252 H. O. RUSSELL. 



On 26th January, 1889, the chief mate of the Rodondo said 

 the current is now runing three or four knots to south, and that 

 he always found it strongest in January and February. 



March 2, 1889, Herald reports that the ship Patriarch on her 

 voyage for several successive days sailed three hundred to three 

 hundred and forty-eight miles, but when she got on the coast of 

 New South Wales passed the Jervis Bay light-house three times, 

 having been driven back twice by a current running to south at 

 the rate of three knots per hour. 



Dec. 31, 1889, Herald reports Jean Pierre a well known trader 

 between Adelaide and Newcastle, left Adelaide Dec. 17th, on the 

 25th ; when off Wollongong a strong current met her running at 

 the rate of three knots per hour, and carried the vessel back sixty 

 miles in twenty-four hours. 



Ulrica, Feb. 18 and 19, 1890, found a current setting to south 

 at rate of two and a half miles per hour, and this was confirmed 

 by other ships. 



Feb. 20, 1892, Captain Creer of the Pilot schooner at Sydney 

 Heads says the current is setting to the south at fully three knots 

 per hour. 



Oceana, passing Jervis Bay 7 a.m. Feb. 21, 1892, reported 

 unusually strong current setting to south ; no particulars given. 



January 20, 1894, the Hilda, a large schooner carrying timber 

 on the coast, reports that on her voyage from Bellinger River to 

 Sydney January 3 to 19, met with strong southerly gales, three 

 times made Seal Rocks and was twice beaten back by gales, and 

 "an unusually strong northerly current helped to retard her 

 progress." 



Herald, March 26 and 27, 1894, reports estimate the current at 

 two and a half to four knots per hour to south, a schooner was seen 

 in the ofling from South Head Signal Station on Friday morning, 

 and with a light head wind went steadily and quickly down the 

 coast with the current, so quickly, that by Sunday afternoon 

 nothing could be seen of her from the lookout station. On 26th 

 a large tree two miles off the heads was seen drifting by at a 



