THE ORARI FROM LONDON.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 395, 18 May 1880, Page 2

THE ORARI FROM LONDON.

The New Zealand Shipping Company's ship Orari, Captain Mosey, arrived at Lyttelton from London on Friday last, 95 days out from the Downs, arid 97 days from the docks to anchorage, and anchored off Diamond Harbor at noon. r ihe Orari has been absent from Lyttelton seven months and ten days, the passage home having been made 79 (lays. The ship was boarded by the officials directly alter she anchored, and all on board were found to be qnite we)]. The passage was an exceptionally fine weather one, for with the exception of bad weather at the commencement of the voyage, and two days' bad veather towards its close, when the port boats and davits were carried away in a heavy yea, fine weather .prevailed throughout ; in fact, Captain Mosey says it is the iinest weather he has met with in this trade. The passengers—numbering , 20 s.ilnon, 13 second cabin, nnd 22 steerage— have beijii very comfortable on board, and Captain Mosey lias been as popular as ever, his efforts to make things agreeable being seconded by his officers. Those on board nil enjoyed good health, with two exceptions—one of the passengers, Frank Wolodge, suffering when lie embarked from a pulmonary alEection, whose h<a!th gradually sank from the time he got to .sea, and on April 10th he expired, mourned by (.he whole of his fellow passengers, who appear to have held him in much esteem ; •md the other J. Harvey, the ship's butcher, \vl:o died from pleurisy on Friday last. The medical officer was Dr Preston.