HIGH WATER AT WAIRAU BAR.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLII, Issue 103, 2 May 1908, Page 4

HIGH WATER AT WAIRAU BAR.

Picton 3h., Havelock 3h. 15mm., Nelson 32. 10m., later than Wairau ■'■■. Bar.

The Oreti arrived at Picton with coal from Westport during the night.

The Alexander is due at Picton from the West Coast with a cargo of State coal on Monday. Her destination on discharge is' Nelson.

Outward passengers for Wellington this day per Pateena':—Misses Ross, Anderson, Pearson; Mesdames Anderson, Birdling, Slow, Timms, Low 5 Messrs Low, Bartlett, Robertson, Galvin.

Captain Hunter, late of the Pateena and Penguin, went south on ' Thursday night to take charge of the " Rotolnahana for the run to Australia. ' Gaptain Manning was transferred from the Rotomahana to the Mararoa

at Lyttelton yesterday, and Captain Newton will retain command of the turbine steamer Maori. The Mararoa made her first trip in the LytteltonWellington service yesterday, after her return from Australia. The steamer Pateena is well-known for her consistent steaming performances. Lately, however, she has been making some more than usually smart passages in the Wellington-Picton-Nelson -service. Her Thursday night's trip from Picton to Wellington was especially fast, the time from "full speed ahead " to the first stop off the wharf being 3 hours 20 minutes, or just over 15 knots per hour. This is the more creditable when it is remembered that the Pateena is a 14| knot boat.

:ay 2 ay 3 7.7 a.m. 7.58 a.m. ■ 7.30 p.m. 8.21 p.m.