STEAMER CROYDON OVERDUE.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume II, Issue 43, 3 February 1912, Page 2

STEAMER CROYDON OVERDUE.

FORTY DAYS FROM ’FRISCO. Auckland. Feb. 2. It is now time that the Australian Mail Line steam er Croydon, which left San Francisco on December 22. for Auckland, was reported, and b.w arrival is looked for daily. Undec ordinary circumstances she shorn ' have put in an appearance at tire beginning of last week, but she is mev ferry days out. Inquiry litis <-n made in regard to the vessel on is land steamers that have arriv'd, ui. nothing has been elicited as to her whereabouts.' It is probable il:.n:. she has met with the stormy - w::ub experienced in those regions recent ly, and that her progress has U en hindered.

On inquiry at the office of Mess, s J. C. Speddmg and Co., who are the local agents for the Australian .’lai' Line, it was stated that the i >-.m I s non-appearance was causing nr; w xicty. Steamers of the Grey mu's type came down under easy stem.,, and a day or two one way or \ •,/’ other was not a very serious matt - r The vessel was 1- to mate calls ;;i Pago Pago, Apia, Vavu and NukaIcfa. and in i iew of the hurricanes in the Islands, it was expected that the stcimri vouh 1 Ipvc difficulty in ef~ f< < ut g rose h i g<

Hie t rovdon has a large gene ral cargo from Frisco. 600 tons of which is ror New Zealand ports. The steamer, which has not made a trip to Auckland previously, is 3757 tons burden, and under ccmmnnd of Captain McLean. Sb" n•built by J. L. Thompson and Sons, Ltd., at Sutherland, in 1898, for the Homeric Steamship Go.

The last vessel to visit Auckland from ’Frisco under the Mail Line flag was the Strathnrdle, which arrived on December bth after a passage of 33 days.