ARRIVAL OF THE MAORI.

Otago Witness, Issue 2085, 8 February 1894, Page 37

ARRIVAL OF THE MAORI.

The Maori, the lateßt addition to the Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company's fleet of cargo Bteamers, which arrived off the heads on the 30th, was brought into port next morning under the charge of Pilot M'Donald, and came to anchor in the lower harbour, having on board some 700 packages of gunpowder. She had 3500 tons for here and 2200 tons for Lyttelton. The Maori was launched from the yards of Messrs C. S. Swan and Hunter, Wallsend, in August last, and her dimensions are : — Length over all, 415 f t; breadth, 48ft ; depth moulded, 32ft 6in. She is built on the three-deck type, with poop, long bridge, house, and long topgallant forecastle. The bridge deck is 96tt, the poop deck 39ft, and topgallant forecastle 82ft. Water ballast is provided on the cellular double-bottomed principle throughout, and she has aix watertight bulkheads. The deck machinery includes eight powerful steam winches. She is fitted with triple cylinder engines, manufactured by the Central Marine Engineerin 5 Company, West Hartlepool, the dimensions of the cylinders being 29in, 46in. and 77in, with a length of stroke of 48in. She has been specially constructed for the frozen meat trade, having six refrigerating engines, with space in her cool chambers for the storage of 70,000 carcases of mutton. Her saloon, though small, is a very neat apartment, and is under the fore part of the bridge deck. Her officers' quarters are also under the bridge deck, and the engineers' quarters in the after part of the bridge deck. The whole ef her decks are of planking instead of iron, as in many of the cargo vessels. The Maori is under the command of Captain Scotland, has been an uneventful one, with the exception of sighting a large quantity of icebergs off the Cape of Good Hope and for six days afterwards.