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Wednesday
19 December 1883
Casualties at Sea
The enquiry into the loss of the St Leonards
will not be held until December.
The Glenora,
Captain Scotland, from Auckland, reached the docks on 8
November after a capital run home of 74 days from Auckland.
The Edwin Fox,
Captain Colville, from the Bluff, which has been waiting at
Falmouth for orders since 14 October came on to London a few days
ago,
reaching the docks on 5 November. The Edwin Fox was
115 days getting home. She left New Zealand on 22
June, rounded the Horn on 5 August,
crossed the line on 6 September and sighted the English Coast on 14
October.
The Merope,
also from Bluff, experienced some very heavy weather during
the early past of the passage. Captain Sutherland reports
sailing on 15 August, meeting with a severe gale on the 25th of
the same month, in the course of which a sea carried away the
wheel. Rounded Cape Horn on 9 September and
2 days later a heavy sea swept her fore and aft, stoving in
the cabin skylights and flooding the saloon. After this the
voyage was pleasant and uneventful.
The sailing of the Northumberland
is postponed till 30 November in order to permit the
vessel being fitted with refrigerators.
Mr Vesey Stewart's party seems to have dwindled into nothingness,
for I cannot learn that any of the passengers are
positively going to settle in Tepuke.
Nothing further has been done towards floating the Rotorua Railway
Company. I saw Mr Vesey Stewart yesterday and he stated the
prospectus would not be issued until 2 of the directorate
at present out of town, returned, and he added he didn't
know when this would be. Mr Stewart intended to return to New
Zealand via America, taking care to be in Auckland before
the Northumberland
arrived.
The Lyttelton,
Captain Strange, from Port Chalmers, arrived at the docks
on 5 November with a cargo of frozen meat, consisting of
6500 carcasse of
mutton and a few rabbits. Owing to some hitch in
connection with one of the engines, the chambers had not,
last night (7 November) been opened; so I
am unable to say in what condition the meat is. The engineer
states that the average temperature of the chambers was 20o
Fahr. which sounds far too high.
They were, however, at times down to 4 or 5 deg.
below zero. The Lyttelton made
the smart run Home of 72 days.
The Gateside,
Captain Maitland, from Lyttelton, arrived yesterday
afternoon (7 November) at Gravesend, after a passage of 94
days. On 12 August in
a heavy gale the Gateside shipped a tremdous sea, which
smashed the wheel and wheel box, and did a lot of minor damage
The Dunscore
from Lyttelton has also arrived, but not in dock yet.
The Elizabeth
Graham, sailing for the Bluff on 28 October
had only one family (7 persons named Hadden) as passengers.
Several passengers are booked through to New Zealand by tomorrow's (8
Nov.) P. and O. steamer the Paramatta.
Amongst others I may mention Mrs
and Miss McDonald for Auckland. Mr, Mrs
and Miss Leslie,
for Dunedin, Mr and Mrs Alyons
are booked for Lyttelton by the P and O. boat on
22 November.
The Agent General is sending out a lot of partridges to the
Nelson Acclimatisation Society.
The delay in the despatch of the torpedo boats is owing to some
alterations in their structure having been found necessary.
Nothing seems to be fixed as to
the ships which are to carry them out.
The Agent General informs me that the Bombay,
sailing from Plymouth for Wellington on the 26th
inst. will take out 220 Government immigramts.
The Northumberland,
due to leave London on the 28th for Auckland, also carries
120 Government immigrants.
In Future immigrants will be despatched from Blackwall (on
the Thames, near London) instead of from the Plymouth
barracks as heretofore. This alteration is attributed
to revelations in connection with the Oxford's passengers, many
of whom, you may remember, caught typhoid fever,
owing to the wretched arrangements at Plymouth.
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Beverley Evans
Christchurch NZ
31 January 2009
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