NORTHERN COMPANY'S MOVEMENTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVIII, Issue 76, 2 April 1897, Page 2

NORTHERN COMPANY'S MOVEMENTS.

Friday.—Clansman leaves for Tauranga ab 7 p.m. ; Wellington for 'Whangarei, Marsden Point, Whangarei Heads ab 9.30 p.m. ; lona leaves for Kuaobunn, Mercury Bay and Kennedy's Bay at 9 p.m.

Thamks Skrvice.—Steamers leave for Thame* daily, for Paeroa daily, and for Coionaandol daily. SeeaiivertiaeDcoab daily fiftpera.

Th« s.s. Dingadeo left last evening for Wellington, via the usual East Coast way porbes.

The barque Linhathere is discharging her ballasb into the American barque Portland Lloyds.

Tho scow Bravo arrived, at tho Thames yesterday from the Kaipara, wi'.h a cargo of timber for Paeroa.

The barque Kirkdale sailed from Port Chalmers yesterday afternoon wibh a genersl cargo for London.

The s.s. Takapuna arrives afc Onehunga at 9 p.m. to-morrow, and leave? again ab 10 a.m. on Monday for New Plymouth

H.M.B. Pensfoin leaves Sydney bhis month an special nurvey work between Sydney and Honolulu, in connection with the proposed Pacific cable.

H. M,». Lizard is expected to arrive from Southern ports as a*y time, en route for Sydney. Her place on ;iio New Zealand station is to ba Uken by H.M.e. Goldfinch, now at Sydney.

The p.p. Voherua has boon delayed in the South and will now Iouv« tho Blurf on Tuesday next, Qamsiru on Wednesday, Timaru on Thursduy, and should arrive here übout the 12bh insb.

The Ty^er et«amer llttwke'B Bay leaves for Napier late bo-ni^lt! or eatly to-morrow morning. From thdro' oi>o prqesod^ to Wetliauion. VVangonui Ly'.tel.jon, with th© balance of her London cargo.

The (jfennfin nve-or-asfsd ship Potosi, the largest sailing vessel sfloat, recently made the pa»e«ge from Homburg to Valparaiso in 58 rtayf, ths quickest mi record, and two d<*y3 lower than the recoifl the i»atne captain bad previously mads. This is almost steamer time, and showa that the Potoyi is probably the faatesb aw well as the largest eailino aiup in the world. The captain of tha Potosi has nover liaon known bo make a- slow pa?aage. In 1895 he was in command of the ship Parsifal, bound from Cardifl with a coal cargo to a nitrate port. OH Cape Horn, ha curriad on sail until the vwel capsized. AIS hands were saved by » vePhol thab happened to ba in eight. V\hen tha captain arrsvod home the vessel's owner*", who carry no insurance, to teach hira a lesson, gave him command of, what sailors call, a Blow wood box. He made a recotd passage in her, and then Captain Bilgendorf was given command of the new iron ship, the Potosi.