OVERDUE BARQUE

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 43, 15 November 1926, Page 13

OVERDUE BARQUE

ARRIVES SAFELY IM- B0B& Domi-NION Dunedin, Eighty-six days out fropi the SeyeMHt» Islands, the Finnish four-masted t»rqn& Olivebank, over which there nas oem. some anxiety in shipping circles, berttwj ed this morning at Port Chalmers discharge about 2000 tons of phosphate* The passage was long on . account aft; light winds, but was otherwise pnovenp*,' ful. After taking in 4500 tons of phoai phates by lighter at the Island of AM cension the Olivebank sailed cxiAugurt: 16 for Bluff for orders. For the firsti) few days the wind was fair. it fell'away and calms succeeded. Aj month laters in the vicinity of MauiM, tins light westerly winds were picked, up and : the vessel gradually worked; her way sbiith to latitude tl .degreesThe run to New Zealand continued, ta> be marked by light winds, the fastest sailing amounting only to five or six knots per hour. Her stay in the tropics whilst loading had. served to accumulate a heavy marine growth on , the ship’s bottom and this materially retarded her progress. The first land sighted was the Solanders. Rounding up she signalled the Bluff end received orders to proceed to Port Chalmers. With the exception of a heavy equal! after leaving Bluff the weather was fine on the coast. The tug Dunedin picked her up last night at 10 o’clock and brought her to anchor under tho lee of Hayward Point before daylight this morning, when she came in and dropped anchor off the wharves at Port Chalmers, where she was cleared inwards with a clean bill of health. Later she berthed at the St. George Pier,