A Long Voyage.
The Wellington E voaing Post m nst have been asleep for a number of yeara when it said Uiat Captain Williams is likely the first person m the colonies that has started engineering works m connection, with their steamers. As> far buck as 1867 (says the Napier Telegraph) the late firm of Messrs N. Kdwar.ls and Co., Nelson, started an engineering boiler making and foundry works for repairs and alterations to their '"fleet of steamer*, the well-known West Coast Anchor lino. Thereby hangs a tale. Mr Boown) the energetic manager of those works, arrived m the colony as engineer of that magnificent specimen of maiine architecture, the p.s. Lyttelton, which vessel's steaming capabilities can be best judged by married ladies when they; hear the following, ficts that can be votTched for by at le*st one gentleman (an old'-W^eat Coaster^at present doing buaineaain our town. The captain's lady presented her loving* - spouse with a bouncing boy .twelve days after leaving London, anil he again ' received from the some source a beautiful girl four days previous to her arrival at Lyttelton; The duration of the passage, one of the rno^t eventful on record, can thus he easily calculated.— (Communicated.)
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 259, 29 September 1884, Page 2
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200A Long Voyage. Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 259, 29 September 1884, Page 2
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