STEAMERS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 12648, 28 April 1903, Page 4

STEAMERS.

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■The German barque.'Lorely is loading at Liverpool for Wellington and Dunedin. • The Tyeer lino steamer- Rapallo left New . York on March 19 for Melbourne, Sydney, and New Zealand ports. . The Janet Nicoll and the Rotoma, which have been .withdrawn from the list of the Union' Steam ; Ship Company's fleet, are well .on their way to Penang. Captain-P. West (who is, we believe, a Now Zeahuider) is in command of the Jaw>t Nicoli; whilo Captain Wood (formerly of the P. and 0. , Urapany's sen-ice,) lias the Rotorna. The I Janet Nicoll carries a crew of eight Europeans Ttnd 24- Malays; the Rotorua, eight Wiropeans and 50 Malays. The new owners' have, a fleet of 12- steamers trading on the i Uimmnd Straits Settlements coasts. ' I The.s.s. Balmoral, which left Port Glial- ' mers on Tuesday last for Westport, is the ! fi",i! vessel to load coal at that port for the ! tliina,' station under the new contract entered into by the British Admiralty with HeEsre Weddell and Co. •■; The Andromeda, which is to load lumber for Sydney, left Honolulu the other day] for Humboldt Bay. She was without a ! register, and, consequently, minus a national /)?' tnou f>h she was bought by an American citizen, residing in California, Formerly a, Isorwcgiah. vessel, sho was condemned at Honolulu, and eoid to an American, who purposes flying the Stars and Stripes on her, but -before ho can do that he must expend two-thirds of her value in fitting her out. This he will do when sho arrives in Humboldt Bay; but when sho left Honolulu she had no national status whatever—no register,—a veritable marine orphan, or •ocean waif. ,0n .the 4th inst., while on her recent passage from London to Sydney, the steamship • Australasian passed an iceberg estimated at about 40ft in height. The Government steamer Nile was hauled up on Isbister's slip yesterday for general overhaul.