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Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 386, 20 July 1889, Page 3

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ilj'>kKaj-3Y-M.nHffi«^ft¥> '"Smith and So>,=;' fo6LVjiT^tG(i-feaVqvi6. H&mdo^- outie famous afi> a pass^ngpf stQame'r,\ airivod at Sydney a few clayb ago .after, a, very biyinsjv ordeal ol westerly scales. Captain William Anthonj icpOits leaving Kaip'aia on the 7th ultimo, 3ust' , ii 1 'day 'after H.M s. Uarfc left Auckland. Immediately on leaving- the barometer commenced to" fall, and continued going down until the iemark?»bli3J l^w figure. 1 -, of 28.5 were lqachsU,., • yljtrh Was "at '4 a.m. on the 'Bth. Thckfy^rap pg A^ifitl. the vdabher in 'fttet' ■wa&'cajm anfljjcjj^i 1^?; b\},b,'(^aj!)tiaio An,tliK>,ny t o,oi<f Jt -t;h e^'^l^eca ",tiQn , jto- f jn a k c e v ery tlxi q i? smiffr "'/tTho-^vc&s^l S.v'ds pub un,dor two lowej "toii^ail'S'-^n£l ••uonWe-ißctcd mi^cn, lb> wasi , lucky \ st6p^'-W.as' taken, ,for at 8 ' i.}.,m.^ the ( - ; .VyMV/' came up like - l bi shot libra "4 f?iy>iii s speed,' and suddjsn-- 1 f'ess, a'n'd iW'ii fdW'minutet. it \yas blowing a hiuiiertncfroin the B.AV.' At'lO a.m. the gla^ bqgaq to rise, bub chewind increased in \ioienco .to sj-ich-a decree that the sea n\ a- blow n into qi diift letembling sheets of snow. As the moderated the aea rose until it \vas>running ab a feaiful height. It \\ a*>{rian,d tosce licjw bheOmeo rode it out, and a heavy timber dQck-load on too, The slnj) av as drifting dead on. a Ice bhoic, and at uiidui^rfof 'the 9bh tl^o, liyht on Cape ISl ni ia.\ 7 a<i l Diomch*was ! seen "under the lee bow. The ship was woie to the .southward, and after an anxious time on the morning of the 10th got cleai ot the land. (Jales one aftqr another succeeded up "to the 16bh ultimo. AttCt the sth a better state of things was fallen in v>ith, and the Australian coatt was made, the Omeo eventually making Sydney 'after a passage aeioss irom New Zealand t>neh as is seldom ie[)Oited.