PORT OF LYTTELTON.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11510, 17 February 1903, Page 9

PORT OF LYTTELTON.

SAILED— February 16. Taraweia, s.s., 2003 ton*, Farmer, for Wellington Passengers - Misses Benjamm, B?yan Hulbert, Maindonald, Camming, Hsndcock, and Mesdames Dorwood and child, Willy, Maoloskey, Bish, Bell Trurl nhild. M'Caliman, Anderson and child, Bolef Wilson Hasting*, Snow, Henderson and child, Plimmer, Maasey, Janisch, Rev. J. Sir H. Miller, Captain Willie, Hon J D. Ormond, Messrs Bower, M CallSan; Bennett, Green, Hayman, %%tTVc Ne n iil H | P - ?&%s'£& Klie^ruV U, jgg* H _nioAa_T Ship Connpany, agents.

The Ftfeshire leaves for Port Chalmers to- *__• new steel twin screw stoamtKp Marere, of the Tyser line, now on her way from London to Sidney, ran her epetd tnalj on December 20th. She ha* been budt and engined by Workman, Clark and Co., LubvU£, Betfart, and her dimensions are: -Length I 450 ft; breadth, 55ft; depth. 83ft 4m with a areas towage of 6448 tone. She has been X for Lloyd's highest class The cargo .pace is divided in five holds by »toe bulkKadis, extending to the upper deck, vhree of tho holds being insulated [or D .«,/j ot j; n meat, the vessel having been speciaUj fi designed for the New Zealand trade, with refrigerating niachir.cry by J. andfc. Hall Ltd., Dartfordl and London. The machinery consists of two oats of in-compound engines, having cylinders Mm 33, in ar.d 66in diameter Mspeotively, and 60in stroke, indicating about 3000 h.p. Steam v provided by four single-ended boilers, workiag at a pressure of 200.0 per square inch, under Howden's •yatem of forced draught. . , .. The Pukaki has left Nelson with the ship Wellington in tow, for Lyttelton, where ithe WelUngton is to be docked. . There _Te employed on the Union, Company's boats trading in and out of tho various ports of New Zealand 470 seamen, excluding officers, and 477 firemen, greasers, and trimmers. The total number of deck hands, inducting the officers and puraers m 759, and of engine-roomi hands, including the engineers, 664, thero being apparently a gre-ter proportion, of officers to men o_ deck than in the engine-room department.