PATEA COMPANY ORDERS NEW SHIP.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13664, 1 April 1908, Page 12

PATEA COMPANY ORDERS NEW SHIP.

Wellington, April 1. — The- Patea Shipping .Company' ha» let. a> contract for; a now; steamer for, the Patea*-Wel-lington trade to John Fullerton and Co., ot^Korth. JBrit«iß. Thi& firm built the Klpiti and .Himitangi. The new steamer ytiU ■> be < of ; about the same dimensions as the Kapiti, She will be brought out by Captain Dixon, of the Kiripaka. i -.\

, t Tfee.Cpxinnfk, 4s .xluftjiere to-morrow morning from Lyttelton direct. She will jpraqeed to , pnehuoga , oil Friday evening and leave there' for' New Plymouth on Monday. She will sail for South on' Tuesday. The MuHtai came alongside the breakwater yesterday for water. She has since been able to work Opunake, for which port she 'had 60 tons of cargo. ' " The Taka-puna and the Rotoiti went back to their' old 'running yesterday. The Takapuna sailed for South at 6.30 p.m., and the Rotoiti for 'North -«t the usual time. The Takapuna's cargo included hides, 22 cases of bacon from the Inglewood Factory, 500 boxes of butter for Dominion use, and general cargo. According to the Lyttelton Times, very little cargo is offering at present on the coast for' Homeward-bound steamers, although the passenger lists are well filled on all boats. The passenger season has commenced. There are a number of boats on the Dominion's coast, and many of them will go away with unfilletl v space in their hulls. Though turret steamers were introduced in 1893 V the Union Company's new steamer Koromiko. now at Dunedin, is the first vessel of that type to visit that port (says the Star). The Koromiko, like her class, was not built to ' represent « shipbuilding spectacle, and is anything but" pretty. 'She is a aplendidly-oquippedj solid, strong cargo-carrier, and is ugly, like- a prize bull-dog. In brief, the Koromiko. is a. maritime navvy, built to do hard work. She is constructed of ■todLJui«'.g%' dojjb^fcsisgiid^ singularly ugly sides, a raised spar deck\< ana four prodigwus hatches. Two niasts >re carried, wd , with .eiflftt derricks each,' which expedite handling of cargo. Tho.JKoromiko on her tsial trip attained a fep^ecl of Hi knots gie'r hour.