THE ASTEROID.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VI, Issue 581, 7 February 1882, Page 2

THE ASTEROID.

The ynchl Asteroid, on her trip round the world, arrived here at 0.30 a.m., on Monday. ■ After a *t y of 18 days at Port Chalmers she Bailed there at G p.m. on Saturday, experienced light S.W. winds on passage' up and sighted the heads at 2 p.m, on Sunday ran up the harbor and anchored otf Garrison Point. The Asteroid is a very handsomely modelled and perfectly «quipped vessel of 56 tons register. She was built at Cowea. Isle of Wight, by Messrs C. Hansen mid Soiih. in 1880, and is under the flag of the Royal Mersey v aeht Cluit. She hns been out from Kngla.-id 18 months, and has visited the several Mediterranean ports passed through the Suez Canal, and called at the Inland of Ceylon, the Malay Peninsula, and Java, passing through the Straits of Sunda to King George's Sound ; and after calling at Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, and Hobiirt, left the latter port on Dec. 31, clearing Channel on Jan. 5; experienced fresh to light weßterly winds across to y ew Zealand and entered Milford Sound on Jan. 12, anchoring in the Freshwater banin ; left again on Jan. 10, experienced strong westerly weather, with heavy raiiin, and arrived oft the Heads on Jan. 18. It ia Captain Burton's intention to sail to-dny, and to call in fit the principal porta in this and the North J a! and.

The Antelope left Lytteltoti on Friday, Tan into Little Akaioa on her way down, and left again on Saturday morning for thin-Port which bHo reached in the early afternoon.

The Minnie left Lβ Bon's on Snndny night and arrived in harbor early yenterdnv morning. She brings a quantity of timber iron) Le BonV.