ARRIVAL OF THE DALLAM TOWER.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4366, 18 March 1875, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE DALLAM TOWER.

The magnificent iron ship Dallam Tower, 1499 tons register, Captain William Campbell, arrived from London at two o’clock yesterday afternoon, after a comparatively fair and rapid passage of eighty-five days from port to port, and eighty-one days from pilot to pilot. The ship comes into harbor in excellent condition, and presented a very pretty appearance as she rounded Cow Bay Point yesterday, with all her working canvas set. Fortunately, a light southerly breeze came up early yesterday morning, which Captain Campbell took advantage of, a very short time elapsing from the time the vessel was first signalled till she had dropped anchor. Pilot Holmes boarded the ship outside the reef, but his duties on this occasion were comparatively light, and,Tiappily, he had not to run aloft the now familiar Q flag. The Dallam Tower, as she lies in Wellington harbor, presents a very different appearance from what she did on her last voyage to Australasia, when, it will be remembered, she put into Port Philip, on her voyage to Otago, an almost total wreck, having lost all her spars and bulwarks in a severe gale between the Cape of Good Hope and Australia. The vessel was then bound to Port Chalmers. After refitting at a cost of over £9OOO, she resumed her voyage to Port Chalmers, where she loaded colonial produce for Loudon. The voyage just concluded has been an uneventful one, moderately fair weather and winds making the run very pleasant till the New Zealand coast was reached. New Zealand was first sighted to the southward of Otago—the vessel having come south a’'out—on the 11th instant, since when the Dallam Tower has had all kinds of weather but favorable, calms and N.W. gales following each other in rapid succession. There were nine deaths during the voyage—one adult and eight infants, five of whom died of bronchitis and three in convulsions. The adult succumbed to heart disease.

The Dallam Tower left Gravesend on the 22nd of December, strong westerly gales opposing her progress down the British Channel, the pilot being landed at Plymouth on the night of the 26th. Light head winds and calms prevailed from the Lizard to the Canaries. Prom those islands till the Snares were passed, on Wednesday last, the weather was remarkably fine. Kan past Port Chalmers heads on Thursday, the land being well in sight, and arrived here yesterday. The Dallam Tower is under charter to the New Zealand Shipping Company,' and is consequently consigned to Messrs. Johnston and Co., the Company’s agents in Wellington. She will be entered at the Customs this morning.