ARRIVAL OF THE HARMODIUS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 233, 13 October 1879, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE HARMODIUS.

This vessel arrived at the outer anchorage yesterday morning, after an uneventful passage of 118 days from Deal. She brings a fall cargo, bat no passengers. Captain Bogel reports leaving the East India Dock on Jane 7th, and was towed to Gravesend, and after taking a quantity of powder on board left there on the loth; landed the pilot off Deal on the 13th, and beat through the English Channel in thick foggy weather, passing the Lizard on the 19th. Rough weather with hard S.W. gales were experienced until July Ist, the vessel then being in lat. 47 N., long. 16 W.; then had a spell of moderate weather, which lasted to lat. 34 N. long. 21 W., where the N£. Trades were picked up. These proved light and carried the vessel to lat ION., long. 27 W., when had three days variables, then S.W. winds, which brought the vessel to lat. 3 N., long. 24 W., where the S.E. Trades were met with; crossed the equator on July 26, in locg. 27 W., and lost the Trades in lat. 24-26 S., long. 27 W. ; on August 10th spoke the four masted ship Countess of Inverness, bound from Liverpool to Bombay, 48 days out, and on the same day sighted an iron vessel, bound from Melbourne to New York; ran the easting down in the parallel of 36 South. Off the Cape of Good Hope experienced a gale of wind from the S.W. ; on August 28, spoke the sbip Earl of Pembroke, bound from London to Calcutta; thence had moderate weather with light winds, principally from the westward; on Sept. 24, the barometer, which bad been slowly going dowr, went as low as 28-90. Ad there was every indication of a gale coming the vessel was made as snugly as possible. In the evening of that day a gale from the S.S.W. bunt upon the vessel, and blew with great fury; she was put under stormy canvas, and hove to on the port tack for 28 hoars, after which the wind veered to the westward, and the vessel proceeded on her coarse; thence had light southerly and S.E. winds with calms, sighting the coast sonth of Cape Tarewell on Friday last; roan led the Spit on Saturday afternoon, and arrived here as above. The Harmodius is a barque of 491 tons register, built in Sunderland twelve years ago. She is owned by Messrs Walker and Co. of London, but sails under the German flag. She was towed into harbor by the Wallace this morning, and berthed alongside the Government Wharf, where she will commence discharging cargo in the course of a day or two.