Owing to the -heavy/ «ea running m the Bay this morning, the Lady Bird and Hawea, after landiug.tbeis passengers, had to proceed to Nick*S- Head, where they transhipped their cargoes into the lighters. Telegrams -received at Wellington on Monday„announccd the, result of au ocean clipper (ace,, which has occasioned consideraole 4 interest m Wellington. 0:t the 18th January last the two tine ships, St. Leonards, Captain Todd, and Wairoa, Captain Adams, the former he-longing to the fleet of Messrs. SKawUSayill, and Co., and the latter to that of tne New Zealand Shipping Company, sailed for London. H.M.S. Nvmjfthe tpok,her departure on the same day^Ttffil^li&re'V&s a great" deal of speculation — involving the laying of a considerable number of bets — as^ to ?which of these vessels would reach homd first. A cable uieassage received yesterday, informs ns that the §L Leonardo-arrived, at Loudon on the 16thjAbri^"87.aays o\it£ and had therefore wfc<4 4, ■ \j J .j J .
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 683, 24 April 1879, Page 2
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