["Shipping", The Inquirer & Commercial News (Perth, WA), Friday 13 April 1894, page 18]
Shipping.
Port of Fremantle.
Arrived.--April 5.
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April 6.
EMU, steamer, 616 tons (Adelaide S.S. Co., Ltd.), Thos. M. Allen, from Melbourne...
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The fine steamers Tekapo and Buninyong have just been pressed into the service for conveying contingents of the army of prospectors still waiting at the ports in the colonies to the eastward for the means of transport to Albany, Fremantle or Geraldton, on the way to the goldfields. The Tekapo (formerly the Cape Clear) is a vessel of vast capacity, and belongs to the U.S.S. Co. of New Zealand; she was built at Greenook in 1881, her gross tonnage being 2439. The Buninyong, which was built at Barrow in 1888, belongs to Messrs. Howard, Smith & Sons, of Melbourne, has a gross tonnage of 2070, and is well-known as a favorite passenger boat between Melbourne and Sydney.
Captain Allen reports that the Emu left Melbourne at midnight on the 26th ult. South-westerly winds and fine weather were experienced on the run to Adelaide, which was reached at 10.50 a.m. on the 29th ult. Departure was taken for Albany at 5 o'clock on the same afternoon. Strong south westerly winds with head sea were encountered during the run across the Bight. Albany was reached at 1.30 a.m. on Wednesday morning, and a start was made for Fremanle 6 1/2 hours later. Rottnest light was sighted 2.50 last Friday, and the Emu slowed down, the jetty being reached at 8 o'clock.
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