S.S. ARAWA.

Press, Volume XLV, Issue 6964, 18 January 1888, Page 4

S.S. ARAWA.

{PRESS ASSOCIATION TEIJ-GKAM.] Port Chalmers, January 17. - Arrived—Arawa. She brings 17c. tons . _ Of cargo, 800 tons of which are for Dunedin, mnd IS7 passengers ; having landed 350 - tons cargo and tiS passengers at Hobart. Two deaths occurred. On December the 6th, L. McNeil, a third-class passenger, committed suicida by jumping overboard, and on January 7th, H. Francis, secondclass passenger, died from inflammation of the Inngs. The personnel of officers is the same with the exception of Sir Moffatt, who resigned his old position as .chief officer, Mr Law having left the service. She left Plymouth on December 3rd, Teneriffe on the Bth, having landed twenty-four saloon passengers; reached Capetown and left again on December the Sith; had fine weather until January the 7th, when she encountered a heavy westerly gale with high seas, which held until making the Tasmanian coast. Arrived at Hobart at 2 p.m. on January the 12th, landed sixty-six passengers and 350 tons cargo; left again at noon on the loth; on the lath met high seas and thick foggy weather until passing the Bluff at noon yesterday, arriving in port at 6 a.m. to-day. Following are the Axawa's passengers ft»r Canterbury—Second Cabin: — Mrs Brewer, Misses Robinson, Farrell, Mr H. C. Clarke. Steerage—Mr and Mrs Brown and family ... Mr and Mrs Brown and "family <2), "Mr and Mrs Dobby and family (5), Mr and Mrs Gilbert, Mr and Mrs Jackson •."<* family ,5h Mr and Mrs Mitten, Messrs Gassett, Buckmaller, Christian, "Haigh, Henry, Hibb, Hannan, Jones, Knapman, McCling, Sim, YoOiife <Benson_ *.