SHAW, SAVILL AND ALBION COMPANY'S STEAMER MOVEMENTS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2263, 15 July 1897, Page 46

SHAW, SAVILL AND ALBION COMPANY'S STEAMER MOVEMENTS.

• Gothic.—Left Plymouth for Wellington 12th j June; due in Wellington 28fch Julp. • lonic—Left Lyttelton for London 24th June; , ] due at Plymouth 3rd August. Tokomaru.—Left London for Auckland June 5; j due in Auckland 2Blh July. Aotca.—To leave I ondon 10th July for Port ' Chalmers; due Port Chalmers 28th August. . »Maori.—Arrived Wellington from London Bth July ; leaves for Lyttelton 15th, docks, and comes on to Port Chalmers to load meat, &c , about 23rd Inst.; leaves colony finally from Wellington about 31st inst. Pakeha.—At Wellington; to leave there 15th j inst. for London. j Rangatira.—Arrived London from Port Chal- » mers SOch June ; expected leave London for Auckland about 17th July. Mamari.—Arrived London from Lytteltou 2nd July. Matatua.—Left Lyttelton for London 23rd May ; left Monte Video 15th June. The Board of Trade have received, through the Foreign Office, a gold watch and chain for Mr John Wilson (master), a binocular glass for Mr George Ross (first mate), and gold medals for Gilbert Martin (quartermaster), and James F. Mouat (boatswain) of the s.s. Fifeshire, of Glasgow, which have been awarded to them by the President of the_ TJnited States in recognition of their heroic services in effecting the rescue of the shipwrecked crew of the American ship Pattician on August 28 last. The latest addition to the P. and O. Company's splendid fleet is the s.s. Egypt, recently launched by Mesßrs Caird and Co., of Greenock. She is a vessel of 7200 tons gross. She will have engines of 11,000-horse power, will carry 500 passengers, and be classed 100 Al at Lloyds'. The completion of the new- cruisers Terrible and Powerful is an event of historic interest. They have a displacement of 14,200 tons each, and aie by far the largest cruisers in the world, as well as being the swiftest vessels of this class. Their speed is 21£ knots, or about 25 mileß, an hour. They are a notable, advance in warship building, because they combine in somedegree_ the swiftness of the cruiser type with the immunity from shell fire of a battleship. Not only are they efficiently protected with arinoiir-plating, but they have a powerful armament of 47 of the most modern and deadly guns, the biggest of which weighs over 20 tons. Captain M'Leap, late of the s.s. Ocrinna, has pone Home on leave of übsenre. He will biii.g cut the Union S.S. Company's new steamer iioitoti, from. Glasgow. The line steamer Bar.ff.-hire, which sailed from Lyttelton for London on the 7th, h?,d the following car^o:—s4^9 bales -wool aud skins, 203 casks tallow, 16 do pelt". '.171 hides, 10,15t3 casss meats, 320 ba?- hori^s, 34 bales leather, 12 pkgs sundries, 24,547 carcases, 87 bags, 159 pkg3 mutton, 9577 forequarters, 14,880 hindquarters, 2771 pieces beef, and 500 cases kidueys. Of this she took on board at Townsville: 1592 bales, 103 casks tallow, 1600 cases meats, 5 pkgs sundries, 5048 forequartew, 5959 hindquarters, 193 pieces beef, and 320 carcases mutton At Rockhampton : 3293 bales, 67 casks tallow, 371 hides, 6425 cases meats, 320 bags horns, 3i bales leather, 2 pkgs sundries, 122 forequartere, 5669 hindquarters, 2578 pieces beef, 37 bags, 159 pkgs mutton. At Brisbane : 684 bales. 33 casks tallow, 1? do pelts, 8131 cases meats, 5 pkgs sundries, 2641 forequarters, 3252 hindquarters beef. At Lyttelton: 24,227 carcases mutton and 500 cases kidneys. The s.s. Kawatiri, from the Bluff, steamed into the graving dock on Thursday for cleaning and painting. During the week ending July 11 the following ressels have been at the Dunedin wharves :— Arrivals : Herald, s.b., 356 tons; Isabella Anderson, schooner, 97 tons; Corinna, s.s., 820 tons; Napier, s.s., 48 tons (twice); Poherua, s.s., 749 tons ; Wakatipu, s.s., 1258 tons ; Waihora, s.s., 1269 tons ;—total, 4645 tons. Departures : Invercargill, s.s., 123 tons; Enterprise, brigantine, 84 tons; Napier, s.s., 4S tons; Poherua, s.s., 857 tons; Marmion, schooner, 92 tons; Herald, s.s., 356 tons ; Corinna, b.b., 820 tons; Wakatipu, s.s., 1258 tons ;—to J 1, 3282 tons. The s.s. Waiaora, from Sydney, via East Coast eortj, arrived at Port Chalmers at 9.30 p.m. on Sunday. She left the U.S.S. Company's iMargaret street wharf, Sydney, on June 30, at 5 p.m., and reached Auckland on the sth inst.

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