A LONG VOYAGE.
The Wellington Evening Post must have been asleep for a number of years when it said that Captain Williams is likely the first person in the colonies that has started engineering works in connection with their steamers. As far back as 1867 (savs the Napier Telegraph) the late firm of Messrs N. Edwards and Co.. Nelson, started an engineering boiler making and foundry works for repairs and alterations to their fleet of steamers, the well-known West Coast Anchor line. Thereby hang a tale. Mr Brown, the energetic manager of those works, arrived in the colony as engineer of that magnificent specimen of marine architecture, the p.s. Lyttelton, which vessel’s steaming capabilities can be best judged by married bodies when they hear the following tacts that can be vouched for by at least one gentleman (an old West Coaster) at present doing business in out town. The captain’s lady presented her loving spouse with a bouncing boy twelve days after leaving London, and he again received from the same source a beautiful girl four days previous to her arrival at Lyttelton. The duration of the passage, one of the most eventful on record, can thus be easily calculated.—-Correspondent.
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Temuka Leader, Issue 1257, 25 October 1884, Page 3
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200A LONG VOYAGE. Temuka Leader, Issue 1257, 25 October 1884, Page 3
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