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[PKBSS AQBtfCY.] THE STEAMER TAUPO ASHORE. Tauranga, February 18. The Uniou Company's steamer Taupo is supposed to be ashore at Stoney Point, Mount Mangatapu, at the entrance to the harbor. A steamer was despatched at seven this morning, but has not yet returned. Later. The Taupo is ashore, as reported; but they hope to get her off next tide, and run her ashore on the sand. The mails and passe.ig«rs are all a;»f»\ They are now discharging cargo. THE PROPOSED DIRECT STEAM SERVICE. Wellington, February 18. The Chronicle is informed that the Government have received further correspondence from the enclosing correspondence from -.Messrs Gall>raith and Dennv, the well-known shipowners, re the proposed direct stemi service. They suggest a twomon lily service a< sufficient for present requirements. They of a superior class, with anaverage speed of 12| knots. The outward voya e, \i.i the Cape of Good Htpe, to occupy firty-two tlavs ; and the'homeward, via Suez Canal, forty days. Tliey want an eiyht years' contract, and ask f r a subsidy of .t 80,000 annually. Sir J. Vogel urge* the Government to accept the service.
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Kumara Times, Issue 745, 18 February 1879, Page 2
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