NEW ZEALAND SHIPPING CO.'S. FLEET.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10816, 5 December 1902, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND SHIPPING CO.'S. FLEET.

Wellington, instead of .Auckland, has been substituted for s "the New Zealand Shipping .Company's' steamer *Wakanuiss final port' of call: She is due at" Wellington on Monday, and" 'will sail for London on the 11th instant; The'Pap'anui sails today or 'to-morrow for the South -with the remainder of her cargo .from London. The * Tiirakina is due .at -Wellington from Lyttelton on the, 17th -instant, and salils lor London on-thei;24th« », Th.e,- Waimate is expected at Picton- from; t|he South on the^ 12th instant., -She- .will yisit.-Wanganui,. Waitara, Napier,- and Wellington, sailing early in January, .from tLyttel^on for London. -'■>» ' , „-*.'

" ••> . •* ■ « t -i. The Amelia Sims, which arrivo'd from Collingwood at noon to-day, drifted oiv to the Putiki shore, ' opposite the cattle r wharf, and stuck for some time. The Oreti, which left for Greymouth at noon to-day, took a shipment of cattle. She will load at that port and return to Wan1 ganui. Mr J. L. Stevenson, the Jocal agent for tne. Tyser Line, Ltd., has been advised that the first steamer of the season to, load at this port for London, will be the s.s. Indralema, due about the 15th instant. Incidentally, the report of the Royal Commission' which inquired into the condition of the s.s. Balmain said that the evidence did not phow, that Mr Sneddon, the^, owner of the vessel* had any knowledge - of her stata after the survey of February, 1902, while it did prove- that all the re•pairs he was called VP rin to make were made, and that tic did not demur in the slightost to the expenditure of any sum of money that ' was demanded of him. ' The

substance of tho report has already been published. ■ Some time ago a remarkable burial at dea took place off the. Goodwin .Sands, 1 when the body of Captain Richard Marsden, R.N.A.,< of Gravescnd, formerly for iiinctecn years harbormaster of the port of London at Gravescnd, and a county justice of Ifent, was committed to the deep. The body, contained in a shell in ii "polished oak coflin, was conveyed to .sea forHburial, in accordance with. a- wish the deceased gentleman had expressed in his .will, no was born at sea, and married •at sea. Tha departure of the.t-ug, Bribannia,; on which '"the body * was pla,co'd, was 1 witnesses by- large 'crowds of people. . On {ho* boa'tft iii'- the river flags were at halfmast.- The b'o'djr was committed to the ',deep a few^ mifps'bpyond the Mouse Lightsliip, 'and almost out or sight" of land. The. Rev. B. Shaw, ' of London, conducted the funerar's'e.rvicte, which* was qf a, simple but *v^rx ■im'|jrcssiVe i cliaractcr. ' The weather ' wsiq Jcaihcr rotig-li,- and thc^cofßn, on being .loyrpred overboard, was carried ■ away- by a large wave, but being weighted with •an '.auclior and chains it, soon sank^. Many '■jwrca'ths* wcro sent, arid these ,. all. went down with the coffin. The , .Himalaya arrived at Fremantle, front London, on. Wednesday, with a num'ber,,of, passengers for New Zealand. T|ie steamer Aotea, 'of the Shaw, Savill Vndj Albion line, after a voyage 0f, 46 days, arrived at London on Tuesday morning. As a result" of the alteration of sailing dates (the Sydney steamers 'sailing from •Wellington, on Fridays), a day longer^ will be,- .spent in v Sydney, as Saturday will* continue to be the day of departure from the .latter port., In order to gain the necessary 24 hours lo ensure Friday as the sailing date for the Sydney bound steamers Kfrom Wellington, Hobart will be left a few <liou.rs earlier than hitherto to allow of. the of the boats at the Bluff on Monday mornings. The alterations, commence 10-morfow week. J • ,