Particulars of Accommodation.

First Saloon.—The saloons, smoking rooms, music rooms, and ladies' boudoirs are handsomely fitted. The state cabins are all amidships, large and well ventilated.

Second Saloon.—The saloons are very comfortably fitted. The sleeping cabins are roomy, well ventilated, and furnished with bedding, linen, towels, &c. Smoking rooms attached to this clans.

Intermediate Cabin.—In this class all rooms are enclosed. There will be family cabins containing sufficient berths to accommodate the families occupying them. The cabins for single men and single women will not contain more than four berths, unless a party of more than four desire to occupy one room.

Outfits.—Bedding, linen, towels, table cloths, &c, &c, as well as all mess requisites, such as soup and dinner plates, cups and saucers, knives and forks, table and tea spoons, tea pots, &c, &c, will be supplied by the Company.

Berthing.—Special compartments will be provided for the intermediate class, which will be kept clean and well attended to by the ship's stewards.

Messing.—Intermediate passengers will mess in their own compartment, food being provided by the passengers' cook and served by the stewards.

Victualling.—As regards victualling, special care will be taken to provide a daily bill of fare, which the Company trust will be approved of by the passengers.

Attendance.—A special steward will be carried, whose sole duty will be to attend to the intermediate passengers and to their compartment.

Third Class.—Third class passengers must provide themselves with bedding, mess utensils, &c., but their meals will be cooked and served by the ship's servants. The scale of provisions printed in the contract tickets is as laid down in the Passenger Acts, but in practice the following dietary is generally followed:—

Sunday	Breakfast: porridge, curry and rice, bread and butter, tea or coffee. Dinner: roast mutton, potatoes, plum pudding.
Monday	Breakfast: dry hash, bread and butter, tea or coffee. Dinner; soup, salt meat, pickles, potatoes.page 53
Tuesday	Breakfast: Irish stew, bread and butter, tea or coffee. Dinner: soup, preserved meat, potatoes or beans.
Wednesday	Breakfast: porridge, curry and rice, bread and butter, tea and coffee. Dinner: roast meat, potatoes.
Thursday	Breakfast: porridge, bread and butter, tea or coffee. Dinner: salt meat, pickles, potatoes, plum pudding.
Friday	Breakfast: Irish stew, bread and butter, tea or coffee. Dinner: soup, preserved meat, potatoes.
Saturday	Breakfast: hashed meat, bread and butter, tea or coffee. Dinner: soup, salt meat, potatoes. Tea each day: bread and butter or syrup.

As it is the Company's desire to study the comfort and convenience of all classes of passengers, as far as practicable, any communication either to the office in New Zealand or in London embodying suggestions in that direction, will receive attention, and any well-grounded complaint will be promptly inquired into:

Apply in the first instance to—

• Gray, Dawes & Co., 4, Pall Mall East, London, S. W.
• J. B. Westray & Co., 138, Leadenhall Street, London, E C.

Or to any of the Company's Agents throughout the United Kingdom.