DEPARTURE OF THE BOYNE.
The ship Boyne, Captain Kelly, sailed on Saturday evening for London, the p.s. Lyttelton towing her clear of the heads. The despatch she received while at the pier is deserving of being recorded, as ehowing the capabilities of the port. Her inward cargo is stated as being 1500 tons, inwards agents Messrs Edwards, Bennett and Co.; her cargo of wheat, loaded by the New Zealand Shipping Company, is set down at 1820 tons, and she was at work at the pier but twenfy-eight days. Her outward can»o was the largeet which has ev»r been loaded at the Gladstone pier solely from railway waggoas, and without transhipping from lighters. During Captain Kelly's stay here his gentlemanly qualities won to him the esteem of every one doing business with him or his ship, and he made an unusually large number of personal friends. Many of them accompanied him down the harbor on Saturday afternoon, and all will he pleased to hear that the Boynemaiesafast ronboine. ..
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Press, Volume XXXI, Issue 4288, 28 April 1879, Page 2
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