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Ship 'Tararua' arrived Wellington, NZ 23 Jan 1880

Evening Post Friday 23 Jan 1880
Shipping

Tararua ss, 563 tons, Muir, from Melbourne via South. Passengers cabin 
- from Melbourne - Miss Douglass, Mrs Ogden, Messrs Shallcross, 
Bartlett, Stackleton, Dunn, Darrell & Gorst; 23 steerage; from coast - 
Misses Browne Holmden, Weston, Coates, Muir, Mesdames Broxrie, Smith, 
Benjamin, Aikman, Dr Hector, Hon. M. Holmes, Messrs Baker, Didsbury, 
Browne, Grant, King, Mendleson, Bowhser, Ellison, Smith, Benjamin, 
Gamuiell, Aikman, Cummings, Strike, Wood and Butler; 21 steerage. 
Passengers bound for Auckland via East Coast:- Cabin - Misses Owen, 
Hinchliff, Murdock, Mesdames Clark, Brishell, Mr and Mrs Hinchliff, 
Messrs Brown, Adams, Cegan, Mendelshon, Aikman, Hinchliff, Murdock, 
Jessop and Gavin; 10 steerage.

Arrived in harbor at 9 o'clock this morning. Reports leaving Melbourne 
at 1.30pm on the 13th, and arrived at Hobart Town at 1pm on the 15th; 
left again at 5.30pm and arrived at the Bluff at 1pm on the 19th; 
sailed at 5.30pm, and arrived at Port Chalmers at 6am on the 20th; 
sailed at 3.30pm on the 21st and arrived at Lyttelton at 10am on the 
22nd; sailed at 4pm and arrived here as above. She sailed for Auckland 
via the East Coast this afternoon.


New Zealand Times 24 Jan 1880
Imports ss Tararua from Melbourne

From Melbourne
Gandy: 149 pkgs, 64 bags sugar, Order: 8 boxes, 9 barrels
Johnston & Co.: 14 bags bark
Palmer: 7 barrels coffee
T. & W. Young: 2 qr-casks whisky
Willeston: 2 cases tobacco
Bank of Australasia: 2 cases
Colonial Secretary: 2 cases
Lyon & Blair, 2 pkgs
Thompson, Shannon & Co.: 20 cases, 1 bale
Turnbull & Co.: 1 case
Kitchen & Son: 27 casks tallow, 1 bale canvas, 30 cases acid
NZ Drug Co.: 2 do do [sic]
Palmer: 6 half chests, 46 box s tea
Smith: 3 cases
Mills: 4 cases
Leary and Campbell: 182 cases fruit, 34 bags onions
NZ Drug Co.: 19 baskets bottles
Myers: 24 cases cheese
Lyon & Blair: 1 case
Watt: 2 pkgs
Colonial Secretary: 1 pcl

From Hobarton
Cato: 31 cases fruit
1 Locomotive

From Dunedin
85 cases whisky
Press & Co.: 1 bale, 1 octave
Napier: 13 pkgs
Drug Co.: 2 cases
Haselhum: 60 sacks grain
Bishop: 9 cases bacon, 2 cases cheese
Pearce: 52 sacks grass seed
Jamieson: 2 cases cheese
Laery & Campbell: 2 cases


New Zealand Mail 31 Jan 1880

Jan 23 ss Tararua, 883 tons, Sinclair, from Melbourne via the South 
Passengers: - Saloon: From Melbourne - Miss Douglas, Mrs Oglen, Messrs 
Shallcross, Bartlett, Stackleton, Dunn, Darrell and Gorst: 23 
steerage. From Coast - Misses Browne, Holmden, Weston, Coates, Muir, 
Mesdames Broxrie, Smith, Benjamin, Aikman, Dr Hector, Hon M. Holmes, 
Messrs Baker, Didsbury, Browne, Grant, King, Mendleson, Browshe, 
Edison, Smith, Benjamin, Gamnell, Aikman, Cummings, Strike, Wood and 
Butler; 21 in steerage. D Mills agent.

Jan 23 ss Tararua, 563 tons, Muir for Sydney, via the East Coast and 
Auckland. Passengers Saloon: Misses Owen, Murdoch (2), Smith, Harris, 
Hinchcliffe, and Bushnell, Mesdames Clark, Hinchcliffe, Bushnell, 
Bacon, Green, and Read, Messrs Hinchcliffe (2), Brown, Adams, Aikman, 
Murdoch, Jessop, Gavin, Cozan, Mendelsohn, Lawson, Munro, Williams and 
Aitken; 10 in the steerage. D. Mills, agent.

Page 19; An engine constructed by Mr Clark, Hobart Town, was landed on 
the wharf on Jan 23 for Messrs J. & D. Sinclair, Wainuiomata. It is 
intended for use on the tramway in connection with Messrs Sinclair 
sawmill. (Also NZ Times 24 Jan 1880)