MOVEMENTS OF THE ONION STEAM SHIP COMPANY'S FLEET.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 8862, 21 July 1890, Page 1

MOVEMENTS OF THE ONION STEAM SHIP COMPANY'S FLEET.

Saturday. July 19. Bluff-Waihora arrived 1 p.m. from Dunedin; sails for Melbourne. Timaru—Bruoaer arrived 8 a.m. from Dunedin; sails tor Lyttelton. (Vestport—Ohau arrive* midnight Friday from AucklHud ; sails for Lyttelton. Gisbarue—Botomabanaarrived 11 a.m. from Auckland; sailed lpm. for Napier. Australia arrivci early from Napier; Bails for Auckland. Port Pirie—Taieri sailed noon Friday for Newcastle. The s.s. Kakanui, Captain Best, sailed onFdday night for Timaru. ■ Tha b.s, Fifeshire completed her loading of her freezing chambers ou Saturday forooouu, she having now oii board 28.725 circuses mutton, 287 quarters beef, IS oalvev and 117 caa»s kidneys Of this she shipped at Timaru 8353 careiS'* mutton. 41 ci6ea Itidnejs; fit Ciaraaru 12.484 carcases mutton, 287 qimriei-a beef. 18 calves, 76 cases kidueys; aud at this port 78ti8 carcasses mutton. Tha s.s. Rotorua, Captain Stott, arrived at 2 30 a.m. y/'sfcerdav from the North, andsfce.imed p<&tth9 port direct to' Dunedin. Mr G. Marston, her purser, reports leaving Nelson on the 15th inst., ciiled nt Pieton, Wellington, and Lyttelton, leaving theUttir part Ktfip.ra. on the 18th. arriving alongaide 'he JJunedin wharf at 3.30 a.m. yesterday. From Nelson to Wellington she experienced vr.riable winds with moderate'ea, tlionco southerly brc;ze to Lyttelton, and from that port, strong southerly cale with heavy h-!id sea, during the height of which the engines were flowed down to half speed,'and nrrived as atove. The s.s. Banks Peninsula returned from her usual trip to Oamaru on Saturday evening. ARRIVAL OP THE CRUSADER. A large full-rigged ship waa reportci from Taiaros Ht-ndsatll a.m. on Saturday, iv response to which the Plucky ac once proceeded down to tender the sbrangar, which proved to be the Sliaw, Savill, and Albion Corap-uiy'a Crusader, from London, bringing her across the b.ir at 1 p.m. undet the charge of Pilot Moore, towing her up ajjiinat a S.W. brcsze On comiug up thecrois channel Lhe customs bout ranged alougside, and the auswers relative to the hfe.-Ith of all on board being satisfactory, she was passed and cleared in by the customs and health officials, continuing her course a3 far as the quarantine gruuud, where shß anchored at 2 p.m., having on board 20 tons of gunpowder, her draft being 19ft Sin. Her advent was rather unexpected, she hot being looked for for at least another week or 10 days, owing to all the vessels which have lately anived in the colonies havingmadeexceptionally long passages.and weiuust c jmpliment her commander on the good record he has made, ouly 85 dava having bean coeupici frcm anchor to anchor, and 79 from land to land. The passage has been what might ba termed a fine weather one, oaly one heavy gale for 24 hours having bsen encountered, and tlj.it af/er pissing the island ol Tasmania. During this blow she shipped several se^s, one of which burst open her saloon doors, flooded her cabin, and doing tome slight damage about her decks. She. however, comes into port in fine order, and is commanded by Captain Perriam, a gentleman well kuow in command of several of the company's ships trading to the Northern ports, and who iB uot altngether a stranger to Ofcigo, although his last visit to this port was some 13 years sines-then as chief officer of the Pleiades. He brings with him as chief officer Mr Moacrop, and Mr M'Allister (late of tha ship Nelson) as second. The Crusader bringi some 1938 tons of cargo. 025 tons of which is de.id weight, 1353 tons of measurement goods, and 20 tons of guupowder, the latter being stowed in a properly constructed magazine, and will b3 transhipped tliia morning to the powder schooner Ark. Owing to the vessel's heavy draught Bhe will probably have to lighten before towing up to Dunedin. She enmes consigned to Meßsra Dalgety and Co. (Limited). Captain Perriam courteously supplied us with the following report of the vessel's pissog-.: —Lett London on April 25, had lignt baffl'.inu winds, and lauded her pilot off Dartmouth on t\ie 23th; thence she had ligh*, westerly winds down channel,and tsok her departure from the Lizard at midnight on tho 29th; curried light westerly winds across the Bay of Biscay, and passed the Island of Madeira on May 6, taking the first of the N E. trades two dayß later In lat. 27 45 N., long. 18 34 W. The trades were moderate, and gave out in lat. 6 N., long. 22.34 W., on May IS. and we-o succeeded by li«ht variable winds until she crossed the equator on May 23. in long. 2-5 W., on the 30th day out; takiDg the S.E. trades on the same day, which were fresh, and carried her down to lat. 18 S., long. 33 W., on May 30; they were followed by light variabln winds until June 5. then in lat. 30 S , long. 25 W., when the first of the passage winds set in, although only moderate, and flhe crossed the meridian of Greenwich ou June 12, in lat. 40.20 S.. when the wind veered to the eastward, and held In that quarter for three days, when It veered round to the northward and westward, and she rounded the Caps of Good Hope on Juno 18, in lat. 42 S.; from the Cape until pissing Kerguelen Land on June 29 had moderate northerly to S.W. winds with very fine weather, and Irom lat. 43 to 47 S. still kept similar winds with occasional bail and saow cqualls, and paased the meridian of Cape Leuwln on July 8, in lat. 48.22 S.; moderate winds continued with fme weather, and Bhe puted the island of Tasmania of July 13, in lat. 47.50 S..w:th very low barometer indications and a N.W. breeze: on the morning of the 14th the wind suddenly flew to the southward, increasing to a heavy gale, acoompanied by a high cross Bea, which lasted for 21 hours, during which time some of her eailfl wera burat and she shipped several seas, one of which burst in her saloon doors, flooded her cabin,and doingsomeslight damage about her decks. On the morning of tlie 15th tne gale moderated, hauling round to S.W.. the Be.i gradually going do«n, and she made her first landfall (the'Snares)at 8 p.m. on the 17th ; still keeping a fre3h S.W. wind, she passe 1 the Nuggets about two miles off at 0.30 p.m. on the 18th and signalled, to which there was no response, land sighted Cape Saunders at 4.30 p.m. same day, when she hove to until daylight on Saturday morning, when she stood la for the heads, and was towed into port as above. No ice or wreckage was Been, and no vessels spoken bound to the colonies. Her easting was run down on the mean parallel of lat. 46 S.

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