ARRIVAL OF THE GENEVIEVE M. TUCKER.

Otago Witness, Issue 1387, 29 June 1878, Page 11

ARRIVAL OF THE GENEVIEVE M. TUCKER.

The American barque Qenevievo M. Tucker, with a cargo of notions from New York for this port and Wellington, arrived at the Heads at 11 a.m. yoaterday, and was towed up to the anchorage at 8 pm. by the p s. Koputai, have made the passage from New York in 126 days. She brings 832 tons measurement cargo, one-third of which is for Dunedin, and the remainder for Wellington. Captain Mernmin reportß leaving Sandy Hook on February 25th, and experienced moderate N.w. winds till taking up the N. K. Trades in latituto 24 N., on Marcli 14th. Mie had good Trades, and carried them to latitude 3 N., where they gave out, and were followed by a spell of doldrums weather, which lasted till she crossed the Equator, in longitude 30 W., on April 23rd, and picked up the S. W. Trades just to the southward of the Line, lhe Trades were poor, and hung well to the southward, causing her to make several tacks bff ore she could clear the Brazilian coast, and it was not until after she bad parsed Pernambuco that she was enabled to stand away to the southward. The Trades were lost on April 6th, and were followed by a spull of variable winds ; the meridian of Greenwich was crossed on April 24th, in latitude 40 46 S., and the first of the steady westerlies picked up on the following day. She rounded the Cape of Gocd Hope in latitude 40.40 S., on April 29th, and experienced steady passage winds from N.W. to S.W. right across the Southern Ocean, with only ona break which occurred in longitude 64 E. on May 9th, when the wind fell light and variable, and continued bo till the next day, when it freshened up •gain from tlw westward. The next twenty days were marked by strong passage winds, the ve^el making from 190 to 230 miles a, day. She crossed the meridian of Oape Leuwin on May 25th in latitude 45 S , and on reaching longitude 135 E. the witid hauled to tho southwa d ; uhe pissed the Island of Tasmania on June 2nd, and experienced a H.YV. wind for the next 24 hours; theuce it luu'ed round to 8. -<.E. ai.d S.E., and she nude her first landfall Iff Milford Sound on the 10th inst, and was becalmed for tha next three days. On the 14th inst the wind went round to the SE , and ahe dodged about Stewait Island till the 20ih, when a favourable change from the S. W. took pluce and brought her up to the {Nugget* at 4am on the 21at. She came up the coast with a fresh S.W. breeze, and reached the Heads at 11 a.m,