A NEW "CURRIE" LINER.

A NEW "CURRIE" LINER

LAUNCH OF THE JANUS.

Acording to advice received at Fremantle to-day, Messrs. Archibald Currie and Co.'s new steamer JANUS, which is to be run in their Australian and Indian line of steamships,  was launched at Jarrow-on-Tyne last week, by Palmer's Shipbuilding and Iron Co., Ltd. She is being built for Messrs. Arch. Currie and Co., of Melbourne, and is the seventh ship built by the same company for this firm. She will be employed in her owners' trade with India, etc., and will carry about 7,700 tons deadweight. Her dimensions are 400ft by 52ft. 6in. by 27ft. 6in.; speed, 12 knots. The steamer will have accommodation for 58 first-class and 32 second-class passengers. In appearance the Janus will be very similar to the company's fine steamer HYMETTUS, only larger. Captain Colin McDonald, late of the GRACCHUS, will navigate the new steamer to Australia, probably. via India.