ARRIVAL OF THE BARQUE NORMAN MACLEOD.

Press, Volume XLV, Issue 7142, 1 September 1888, Page 4

ARRIVAL OF THE BARQUE NORMAN MACLEOD.

_Er 0.--W. Turner's iron clipper torque —c-xn-mi_—ieod arrived off the -heads at a _s_ -g-r -on Thursday night. She was __—a iin tow by tbe steam tug, and _*pped amcfaor in the harbor att '2 -a.—, yesterday. The Customs officials, Health 50-B—a,_ad Press repr—entativ— went oif £ta__r atti—a_i. The barque has made —jgfcod passage oat from Sharpness of 94 _-3*-, _td of qaite an uneven—etl nature, ,auran comes into port in good order. She is -_iUin —__and of Captain _o vett, who .it_ assoo_—d with him as ofticots Mr H. •_or—t*W—th chief, and Mr W. Manley Mscarnd. At noon she was moored at the -GU-to—ne Pier. The following is * report of the passage: —-I__ft Sharjmess Do cks _10 a.m. on May _th, and cast off the tug at Lundy Island _t midnight the same day, and crossed the Equator in long. 24.30 W. on July 2nd. -Passed the meridian of the Gape of Good Hope on July —eh, and Cape I——win on August 17th, iat. — S,; South-West Cape, _HBM__ia, on Augast 24th, in 45 8. £j^i—cl the Snares at _ p—u on August -Sth, and Banks Peninsula on August _ot_ The weather experienced after leaving Sharpness was tine, with light easterly winds, which on June Bth hauled i_—> the „•__'___ and blew hard. The N_-t-_fces were very light, and lasted to I—. 12 N., thence to crossing the lhie 8. W. The S.E. trad— were line and fresh, and •aa—ied well south to hit, 31 S. and long. 30 W. on July 14th, then had light northerly to -July I—_ All along the Southern Ocean had moderate winds from W-N. VV\ toS.W. _3*e foi—wing -vessels were spoken on tbe voyage:—Ship Commonwealth, Liverpool to Melbourne, on Jane 3rd, lat. 47 bo—h, long. 12 west. Barque Thyatira, _X—on to Melbourne, June 1-th, lat.— ___, long: _5 -west, French barque IMFT- from Ba__rk to Iquiqui, June __t, lat. 10 north, long. 26 west. Ship —_«_*, from London to Sydney, June 27th, —t. 5 north, long. -1 west. _arqne —u-hne, from Tyne to Valparaiso, June __, laX. 5 north, long. IS west. French barque __JI_F, from Valparaiso .for JL—n__t, July 14th, lat. 31 south, SO west. _S. Papua, boxmd north, on June li—d. MOVEMENTS OF MAIL STEAMERS. The N.Z.S. Oompany's B.M.S. Ut mutaka _ due at Bio de Janeiro to-morrow from Lvttelton, August 11th. The P__tic mail steamer Mariposa is -_— _t San Francisco to-marrow from Auckland.