ARRIVALS.
30 — Rotorua, s.s., Carey, master, from Southern Ports. Passengers :— Rev. Father Reignier, Messrs. White, Kelly, and Mrs. Archdeacon/ Williams. ; . . 30— tfesse, schooner, from the Bay of. Islands, with a cargo of coal.
The following were the tenders received for the raising of the Taupo: — (1.) For raising the s.a. Tattoo, bringing her to Auckland, and docking her. (2.) For raising the Taupp, bringing: her tp Auckland, and docking and repairing her.— For the first tenders : T. Niccol and W. Ware, £5,500 ; Sifts and Browni £10,000 ; Jag. McEwin, £9,900; C. Hawkeswood, £14,000. Messrs. Fraser and Tiune, £13,000. The latest addition the P. and O. Company's fleet, the Kaiser Hind, built by MessrsHbaird and Co., Greenock, performed the distance m January last from Bombay to Southampton m tho shdrb time; of 16 days' .l 2 libur3 (6,039) miles, the fastest delivery m London yet accomplished. She made the run from Bombay to Suez m nine days 18 hours, averaging 13 knots. Caird and Co. are :iiow Inrilding f or . the same company two other steamers, to be called Anconia and Verora, and they will be crack ships of 3200 tons each ; they have also six of tjfiJßir steamers to reboiler, so as to be m the best state to 'enter on their new contract next year.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 664, 31 March 1879, Page 2
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