ARRIVAL OF NEW ZEALAND STEAMSHIP COMPANY'S STEAMER TONGARIRO.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2059, 17 September 1885, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF NEW ZEALAND STEAMSHIP COM PANY'S STEAMER TONGARIRO.

IHI TnH.lUl'll. -IM^ss AssOCI VTIOV.J Pour C'humhi-., Wi-(Iih"-(I i\ TIIK TonganiD arnscd at 10 ">0 p.m. je^teiday, after ;\ passage of I~> days, tlie actual steaming tune being 12 day*. 4 hour-* :uid 3 minutes. She loft Plymouth at 1..">3 p.m. on the lit August with SH2 passengers and 2.">1 bigs of mail*. At (>.30 p.m. on the 7th it w.n di--C(>vi l red th it the main sli.vft Mas badly Inoken. Tlie engines were •^toiiiied, and the canxa--. set, and aftei a delay of 10 hours, one of Thomson's patent couplings was fitted, and the \e--sel was again put nndei steam at tlnee quarter speed, which was gradually hict eased to full speed, the coupling working admir ably. She reached Cape Tow nat 4.40 a. in on the 22nd August, and took on board font bags of mails and thiee p.i>-sengei ■>, leaving agiiu at 'i.'2'i p.m. on the iWul. llad fresh to moderate westeihe-, and passed Cipe Trewin at 4 a.m. on the Sth nist. Anchored at the Heads at 1O.")"> p.m. The Tonganro bi ings UJiO tons of caigo for Dunedui, 4."i8 for Lyttelton, 77S foi Wellington, (I*> 7 foi Auckland. No biiths oi deaths took place among the passengers. There aie l">0 nominated immigrants, principally for Nmthe.ru ports.