SHIPPING.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume II, Issue 251, 26 September 1912, Page 1

SHIPPING.

'(For Shipping Advts. see page 2.) Sydney. Sept. 25. The OmrahS New Zealand passengers included Messrs. Bell, C. Moore. Cumming, Gear. Ross, and Moore 'and three daughters'. Parsons 'daughter and son) ; Mesdames Moore, Cooper. Parsons. Ross, Silk, and Miss Gibbons. There are 21 third class. (Received 26. 9.45 a.in.) Sydney, Sept. 26. Sailed--Moeraki, s.s.. for Auckland. THE INION LINE. The latest addition to the Union Company's fleet is the triple-screw steamer Niagara, which was recently launched at Clydebank, Glasgow, by Mrs. Borden, wife of the Prime Minister of Canada. 'By the way. Niagara, now a household word in every part ol the world, is slightly corrupted from Oni-a w-ga-rah. ‘the thunder of waters'). The Niagara is a noteworthy vessd in several respects. She is intended specially for the Canadian-Australasian service which the Union Company is to conduct under subsidies from the Canadian and New Zealand Governments, and is 13,000 tons gross measurement. She will be the largest steamei registered in Australasia. Her machinery consists of reciprocating engines driving two shafts and a low-pressure turbine driving a centre shaft, but the innovation of special interest is in connection with the boilers. Of these there are ten. In six of them steam will be generated by coal, and in four by oil fuel, while the bunkers, tanks, and boilers are all so designed that they can be adapted to carry and use oil fuel exclusively, as soon as sufficient supplies can be obtained at the ports of call. The Union Company believes that the time will soon come when native oil will he available in large quantities in Australia and New Zealand. Messrs. Andrew Weir and Co.’s steamer (Bank Line) Inveric (3113 tons nett register), which left Newcastle on September 7th for San Francisco with a cargo of coal, has been chartered by the Union Company to load at San Francisco and Vancouver tor the foui chief ports in the Dominion. She is due to commence loading at 1 ancouver on October 19th. and is to sail from San Francisco a fortnight later for Wellington, where she is due aoout 30th November. It is not generally known that the Union Company possesses two sailing vessels not mentioned in their printed time-table. One is the Dartmoor training ship. 1299 tons, and the other, according to “ Lloyd s register of shipping, the Alfred Hawle.v, of 412 tons nett register, now a coal tender at the port of Newcastle. N.S.V, . Th? latest new steamer arriving in the Dominion, belonging to the L nion Company, is th? Katoa. now at Westport, loading coal for Auckland.