PROJECTED DEPARTURES

West Coast Times, Issue 7194, 17 September 1888, Page 2

PROJECTED DEPARTURES

Kennedy, for northern ports, Sept. 18. Aorere for Jackson's Bay and way ports on the 18th September.

The Kennedy is expected from northrm ports this day, and is announoed to sail to* morrow at 8 a.m. Tho Waipara sailed for Greymouth on Saturday afternoon, and will return to-day. The new steamship Wilcannia, started on her pioneer voyage to Australia on July 24, proceeding by the Cape of Good Hope. This ii another vessel supplied to the " King " by Mr Lund, and is far more powerful and commodious than the Hubbuck, which has already given a good account of herself. At full speed the Wileannia, which is 2000 effective, horse-power, can travel 15 knots an kour. A mean of 11, or at the moat, 12 knots trill be kept up during the voyage, and at this rate the vessel would be due in Adelaide at the end of the first wdek in September. From Adelaide the vessel proceeds to Malbourne — having on deck a magnificent Pullman car for the Centennial Exhibition—and afterfrardt to Sydney. The outward cargo is a general one, but the ship will bring home colonial wool and silver ore from the Barrier Beef ranges, Mr Land having undertaken a large contract in regard to the shipment of the latter. A few third-olass passengers go out in the Wilcannia, which is under the command of Mr Henry George Thomas, late first officer of the Hubbuck. Mr Walter Pentin, who was second officer on board this Teasel, and who holds a master's certificate, is now chief of the Wilcannia, and the second, third, and fourth officers are respectively Mr Cooper, Mr Smith, and Mr Bennett, all of whom are well known in connection with tbe Australian trade. The schooner Aratapu, which it will be remembered put into Sydney on her way from Tairua, New Zealand, to Melbourne, with her judder damaged, and which proceeded on her voyage a few days ago, returned to port, not having been able to beat through Bais Straits. Captain Dillner, formerly of the Ooean Bover, is in Sydney to take charge of the iarquentine Jessie, so long tinder the command of the late Captain Euxton, her owner.