AN OVERDUE VESSEL

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12420, 9 December 1908, Page 2

AN OVERDUE VESSEL

THE DON POSTED. TPrt Association — Copyright.l London. Dpc. 7. Tho «hip The Don. • from London to Nfllson. Now Zealand, has been posted as overdue ." Tf'e barque Don. Ca r tain flinkp, left London on , August sth, bound for Nelson, md is therefore 126 -*aya out; Sbe is chartered by the Sha-v.- Savill and Albion Company, and consign o**0 ** to Messrs Levin and Co.. Ltd." -She hn«i on board about 1700 tons of gonernl oirgo for local consigning, n large quantity being Christmas stock, so that tbe. dnlay in her arrival is causing somß in convenience. It was reported a few days ago that a sailing . vess«l was snen a long way off Rocks Point, whioh may have ben the Don. Tbe Gladys, which loft Liverpool on August 6tb for Wellington armed at ber destination a few days ago.