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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10132, 15 May 1896, Page 1 (Supplement)

The new Northern Company's steamer Waimarie, which has been specially built for the trade between Auckland and the Upper Thames, underwent a very satisfactory trial trip in the harbour on April 20.' There were a large number of gentlemen interested in the company on board The Waimarie was built by Mr. R. Logan, senr., of the North Shore, and was launched from his yard on the reclamation near the ; Freezing Works, in February last. The" vessel is entirely lighted by electricity,' being the first boat of the Northern Steamship Company's fleet to he so illuminated. The dimensions of the steamer ! are :- Length overall, 123 »est, keel, 108 feat 5 beam, 22 feeb; depth of hold, 8 feet 6 inches. She is fitted with two hoids, and will carry about 200 tons of cargo oh a draught) of 5 feet 9 inches, or when light 4 feed 6 inches. ; At a sale of relics in the 'estate of the late Renato Eawepo at Napier, last week, Maori mats fetched as high as £5; two greenstone meres were sold at £10 and £19 respectively, said to be 350 years old; and a taiha, the original property:of Tataia the I First, , the ancestor of the leading chiefs of Hawke's Bay, was bought by Mr. Lowry, who has presented it to Mr. Brofighton, Mr, P.. D. McLean purchased for £11 the , sword presented to xtenata by the late Sir Donald McLean On behalf of Her Majesty the Queen. , 0 - ; ' Seals are reported to be rapidly xncreasing . : in the Sounds and about the. *«. Ministers have in • view ; th?,; fcß^Dg; M • lor their■ prot#o6Wß»