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Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Volume 3, Issue 115, 13 December 1879, Page 2

T.ho schooner Midgo arrived in harbour on Wednesday hist, from Auckland, via tlie Tonga group. Slio is advertised to leave

again for Auckland, via Tonga, to-morrow morning. On Thursday afternoon lust xh*i German gunboat Nautilus arrived in harbour from

Sydney, via A'Uekkwid. Slw left Sydney ■outlie loth of and arrived in Auckland on the 24th. During tliu pns-f-ago from Sydney Auckland sho encountered n vt-fy swore hurricane .of some

•.v.viitv-foup hours’ duration, throughout which the ship -behaved splendidly. The Kotomahana, «u. steamer of our 1700 tons, was caught in the sumo gale, in which .she had one mum ami a quantity of cargo washed overboard, and had cons idem Me

(image douo to her skylights, boats, &e. v l'Uo Xautilus, after obtaining coals and provisions, left Auckland on the 20th of November, coining under canvas till off 'donga, thence to port using her steam in . -eoiiHOipifiico < f calm weather. The Nauli-

lus is what is termed an improved sister ►hip of the Albatross, she is commanded by Captain t.'lmder, carries a complement of 100 men, and the following officers;— First

l.ieuteuant Dnieper; Lieutenants, Count T.uzanviez. and Stein: Doctor

] hibtcrhoif. Paymaster was left behind in Auckland, on account of ill-health.

The barque K titans, which left here* on 1 lie Ut of October arrived in Sydney on the 31 tjLf'Uius making a thirty days* passage of

Tlio brigantine Active* arrived in Auck’daad rn the 20th Nov. The Cesar Goclotfroy arrived in Melbourne cm lhe 2ml uf November, having loft Hamburg on the 20th of July. Sho proceeds from Melbourne to Sydney, and thence t<* this port, and may bo expected to arrive hen* early in January. We notice that the throe-mast schooner Venus arrived in Sydney on the 9th of last month from Fortuna,