WARRIMOO, FROM SYDENY. PASSAGE PROTRACTED BY ROUGH WEATHER.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 49, 27 February 1908, Page 6

WARRIMOO, FROM SYDENY. PASSAGE PROTRACTED BY ROUGH WEATHER.

Shortly Mer 6 o'clock this ajoining the Union Coiupany's steamei Warrimoo cast anchor in *lie stream after a protracted vojage of 4 da>s 16 hours from Sydney. -ie was surmiEed, tho ves'e] had to hem- the brunt of the pievailing bat l weather that has been experienced over the other Bide. Syducy was left at 2 p.m. on Satuiday, and as soon as tlie steamer pur. h« bow outside of Port Jaclcson Heads «he ran. •DCf, a moderate pouth-easterlj gale, which .n-(TT.'-ed in stiength as the vessel got further fr-m tho coast. The wind all the way across hi.rerrd between east-ei'i'-ea&t and enst-nor'-east. The ppred of the. Wainmoo was reduced, and gre^i quan'itiea of water were shipped o>ver the f<}icfßstle head. These unpleasant conditions nj-ovailed during tho passage fioni land to lftnd. Heavy rain was experienced at intervals tip towth'n 90 or 100 miles of the New Zealand coast. Cophnn Col'n M'l'onald considers that during hie 2D yeais' experience of the Tjsman Sea never befoic has he encountered eucli consittentjv had weather, although he has weathered bia\ ier gales. The Warrimoo came through bo-.' trying orde.il without nee'dent. Ir.ii.i'irto by the vessel consist prinolpallv of the follnw ; ngr :—2l casea olinirs, 40 tine glue, fG shepts rt«el, £0 c.iecs mineral water, 105 bars ffrel. 79 lengths boring tubes, 20 keg* saltpetre, 444 liar Iwood deeper*. 200 canes ealia oil, . 22 piusee- pfrmmilh, 14 ca'ks ink, 22 caseo emulsion. 100 bng? oil oafce, 25 cases ealmon, 50 sacks prnuntl nut, 33 bundle 5 , cornsnokg, 20 hnlf-cnscs lemons. 100 mats rice, 217 n.ieVaecs Chinese merclmr.d Ef, 102 ingots copjier, 169 ingots tin, 77 r.ifo? cmrlines, iO casks wine, EO cases cocoa, 190 packages tea, 236 diets tea, 74 rolls -wne nrtting, 21 bundles ba?s, 1485 bjg* salt. 57 cots nhonoip-aphs. 812 boR" ricv meal, 53 basr? wd. 654 IMS lend, 200 ba?s gyp«n, 70 sacks flour. 22 dniniD paint, SB'S rase? soap. 200 melons, I ciate melons. 413 ea«^s fruit, JO half onsca soap. 2330 baes su)?ar, 15 bojrshpnd" whitp spirit! II slabs marble. 11 ca«=e« tobacco, 125 rolls lfad, 151 p>ces hrwn iron bark, 28 bundles bottles, £0 wc-i pines, 249 casps* Rrnpesv The Warri-non is advert Ued to leave at 10 o'clock to-nijrht for Melbourne via Southern ports and Ilobart. A general thuftle of pursers in the I'nion Cobbpanv'* errvtce is eventuating. Mr. Broad transSerrcA at LvtteUom from the Waikare to tbe Jtannltß. and Mr. AfatftY^-^"*, of the latter vessel, has joined the Wi-karp until she arrirc* nt Dunedin. Tbwp lie will tranship to tho WMi-in-nn. At Wellington to-day Mr. WallK of <he Warrimoo, end Mr. Kwen, of tbe 'Cc Vna ; i, ch'>r!:< v positions; Mr. Ewen will transfer to the Wa'.k.ire'in the south.