ARRIVAL OF THE HIMALAYA.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10311, 19 March 1895, Page 1

ARRIVAL OF THE HIMALAYA.

We welcome the arrival of the Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company's barque Himalaya from Liverpool, via Wellington, which sailed into port yesterday morning with a fine northerly breeza and came to anchor oif Deborah Bay for a short time, when she was taken ir. tow by the togs Koputai and Plucky, which towed her up to .Dunedin in order te. discharge her cargo—some 500 tons— for this port. The Himalaya, as on her previous voyage under Captain BUI, comes into port in most beautiful order. Herpsssago from Liverpool to Wellington was rather an eventful ene, owing to the quantity of ice she passed between long. 9 E. to long. 50 &., and it is estimated that fully 100 icebergs at intervals were passed from January 15 io January 24. Captain Hill brings with him as chief officer Mr Mann: Mr Pentreat being second and Mr Stade third. The Himalaya left Liverpool on November 9, experienced a successsion of heavy S.W. Rales until she passed the Canary Islands, when she fell in • with the N.E. trades, which were fresh, and held until reaching lat. 4 -on December 16, meeting the S.E. trades Earns day; ccoßsed the equator on December 19 in long. 23 W.; the SJE. trades were fair, and carried her down to lat. 26 S. on December 29; they were succeeded by variable winds to lat. 30 S., when she took a northerly breeze until passiDg the meridian of Greenwich on January 13 in lat. 43 S., when the first of the westerlies set in; roundin^Mie Cape of Good Hope ■on the 18th in lat. 45.30 S., having passed several icebergs, fresh westerly winds continued, and she passed large numbers of icebergs until off the Crozets on January 24, having passed icebergs at intervals for about 2000 miles; fresh to moderate westerly winds continued, and she passed the meridian of Cape Leuwin-on February 7 in lat. 48 S. still keeping similar weather; she passed the Island of Tasmania on the 15th in lat. 47 S., and made her first landfall off Cape Farewell on February 23, when the westerly breeze died away, and was followed by variable winds to arrival at Wellington on the 25th; discharged 900 tons of cargo, and left again on March 13 with a northerly breeze, which held until ojf Banks Peninsula the following evening, when the wind veered to the southward and increased to a gale from the S.W., and the vessel was hove-to for 16 honrs under her topsails. The gale moderated, and a S.E. breeze brought her as far as off Oamaru, when it died away to a calm for a few hoasa, when a northerly breeze sprang up, which brought her off the heads at 4 a.m. yesterday, and she sailed into port, and waff towed up to "Dnnedin as above.