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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 684, 25 April 1879, Page 2

The Rosina will leave for the East Coast on Sunday night. The following are the passengers per Hawea from Northern forts : — Mrs Coyle and child, Messrs. Gassart, J. Brumuier, Terry, Lamont, Flood, Gough, Kelly, and Gill. The City of Sydney, on her last passage between Auckland and Honolulu, encountered a furious cyclone, and for twelve hours the passengers and sailors alike thought there was no little danger of the vessel foundering, she not being fitted to safely encounter such dangerous weather. Immense waves rolled over the decks every few minutes, keeping the cabins constantly deluged, and the ship looked like the yard of a washing establishment the day after. The way m which the Government became informed of there beiu.^ more than the legal number of passengers on board the Union Company's s. s. Taiaroa, on her last trip from Mnnakau to Wellington was this. One of the passengers telegraphed to the Government from Pictou, reporting the circumstance, and demanding that some action should be taken m the matter.