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Grey River Argus, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 6766, 23 May 1890, Page 2

-.■ThrjfS Mawhera arrived from northern ports yeiterdty. She sails on her return trip thli faprnlbg. '-"• ■ ~ L The i sJMoa arrived from WanganUl, rtoek Men, hut night. ; 'ThVts Graf ton leaves Wellington to'Wiy'tor Greymouth via Picton, Nelson, •ndWettport. "- : ■I Tfct s s Abrefe arrived from Hokitika '■■•' Tod ■ i Omapere leaves Lyttelton to-day for Greymouth direct. ' * H TfiTVi : Herald left Wellington last night for this port direct. The" is Kennedy is due to-night fr6m Wattport. leaves again to-morrow morning for northern ports. ■ ;::<3tpUip Edwin wired •♦urgent" yester,itf«i[ aftfrnnpn at' four o'clock: — Indies>itt*i^pf gltsi falling soon and strdng north to east and south-east winds after „„ The Ms|es]ie7 the Tuew "White finer, was to leav» Liverpool for New York on the Sad April, and great things were expected of far. She Is the latest addition to the pWhlte Star fleet, built, as were all the otfim, by Harltnd and Wolff, of Belfast. i«Ut,li sister ship to the Teutonic, which emied anoh Interest last summer at Spithead, on the occasion of the visit of the Xmparor of Germany to England. These Tassels have been specially built under .Admiralty supervision, to act as swift, truMd cratari la the event of war— and v ftkty us armed with four 4724 m Armstrong quick-firing guns, two on the fore- ' eastU and two on the poop, besides several broadside guns. The Mnjeatio, Is how•v«r, a somewhat larger vessel than the Ttatonle, being about 10ft longer and of ■rats* engine power. Her two projpelVMM hare only three blades each, and h is : expected that with this change, and [ the lnertiaed power of boilers and engines, ■he will prove the swiftest, »s she Is the .largest, steamship afloat. TheMajestlo, oil the 18th March, was taken into! the Alexandra graving dock to get the lower part of her hull cleaned and painted, 'and to enable th« bnllders to fix her twin screws,' whloh are of manganese bronze. It will . be interesting to learn how. she fared crossing the Western Ocean on her gulden trip.