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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 9721, 17 January 1895, Page 4

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MARSDEN POINT. January —Arrived : Saxon, schooner, from Coromandel; Progress, scow, Norval, schooner, from Auckland. Sailed : Shamrock, scow, for the Thames ; Gem, schooner, Mary Ann, cutter, for Auckland. TAURANGA. January 16.—Sailed : Chelmsford, s.s,, for Auckland. GISBORNE. January 16.—Arrived : Talune, 5.8., Awanui, schooner, from Auckland. WELLINGTON. January 16. —Arrived : Australia, s.s., from Auckland via the East Coast; Waihi, 5.»., from Blenheim: Southern Cross, s.s., from the East Coast: Penguin, e.s., from Nelson and Picton; Flora, s.s., from the South; Rotorua, s.s.. from Lyttelton ; Alice, barque, from New York; Waitangi, yacht, from Auckland; Atalanta, yacht, from Napier. Sailed : Auckland, ship, for London Brunner, s.s., for Westport; Glenelg, s.s., for Opunake, Waitara, and Ouehunea ; Star of Victoria, s.s., for Wanganui; Wainui, s.s., for Picton, Nelson, and the West Coast; flora, s.s., for Sydney; Takapuna, s.s., Penguin, s.s., for Lyttelton ; Hinemoa, Government s.s., for the Cook Straits Lighthouses, Westport, the West Coast Sounds, and Southern Islands. LYTTELTON', January 16.—Arrived: Kahu, s.s., from the Chatham Islands: Ganymede, barque, from Newcastle. Sailed: Rosamond, s.s., for Greymouth; Wakatu, s.s., for boat barbour; Kahu, s.s., for the Chatham Islands ; Otarama, s.s., for Wellington. The yacht Pastime, which put back to Lyttelton to-day, made another start for Wellington to-night. NEWCASTLE. January 16. —Sailed : Omega, schooner, foi Wftnganui. SYDNEY. January 16.—Sailed: Alonowai, s.s., Tas> mania, b.s., for Auckland. AN EASTERLY CURRENT. Wellington, January Captain Shaw of the steamer Star of Victoria, which recently arrived from Sydney, via Auckland, reports that the vessel left Sydney foi Auckland on the 2nd of January, and en countered strong easterly winds and head seas to the New Zealand coast. The wine then moderated, and went to the north-east accompanied by very thick weather and fogs but as the vessel came to the south-east the weather seemed to clear, land! being sightec on the starboard bow. Captain Shaw wai under the impression that it was the main land, but it has since provtiii to have beei the Great Barrier. As Captain Shaw wai unable to pick up Tiritiri, he decided t< stand out to sea, and when able to dis tinguish Cuvier Island light took a fresl departure, which enabled him to verify his position, and shape a correc course. It should be stated that Cap tain Shaw after sighting the New Zealani coast kept on a course similar to that foi lowed on previous occasions when comin, from Sydney. He gives as a reason for beinj nearly 30 miles to the eastward out of th track that it is possible he may have kept th steamer a little further out than usual and ; strong current running through the Haurak Gulf must have caught her on the Btarboar<

bow, and pushed her still further out. In view of the Wairarapa disaster the a bore la of special interest. THE MARGARET GALBRAITH — ICE SIGHTED. Napier, January 16.—The- Shaw, Sa*ill, and Albion Company ship Margaret Galbraith, Captain John Collingwood, arrived from London to-day, alter a lengthy passage of 123 days. She sailed on September 14, and did not pass the equator until 44 days out. When in lat. 44 S., long. 25 E. she met with a large number of icebergs, and was hore-to, being embayed in the ice for six days. THE TONGARIRO. London, January 14.The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamer Tongariro left Plymouth on Saturday tor Wellington and Lyttelton, with 2650 tons cargo and 67 passengers.