TELEGRAMS.
From the placard outside the Telegraph Station we publish the following arrivals and departures, viz. :— PICTOIf. Arrived —May 11—7 p.m , Jeanie Duncan from Westport. Sailed—May 12—1 p.m, Jeanie Duncan for Westport. The 8.8. Wainui, Captain Driver, sailed for Dunedin via intermediate ports yesterday evening. The b.s. Matatjra.—Tho " Sydney Morning Herald," of the 30th ultimo, says :— This ■vessel leaves on her second trip to Panama on the Ist of May. It will be in the recollection of our readers that her outward passage from Plymouth was marked by a series of disasters to the machinery of no ordinary character ; or more properly speaking, the engines—as originally supplied in London—were not capable of performing tho work, and although at Plymouth the builders made certain alterations, they however did not answer, and as already stated, on the passage out broke down. On her arrival here a survey was held, and it ■was decided that the alterations and repairs necessary to place her in sea-going order should be entrusted to Messrs M'Arthur and Co., of the Waterview Bay engineering works, and the result of a voyage to Panama and back has proved that Mr M'Arthur was right. Mr Bailey, now appointed as the company's superintendent engineer, made the voyage from England to this port, and afterwards to Panama and back in the Mataura, and there- • fore his evidence as to the working of the machinery at the present time is of the greatest importance, as he is a gentleman of great experience in these matters, having been connected for many years with the largest firms (in England and so satisfied is he with the way the improvements and alterations have been effected and carried out under his immediate supervision, that the vessel will leave on her appointed date, it having been only necessary to give the hull the usual cleaning, the detention on the return trip being caused solely by the bad supply of ooals placed on board. The success attending the Mataura'B repairs is not a solitary instance of what can be accomplished in this colony, but will serve to further demonstrate our engineering resources. Mr Kerrison, late of the leviathan b.s. Great Eastern, has taken charge of the Mataura as chief engineer, and will no doubt render good account of h«r performances on her return.
TELEGRAMS.
Press, Volume XI, Issue 1408, 14 May 1867, Page 2
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