Regular Line to South Africa.
By Telegraph—Press Association. , Christchurch, last night.
The Sha\y, Savill, and Albion Company, the Tyser Line, and the New Zealand Shipping Company have agreed .to combine to establish a regular steamer communication between New Zealand and South Africa. The first vessel, the Otarama, leaves the colony about the 9th March.
PRICES OF FREIGHT,
Christchurch, last night,
The following freights have been fixed for the Otarama, the first boat to leave the colony for. the Cape, under the new arrangement by which the Shaw-Savill and Tyser Companies amalgamated to send a boat .every six weeks to South African ports : —Wheat 45s'; oats 05s per, 2240 lbs; flour 455; bran and. pollard' 655, and oatmeal 50s per 2800 lb?; case goods, 50s per ton measurement; compressed hay, 100 s per 2240 lbs; mutton -J-d per lb: lamb 13-16ths of a penny per lb; beef per lb.
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Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 40, 16 February 1901, Page 2
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148Regular Line to South Africa. Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 40, 16 February 1901, Page 2
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