ARRIVAL OF THE PROSPECT.

Evening Star, Issue 8364, 15 November 1890, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE PROSPECT.

The barque signalled off Otago He*ds on the afternoon of the 12tb inst., and which stood on and off the Heads until yesterday forenoon, proved to be the Prospect, from New York. She was towed into port yesterday afternoon, and berthed at the Rattray street wharf at 6 p.m. The Prospect is a Norwegian vessel, of 732 tons register, built at Grimstad in 1884, by J. T. Tryde, and is owned by Mr 0. Peder, Pedersden, of Ansdal, in Norway. She is a whole-some-looking wooden ship of 732 tons gross, and ban a clipper entrance, with a clean run aft. Her dimensions are as follow Length 169 ft 7in, breadth of beam 33ft 4in, depth of hold 19ft 4in; she has a raised quarter-deck 51ft long, and is altogether a very sightly ship. She is consigned to the old-established shipping house of Rattray and do., and brings a very large and valuable cargo of American goods for this port. Oaptain Pedersen reports She left New York on Jnly 23, and bad S.W. winds with fine

weather up to the 29th, then she had wester// winds until August 12, when the north-east trade was picked up in latitude 20deg N., longitude 30deg SOmin W., the trade was fresh and strong, and lasted for about four days, being succeeded by light S.B. winds and doldrums, until the S. W. monsoon set in in latitude 12deg N., longitude 27deg W, These took her into the S.B. trade on Angnst 27 in latitude Xdeg 40min N., longitude 24deg W., and she crossed the Equator on August 28 in longitude 24dcg W. The south-east trade was strong and well to the southward, and gave out in latitude 23deg S., longitude 30deg W, on September 7. Afterwords she experienced a succession of variable winds and unpleasant weather for about a week, and took the first of the brave westerlies* in latitude 29deg S., longitude 24deg W. The meridian of Greenwich was crossed on September 20, in latitude 35deg 8., and, keeping steady winds, she rounded the Cape ef Good Hope seven days later, in latitude 40deg 24min S. ; her passage across the Great Southern Ocean, was marked by strong winds, veering from N.W. to 3.W., varied by occasional heavy galen and high seas, and on October 26, in latitude 42deg S., she crossed the meridian of Cape Leeuwin ; still keeping strong westerly winds, she passed the island of Tasmania on November 4; thence she had strong winds from N.W. to S.W., with heavy gales and terrific seas, and made her first landfall off Cope Saunders on tho afternoon of the 12th inst., stood off and on. tho coast until yesterday afternoon, when she was boarded by Pilot Paton and towed up to Dunedin by the tugs Plucky and Koputai. Her easting was run down in the mean parallel of latitude 42deg 3. Neither ico nor wreckage was seen across the Southern Ocean, and no vessels bound to the colonies were spoken.

■hipping Tclicnmi.

Melbourne, November 35. —Lady Franklin, for Kaipara. Sydney, November 15.—Wentworth, for Kaipara. Brisbane, November 15.—Nellie, from New Zealand.