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INDRAVELLI ARRIVES.

After being "stuck up" for the best part of last week, the big steamer Indravelli got away from Wellington on Saturday afternoon, and reached Lyttelton yesterday morning. The wagee difficulty w-as settled in Wellington, and the vessel signed on a full crew there. There were nearly 200 men anxious to get away, and they crowded th« shipping office to the fullest capacity. The articles signed are for colonial rates of pay, i.e., JEIO a month for donkeyman, £7 for soamen and trimmers, and £9 for firemen and ereaeers. The men are to bo paid sevonteen days' pay on discharge at any port in the China Sea, and thetr passage paid back to Australia or New Zealand as they may elect. Preference was shown for the former crew, which originally Bigned on in Wellington. The Indravelh has about 200.000 feet of Oregon pine and a email quantity of general oargo I 0 and will go to Dunedin to ffnieh discharging. »nd thence to Newcastle to load coal for the Philippine Islands.

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Press, Volume LXV, Issue 13454, 21 June 1909, Page 9

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INDRAVELLI ARRIVES. Press, Volume LXV, Issue 13454, 21 June 1909, Page 9

INDRAVELLI ARRIVES. Press, Volume LXV, Issue 13454, 21 June 1909, Page 9