It was Captain Woodget’s first voyage in _Cutty Sark_. He went as high as 48° S. in search of good winds, but had a lot of thick misty weather with light northerly winds, and no steady westerlies. He only had two chances. In 70 hours from 21st to 23rd May, the _Cutty_ ran 931 miles, braced sharp up against a strong N.E. to E.N.E. wind; and on 4th June, with the wind fresh from N.E. to N.N.E. she ran 330 miles in 47° S., 99° E. None of the other ships made any specially big runs. _Miltiades_ this year was taken over by Captain Harry Ayling, and arrived in Hobson’s Bay on 29th October, 85 days out from Torbay. [Illustration: “MOUNT STEWART.” _Photo by Captain Schutze, Sydney._] [Illustration: “CROMDALE.”] _Mermerus_ arrived Melbourne on 24th July, 88 days from the Lizard, and _Thomas Stephens_ was 87 days from Antwerp to Sydney, arriving on 20th October. The _Milton Park_ was an iron ship of 1500 tons, built by McMillan, of Dumbarton in 1882, a typical Clyde-built ship. The _Bay of Cadiz_ was one of the Cardiff “Bays.” _Siren_ was one of Carmichael’s, a 1482-ton ship, built in 1881. She had a number of fine passages to her credit, and came to a curious end, being rammed and sunk by H.M.S. _Landrail_ off Portland in July, 1896. We have now had 12 years of outward tables, and space and, no doubt, the patience of the reader are both growing exhausted. However, as these beautiful ships kept up their wonderful averages until well into the nineties, fighting all they knew against the ever-growing competition of steam, I give here a table of times from the Channel to port from the year 1886 to 1894 for the seven most regular ships in the trade.