NEW STEAM SERVICES.

Evening Post, Volume LXIV, Issue 120, 17 November 1902, Page 6

NEW STEAM SERVICES.

Au attempt is being made to form a new marine service, to be liuoyvn as the Cook Strait Steam- j B>hi]i Compauy, with the object of acquiring vessels and to employ them in the couveynnce of passengers, mails, and cargo between such ports m auy part of New Zealand as miiy seem expedient j and to carry on Ihe business ot merchants, wurehousemun, wharfingers, and forwarding agents. The immediate object of the company is to purchase the steamer Mauaroa from the Sounds and Goiden Bay Company. Tlie vessel has the mail contracts between Wellington and Haveloclc at £360 per uiiuum, and between Wellington and Motueka for one year at JEM7S. The capital of the new company in £8000, in £1 shares, of which £5000 is to be called up, aud tbe provisional directors are Thomas War dell, mercbtuit ; Wm. Browu, managing director of Messrs Laery and Co ; and David Bobertson, engineer, all of Wellington, Within two or three months an opposition steamer will bo running between Wellington aud Motueka, and a specialty will be made of the rapid carriage of fiuit during tlie seiison. Mr Burford, ot Nelsou, is the owner of the new -vessel, which is being built at Auckland, She is to bo fitted with twin screws, and is guaiautecd to steam 10 knots. ' Yesterday tho bait]ue Acacia arrived with a cargo of hardwood timber from Clarence River. She &uiled on the 3rd ins I, and experienced line weather all tbe wiiy. Captain V. Sauvier is in charge, and Mr D. 0. Johnslone is fli-Bt officer. Tho barqwe Wonlock arrived from Bunbury to-duy. She left the VVestralian port on Ihe 16th October, and was 20 miles off the Heads a week :igo, but owing to a hurricane springing; up she was blown 110 miles off. Captain B. Griffiths is in charge. The vessel will be cleaned on the Patent Slip before the loading of wool tor London is commenced.