The pretty little barque, _Woollahra_, owned by Cowlislaw Bros., of Sydney, had a very fair turn of speed, and on more than one occasion showed up well against some of the crack ships in the trade. In her later years she used to run from Newcastle, N.S.W., to Frisco with coal. She came to her end on Tongue Point, near Cape Terawhite, New Zealand, whilst bound in ballast from Wellington to Kaipara, to load Kauri lumber for Australia. She was wrecked about half a mile from the homestead of a sheep station, the only habitation on the coast for miles. The captain and an ordinary seaman were drowned, the rest of her complement getting safely ashore. She went to pieces very quickly and there was not even an odd spar or deck fitting left a few months afterwards. “Cassiope” and “Parthenope.” _Cassiope_ and _Parthenope_ were actually sister ships though by different builders. They were both fine fast clippers of the best Liverpool type. _Cassiope_, however, had a short life, being lost with all hands in 1885, when bound to London with Heap’s Rangoon rice, under the well-known Captain Rivers. _Parthenope_ was sold in her old age to the Italians and rechristened _Pelogrino O._ On the 31st July, 1907, she sailed with coals from Newcastle, N.S.W., for Antofagasta and never arrived. “Trafalgar.” D. Rose & Co.’s _Trafalgar_ was a very regular Sydney trader. She went to the Norwegians and was still afloat, owned in Christiania, when the war broke out. [Illustration: “WOOLLAHRA.” _From a painting._] PASSAGES UNDER 80 DAYS TO SYDNEY IN 1875. +------------+---------+-------+--------+---------+-------+----+ | | |Crossed|Crossed | Passed | |Days| | Ship |Departure|Equator| Cape |S.W. Cape|Arrived|Out | | | | |Meridian|Tasmania | | | +------------+---------+-------+--------+---------+-------+----+ |_Cutty_ |Lizard |Dec. 21|Jan. 13|Feb. 4 |Feb. 12| 75 | | _Sark_ | Nov. 29| | ’76| ’76 | ’76| | |_Samuel_ |Falmouth |Sept. 4|Sept. 28|Oct. 19 |Oct. 22| 75 | | _Plimsoll_| Aug. 8| | |(Otway) | | | +------------+-----------------+--------+---------+-------+----+