Saloon: Mr. Edward Whitaker, Bey. E. M. Nelson, Miss Hannah Moss, Mr. A. Bridge. Second Cabin : Mr. and Mm. E. C. Carnes, Mr. and . Mrs. Henry Allender, Sarah, Martha, and Mary Jane Allender, John Young, William Buckett, John Hendry, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Salt, It. W. Smith, William Parkes, John Sutherland and child, R. F. Spencer, Frank Southard, J. Mason, George Walburn, Hannah Jeffcott, Leah Wood, Louis Stephens, Joseph W. Upchurch, William Alley, Frank Humby, Alburny, Paddon, Richard Jessop,. Mrs. Wilson, Edward and Eliza Salt.