PROJECTED DEPARTURES.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 10625, 2 June 1897, Page 2

PROJECTED DEPARTURES.

Angus',), 8.8., for Bouthorn ports, Jnno 4th. TflTft'.vom, b,b. for Northern ports and bydtoy, June 6th, These Dintradee arrved from Wellington

Bt noon yostorday, wan borthort at; tho hreaetwork, and there risrhargcd about. 40 tons cargo. Phethon 1 a'ied up about thp same amount for Northern pins, and Inking Iho runaway Harbor Board punt in tow, Bho left Star Gtoborno at 6 n m Tho SB. Weka has jupt eomo off tho pIId (it ■the Western Spit, who>o elm has bow icdjlvlag am overhaul. Yenteiday s-o UioftlucrKo tor the ooaar, and loft I •■>*■ evoking for Mahia and Glsborre. -^ The exporlonoo ot the American nhlo T, F. Oake» on her rooent long voyage of 259 days from Hongkong to Now York has oxolted Unusual attention and hard feeling against the captain on account of tho terrible state of. Iho crew. The marine hospital uootors Bay the man ■were Buffeting {com aouvvy and starvation, for whloh thero was no exnuse, The captain has been arrested and hold in lSOOdol ball for tho grand jury, 'while the ehtp haa been libelled by thoorowfor claims amountJdr9J,OOMoI. thaa the > 'Fo8t":-Some months ago wo mentioned that a Blenheim ayndtosito promooed running a steamer in opposition to the Opawa In the Blenhclm-Wolhngton trade It now appears that a Wellington party hasalßO %ad a similar project undsr consideration, and had advanced Its arrangements so far that) Ouptaln Clark resigned his position as mate of theOpawa to proceed to Napier to bring tho stoamer Pania to Wellington. Ao tiio last moment a hitch has ooonrred, it k having been found that the Blenheim and I Wellington parties were both In treaty with k ' Captain Davidson, owner of the Pania, for ■ itho purchase of the Bteamer, whllo It Is Bald m so. Auckland party la also after hor. Thuß the matter now stands. The Pania is a comparatively nsw Bteamor of about 40 tons, and was built by Mr Holtnos, of Auckland.