FIFTY YEARS AGO.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15753, 30 October 1914, Page 3

FIFTY YEARS AGO.

ARRIVAL OF IDA ZEIGLER. LONG PASSENGER LIST. (From the HERALD of October 50, ]fC4.) OrR old friend the clipper ship Ida Zeigler, Captain A. Reynolds, arrived in harbour on Saturday afternoon last from London, after another good passage of 95 days from Plymouth. She sailed on July 26, passed outside the Cape de Verd Islands, had very bad north-east trades. nothing but south and south-west winds being experienced from the Channel to the Equator, which was crossed on August 27, in longitude 23 degrees west. The ! south-east tracks also proved very light and baffling, and the meridian of the Cape of Good Hope was passed ou September 19. She sighted the southernmost parts of Tasmania on October 16, and passed the Three Kings on the 27th, making the run down the coast in the short space of 38 hours. The Ida Zeigler lias therefore made a splendid run of 40 days from the Cape of Good Hope, and as mention of a clipper we may here say that she is only 9 months and 11 days absent from this port, including her detention in London. She has brought an addition to our population of 179 souls without any deaths, under the medical charge of Dr. Lee, also three donkeys, six prize rams, a prize cow, and a numerous assortment of English birds. The ship, as usual, has come into port in a clean and creditable condition, and all on board speak in the highest terms of the kind treatment they have received from Captain Reynolds, his officers, and doctor.

The following is a list of the passengers' ! names Mrs. Joseph, Charles, Matilda, I William, Clara, and George Lee, Elizabeth j Garvey, Misses A. and C. James, Mr. land Mrs. John Tucker, William Robin--1 son, Mis. Heaps, Mr. Moses, Mrs. Hv., I Miss M. E., H. J., Harrv, Frank, and .George Clifton, Captain Clifton, Henry iHollins, Andrew Handlev, Andrew TurnI bull, A. de Coucey Potterton, Charles, : El'en, Man' Ann. and Robert William i Elley, Joseph H. Smallman. John. Mary I Ann, Sarah, J., Letitia, Mary Percey, I Matthew, and Anne Lambert, Josiah, J Hannah, and John Thomas Hawthorne, : Alexander Thomson, Lewis and Barbara Tlesser, Joseph. Catherine. Diana,, Victoria, Joseph Edwin, Walton, S., and •John H. Wilkins, Marion Gilchrist, Agnes : Cassell, Wm. Edgar, Clara Salt. Wm. and Margaret Brown, Alexander and Janet McLaren, Samuel Taylor, Robert B. ; Hitchcock, James and "Elizabeth McCarmia, .las., Hannah, Thomas, Marv. James ; A., Theresa. Alfred, Norman, and Olivia Cosgrave, Richard, Honora, Marvamie. Johanna, and James Sarsfield. William and Mary Tyler, Joseph McCrorv, Robert, Margaret, and Amelie J. Braharo, Margaret and Man-ann Ruddel, James and ! Agnes McCabe, Thomas Graham. Phoebe : Smith, Ann Matthew, Thomas. Margaret, ! Mary. Ann, and James Teasdale, Wm. . Costello. Matthew, Eliza. David. Matthew, ! Mary, Rnth. Robert, and Adam Moore, ! George Patterson, Catherine. Catherine, land Elizabeth Diver, Teresa. James John, ! Margaret, and Mary O'Neill. John and I Jane Johnson. William and Marv Atchej fon. John, Maria, and Emma Capeness, i John, Ellen. Elizabeth. Agnes, and David ; Thorns, William and Ann Jennings, ! George, Ann, William George, and Ann Deny, Henry and Sarah McCormick. j inert end Mercy Ann Taylor. Michael, j Mary Ann. and John Lardner, Mrs. John W. .and Isabella Add. Robert and James Smith, John Salt, Margaret Matilda Alexander. Ellen. James, Elizabeth.' and Matilda Craig. Nicholas and Ann Dobbin, David and Phoebe Elliot. Edward Reid, Thomas Mclntyre. Andrew Charmer, | Edward W. and Emily A. Huddleston, Timothy Sullivan. George Clement, Thomas and Catherine Wilson, Hugh 0. Boyle. The Ida Zeielcr is a vessel of 860 'tons register. D. Nathan is the agent. There were no deaths on the vovage, bn't there were two births. The following is .a list of the trades bv this ship :—1 book-keeper. 2 shepherds. 1 butcher, 1 survevor, 14 carpenters, 16 labourers, 13 female servants. 3 engineers, 1 boilermaker, 1 joiner, 2 bricklayers. 2 masons. 1 miner, 1 sawyer, 1 miller. 1 baker, 1 tailor, 1 horse-dealer! I and 1 plumber.