ARRIVAL OF THE CANTERBURY.
Eiirhtv-two days from port to port, and 79 from w to land is another good pusjasje with which to SEut the A bio ahipping Company's ship Can er,'urv Bho was signalled on Saturday forenoon, but m t was then blowtag fresh fn.m S. W., her en ry was tons of cargo, including 10 tons of powder, being Jtowed under hatches. This is tho Urgent cargo that laWirJfflS^oya.c by Capt. wchef oiker: he has not visited the Port before. Exceptfug one incident that was threatened with fatal Su^s the passage out proved uneventful. Dece.ndon ye was sei«d with a fit, and foil overbold T«hii Lmibert, a quwtcr-moster, saw him faH, and at twenty nS b elipscd from tho time the mm Ml quadrat, dxove the sh,p far
to tho eastward, so that she had to p^s between the Do Verdos and the main land Sho crossed tho Equator on December 10th, in lonstitude 29.10 W., and stood across the Smith Atlani ie with a fresh and favourable S. K. Trade, cunivd it to 30 S., and then lost it on Deccinboi- 17. As it died out, the breeze fluttered round to the northward, and ia a few hours so tied ul N.W., thefirßt o; the passage winds. They proved so, in good sooth, in her case, for hovering between N.W. and S.W., they stuck to her right across the Southern Ooer.il, until sh * made her land-tnll. On De..'ember 27th, she cross, d the prime meridian, lat. 40.28, the moridian of tho Capo December 31st, and the meridian of the Leuwin January J7th- Spw did ! running was made, and ou the 25th she was in sight t.f the snares, nud then encounterod a terrific gal-* I from nearly due west., that bsomfht her down to the | lowrr topsails as she hauled up to round Stewart 3 I Island. A very heavy sea rose and broached over her lat times. Thence to 'the Heads the wind was westerly, and very squally. The Canterbury made her e<sting o i the 44th parallel, until past the CiMzets, aud then h uiled up to the 40th, and kept on it. No ice was sighted.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 4664, 29 January 1877, Page 2
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