DEPARTURE OF R.M.S. TONGARIRO.
Having completed her loading of frozen meat from the New Zealand Meat Co.'s factory, tho New Zealand Shipping Company's , fine direct steamer Tongariro drew off from the Railway Wharf ab noon to-day and steamed away for the South. Her first-port of call will be Napier, where she will load seme 10,000 carcases frozen meat for London. Leaving that port on Monday next she proceeds to Lyttelton and thence to Wellington, taking a quantity of colonial produce, etc , from each. She leaves Wellingtonfinallyfor Plymouth directon the2lat. Some 80 passengers, including the present crew of H.M.S. Dart, paid off, about 60 in all, have booked here foi Plymouth by the Tongariro. They will leave Auckland for Wellington by a Union e.s. Company's steamer on or about the 18th inst.
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Auckland Star, Volume XX, Issue 56, 7 March 1889, Page 8
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