OVERSEA VESSELS FOE WELLINGTON.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11644, 23 August 1905, Page 4

OVERSEA VESSELS FOE WELLINGTON.

STEAMERS. Havenhain Grange, left New York, June , " 28, via Australia and Auckland; due about September 16. Bnis Huel, left New York, June 14, via 'Australia and Auckland; due about ' September 2. • Ifamari, left London, July 7, via Lyttelton; now at Port Chalmers. Star of Scotland, left London, June 24, via Australia and Auckland; due about August 26. Burgeraeister Hackman, left New York, June 16, via Auckland; due about • August 25. Imdradevi, left New York, July 12, via Australia and Auckland; due about .September 28. Star of New Zealand, left London, July 12, via Australia and%'Auckland; due about September 20. Turakina, left London, July 14, via Capetown and Hobart; due about August v 80. Bsmx, left. Liverpool, June 10, via Australia and Auckland;"due about Aug. 19; now at Melbourne. ' Drayton Grange, left Liverpool, July 11, via Australia and Auckland; due about September 18. Kent, left Liverpool, July 25, via Australia and Auckland. Corinthic, left London, July 25, via Capetorn and Hobart. vas unable to discharge yesterday afternoon owing to the rain. She was expected- to have got away this afternoon for Wellington. The Muritai "passed Opunake this morn-. ing, and was expected here on this afternoon's tide. She leaves early to-morrow morning on the return journey to Onehungt, via Opunake. To-morrow morning the Moa is due from Greymouth, with a cargo of coal. Sh© is to return there in the afternoon. The Alexander left Nelson at mid-day to-day, and is due here to-morrow morning. She also sails ■in the afternoon for Greymouth. It is slated by the Southland Times that the 2600 tons of cargo which the Mamari brimgs to ,Bluff Harbour i« the greatest quantity of imports that has ever been brought to that port from Home in one bottom. They congratulate the Importers' Association on the results of their efforts to secure direct shipments. ' Dumkirk journals give details of the arrival of the Eoyal Adelaide, an old English man-o'-war, in that port to be broken up. She is described as having been built at Plymouth more than two centuries ago, and to have taken part in the battle of Trafalgar. For a long time past she is said to have served as a hulk, and she is now; moored at one of the quays as a show before being taken possession of by,the •hip-breaker 3. The Delta, the last new steam, ship under the P. and O. Company's flag, was launched at Belfast on July 4 by Messrs Workman, • Clark and Co. 'She is a hand-somely-modelled twin-screw steamer of oven 800Q tons gross, and, was specially designed for the company's trade to India and China. The arrangements of the passenger accommodation of thiß vessel have* received special attention, the state rooms throughout being fine, roomy apartments, while the arrangements and decorations of the various public ropms are such as to make them most comfortable and pleasing to the eye. The machinery consists of two sets of quadruple expansion engines, haying improved auxiliaries, with two ' double-ended and four single-ended steel multitubular boilers, which have also been constructed by the builders.