The Mapourika Launched.
-♦ =- GREYMOUTH, March 10. The Mapourika was launched this morning, at 9,30 o'clock,' Everything .passed off most successfully, the steamer gliding gracefully into the river, and-was subsequently.towed. to the I wharf by a tug. < • r The Westland breakwater was crowded with spectators; about 6000. Numbers came fromjleei'ton, Hokitika, Kumara and Brunnerton to witnesß the launching. ! As the vessel reached the water the crowd cheered lustily. The vessels in port were flying bunting, and the' day is observed almost as a holiday.-
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Thames Advertiser, Volume XXIX, Issue 9296, 11 March 1899, Page 4
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