ANOTHER OSPREY RECORD.

Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 78, 29 November 1884, Page 6

ANOTHER OSPREY RECORD.

Dunkdin, Nov. 24. Rklatini: to Iho question of a vessel mimed the Osprey having ever visited Australia from Great Britain, we are favoured with the following extinct from the diary of .1. li. Harris, -written on board the barquo Poic tiers, fiom London to New Zoaland, in ISoO. Typhus fever had broken out among the fetecrago passengers, and the ship's doctor (Coward) contracted the fever during attendance upon them. Hi*> lite was despaiicd of for tcveial days, and Captain He.ilo, of the Poictiois, was \ ory anxious to speak any vc-.'-el met with in order to obtain medical assistance for them. The following is the abstract of the di.uy : " l/'iiday, Alaroh 15. -Very hot indeed. The doctor is \orv ill; scarcely o\pertod to li\o. Theunomctor, DO devices in cabin; wind, H.V). Satiuday, ](>. — leather cooler. Doctor no better. SpoUo the Liverpool ship Ospiey to -re it she had a medical man on boaid, which she had not. I'as^cd hoi again to leeward •ibout .-unset. The thcimomeior 71 in cvbin ; latitude, 19 ilegiee.s N.1f1." l'oittiois. owned by Dune.in, liunhar.

New Zealand would seem to be the cradle ot ;i number of gambling games, such as l> Mnut," &.C., which t*hc supplier to tlio other oolonieb. The inluracics ot a new game weie explained in the City L'ohee Couit, .Melbourne, the otlu r day, dining tlie healing ot a chargo against, .James* Sow ell in connection with a gun tiick v uan;e on tlie Melbourne Cup day. Detective Loniax tokl the Bench that he watched a lai^e croud looking on at thi- which i"> ti peculiar one. A oinall s[>aee was 1 ailed oil. in this stood a di-c u plight on a pole. The di^c wa~. divided into •Jti etjual spaces, con\ei{, r in^ to a point in the middle. Kach -[>ace boie a lettei tiom "A" to " Z," but not in ic^uiai 01 dci. The di^c was revolved by a band horn ii little steam engine, and so quickly that it looked like only one blur, although the bpaces were painted in variegated colouits. Twenty-bix laigo tin tieket 2 , each inscribed with a letter, wero&old at Isoach. One ol the pin chafers then lired a pm from a gun at the disc, and whatever lettered dhision the pin struck, the holder of the cones-ponding letter won the pool, minus Gs foi the ( /il rijircnair. jNlr Kane mged that the game is quite fair. Sewell recently ani^ed trom New Zealand, after luuing pcifouncd on all the racccoui'ses theic. The Bench, how over, seal him to gaol for a month.

An old colonist writes :— "No. 1 was a threemailed Engh-h-built schooner owned by Captain lleale and the late Durlley Sinclair, who in IS 12 and IS 13 were in partner-hip. 1 believe Dudley Sinclair went horn here to China in her and returned in 18i;>. She left Auckland about the end of IS-H, and his not heen heie -ince. Xo. 2 was aman-oi-wai bii i 4,i 4, JO gun-, and v.a- lost at Fal-c flokiantra in ISl.">. Her iigurchead wa-i placed on (he top of a publie-huu-e in High-bticet, which waburnt in the large tiie, I think, of IS.") I. The li^uic head at the North .Shore belonged to the bii^ Moa, not 11. M. biiir "6"- prey. ' Xo. .'>, the -ehooner O-piey tluif i amo h inn San Franfi-eo, -o f u .i- i vdi\ iciiKMiiiK l , w.i- a tuoma-Ud \inoi !• an liailt -clhvmilm , liir loio and it. Lcual li<.,tia, \er\ lon<_c ma-t- 1 . She cii.c here hoin Sin L"i.'in'i- -o wilhuut any mul vi ncwv-p.ipi. i-, <uu\ 1 bulicNO wa- own-d !•> the nia-tu and (lie mate. Tlh-\ pmch, i- d acaij;o ot potatoi-, and i;ot aw.v l)efoic it wa- known here thai pnl t!o«,- wcic in ifiu i dunumd at San Fianci-eo It n ]io— rbk that thi- \c— ol may lia\ o conio out to Mel bourne under the Ameiican ll.iu, Ijclii -old there, .-ailed for Stin FrancUco, and then come here. — 11."

With reference to the controversy that ha* iccently bein^ goint; on in our columns ie^ r aidin£ the schoonci Osprey and the Tich borne claimant, we arc informed by an old .»ea captain th.it he ha* been in the colony upwaids of thirty years, that he Ivi.ow of thi cc \es-els beaiin^ the name of O-pioy, and that the) weie ail in the-e water- in his time. There \\a- the man-o -war, the American schooner, and a '■mall locally-owned f-ehooner that \\a- wont to trade between (he Waitemata ,md lj t iy of U'ands. While on " Tichl)oiniana" wo may mention that a gentleman in Auckland has in his pov-es.-ion an inteu stilly -ouvonir of the mi-sm^ Jj.ironct'.s f.imily in the formot Sir lleruy Tichbonio's (Sii Jlo<;er'«< fathei) iiu^. The gentleman to whom 1 lelerLs Mr Thomas W. CUid^eou, who obtained the lehcfiom his father, wlio, dining an election riot, won Sir Henry's "latitude by --lielteiin^ him fiom a mob, and was fin that oppoiluno scinicc pio rented w ith the ling.