ARRIVAL OF THE OPAWA.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 15552, 6 September 1912, Page 4

ARRIVAL OF THE OPAWA.

'flio New Zcalttiul Shipping Company s Mcanier Oiniwti arrived hi l'orl Chalmers yesterday jiiorning, and stemmed up to the powder ground, where she nnchorctl for Iho purposo of landing nbont 6000 packages of explosive!. Mr Williams, her second olliccr, reports Hint the Opawa took her departure from London nl 4 ii.m. Un .Inly lb,, alter spending tlto linnl 56 hours in the 1 names taking ou bond close on 203 lons of explosives. Thick, rainy weather was oxperieiiced in the Channel, but the Opawa Inul u lino weather ikhsuro across Iho Hay of lliscav, anil paused Tcncriffo at 10 p.m. on July' 25. Light trade winds and Eno weather continued until the Capo ot Good. llopo was rounded at 5 a.m. on August 15 in smooth, calm weather. Crossing Hie Southern Ocean the vessel run into a Ircsh brceio from the 8.5.V., and these conditions prevailed until reaching latitude 47 S., when n strong N.W. gale sprang up, lasting for about 50 hours, after which the weather moderated and continued line until the Snares were passed at 4 a.m. on Wednesday, thenco light northerly winds with mist,'on ncaring the Heads, where she anchored at 2 a.m. vestcrday, and canto up to Port Chalmers aWit 9 a.m. The voyage throughout was entirely devoid of specuil incident. > In addition to a very large general cargo, Iho Opawa brought six Clydesdale stallions for/till* port, and ono for Lyttclton, also n ; number of fattcv pigeons and canaries, all of which arrived in good condition.. "< As roon as pratique had been granted, Iho Opawa commenced discharging her explosives, and it is expected that Iho remainder will be discharged by this ; evening. Owing to her deep draught (24ft 3m) the Opawa will probably have to discharge «omo of her «rgo ot Port Chalmers heforo coming up to Dunedin to complete unloading. Site has a considerable amount of general cargo for Timarti and Lyttelton. Captain .1. J. Cameron. U.N.K., is still tn command of the Opawa. and has naoriut<xl with him tho following ofticers: Chief Mr L. Goddard (ex W'akamn): second, Mr H. M. Williams, 11X.H.: third. Mr .1. Galton: fourth, Mr L. C. Newman (late second, of Oceana). Kngmcers: Chief. Mr C. Rush: and Messrs G. Hartwoll. K. Mock. ' K. MeikW. C. Dogs'hun. anil J. Froylcy us second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth resnectirolv. Messrs W. F. Gurncy and J. U. Haider are chief and second refrigerating engineers, and Mr H. Lambert is steward-in-chargo.