AKAROA, FROM LIVERPOOL.

Evening Post, Volume LVI, Issue 75, 26 September 1898, Page 4

AKAROA, FROM LIVERPOOL.

At 11 o'clock yesterday morning the Shaw, Savill, and Albion Co's barque Akaroa, Captain Murray, was signalled off the Heads, an hour later was taken iv tow by the Duco, and came to on anchorage in the stream at 1.45 pm. The passage from Liverpool to Wellington occupied 100 days. Of the voyage Captain Murray reports us follows :— The vessel left Liverpool on 17bh June, was towed to Luskar, which was reached at 4 [pin on the 18th, when sail was made to a fresh WSW breeze. Experienced adverse winds for a few days, then fell in with NW winds, which continued till picking- up the NE trades in latitude 35deg N and longitude 20deg W. These proved moderate to light throughout, and were lost in latitude 9deg N and longitude 28deg W on 12th July.- Fresh southerly winds then set in. Crossed the Equator on the 20th in longitude 25deg W (33 days out), picked up SE trades and carried strong breezes to latitude SJodegr Son the 29ih. Easterly winds followed and continued until 7th August, the ship being at that time in 38deff S «'md 9deg W, where the first of the westerly winds were met, and were earned for a few days, when ihe wind drew back to the eastward. Encountered very unsettled weather for a week and very little prog Tegs was made. Passsd the meridian of Cape of Good Hope on the 17th in latitude -tldeg S, and the ensting was run down on the parallel of 44deg and 45deg S. Met with favourable weather until the meridian of 62deg E was passed. Prom thence fell iv with gales and very rough and unsettled weather, accompanied with heavy sea. The decks were constantly flooded, but no damage was done. This weather continued until rounding Tasmania on 18th September, Fresh N and NW breezes and moderate seas were carried until Saturday morning lust, when a fresh SW gale and heavy squalls sprang up. Sighted the lund to the southward of Cape Farewell at U o'clock, passed the Spit at 11 o'clock, and as the vessel drew iuto the Strait the gale gradually moderated. The Brothers wete abeam at 9 pm on Saturday in a enhn, where the vessel lay until 6 o'clock yesterday morning. Captain Murray is accompanied by his wife and two children. No ice or wreckage was seen during the voyage. The vessel discharged 550 packages explosives, and will be berthed at the Queen's Wharf this afternoon. The Akaroa loaded at this port for London two years ago. Messrs Johnston and Co are the local agents.

A special trip is to toe made between Patea and Westport by the Mana. As the shafting of the Eotoiti is to be drawn for inspection, the steamer is \mable to make the usual trip northwards this week, hut arrangements have been made to despatch the Wainui to New Plymouth and Oiiehunga in her stead tomorrow. There will he no steamer to Nelson on Tuesday, but the Botoiti anils for that port via Pieton on Thursday, and takes up her ordinary running from Welliugton on Sunday. The "VVaiuui will be in Wellington on Saturday, and leave same night for Lyttelton. Of 523 tons southern produce by the Herald yesterday, 215 tons were for Wellington. The schooner Bock Lily will load at Lyttelton with produce for Wellington,