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Cromwell Argus, Volume XLIII, Issue 2287, 4 March 1912, Page 4

Mi- John Rivers had a successful sale of furniture etc, last Wednesday, ou j account of Mr L. Gibbs. Mr R. K. Smith of Malvern Downs, i Tarras, notifies in this issue some first | class Romney and Merino rams for | sale. | Presbyterian Church services for Sun j day next will be conducted as follows : —• j Cromwell 11 a.in, Lowburn 3 p.ni, and I Bannockburn 7 p.iu, Rev. W. Rowlands, | Cromwell 7 p.m, Mr Robt. Ritchie. | On the building slip of Portsmouth ! Dockyard on loth January the Hon. j Evelyn Moore, sister of Admiral Sir I Arthur Moore, Commander-m-Chief at Portsmouth, laid the first kcel-plate of a new super-Dread nought battleship. No details have been allowed to transpire as to the ship, but it is known that it will be 21,000 tons, nr some 2000 tons heavier, than the King George V., which preceded it on the building slip. The ship will also he longer. The main armament will cosist of tea 13.5iu. guns, which arc to be mounted in five barbettes on the centre line, and there is to be a secondary armament of Gin. guns. In the current year’s estimates £289,000 bus been provided for the commencement of (he ship, which is to be completed in two years. The shipment of Nelson apples to London, which is to be made by the New Zealand Shipping Company's steamer Kaipara this month, will (says the “ Mail ”) consist of 0000 or 7000 cases. Hitherto the apples have been sent from Nelson, but ou this occasion the fruit is to be sent to Wellington and transhipped into the Kaipara. The reason for this is that it is considered desirable that fruit should be the last commodity taken on board, and as the Kaipara, at the date of her departure from Wellington, will be a full ship, site would be unable to enter Nelson port. Messrs Buxton and Co., are handling the shipment, aud this firms expert packer with assistants is now at work packing fruit for the London shipment. Most of this season’s shipment will come from the. Motueka district, but the Waimea growers will be represented to the extent of 1000 or more cases. The Kaipara is being specially lilted up for the apple shipment, and an apparatus is being installed which is intended to secure uniform temperature throughout the apple chamber, A Government bonus of £SO is ibis year offered for the steamer which lands her cargo of fruit in Loudon in good condition. It is understood that the Shipping Company will supplement the bonus. Therefore there is every inducement for the officers of (he steamer to make the shipment a success.