ARRIVAL OF THE RIMUTAKA.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVI, Issue 144, 17 December 1908, Page 6

ARRIVAL OF THE RIMUTAKA.

A LIVELY TIME IX THE STRAITS. Amongst the earliest arrivals this morn » 5 8 was the R.M.S. Rimutaka, of the New Zi * iland Shipping Company's line. She has col % $ from London, and after leaving Plymout % ' her ilrst experience was a heavy south-west - erly galo on the run to Tenenlle. Thencti. moderate trade winds, with a heavy head > swell, were met until within two days of j the Cape, when a southerly gale was run into, I .completing altogether a rather bad southern pafcsage. During part of the way the Rimntake was 'in company with troopship 6 with 1300 troops aboard for South Africa. During the first week out from Capetown there was an easterly gale with copious lain. Thenceforth favourable westerly gales marked the remainder of the passage to Hobart. On resumption from that port fair weather prevailed until last night when in the Straits. It is reported that when off Cape Terawbiti the vessel could make little headway against the heavy conditions, and that she danced merrily in one place for almost balf-an-hour. She rolled so heavily that loose Uttmgs, etc., had to be lashed down.