THE MAY QUEEN.

Press, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4786, 4 December 1880, Page 2

THE MAY QUEEN.

The barque May Qneen, in command of Capt. -Csfvflie, arrived yesterday from! London, with 2 afaQ cargo of general merchandise, a portion • _f• w-ieh is unsigned to luvercargill. Twenty_va passengers all told arrived by her. The ■ voyage up to the Capewas remarkable for the absence of anything in a weather sense which «rald be termed breesy. Light airs and calms appear to have been met with through both the trade wind belts. From the Cape the shipdid good work. There were no deaths nor serious ' sickness during the voyage. The passengers appeared to have counteracted the etmvi incident to a passage of sne hundred and three days by as greaiavarietv of improvised amusements as possible, and had a good word to say for their cou-nander and his officers. Of the latter, Mr Gordon, welHmewn in the Otago trace, and late of the Calypso, is chief, and Mr Austin second. Captain Colvflle was in Lytteitea long ago aa master of the Hudson. The May Queen left London on the 22nd of August and crossed the Equator after a continuous light weather experience of forty days. Better luck was expected in the S.E. trades, but these proved as disappointing, and the slap was Just seventy days out when she passed the Cape of Good Hope. Thanks to good westerlies, she was but twentynraa days from there to the Snares, sighted last Sunday night, and sines then variable weather has prevailed. Rather more than half the cargo is for'here, the rexaainder, as stated above, < being for Binff, where it is intended to load the - vessel for heme, to follow the Jessie Bead-tan. Messrs Edwards, Bennett and Co. are her agß_ts here, and yesterday afternoon she was towed in to a berth at the Gladstone Pier to i . discharge Sercargo. j