LYTTELTON.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 8120, 20 September 1904, Page 3

LYTTELTON.

I ARRIVED.

\ September 2-$-— Rotomahana, s.s., 914 tons, Manning, .from Wellington. Union Steamship Company, agents.; Passengers — Misses Good, Mander, BasSett, Rutherford, Ginar, Dunn, ; Wilson, Dobbie and Muloock, Mesdames Malet, Massey, Stace, Mulcock, Dawson and child, Watt, Ruffell and three ichildren and Dobbie, Rev H. T. Purchas, Dr Levinge, Messrs Madkay, Thompson, Markey, Malet, Mulcock, Scott, Gardiner, Speri_ey, Bone, Haybarclay, Mackay, Ruffell, Stewart, Maitland, Vallock, Goldsmith; Mayer, Miokie, •-- Levinsohn, M'Lechroan, Tannor, Mountain, Bowlsy »ud Smith and forty steerage. yJt is stated that Captain Alsopp, of the . barque Kinolune, is to have command of the e-s. Storm, which is being brought out from Kfor the New Zealand coastal trado. Tnion Steamship Company's s.s. i at present having her periodical at Port Chalmers. . Rotomahana arrived from Wellingi.m. to-day. rque Devonport, from Hobart, has 118,530 feet of hardwood timber and lgs. After disobarge she is to go to ' the North Island to load timb€r for Warrnam- . 800 l on owner's account. y An ex6hangc states that Mr R. B. Painton, a •machinist, of Pennsylvania, has patented a multiple electric propeller for whioh he claims extraordinary power. A company is being formed in New York to haEdle the invention, and at a meeting it was tentatively decided to construct a vessel 660 ft in length, at a cost ot MOO.OOO, to test the propeller. The Vessel wiU have two shafts astern, three on eaoh side, and two at the bow. Each shaft carries two propellers. The motors on the shafts are connected by eleotric wires with the turbines, which generate suißoient power to attain. thousands of revolutions per minute. The inventor claims that the vessel will be Hbta to 'cross tho Atlantic in three da j* s.