The Direct Service.
THE IONIC.
The New Zealand Shipping Con)* oany's chartered steamer lonic, which left lijtteHon for London, vis Rio Janeiro, on Tuesday evening, took 115 passenger*. 'I'heJJ steamer carries a «rew numbering 9.9, and left with 1400 tons of coal m her bunkers. HeX cargo was equal to .4500 tons measurement, and the circumstance is significant that she was not large enough to take all the freight the New Zealand Shipping Oompany were asked to; find room for. She also had on board £65,000 worth of gold. Her frozen meat cargo conwts of 12,672 sheep altogether, beM sides 100 leg< of mutton shipped at Dnnedin. The lonic will also take as a present to the Prince of Wa'es some goods manufactured by the fltosgiol Woollen Factory, and frostfish from Canterbury
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 188, 16 July 1883, Page 2
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132The Direct Service. Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 188, 16 July 1883, Page 2
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