Lyttelton, New Zealand
8 December 1863
From the "Lyttelton Times" December 8 1863
Additional newspaper article, appearing in the "Lyttelton Times", December 10 1863:
On Tuesday last we briefly noticed the arrival of this vessel at the
Heads, and although we possessed the information, since proved to be too
true, respecting the amount of sickness on board, for the sake of the
friends on shore we refrained from publishing the melancholy intelligence
that fourty-four deaths had occurred during the passage.
In our columns will be found a list of sufferers as well as the
number of births. We hear that Captain Sproul, on board the vessel, was
refused the charge of the ship, and the offer of the pilot to place his boat
and crew at the service of the ship to obtain fresh supplies for the sick
children was also refused.
On Tuesday evening the anchor was raised and sail made before half a
gale of wind blowing from the south-west, and at daylight the next morning
the vessel was out of sight. She returned yesterday morning when off Camp
Bay, and was immediately ordered to hoist the Yellow Jack.
This peremtory order of the Health Commissioner not appearing to
suit this cavalier officer, in two or three hours the anchor was again up
and, with the assistance of the light breeze from the north-east, the
Brother's Pride was brought up just astern of the Lancashire Witch. We
presume the authorities will not permit their orders, to be set at defiance,
and the law treated with contempt.