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Kumara Times, Issue 1056, 18 February 1880, Page 4

Captain Dicker, of the s.s Go-A.head states that while lying at anchor off TJreti, durin Lis last trip down, he saw a Bhoal of spergm whales, which must have consisted of fully fifty in number. They were some distance off, and disported themselves in the locality for nearly an hour before they left. It was impossible to tell at the distance whethe r they were laige or small, but the probabilities are that, had a whaler dropped among them he would have found something worth picking up. Under the heading "The Fastest Passage on Kecord,:'Bells Life of 6th Decembfr states that the Union Company's s.s Pretoria completed last month, a voyage to the Cape of Good Hope from Plymouth in 18 days 16 hours 46 minutes, including a stoppage of five hours and a half at Madeira. She ran *2b miles a day for five consecutive days Ihere was a betting man on board, who said en the fourth day that it was almost "any odds against the ship making a like distance °^ the I 1 ? 1 ruDnin g da y-" He laid long ? « , oi? nd ., lost ' The stance from England is owO miles.