Sydney was full of ter was going to -pay one of these gangs to kidnap and hold Murry til Hunter got the wind up and ship~ ped out of Sydney on a deep-waterman. He probably thought it ex-Dedient while Murry was in jail Where he was sent for seven days with three others he had been fighting with, Murry searched everywhere for Hunter when he came out, but never heard that he found him.
The Fastest Trip Although the Joseph made the fastest passage to Auckland she did not hold the record for the quickest crossing from Australia to New Zealand. The. Helen Denny held that, Neweastle to" Wellington. If any of the New Zoi barques could claim to be she would have been claim. T tried more than once to sail in her but was never successful. Captain Holmes, who, 1 believe, afterwards commanded the first small steamer in the trade, made many fine passages in her but his son was command of the Helen Denny when she made her record.
_was said that they never touch-T/ed a brace aboard her after she cleared the Nobbies, that well fined landmark at the mouth of the Hunter River and the entrance to the Port of Newcastle, N.S.W.. and. the 'Cook Strait. She came into We ington under reefed t'gan' sail half of her bulwarks washed away.
"Young Holmes was only about twenty-fix, a fine sailor, but, accord.
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