OUR OVERSEAS TRADE.

Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13419, 17 May 1912, Page 4

OUR OVERSEAS TRADE.

ARRIVAL OF THE ORARI,

Tho fcs-,v ,v-aknd Shipping Company's steamer Oran now on her 10th 'oyage to Now Zealand arrived from "Wellington yesterday mornmg, and was berthed at tho lnuiw;:y wharf. She brings 1800 tons or general 'cargo. Tho Orari is in command of Captain Weston, who has ™ thJr nrLX tho following officers : Chief, Mr Worthingtou; second, Mr Martin: third, Mr Wood; fourth, Mr Ganick : first ongiiKx>2-, Mr Sneddon ; second Mr bhior; third, Mr Kilner; fourth, Mr Gillman; first refrigerating engineer Mr Clarke; Bwond, Mr Jordan. Mr Nackins is ohiof steward. The gross tonnage of tho Orari is 7207 tons," and her dimensions are: Length, 4GQ feet, broaden, 60 feel.; depth, 31 feet. She was built by Messrs Denny Bros., Dumbarton, in 1908. After discharging and taking in some 9000 carcases of frozen mutton and a quantity of genoral cargo, she will proceed for loading to Waitara, Port Chalmers, Lyttelton "and Timaru, Wellington being her final port of call, which ah© will leave about the end of tho month.

In order to facilitate tho handling of the inward and outward cargo arrangements have been made to work three gangs every night until eleven o'clock, and it is expected that tho operations, which are in charge of Mr J. O'Shea, the chief stevedore, will be completed by Tuesday or V^'ednosclay next. On her recent voyage from London, tho Orari came direct to Auckland. No land was sighted after passing Teneriffe until Cape Van Diem an was reached. Nor were any vessels sighted except a Castle liner near tho Cape of Good Hope, when it was learned that the strike, which was commencing when tho Orari left London jthree weeks before, was still in progress. Tho first news of tho Titanic disaster was received on the arrival of the vessel at Auckland.