PROJECTED DEPARTURES.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7620, 18 December 1886, Page 2

PROJECTED DEPARTURES.

To Anau, s.s., for Melbourne via Southern ■■-•'■ Hau P ro r K!: tv' Sydney via Poverty Bay >' ■-, :; and Auckland, 18th mst.

' The s.s. Sir Donald, Captain J. Quintan, arrived from Blackhead at 1 a.m. yesterday. ' ' She brought three passengers and a full load of wool for tho Zealandia. ■ Tho s.s. Wniroa was telegraphed as being 1 offWairoa bar early yesterday morning. Her ! movements since, then are nob known. Very \ ' likely she did not got into itho river : and has landed her passenger and cargo in boats. ■ Tho Union Steamship Company's b.s. Australia. Captain Crawshaw, arrived nlongsldo . ' thobreastwork early yesterday moromg. She loft Auckland on tho 14th, called at HIOK.S Bay ai&Tokomaru. arriving at Glsborno -on the 16th at noon ; loft again at 8 p.m.,. and arrived ns above. Experienced light winds, ' fine weather, and smooth wator on the passage. She landed n largo cargo, chiefly KstinK of sugar, and left at 11.45 a,m. same "'rCHaurotb loft Wellington at 6 p.m. yea- ' • terday, and will no doubt pnt m her appearance about noon to-day. She steams on her voyage to Sydney via Northern ports at .'.: 'tttfflSfi* known that the ■ the first company that ran a screw steamer across tho Western Ocean. They were lauKhcdfttatthotime. It was said of them - fhatthevworo trying to screw a ship across - lIS Aflontte. Their first boat was tho Kanmroo. Now . a cable boat belonging to • •• , the Eastern Extension Company, and sho ■■■ laid the wire from Wanganui to Wakapuaka, • in-Blind Bay. However, they succeeded in screwing hor across, and soon had tho finest ffno of steamers in tho trado. Up to the time ■■.. thoystarted.andlonßnfter.thereu'asnothmg . but side-wheelers running, Tho other comSanies wore tho Cunard (English mail), and SoB American Mail. Tho lattor's boats were of tho Nevada and Nebraska typo, and wore soon ran off. but the Cunard Company Kk to the Paddle until tho Inman steamera proved to tfie world that tho screw was ho • " best for sea-going ships, and forced the • Cunard Company to follow suit. The Scotia Sfhelastoftfioirßide-whcelers. Inman's . steamers wero all named after cities.