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Dunstan Times, Issue 562, 24 January 1873, Page 2

CHUIiCII 0 : F ENGLAND. s SERVICES will be held as follows: February Morning. 28 Black’s 2 Clyde 9 Alexandra Evening. Clyde Cromwell Clyde Services fur Baptisms at Clyde February 9 at 4. 30 p.m. The annual collection for tbe Melanesian Mission will be made at Clyde on Sunday evening January 20. , J. JONES. POSTAL NOTICE. o Mails close at this Office. For Great Britain, America, &c., via San Francisco, on Sunday’, * the 9th ,February at 9 p.m. J. HONYWILL, Postmaster. Abstract oe Sales by Auction. —o—(See Advertisements). Geo. Faehe, on Saturday the 25th inst., at Clyde—Eight to occupy Grand Stand, &c., during ensuing Race Meeting. Geo. Faehe, on Monday the 27th inst., at Alexandra—Valuable water-race and mining property. Fames & Stanbrook, on Friday the 31st hist., at Dry bread—Hotel and Store, Groceries, Drapery, Horses, &c. ANSWER TO CORRESPONDENT. C M.D.— The first steam ship which crossed the Atlantic Ocean from Great Britain to America was the Sirius, of seven'hundred tons burden and three hundred and twenty' horse power. She sailed from Cork on the 4th of April, 1838, arrived at New York early on the 23rd of the same month. The Sirius was followed by the Great Western, of one thousand three hundred tons burden and four hundred and sixty horse power. The Great Western left Bristol on the Bth of April, and reached New York on the 23rd, the same day as the Sirius, but some hours later, having averaged between eight and nine miles an hour.