DELAYS TO SHIPPING.
CONDITIONS ON THE WEST COAST. • For some days past heavy seas have been . running along the west coast, with gales and rain at intervals. The Union Company's steamer Penguin which arrived at Oneiiunga from Wellington and New Plymouth on Saturday morning experienced a very rough time. While on the run down on the return trip to NeW Plymouth wild seas were encountered. The Penguin arrived at Onehunga shortly before sex en j a.m. on Saturday, and left again for New ( Plymouth at 10.50 a.m., reaching the lat- £ ter port about 12 o'clock' the same night. * An hour later the steamer sailed. again for { Onehunga, at which port she berthed fit t two o'clock • yesterday afternoon. Rig ' seas, were again met with", but the Manu- ( kan bar had moderated. " •' Like the Penguin, the Northern Com- j puny's steamer Rarawa also experienced a rough time along the coast. 4 The steamer Muvitai, which left Onehunga on Friday for Opunake and Wa- } nganui, only got as far as the Manukau ) Heads, where she waited until Saturday ( morning, when, the crossing of the bar still being impracticable, she returned to port. . ] — ~~~ * " (
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13746, 11 May 1908, Page 5
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190DELAYS TO SHIPPING. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13746, 11 May 1908, Page 5
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