The _Tweed_ this year was commanded by Captain White, who had had the _Blackadder_. The old ship averaged 240 miles a day from the equator to the S.W. Cape, Tasmania, her best day’s work being from 8th to 9th July, when she covered 362 miles. _Loch Maree_ ran down her easting in 41° S. and experienced no very heavy weather, but managed to average 284 miles a day for 28 days. _Rodney_ went out to Adelaide in 74 days, but her passage was thrown in the shade by the wonderful _Torrens_, which arrived a few days later, only 65 days out from Plymouth. The _Thomas Stephens_ left Liverpool on 29th April and made the fine run of 83 days to Rangoon. Passages under 80 days to Sydney in 1881. Again only three ships made the run out to Sydney in under 80 days. _Cimba_ dropped her pilot in the Channel on 10th May and arrived Sydney on 24th July, 75 days out. _Samuel Plimsoll_ arrived on 10th June 79 days from the Channel, and _Loch Etive_ on 20th September 79 days from the Clyde PASSAGES TO MELBOURNE UNDER 80 DAYS IN 1881. +------------+-----------+-------+--------+-------+-------+----+ | | | |Crossed |Passed | | | | Ship | Departure |Crossed| Cape | Cape |Arrived|Days| | | |Equator|Meridian|Otway | |Out | +------------+-----------+-------+--------+-------+-------+----+ |_City of_ |Lizard |June 17|July 11 |Aug. 5|Aug. 6| 69 | | _Agra_ | May 29 | | | | | | |_Theophane_ |Tuskar |June 29|July 20 |Aug. 9|Aug. 10| 69 | | | June 2 | | | | | | |_Sobraon_ |Plymouth | | | |Dec. 6| 70 | | | Sept. 27 | | | | | | |_Loch Maree_|S. Johns P.|June 1|June 25 |July 18|July 18| 71 | | | May 8 | | | | | | |_Salamis_ |Portland |May 11|June 6 |June 30|July l| 72 | | | April 20 | | | | | | |_Ben_ |Lizard |May 25|June 21 |July 13|July 15| 74 | | _Voirlich_| May 2 | | | | | | |_Thyatira_ |Start |June 15|July 10 | |Aug. 6| 75 | | | May 23 | | | | | | |_Sir Walter_|Dartmouth |June 10|July 3 |July 27|July 27| 75 | | _Raleigh_ | May 13 | | | | | | |_Cassiope_ |Tuskar | | | |Oct. 3| 78 | | | July 17 | | | | | | |_Mermerus_ |Lizard |Apl. 22|May 19 |June 16|June 17| 78 | | | Mar. 31 | | | | | | |_Miltiades_ |Channel | | | |July 22| 79 | | | May 4 | | | | | | |_Aristides_ |Lizard |July 14|Aug. 8 | |Sept. 4| 79 | | | June 17 | | | | | |