BARQUE BEBINGTON.

Press, Volume XLVIII, Issue 7782, 9 February 1891, Page 4

BARQUE BEBINGTON.

On Saturday morning the barque Bebtogton, of Belfast, was berthed at tt}« No. 4 wharf. She arrived the previooe night, and is in ballast from Buenos Ajxee. Oapt. G. Oliver report* that she Urn Buenos Ayiea December 9th. When two dftjs out she was caught in a pampero from the S.W.; the wind carried away ,fche topsails and mainsails; how•m, it only lasted for four hours. And gave place to fine fresh N.W. to S.W. Wiaoe* one passed the Cape of Good Hop© twenty days out, and lighted thd SoAree 30th ult. making Port Chalmers £Ls«da the following day. Lay at anchor Until Wednesday last, and got under way it midnight for Lyttelton, arriving as tbove, The Bebington loads for the Home mWKkete on account of Messrs Friedlandcr Bros. Measre Kinsey and Co. are the port agents. On the 14th January, while on the passage from Buenos Ayres, the vessel was caught in a heavy westerly gale, and ahe pooped a big sea, which carried away the steering platform and the wheel aad broke into the after-deck house, and swept through the cabins. Ko other damage was done about the decks, the vessel was brought to the wind and the damage repaired. The man who was at the wheel «M severely injured, but is now able to QBb about and attend to his duties.