ARRIVAL OF THE PRESTO.

Auckland Star, Volume XX, Issue 290, 6 December 1889, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE PRESTO.

Tho barque Presto, 384 tons, a familiar locally-owned vessel which has been absent from the Waitemabafor three or for months past, made bhe port shortly after daylight this morning from an Island locality, and anchored in the stream off the Railway Wharf. The Presto's trips to Auckland have in the past been almost invariably from Newcastle with loads of the indispensable fuel, bub this time she comes into porb from bhe island of New Caledonia wibh a full cargo of bones, 3,200 bags in all, from bhe port of. Gomen, a locality on the western coast of New Caledonia. The Presbo, which is sbill under bhe command of Captain George Mackenzie, since leaving Auckland lasb has taken a timber freight across bo Sydney from the.Kaipara, and thence loaded coal from Newcastle and Noumea, whence she sailed for Gomen early this month to load for Auckland She completed her cargo of bones in a few days, and on the 20bh ulb. Bailed for bhis port. On her passage southwards she had sbrong S.E. and easterly winds till Cape Maria Van Diemen was eio-hted on the 3rd inst. Thence down the co"ast she had a sbrong nor-easter, and came into harbour about 6 a.m. to-day, anchoring in the stream. The barque brines three passengers from the round trip to Australia and New Caledonia,