Conway Immigrant Ship

THE CONWAY IMMIGRANT VESSEL.

The following report of the passage of this vessel has been kindly furnished us by one of the officers on board -

The Government immigrant ship Conway, belonging to Messrs. De Pass Brothers, Captain Charles Ogilvy Spence, sailed from Southampton on Sunday, 17th August 1862 with 396 immigrants, in the charge of surgeon superintendent John Glendarvine Winstone. The Conway received her pilot off Cape Moreton when 102 days from Southampton. She had light winds at first; entered the tropics on the 3rd September; crossed the equator on the 21st; passed out of the tropics on the 3rd of October; and made the southern portion of Tasmania on Sunday morning l6th November. Since then she has been detained by contrary winds and calms. On the 21st of August, spoke, in latitude 17 deg 15 min N., longitude 8 deg 8 min W., the ship Alpine, for Sydney; 18th September, in latitude 3 deg 48 min N., longitude 13 deg 55 min W., the Suffolk, for Melbourne; 11th October, in latitude 57 deg 13 min S, longitude 10 deg 57 min W, the ship Chili, for Otago. There have been two births during the voyage but no death; much sickness of a slight nature, easily yielding to treatment, but no important diseases. The only invalid landed is one of the women confined during the passage, and she embarked delicate. On Surgeon Winstone's last voyage from England he was equally fortunate in having no death; and the Conway on her last voyage with Government immigrants, reached Melbourne in 91 days from Liverpool, without a death-landing 426 lmmigiants in good health. Of the 396 immigrants introduced by the Conway, 141 are single women and 88 single men; 96 of the total number were selected by Miss Maria S Rye, the promoter of "Female middle class emigration."'

Miss Rye is, we believe, accredited to the Australian colonies as the Times correspondent. She was shortly to leave for Otago, New Zealand ,"and thence makes a tour of the several colonies, visitng the immigrant depots. We understand the immigrants have presented a testimonial and silver tankard to their surgeon-superintendent, and also to Captain Spence of the Conway

THE SURGEON SUPERINTENDENT of the Government emigrant ship "Conway" has received testimonials from the single women in care of Miss Pym the Matron, the Scotch emigrants, and Miss Rye's party. Also the following testimonial from the whole body of lmmigrants -

"We the lmmigrants of the ship "Conway,' have great pleasure in expressing our sense of the efficient and kind interest which you have at all times evinced in our welfare during our passage from Southampton to Queensland; also of the prompt and decisive way in which you have arranged all difficulties, that might otherwise have caused much unpleasantry.

" We return you our best thanks for the great attention you have always shown to those requiring your professional assistance,and the speedy recovery of all your patients (there not having been a single death) can only be attributed to your superior skill, under the blessing of a kind and all-wise Providence.

'With our sincere wishes for your continued success and prosperity, we beg your acceptance of a Silver Tankard, and subscribe ourselves

Yours very faithfully

(Signed on behalf of the lmmigrants by

R.E. PYM, Capt RN

RICHARD E PYM, Master R.N.

J C W BOWMAN,

WM PLAYNE STEVENS

WM TURNBULL,

JANE PYM, Matron

And by forty-five other persons, being the Captains of every mess on board J G WINTONE ESQ. ,

Surgeon Superintendent Ship "Conway ' Moreton Bay 28th Nov, 1862