The Murray arrived yesterday morning from Hokitika. The Mary Campbell sailed for Auckland on Saturday with a full cargo of coal. The s.s. Mawhera arrived on Saturday from southern ports, via Nelson and Westport. The s.a. Omapere left yesterday afternoon for Dunedin direct after a few days' detention. The s.s. Wallabi arrived yesterday with a load of live stock, which she discharged on the shingle bed in good condition. The ketch Cora sailed on Satnrday for Waitara. The s.s. Maori arrived at Wellington on Saturday. Through grounding at Hokitika the other day the Murray's propeller was stripped. On the 22nd September there was launched by Messrs William Denny and Brothers, Dumbarton, the steel-built screw steamer Ohau, of Dunedin for the Union Steamship Company of New Zealand, Limited. Builders' dimensions: — 200 by 32 by 10.3, and 705 tons gross register. She is double-bottomed except in the machinery space, and will be fitted with refrigerating chambers for conveying meat from port to port in New Zealand The class is 100 Aat Lloyds. The machinery will be of the usual compound type by Denny and Co., of 600-horse power mdi cated. The ceremony of naming the ship was performed by Miss Mills, daughter of William Mills, Esq., of Dunedin.
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Grey River Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 5049, 1 December 1884, Page 2
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