Messrs Laery and Co., Ltd., have received advice from the Crown Milling Co.. Ltd., Dunedin, for whom they act as agents, of a reduction in price of the “Crown” brand of flour to £8 per ton, f.o.b. Dunedin.
The Union Company's new turbine steamer Loongana was successfully launched from Messrs Denny’s yard at Dumbarton on Thursday, 2nd inst. (says the “Otago Daily Times.”) She is intended to run an express service between Melbourne and Launceston, and her advent in that trade is being looked forward to with great interest, as she will he the first steamer fitted with turbine engines to be seen south of the line, and will mark an epoch in colonial shipping. The Loongana has a gross tonnage of 2500 lons, and. her indicated horse-power will be 5000. {: : ■ ■ ■ V..v rly: T. iS'Mm'Mmmm
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1685, 15 June 1904, Page 77 (Supplement)
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