THE MAHENO FROM SIXTY.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIV, Issue 28, 1 August 1907, Page 6

THE MAHENO FROM SIXTY.

The Maheno, which airiveel in tlto stream shtrlly lefore- 8 o'clrelc ln« night, :m<J wuS berthed at 9.15, did not leave Sydney until 11.7 p.m. on SiiturJhy through delay at New I costle. After clearing: tho heads she encountered stiong north v!y ninds witlwa rising s-a, which giadua'ly inn eased »o v imlc. from the. i>oith-iiortl»-eaot with a licuvy 6cu ami continuous rain squall*, lusting- throuslm'it Slllld«y m«1 Mcnday, when tho waatlicr moderated to rorth-essterly winds up to the vessel's arrhaU Her cargo included 2877 CaatA of fruit, 1107 pieces .if timber, 415 eacfca of putatoes, 240 sacks of rice meal, 220 sacks of flour an* 272 burs lead; and triiishiprncnts ex iiirlie. Darius, Aeiangi, Hcsspn, Trinz Sit;:siiHind, Kalcnpu, Oorio, Peith, Villf dol* CW.tnt, Wyndra. Apolcla, I3*amley, Kumhno Miru, Buntn.vuug, Bombalu, and Aldwhiun. The MiVeno's de)).>rture to Lyttpltnn has been postponed until 7 o'clonk this eveninvr.

The Roral Mail Steam Pao&et Company did not find it possible after tho recent mi&hnp to I tho R.SI.S.P. Oro3'a to replace her by another 1 of their own steamers as, in th» present unI cerlaintv w?th regard to thp Australian urn.il ! oontraci. the R..V.S.P. cannot afford tn hold any of lhei> b'wv fleet 'n rewva for t }»■-• Austrnl'au ronlo. Corwrenuentlv-. being tmwillinft to dir- ! ai>»oinl or incouvpnienoe th*ir pas&rnjrrre and «'>ippeTS, they arrinffetl for the Miltiades to take *he Oi ova's itinerary The Shaw, Savill and Albion Company's s.*. Tokoncafu Mt- LvtteKon yestcrdav for Newcastle whero she will load bunker coal. Tiie veascl nffcrrwards rrt"rn.s to Kpw Zealand ports to load c.tgo fnr Lonrfon. nnd i« expected to leave the colony finally about September. Owint: to tbe r*c€,nt fire on the Melville T»lard, hfr dopartnt* has been delayed. She will nfohnblv eat about the end of nest wm'; for Nwccstle, where eho loads for South Ainerka. The, Pnkaki i« timed to lpave Wejtport at 2 to-roorrow morning for Wellington. Tiio Indian Monnrch, which left last nijfht for TjTttflton, i" expected to proceed to New onstle after having completed her d'schaigtfiir nt the Southern port, where her charter expires.