JOSEPH CONRAD'S VOYAGE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22345, 17 February 1936, Page 8

JOSEPH CONRAD'S VOYAGE

SPOKEN IN MID-TASMAN SHIP BOUND FOR AUCKLAND The small full-rigged ship Joseph Conrad was sighted in the Tasman Sea by the Union Company's steamer Kiwi tea, which ' arrived from Melbourne on Saturday night." The Kiwitea passed close to the ship shortly before mid-day last Wednesday. The two vessels were then in tho latitude of Hokianga, and they were in about the middle of tho Tasman Sea, 654 miles from Cape Maria van Diemen and 768 miles from Auckland.

The Joseph Conrad looked a pretty sight with all her sail set. She was not moving very fast, but the wind was favourable for her, being light southeast. The Kiwitea passed close enough for the officers on tho steamer to hail tho Joseph Conrad and wish her a pleasant voyage. Those on the sailing ship answered: "Thank you. We are bound to Auckland." Mr. A. J. Villiers, tho Australian journalist, is master and owner of the Joseph Conrad and is making a world's cruise from England in the vessel. She was scheduled to leave Melbourne for Now Zealand on January 25, and it was intended to proceed to Wellington or Auckland, according to the weather encountered. If she left Melbourne on the date mentioned she is making a long passage, because when she was met by the Kiwitea she was only 882 miles from Melbourne.