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■W'inaka completed loading and it 5 a.m. to-day, taking with her ,'irkland from the local port 600 {produce. She sailed via Timaru. 'iVone arrived at Oamaru at 0.30 •tf-day tn>m Lytteltou- She will 'a cJns u * produce for Picton, t and Gisborne, for which ports Jjpccted to sail about midnight. flora is due at Oamaru to-uior-Ight to load ior Wellington, I'icB d the Coast. ■

Wanaka, after discharging afc ind will proceed, to iNapier, wnere |[ take in 32U0 sheep ior Lytteleiti" due at that port of January from Lyttelton she will proceed naru to discharge sugar and load . e for Auckland, sailing via iiluu iniaru. mst.ng details regarding the ,'rof the m:.mmoi.h cumiruei Aqui-5-hich will be the largest steamer. world, were gtven at a recent meetthe l.lasgow Harbor Trust. Apnn was made by the Clyde LigntTrust to deposit 1,000,000 cubic of dredged material upon a cerrea on the lower reacnes of the It was stated that the removal fimarily to permit of the Aquibeing taken out to the open sea. -kel is expected to be launched in iag of this year, and by next year readv tor "commission. _ She is tons" burden, and it is intended en and deepen the Clyde chanuelJlr Raeburn, Chairman of the stated that the Aquitania was a ohtem, and every hour of their ould be required for the dredgieveral local authorities objected application, but after reassuring ents had been made by the pro- . these were withdrawn.

he Fairfield shipbuilding yards on her 23rd there was launched For nadian Pacific Railway Company rbine-driven steamer Empress of isTer ship to the Empress of Rust into the water from an adjoinik three months ago. Both vese for the Vancouver, Yokohama, Mgkong service, and whencomand on their stations they will be ly the larpest and fastest, but in way the first vessels in Pacific Each vessel measures 590 ft in 6Sit in breadth, and 46ffc in and is of 1-5,000 tons gross, and itract speed is 18 knots per hour. feo has accommodation for 1100 •ers. 6eing 200 first class, UJO class, and £OO third class. To safety the hulls are subdivided ierous bulkheads, closely spaced, e vessels will remain afloat alas many as four compartments lie flooded.