SALTWATER CREEK.

Press, Volume XXII, Issue 2629, 9 January 1874, Page 2

SALTWATER CREEK.

-.-. •..<? .-,,/ ARRIVED. : ..-.-.■ • : Jatinary T—Clyde,, s .s.,..Williams, from Lyttelton;

.y, .■--. fwhw>: < January; s.s-, for Lyttelton. imports. 7. ' P6r 01|^<te- i 2IJ tonsicoal, 3 cases. I, • Per ■ 'Clyde -r 120 bales wool, 40 kegs butter.

y >f o 'j x— '—■ — rr^- L —■-*— "; :'• ■ •jy EWnShip Pleiades, Captain Roberts, 97 days from London,, arrived in harbor last night. "Tbe Gaptain-?eports :—L?ft_ Graves--Bndr#n October 4th./ landed the pilot in fjorbay October 7th. and proceeded on the -voyage. -On October 18th Palma was . lighted.: On October 25th the latitnde of 10 deg N. was reached, when the usual -Itf&riables HMd : calms Were met With, and the equator was crossed aS 8 a.m. on November 6th, in 24 deg 27 mm W. On November fl2thl'Sighted Trinidad. On December Ist ■ the mJeridiaa-of the Cape was reached, when j "easterly: winds delayed the progress of the .ciontward .bound vessels for some days. The following were spoken : —December 3rd, -n4fr deg> 41 mm 8, 23 deg 19 mm E, ship s: Elizabeth Nicholson, ont 61 days from '. -JiOndbh, for Yokohama ; barque E. Read, 22 days from River Plate, for Dalhousie ; same V>day-ship Agnes Mnir, for Otago. December < < 31th, 5.30. a.m., passed 45 miles north of ?iEast ' Island (Grozets), after which, on - -several days, so much thick foggy weather was met with as to render it prudent to go nnder reduced sail, but no ice was seen. - : (147 deg B.) was passed at 4 a.m. orfonr December 30th, in.71at..48deg22 mm S, with Btrong'W;BJW. winds: On.January 2nd, EKilly3oip;m.l<th«: Snares were passed; on January 4th, at 4 p.m., made the Nuggets ; -.?:otti January ;71ih: made .'the Peninsula, and arrived on the Bth,.having experienced very variable weeShisr. on. theC'Cdast. ; ,