OCEAN-GOING STEAMERS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 12214, 2 August 1910, Page 4

OCEAN-GOING STEAMERS.

Calilergrove, from Liverpool (Muy 20); due nt Auckland about August 8. Rakoia, from Montreal (May 21) ; due at Auckland about August 1. lonic, from Plymouth (June 25); due at Wellington about August 8. Strnthclyde, from New York (May 19); due at Auckland about August 8. Indraghiri, from New York (June 6); due at Auckland about August 14. Ngatoro from Glasgow (Juno 8); due at Wellington about August 20. Turakinn, from London (July 7) ; due at Wellington about August 23. Nuritai, from London (July 1); due at Auckland about August 26. The Union S.S. Co's Hauroto arrives from south curly to-morrow morning, and sails for Auckland later. The Tuatoa leaves the wharf at 6 a.m. and 10 a.m. The Union S.S. Co's Monowni is to leave Auckland at 6 p.m. to-day, and arrives here to-morrow afternoon, proceeding south during the evening. Tho steamer calls m at Tokomaru Bay on the run down. The. Tuatea leaves the wharf on arrival and at 7 p.m. The Union S.S. Co's Squall left Auckland at 7 o'clock last night foil: Tolaga Bay and Gisborne, and should arrive hetfe to-morrow morning, and berth at tho Wharf with the tide. She returns later for Auckland direct. The Union S.S. Co's Flora is expected to leave Auckland at noon ■ to-morrow for Coast ports and Gisborne. The s.s. Rotoiti, it is reported, has been withdrawn from the Hobart-Strahan-Melboiirnc trade, and is now out of ' commission at Melbourne. The steamer has not received the suppgrt (hat was anticipated. The closing down of the Tasmaniaii smelters has contri-' butcd to this result. The company's Wainui is to by reinstated m the trade. Between £2000 and £3000 has been expended m overhauling and renovating the Wainui. Having passed beyond tho experimental stnge the employment of combination engines for long voyage passenger -liners continues to make headway. Curiously enough, it is m vessels engoged m trading between England and Australia and New Zealand that the adoption of this type of engine is most m vviuence (remarks tho Sydney Telegraph). The latest Orient liner to blp built on the Clyde will have duplicate sets, of reciprocating "engines for her wing propellers, with a lowpressure turbine for her midships screw. In (his respect she will be similar to the 12,000 ton liner Demosthenes, which the AberdeenWhite Star line will place m their LondonAustralian service about April of next year. The New Zealand Shipping Company have the credit of being pioneers m this respect, so far as the Antipodean trade is concerned. About a year ago their cargo vessel Otaki, which has combination engines, made her maiden voyage to New Zealand ports. Built as she was on similar lines to one of the company,'* fullpowered steamers possessing the ordinary type of reciprocating engines, the owners are able very accurately to draw comparisons between the performances of the two types. That the New Zealand Shipping Company are satisfied as to the advantages of combination engines is proved by the fact that their Jatest passenger steamer, the Rotoiua, is engined on the same linos as the Otaki. The promise is that for liners not needing a very high speed, combination engines will find increasing favor.