DEPARTURES

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 696, 15 May 1879, Page 2

DEPARTURES

MAY. 15— Hawea, s.s., Kennedy, master, for Southern Ports. Passengers : — Messrs. Baker, Kingston, Braddary, Hansen, Radford, Seymour, Mesdames Ehodes, Pierce, Miss Doutswell, and Masters Williams, and Bourke.

The following is extracted from a letter which recently appeared in the " Saturday Advertiser " : — Owing to the recent loss of their coasting steamers, the one following immediately after the other, the Union Steam Ship Company have been unable to offer travellers the accommodation they are entitled to look for. Prompt steps, however, have been taken to augment their fleet. They have not only forestalled the two steamers building on the Clyde, by closing for the purchase of a vessel at Home, in every respect equal to the Taupo, and which they expect in the colony by the end of July, but they are also in treaty for a fourth, of a still better class. By next spring the company look forward to having at their command steamers possessing speed and accommodation far excelling any hitherto plying in the waters, either intercolonially or on the seaboard of New Zealand. In the meantime the directors ask the public to rest assured that ere long every inconvenience arising from the loss of the Taranakf and Taupo will be more than remedied. — Yours &c, W. P. Wheeler, Secretary.

A correspondent of the Auckland Star sends the following respecting the Union S.S. Co.'s new vessels :— The Penguin will arrive in two months from date. The Claud Hamilton, having broken her crank shaft, is under repair at Melbourne for a month. In the meantime the Wellington and West Coast goods and passengers will arrive via the Bluff and Dunedin, and will be transhipped North. The Rotomahana will leave the Clyde in the middle of July and London on the sth August. TheAnan will arrive here by Christmas from London.

According to the Nelson Colonist, Capt. Cromarty,, late of the Taupo, has finally left the service of the Union Steamship Company.