Her Best Run.

The best run ever made by this little barque while in the New Zealand trade was between London and Nelson, seventy-nine days land to land and eighty-four days port to port. Her next best performance was from Glasgow to Port Chalmers, the run taking eighty-three days. On the passage out from London to Lyttelton in 1883-4, Captain Pitfield was found dead in his bed on March 31. The chief officer, Mr. Bowling, took command, and brought the vessel to Lyttelton.

From the following list it will be seen that the barque made several runs of between eighty and ninety days to the several New Zealand ports:—

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Most of the illustrations of ships at Port Chalmers appearing in this book are from the studio of Mr. D. A. De Maus, who has a very large collection of the ships arriving at Port Chalmers from 1850 until 1900.