UNION S.S. COMPANY.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5882, 14 July 1890, Page 2

UNION S.S. COMPANY.

JIKV KTEASIEU. The managing director, Mr James Mills, cabled to Dunedin on the 2nd icst. that ho had purchased a now Reamer at Homo for the Company's Westport trade. LIFJJ-EAVISO BAITS. The Union Steam Ship Company recently forwarded to Wellington, for induction by the JAurino department, specifications of life-saving rafts uf two descriptions, one <ir other, or both of which will be used on their steamer*, in compliance with the regulations shortly to come into force requiring all vfcf-sela to bo provided with life-Having; apparatus. One of these rafts is of local construction, tho designs being those of Captain Cameron, murine tniperiiitemli-ut of thts company, and hu example of it is at present lyimj in the carpenters' sheds at the top of the Jetty fctreet wharf. The frameWork consists of wooden battens, and the fides are composed of galva used iioji cylinders, which also form the SJbUtiniiig power of tho raft, as each contains iivoVatertight and airtight compiirt-nu-nts. 'lhe raft is doublo-decked, «o that it is reversible. This type of rnft can bo nitde to any size that may be desired, and i s capable of beinjr stowed on deck underneath the boats, or, in the larger sizes, of b'ing carried on the top of the deckhouses, s> that no (-pace will be wasted in uccomnodatmg it. it is lilted with life-lines, oard, rowlocks, and all necessary apparatus. The other dtscription of raft that him been bubiuitted for the iafpection of the Marine Department is knowu as tho Tule lift; raft, n.v.i.'iiiii-ns of -ybiuh leeently cttine under the Botioe of Mr J»n*e Mills, 41.U.K., the luanasuiiir director :if the company, whilo p» B ßi«|f tinough Aneri«a The Title roft is made of reeds ga.hered on the banks of CaSifonmin rivtrs. It is exceedingly liaht, has great iioatiug p>wci, and is claimed to have one great advmtage over tank or-curie rafts in co far that it does i'ut deteriorate by uio nor suffer iujury by violent contact (as in ii sea-way) A '* tK wreckage or other impediments, 'it i» underutood that the department look fivornbly upjn both descriptions of rafts hibmitted to them. U-EU muss AaociATiosr.-coi'yniOHX.l (Keceived aily U, 12.30 p.m.) I JiVDKEY, This day. Sailed Taravera for Kew Zealand via Newcastle. flEIt IK SB AbbOvliMOXj This day. 'lhi X U L I " fcul J uicwell Spit at 9i, vi oiuT-uouid uriivc here at 10 p.m. Xbe sbiiWu'j.'aiet Oalbinth, 101 days doing considerable h '''- 1 llJto :u ' (i aIt ' alui * \r r dhngton and tho roArrV'ii »t b a in —Mararua from Melbourne £lo fof Napier.