ARRIVAL OF THE S.S. HAWEA.

Evening Star, Issue 3837, 11 June 1875, Page 3

ARRIVAL OF THE S.S. HAWEA.

This morning the signals at the Flagstaff announced that a steamer was in sight to the southward of the Heads, and shortly afterwards the vessel made her appearance, proving to be the Union Steam Company’s new steamer Hawea, from Glasgow, under the command of Captain Wheeler, late of the N. Z. Company’s s.s. Taranaki. The Hawea is a fine iron vessel of 461 tons register, and of the following dimensions Length, 215 ft, beam, 27ft, by a depth of hold of 14ft, with a full hoop and top gallant forecastle. She has a magnificent saloon, most handsomely fitted up, which will accommodate between sixty and peventy first-class passengers. There is also accommodation for twenty-two second-class. The vessel is fitted with every convenience, and has two ladies’ cabins, besides lavatories, smoking rooms, &c. She is propelled by engines of 165 horse-power nominal, indicating 900h.p. She Was built by William Denny and Brothers, of Dunbarton, under the superintendence of Jtfr John Doling, the Company’s engineer. She brings eighteen saloon passengers—twelve for this port, and six for Lyttelton and Wellington, and steamed up the harbor. The Hawea moored alongside the railway pier shortly before 1 p.m, On the wharf had assembled a large number of persons, who were anxious to welcome back Captain Wheeler, to whom we are indebted for the following report of the Hawea’s passage She left Greenock on the 16th of April, and anchored at Rothsay nay the same evening where she remained until 5 a.m. on the 7th; had fine weather until catching the N.E. trades on the 16th in lat. 23, N., which were carried to 5 N. : put into St. Vincent at 8 o.m. on the 18th, took in 230 tons of coal, and left at 8 p.ra. on the 20th; crossedthe Equator on the 26th and got the N.E. trades next day in 2 S which were fresh Vcarried them to the‘Cape, at which port she put in at 8 a.m. on the 11th, Took in thirty tons of ballast, and left again at 8.30 same evening, and thence had a continu ance of fine weather: passed the meridian of 1 asmania on the 6th of Juue, and ran down her easting in 44 S. The Hawea’s engine:; were stopped owing to the thick weather on the evening of the 9th, but she made tho S.W. Capo ft daylight yesterday, passed the Solander at noon, and arrived at the Heads this morning, having made the passage under steam, including pcteutions, in sixty-four days. Her daily cousumption of fuel, upon an average, during the passage, was 9J with sixty-four, revolu-* tions, showing 9.1 knots^eriiour.' ! Between the] Solander and the Nuggets she averaged knots, with a consumption of 12 tons of coal per day. a ; : ,