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Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11643, 22 August 1905, Page 4

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I ". AUCKLAND 1, Monday. \ Arrived—Papanui (3 p.m.), from Lonia%j via Capetown. NEW PLYMOUTH, Tuesday. ArriTod—Takapuna (3.30 a.m.), from Oaehunga, connecting with express. ;. ' • . WELLINGTON, Monday. /■Sailed—Stormbird (8.10 p.m.), for Wan5*" 1U \ • BLUFF, Tuesday. '".Amred— Wimmera (7 a.m.), from Melbourflt and Hobart, with English mail. SYDNEY, Monday. Sailed—Sierra (2 p.m.), for Auckland. ''";' ONEHUNGA, Tuesday. ■ Saifed—Muritai (11 a.m.), for WangasnL' ria Oplnake. -,'v" - . GREYMOUTH, Tuesday. '"'SsEiied— Moa (12.30 p.m.), Tor Wanganui. Tk* Gertie and Oreti got away for West£ort early this morning, the latter taking 9 shipment of cattle.. This afternoon the Stormbird arlir«d from Wellington. She returns there again to-morrow morning. Th« Joseph Sims is discharging her cargo of coal, after which she will probably return to Puponga. Tb« Muritai was to hava left Onehunga ye«t»rday, and is due here at midnight toaigkt. She i» to return north again tomorrow afternoon. The tteamer Papanui arrived at Auckland last evoaing from London, via CapetoWß^ » The «sow Maroro arrived at Sydney on Saturday last after a passage of fourteen •toys out from Wanganui. • Tk« Tyser steamer Niwaru arrived at London last Friday from Auckland. Tie T^eer «teamer Star of Australia it *fpect«a to sail from Lyttelton on Satur<foj *ext for London. : Tk« New Zealand Company's steamer Bl»utaka r which Bailed from Wellington j •a July 30th for London, arrived at Monte Video last Friday. • It is stated that the Chilian Government will establish a new gteamer service be•fcw«ii Valparaiso and the Straits of Magellaa, with a subsidy of 80,000 dollars for the first year. It ia reported (says the Times), that the tTmion Company's new steamer Atua will trade between Sydney, the Islands and Auckland, in place of the Hauroto, which would probably be sold. The Maheno will relieve the Monowai in the intercolonial service, and the latter vessel will probably relieve the Tarowera in the East Coaat trade. By crowing the Atlantic from Moville to Cape Race in four days nd six hours, the i«w turbine steamer Virginian, of the Allaa lino, has, says the Westminster Gacette, thrown all previous records completely into the shade. A couple of generations ago it was a world's wonder when the", pioneer steamers from the Old World to the New—the Sirius and. the Great Western—reached New York from Bristol in eighteen and fourteen and a half days TBspectively; and to do this the engineer of <th* Sirius had to burn everything he could lay hands on. Two years later, in 1840, the Britannia reduced the passage to tea day*; and it was thought that finality in speed had been reached when, 30 years" ago, the \Britannic knocked a day and three-quarters off this record. To-day thete.are probably a dozen steamers which can cross.the Atlantic within five and ahalf days; but the Virginian is, roughly, 24 • hours ahead of the best previous record.