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Kumara Times, Issue 783, 3 April 1879, Page 1

UNION STEAMSHIP COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND, LIMITED. The above Company’s Eoyal Mail Steamers are appointed to leave (circumstances permitting) as under : For Melbourne Direct— CLAUD HAMILTON, Capt. Muir, on Wednesday, the 2nd April. For Nelson and Wellington, transhipping Passengers to Lyttelton, Dunedin, Bluff Harbor, and Melbourne— CLAUD HAMILTON, Capt. Muir, For Westport, Nelson, Lyttelton, and Dunedin— MAORI, Capt. Bernech, on Tuesday, the 15th April. Unless passengers book at the office of the Agents one hour prior to the demrtuie of the tender Dispatch (from Greymouth) or Waipara (from Hokiika) they will require to pay their own s are over the bar. Owing to the inconvenience caused rhrough visitors crossing the bar, all persons going to the roadstead will be charged the ordinary rates of fare. For freight or passage apply to the Company’s agents, J. A. BONAR, Hokitika. NANOARROW and CO., Greymouth. ORIENT LINE OF STEAMSHIPS FOR LONDON. VIA THE SUEZ CANAL. The following fnll-powered Steamships, built and fitted expressly for carrying passengers on long ocean voyages, are each of about 4000 tons register, and make the voyage in about 40 days. They are fitted with Punkahs attached to the main engines, and steanhheating apparatus on the most approved principle, and are thoroughly ventilated for the tropics : John Elder Aconcagua Chimborazo Lusitania Cuzco PARES: Saloon, 60 to 75 guineas Second saloon, 35 guineas Third class (enclosed cabins), 20 to 22 guineas Open berths, for men only, 16 guineas. Apply, in London, to P, Green and Co., and Anderson, Anderson and Co., Managers of the Orient Steam Navigation Company (Limited); and in Melbourne, to BRIGHT BROS, and CO., Agents, 36 Flinders lane west, Melbourne, IJORRES STRAITS LINE. STEAM TO EUROPE, INDIA, CHINA, JAPAN, AND ALL QUEENSLAND PORTS. One of the Company’s steamers leaves Sydney every four weeks for Singapore and Hong Kon<r, under mail contract, connecting at Signapore with the Peninsula and Oriental Company, and Message lies Maritimes steamers for India and Europe (via Suez). Passengers booked at through rates to Queensland, Europe, and Eastern Ports. Tea and other cargo booked in Hong Kong at through rates to all New Zea°land ports for transhipment to Union Company’s steamers at Sydney. All information can be obtained from BRIGHT BROS, and CO., Dunedin, . General Agents for New Zealand ; Qt, UNION S.S. COMPANY, Christchurch and Lyttelton.