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Grey River Argus, 29 February 1908, Page 2

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Clyde from Wellington

The Waverley arrives here this morning- from Nelson and Westport. She sails at q a.m. for Westport and Picton. The Kennedy .i&due here on Monday forenoon from Wellington, via Nelson ad Westport, and sails same day for Foxton direct. ' The Arahura leaves Wellington at 1 1 o'clock to-night for Grey and is due on Monday morning. (She takes her departure for North at 8 o'clock the same evening. The Hawea and Kaituna leave Lytteicon to-day for Grey direct. The former on arrival loads timber for •Lyttellon and Timaru and the latter loads coal and timber for Wellington. The Jap was towed to sea yesterday afternoon bound for Sydney with a cargo of white pine timber. Thp Pukaki arrived last night from Lyttelton -and .sails to-morrow morning for Wellington and Lyttelton, coal laden. The Flora coal aaul timber laden, took her departure last night for Bluff Dunedin and Timaru. The Kittawa coal laden for New Plymouth and Onehunga^ sailed last night via Westport. Captain Cash man, late of the U.S.S. j Company's Karitane, assumes command of the Defence 'launch Lady Roberts at Port Chalmers. A correspondent of the New Zealand Herald gives some interesting information regarding' the first steamers builtin- New Zealand. The. first steamer, he states, was built by Mr Stone, of Auckland, some time in the early fifties, and was called the Governor Wynyard. The engines were constructed by Messrs Bolrne and Dove, "of the same city. The vessel was nob a financial success in New Zealand watj ers, and she was taken to Melbourne j where the diggings had been just preI vionsly discovered. The Governor

W;ynyard then carried on a service between Melbourne and Hobson's Bay and did very well. The second steamer bujlt in Auckland was by tKe Messrs Tizardj and was called the City of Auckland. She was built about 1857, and ended her career a short time subsequently in St. George's Bay, .Wait-e-mat-a Harbor. The third steamer, built in New Zealand' was also unfor;uaate. S£e was built to sail fqr the Otago diggings, When some evil disposed villain let the water out of the boilers, with the result tha* the vessel came to grief, in a hurricane. .On arrival at Wellington from the Southern lighthouses and West Coast Sounds, the Government steamer Hinemoa will be withdrawn for repairs to her engiines. .The tender of A. Hadecke, Rangiora, .£6Bo o .for the repairs in the engine-room was. 1 accepted. As Lyttelton is the._nearest p_ort to Rangiora, the Hinemoa will "be laid up here while the repairs are*"effected. . Probably the largest, shipment of wool to leave New Zealand in a single bottom this season is that carried by the Shaw Savill-White Star steamer Delphic, which left Lyttelton on Sunday; February gth, for London. (This hi «r carcro carrier has on.- board a very tti wW lias iiugc au^j^vi ...m loaded at the following- ports-—Wel-lington 5045 bales, Bluff 3754 bales Dunedun 5235 bales, Gisborne 1036 bales 3 and Lyttelton 1083 bales. The record shipment from Australasia this season was that loaded by the steamer Hyson, which had under hatches 24,410 bales of wool. Other ibig cargoes loaded in Australia this .season £TiT Van s Tsze ' 1Q ' 358 b - ales ' Scottish Monarch, 18,390 bales Goslar 17---162 bales, Kasama, 17,762 bales and Port Chalmers 15206 bales. A gang of men is at work at Godley Head cutting a track from the top of the hill down to th e site of the fog signal, which is 80ft above sea level. As soon as the track is completed the automatic explosive fog signal, which is now in Wellington awaiting transhipment -to Lyttelton t will b a set up, and should be ready for use in about a couple of months' .ijime. • The training- .ship. Ampkura left I Auckland on Saturday night for the Bay, of Islands. The, vessel has been engaged in practice in the liaurak Guif, and made one cruia R as fax as Kawau.