Clipper Ship 'City of Adelaide'

THE SOUTH AUSTRALIAN REGISTER, OCTOBER 13, 1865

CITY OF ADELAIDE, from London – 5 cases, 10 hhds, 35 pkgs, Boord Bros.; 50 do Order; 3 cases, Rev. J. Watsford, 180 do, Heriot, Fullarton and Co.; 30 hhds, F. Anderson; 1 do., 1 case F.B. Carlin; 2qr-casks, Order; 5 cases, Wittkowski; 23 pkgs., Gerke and Rodeman; 2 cases, Cleland, Page and Co.; 14 pkgs, J. Derwent; 5 bales, 10 tanks, Elder Smith and Co.; 1 case, E. Bayley; 2 do., Beddome; 4 do., Phillip Levi and Co.; 7 pkgs, Dyer and Co.; 1 do, Order; 330 bdls, 1 case G. Phillips and Co.; 9 pkgs, Elder Brothers; 1 case Acraman, Maine, Lindsay and Co.; 1 do., Hon. G.F. Angas; 8 do., 2 pkgs., Order; 1 case, J. Meek; 2 do., W. Peacock and Son; 1 do., G. Young; 1 do., Order; 2 do. W. Bell; 12 do., Fotheringham Brothers; 2 do., F. Duffield; 14 do, Pearce, Wincey and Co.; 4 do. Giles and Smith; 1,897 do. J. Colton and Co.; 280 do., 3 cases, Padman and Co.; 1 case, Mr. Price; 688 pieces iron, A. Jones; 5 cases, B. Sander; 13 trunks, J. M. Stacey; 13 cases, P. Falk and Co.; 98 bales, 3,727 pieces iron, Harrold Brothers; 1 case, N. Oldham; 7 pucheons, Martin and Sach; 12 trunks, J. Hill; 13 do. W.C. Urenl; 3,561 pkgs, 25 cases, C. Jacobs; 492 do., J. and G Wilcox; 6 do., C. Platts; 142 do., Order; 1 case, Officer Administering Government; 1 do., J.E. Hague; 2 pkgs., S. R. Hall; 19 cases, F.H. Faulding and Co.; 2 do., 18 pkgs., Order; 53 pkgs., F. Hasluck; 160 do., G. and R. Wills and Co.; 114 do., W. Godson; 50 tons coal, Order; 8 pkgs, S. Mayfield and Son; 1 do., Order; 60 do., McArthur, Kingsborough and Co.; 226 do., Stobie and Thompson; 80 bales, 828 pkgs., D. and J. Fowler; 67 pkgs., D. and W. Murray; 30 do., Order; 46 do. Goode Brothers; 11 do., Hamilton Brothers; 2 cases, Heriot, Fullarton and Co.; 1 do., S. Hart; 10 pkgs., Dale and Co.; 4 do. Guild, Chapman and Co.; 1 case, R. Clisby; 1 do., Order; 1 pkg, Dutton; 3 do., Leichardt; 1 case, Reid; 1 pkg., Rogers; 18 do., Order; 1 box, Robertson; 1 case, Fiveash.

 THE SOUTH AUSTRALIAN REGISTER, OCTOBER 13 1865

The CITY OF ADELAIDE created quite a sensation when she arrived near the station on Thursday morning. She was announced shortly after 1 o’clock by the coruscations of sundry rockets and a display of light signals. A general rush was made to the boats, but there were not many persons who imagined rhe City would so distinguish herself as to turn up on the completion of her 72^nd day, although some were sanguine it was Captain Bruce, while others thought it was Captain Legoe; at any rate it proved the former, and on boarding her the same welcome that has been experienced several years back was given. The same faces, the same officers, indeed several of the old crew were there, and it seemed scarcely credible that almost a year had elapsed since the vessel first arrived. She has a full complement of passengers, whose expressions of satisfaction must be extremely pleasing to Captain Bruce, from whom a few particulars of the passage were procured, tending to illustrate the great improvement in the Adelaide trade since the year when he first brought out the Irene.

The City left London on July 26^th, and called at Plymouth to embark passengers, taking final departure on the evening of the 31^st, and for the first stage north-west winds prevailed till she crossed the Bay of Biscay; but the north-east trades were so light, and lost entirely in from 13^o to 14 ^o north, that is was August 25 before the line was crossed in 23^o west. From thence to the meridian of the Cape 23 days elapsed, but along the easting in 44^o to 45^o she made splendid runs, and would have arrived on Sunday in 68 days but for the intervention of four or five days of easterly winds between the Leuwin and Cape Borda. The gallant ship has not altered the least in general appearance, and, with the usual good fortune of the master, he had scarcely anchored when the Young Australian paddled alongside, and was at once dispatched for the Eleanor. No time was lost in steaming up, and at daylight the mariners hove the anchors to the bows, and in two hours she was moored at the wharf. The President of the Marine Board being on a visit to the Cape Borda lighthouse was desirous of forwarding the keeper and his wife without delay to the Port, and the City of Adelaide being communicated with, Captain Bruce complied with the request and added two to his list of passengers.

Supposed to be written by Miss E.M.F.B. (aged 8 years), for the meeting of the “City of Adelaide Poetical Association” held on the 9^th September 1865, in latitude 38^o 29’ south and longitude 11^o 4’ west.

Oh, please mama, I cannot write
About the nasty sea,
For when the waves go jumping up
Quite sick I’m sure to be.

I ask R-----a for a rug,
And then I lie quite still,
For when I try to walk on deck
I’m certain to be ill.

Why can’t that naughty Captain B----
Make the ship go more steady?
To make us all be happy here
He always is so ready.

So please, mamma, do write for me,
And tell them what I think;
And when I get to Adelaide;
The Captain’s health I’ll drink.

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[transcriber's note: there is no author listed for this poem]

Beneath the hatch what treasures lie,
     Of every shape and size;
The sight if once you venture down,
     May well excite surprise.

There’s scarce a want that you can feel,
    But could be there supplied,
From out the cases that you see
    Piled up from side to side.

So let us now go down below,
    (Not caring for the smell)
The sight, if curious you are,
    I think will please you well.

First there’s the luggage – boxes, trunks,
    Portmanteaus, bags and cases,
Containing clothes of every sort,
    From crinolines to braces.

But one extraordinary case, *
    That’s painted light sky-blue,
Is calculated to excite
    Suspicions not a few.

At first I thought it might contain
    The body of a child,
But did not like to say so, lest
    The owner should be “riled.”

But when I saw it on the deck,
    I found I was mistaken; -
You may be sure, right glad I was
    No notice to have taken!

*        *         *         *         *

But gentlemen are also there
    Profusely represented,
For all their swell land “toggery”
    To view could be presented.

“Claw-hammer jackets,” trousers, coats,
    And neckties white as snow;
Our fellow-passengers on shore
    I fear we’ll scarcely know

[transcriber's note: at the end of this poem is printed * Mr W------r's coffin]