SHIPPING TELEGRAMS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 2679, 7 September 1870, Page 2

SHIPPING TELEGRAMS.

{from our own correspondents.) ',■:>- Wellington, September 6th. Arrived.—Gothenburg, s.s, from Lyttelfcon, 12.10 p.m. ; Lord Ashley, s,s, from Napier, 12.15 p.m.

Lyttelton, September 6th. Arrived.—Fawn,, brig, from Dunedin. At the Heads, Monarch, ship, from London. Timartt, September 6th. Sailed.—Escort, schooner, for Auckland, with grain, 2 p.m.

• Messrs Patrick Henderson and Co.'s Clyde packet for June, the clipper ship William Davie. arrived off the Heads at midnight on Monday, the sfch inst, after making, the smartest passage of the season from Home, either to New Zealand or any port in the Australian colonies; so far as distance is concerned. The Davie brings 167 pasßengers from the old country. An addition to them was made off; the Nuggets on Monday, when Mrs Todd, a steerage passenger, gave birth to a male child, which it ia hoped in after : years will prove a true nugget to its ' parents. No sickness, excepting that of sea aad home, occurred on the passage {health being well looked after by Dr Barrett, the surgeon), which throughout, - Bo.far as the passengers were concerned, went i; as merry as a marriage bell. The Davie is tinder the comm snd of Captain Hendry, late of the Bhip Robert Henderson, of the same ,i line;: his chief officer, Mr» Duscan, who also 'tailed with him in that vessel, accompanies him in the Davie, as also some old faces in

miner capacities. The vessel -has arrived in 'porfc'With 168 passengers on board, including a number of assisted emigrants, and the

whole of her compartments are reported by the inspecting officer as. very , clean— more especially that of the single females, under the charge of Mrs Stephenson, matron, an opinion which, from personal observation, we endorse. The inspecting officer also reported that the passeDgais expressed themselves as being satisfied with provisions and water, both as to quality and quantity. The passengers and emigrants will be brought to Dunedin this forenoon by one of the Harbour Company's steamers. Of her passage, Captain Hendry reports that the Davie lef ■ the Tail of the Bank,' Greenock, at 7 a.m., on the 16th of June ; had moderate weather in the Channel, and took final departure from off Broad Haven (N.W. coast

of Ireland), on the 19th. Favourable weather continued to losing the N.E. Trades in lat. 10 N., when she experienced variables to lat. 2. N. Trie S.E. Trades; were then caught, and the Equator crossed^ on the 11th of July, 25days bujt, ,ihi long. 28 W. The, Trades were parted .^th in lat, 28 3 ; variable moderate breezes wW then experiencsd for a week ; good running winds followed and continued to arrival. The meridian of Greenwich was passed. on' the 6th of August, in lat. 40 S, and the Cape of Good Hope on the 9th, in lat. 42 5... Her easting to Kergue'en Land was run down between the parallels of 41 and 43, from thence in 49 to 50, no icebergs being sighted. The Snares were passed at 2 a.m. on the sth, thus making the passage from land to land a few. hours over 77 days. Off the Nuggets she was caught in a sudden burster from S.E.,;which only lasted for a short time, and again hauled round to the southward, bringing her up to the Heads anchorage, she thus. making the passage from Greanpck ,i,n the short space of 81 days. The tug Geelong towed her up on the flood, and she was moored in a convenient discharging berth. The s.s. Phoebe left for tM North at 3 45.p.m. yesterdaj. The s.s. Taranaki, also for the North, left at a later hour, having had to take on board a considerable cargo from the p. 8. Lady of the Lake. The ship Archer sailed yesterday, for Sydney. The.,s.s, Maori sailed early yesterday) morning, for Lyttelton aud intermediate ports. The p.s. Wallace was to sail last night for Oamaru, with passengers and cargo.