NORTHERN COMPANY'S MOVEMENTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVIII, Issue 256, 4 November 1897, Page 4

NORTHERN COMPANY'S MOVEMENTS.

Thursday.—Douglas leaves for Whangarei Town Wharf at 5 p.m. ; lon a arrives from the Great Barrier; Wellington arrives from Whangarei. Friday.—Clansman arrives from Russell, at 6 a m.. and leaves for Tauranga at 7 p-m. ; Coromandel leaves for Waiheke at 9 a.m., and returns about 5 p.m. ; Wellington leaves for Whangarei, Marsden Point, Whangarei Heads, and Mangapai at 10.30 p.m. ; lona for Kuaotunu, Mercury Bay, and Kennedy's Bay at 9 p.m. ; Kanieri leaves for Waitara at 1 p.m. ; Glenelg leaves for Opunake and Wanganui at 1 p.m. Thames Service.—Steamers leave for Thanies, Paeroa, and Coromandel daily. See advertisements daily papers.

The R.M.s. Moana left late last night for Sydney. The s.s. Hauroto sailed for Fiji last evening.

The schooner Ysabel is daily expected from the Phoenix and Friendly Groups.

The barriue Hertha arrived at Samoa from Port Natal on Wednesday, 20th ult.

The s.s. Waimate arrived at Napier from Auckland this morning to continue her loading for London.

The s.s. Orowaiti, under charter to Mr J. J. Craig, is now loading coal and coke at Greymouth for the Manukau.

The brigantine Linda Weber is expected to arrive about the end of this month from Earatonga, Bahnerston Island and Nuie.

The French cruiser Duguay Trouin was in port at San Francisco when the Moana left. She was to leave for Panama in about a fortnight.

The steamer Homer, in the French mail service betv/een San Francisco and Papeete, began her regular two-monthly trips on October 16. She will be followed on 13bh inst. by the Farallon, and these two steamers will carry the mail for the next year.

The San Francisco "Call" says : " The Union Iron Works is to have a new steamer ready for the Pacilic Coast Steanialrip Company by next March, to run in the Mexican trade. One of the most successful steamers that ever plied in the Pacilic Coast trade was the Senator. After making fortunes for all her owners the engines Avere. taken out of her and she was turned into a sailing-ship and sent to New Zealand, where she was turned into a coal hulk, and is still doing duty in Auckland Harbour. The new steamer will be named the Senator, and Senator Perkins, ono of her owners, hopes that she will follow worthily in the wake of her namesake."