VESSELS EXPECTED.

Auckland Star, Volume XX, Issue 288, 4 December 1889, Page 4

VESSELS EXPECTED.

Wanaka, p.a., from the South, Thursday Omapere, s.s., from the South, Thursday Mahinapua, s.s. (at Onehonga), from the

South, Friday Rebecca, bq., from Newcastle, Nov. 22 Levuka, barque, from Hamburg, October 2 Sarah Pile, brgn., from Townsville, early Olivo, scb., from YVallis, Niue, Apia, early Sharpshooter, barque, from Ba,Fiji, to load Canterbury, ah., from London, Sept. 18

JMary S. Amos, barque, from New York,

via Lytteltoir-, sailed September 5 Wakefield, barque, from Wellington, early Wenona, barque, from Newcastle, Nov. 12 Stanley, brgn., from Newcastle, Nov. 19 Essex, barquo, from New York, Nov. 10 Three Cheers, schooner, from Newcastle,

Nov. 27 Grecian Bond, brigantine, from Newcastle,

Nov. 27 Mariposa, I>.M.S., from San Francisco,

vsailed Nov. 16 Jessie Niccol, schooner, from Long Island,

early India,' Norwegian barque, from Melbourne,

early Northern Chief, barque, from Newcastle, November 29th

Persian Empire, ship, from London, loading

Inwards Coastwise, — Saucy Kate, schooner, from Whangaroa, with sawn timber.

The steamer llingarooma to-day, at the Railway Wharf, was shipping a quantity of railway sleepers, etc., tor tho South.

At the Quay sbreob jetty tho ship Morning Light is proceeding with the discharge of her grain from Lyttelton. The American barquo E. Webster is lying in the stream, awaiting the departure of tho Lurline for New York to follow her on the loading berth.

To-morrow morning early the steamer Arawata comes oub of the CiilHope Dock after haying undergone her periodical overhaul and cleaning, and will start' to load up for her usual Fiji ports.

The New Zealand Shipping Company have received advices that their large chartered cargo steamer, Duke of Westminster, is expected to arrive at Auckland about the 20bh of January next frotn the Cape, making this her first porb of call in the colony. She takes in a quantity of produce, frozen meat, etc , here ior Home, and completes her loading in the South.

The North German Lloyd fine new steamship Kaiser Wilhelm 11., the largest merchant vessel that has ever visited Sydney, reached tliab port a few days ago from Bremen via ports, with passengers and cargo. The ship is said to be from end to end a masterpiece.of naval architfigbure and quite a marvel of artistic skill. The Kaiser Wilhelm 11. brought out over 700 pasaengere for thecotonies.*- Of these soo were in the steerage. She is*a vessel of 6,950 tons register, the largest and most magnificent boat in the North German Company's tieet, and largor than tho P. and O. steamer Arcadia.

The New Zealand Shipping Company have of lato had to charter quite a number of sailing vessels outside their own fleet to keep up with their colonial trade. The latest charter reported ia thab of a fine largo iron ship called the Persian Empire, which has started loading at London for Auckland. She is a vessel of 1,532 tone, larger than any in the New Zealand Steamship Company's sailing fleet. She is a rather old vessel, having bean built at Wast Hartlepool in 1865 by Pile, Spencer and Co. She is owned by Messrs G. Duncan and Co., London, and is now in command of Captain J. R. H. Ward. She is 230 ft in length, with 24'9£t depth of hold. She should complete her loading shortly for this port.