ARRIVAL OF THE S.S. LLEWELLYN.

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1694, 23 July 1875, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE S.S. LLEWELLYN.

The s s Llewellyn arrived in harbour at 2 o clock this morr it g f-em Fydney. Captain Holmes re _ oris that he expeiienced vari .We winds chiefly westerly, all the way acre S3. Wade the North (ape on the 2l»t. and passed Cape Brett at 5 p m on Thursday. The LUewellyn h*s been purchased by the A.S.P. Company for the Fiji trade. Hertonnage ih 197 new, and her dimensions are as follows :—Length, 161 ft : beam. 24ft ; depth of hold, 12ft. She has compound engines of 90 horse vower nominal. Ihe diamater of her cylinders areresper.tivf lv 24 in and 45 in ; length of stroke, 2ft 6ln. She has two boilers, each Bft in diameter, under each of which are two furnaces The betters are calculated to sustain a working pre:sure _f eOlbs to the square inch The Llewellyn anchored in the stream till this morning, when she came alongside the wharf. rhe brings a Jsrge miscellaneous cargo variously consigned Passengers—Mr and Mrs rhos. Jackson, Messrs Wm. Greaves, Walter Cranston, and John Powers.

H.Ms Blanche arrived at Sydney, from Levuka on the 13th instant. The scho ncr Rover cleared out to-da^ for Gisborne with 12 tons coal and 24,0C0ft timt-er timber. The barque Robina Dunlop has taken up a ten* at the wharf outride the we.tern T. She will begin discharging to-morrow if fire.