SAILING SHIPS:

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLVII, Issue 12273, 6 September 1904, Page 4

SAILING SHIPS:

Maelgwyn, left Liverpool May 20. 'Andora, left New York June 1. Marie, left Philadelphia June 9. Tho Stormbird airrived: at the Heads Wharf yesterday. She was to hare come up to th© Town Whn rf at 5 o'clock tikis morning. The Tyser. liner s.s. Indradevi left the loadstead lor Londdnj '.via Wellington and way ports, at:B o'clock last night, having on board the following cargo fctkipped from this poi't—9l44 carcases mutton, 2590 quarters beef, 144 carcases lamb, and 261 crates of pieces. In addition to the meat, •the vessel shipped 200 bales of wool and 200 casks from this port. The hulk Coi-omandel, which has been acquired from John Mill and Co. by the Government for the storage of State «oal, is to be placed on 'the patent slip eJhortly foi" a cleaning and painting. The Aparima, from Calcutta and Singapore, arrived at Auckland yesterday. On August 22 she broke one propeller shaft close to the engine. Repairs were effected by means of a coupling chain in forty hours.- Meanwhile the steamer was making eight knots Avith her other propellor. The average speed to Auckland ■with the two' engines -was 10 knots. An Auckland wire says 'that the barque 'Helens aiTty^d fironi.Lyttelton, late ye,s'terday, afternoon,, with; a cargo, of 450 tons ', ,of Nproduce. : iThe passage occupied. 22 days,, arid was a,,stormy one. ~,0-ff Portland Island the yeseel^ encouii.tiEl.red a. ;heaA ry, gale, Avhioli'lastec^.a- ,^iei ek. ! ',..Shfi; was diiivan 150' miles from.l^nd;. arid Tv-as] hove-to while the gale lasted.