SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 16 August 1901, Page 4

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

The Lizzie Bell Wreck

In connection with the wreck of the Lizzie Bell the following extract from a letter which a Taranaki paper has received from a correspondent at Kaipara is instructive’: —“The scow Warrior, which arrived here from Wellington, left there at the same time as the ill-fated Lizzie Bell. The master of the Warrior states that the barque followed him np until abreast of Stephens Island, when she hauled her course to about west by north, which should have taken her over to Cape Farewell. The Warrior headed north-west, and ran before a very strong wind from the south-east, which took her clear of Cape Egmont by about seventeen miles.

Anglo-French Mail Line. It was lately mentioned that the Government of Canada had granted a subsidy to the Pranco-Oanadian line of steamers. The resolution that was unanimously adopted by the Canadian Parliament was to the effect that the Government of Canada will pay to the PraneoCanadian Steam Navigation Csmpany a subvemion of . r )0,000dol. per annum for a service of not less than eighteen round voyages, which subvention may be gradually increased to a maxima sum of IOO.OOOJoI. per annum for a weekly service in summer and a bi-monthly service in winter. The termini of the voyages will be :—ln Canada, Montreal or Quebec in summer, and Halifax or St. John in winter; in France, Havre for the north, Marseilles and the Mediterranean ports for the south. The old Franco-Canadian Company is to bo reorganised, and half of the whole number of steamers employed will bo put under the French flag, and the other half under the British flag.