OVERSEA SHIPPING.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10959, 27 December 1911, Page 4

OVERSEA SHIPPING.

£Br Electric Telegi:.wh—Copyright.] (Per Press A.s.-ociation.) Received Deot-mlit-r 2U, at 2.30 p.m. . ' Sydney. December 26. ) —llimaroa, from Wellington. Received December 26, at 8.5 p.m. Sydney, December 26. Arrived (at noon). —Mooltan. _ Fremantle, December 26. .•Arrived. —Orontes, from London.

x rRECORD SHIP-BUILDING.

' , London, December 25. >Two„ hundred and ninety vessels with . ?■»"- tonnage of 1,054,019 tons were launched on tbe north-east coast bnild.~S yards in 1911, establishing a record. The_ontput on the Clyde was "403 vessels.-. also a record.

A PERILOUS TRIP.

Received December 27, at 9.50 a.m. . ' ' Sydney, December 27... .line barque Stromsbo, bound from -iNeiwastle to Pern, has returned to Syd..9?^- hadly damaged. She met terrific .weather and' all her sails were ■ blown practically tbe whole deck fittings were washed overboard, and sho forced to put- back for repairs.

. ferry STEAMERS collide.

■ • • Sydney, December 26. In : a collision between the ferry boats - r £? and Kirribilli 20ffc of the bulthe latter were carried away. Chie: passenger was injured, but not seriously.

BERIBERI

Received December 27, at 10.25 a.m. Sydney, December 27. * " -® l ® _ barquentine Oberon has .been to.wed into Newcastle. The sickness ••hoard was found to be beriberi. The sufferers have been removed to the hospital.

THE BAY OF BISCAY.

Received December 27, at 9.30 a.m. London, December 26. £ The steamer Lincairn, which has arrived ,in the Clyde, picked up seven rrew of the English steamer (jnflleinet, which foundered in the Bay ofVßiscay. Sixteen others of the crew The Lincairn also witnessed the foundering of an unknown Spanish steamer, hut was unable to rescue anyone.

WRECK OF THE DELHI.

-j .• • • ' London, December 26. •►The -Marconi operator that was on the Delhi says he readily communicated with the French warship and Cadiz, but ifc'was some time before Gibraltar or a British warship acknowleflged his signals.

THE WARATAH.

(Pes Peess Association.) Anckland, December . 27. lifebuoy bearing the name "Waratah," covered with barnacles, has been found, afc- Waiuku, off the west coast. Unfortunately the name, which was very clear when the buoy was found, was destroyed by the finder when removing the harnacles.