SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
On the 18th inst.- the Westport Coal Company will commence the work of putting in over 2500 tons of coal into the the bunkers of the Opbir and her escorts, the Royal yacht taking about 800 tons. The Westport Company has already supplied to the vessels making the lloyal euise 13,000 tons, tho coaling operations commencing immediately Australia was touched —at Albany—and continuing at Melbourne and Sydney. I The Brooklyn took in about 800 tons o Westport coal last Tuesday, the coaling operations lasting till past midnight. The chief engineer of the ship expressed himself greatly pleased with the coaling facilities of the Westport Coal Company. The work was done in a more expeditious manner, he said, than at any other port in Australasia. The Ounard liner Sasonia sailed out of the Mersey the other day with 2360 passengers on board. This is probably the largest number of passengers ever carried out of the United Kingdom in one steamer.
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 15 June 1901, Page 4
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161SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 15 June 1901, Page 4
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