NORTHERN STEAMSHIP COMPANY'S MOVEMENTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXI, Issue 184, 6 August 1890, Page 4

NORTHERN STEAMSHIP COMPANY'S MOVEMENTS.

T_URSDAY.--Gairloch leaves for New Plymouth and Waitara at 1 p.m. ; lona arrives from Tauranga and Mercury Bay early, and leaves for Mercury Bay and Kuaotunu at 9 p.m. ; Clansman arrives from Whangarei. Friday.—Wellington arrives from Russell ab 6 a.m.; Clansman leaves for Tauranga at 7 p.m. ; Wellington for Whangarei, Marsden Poinb, and Parua Bay ab 8 p.m. Thames Service: The Rotomahana or Rowena leave for Thames daily.

The barque Presto cleared at Sydney for Hokianga 31st ult.

The barque Otago arrived at Melbourn 6 24th ult. from the Mauritius.

Ab the Queen-street Wharf the ketch Awarua is loading for Rarotonga.

The brigantine Enterprise Tairua yesterday, timber laden, for Dunedin.

Tho barques Northern Chief and Devonport are now loading coal at Wollongong for Auckland.

The Union S.S. Company's steamer Taieri leaves Wellington for Calcubta direct about the 25th inst.

The ship Dunedin, Captain A. Roberts, is now out 140 days from Oamaru to London, and no news of her is yet to hand.

Tho Government steamer Hinemoa laid a buoy on the Mair Bank, Whangarei Heads, yesterday, and then left for Russell and the North. The barquo Loongana, at Sydney from the Thames last week, took 28 days on the passage across, and had a very stormy experience.

•The p.s. Terranora has extended her West Coast running from Onehunga as far a- Wellington, via New Plymouth, Opunake tmd Waagan'ui.

<- ? The' r ßrifcish barque Largo Bay, having her London cargo at the Queenetreet Wharf, hauled out into the stream in ballast to-day. She sails for Lyttelton to load grain for Home.

The s.s. Te Anau arrived from Melbourne, Hobarfc, and Southern ports at 4.20 p.m. yesterday, having been delayed by strong westerly winds and heavy head sea across the' Bay of Plenty. She left Melbourne on the 22nd ult., and Gisborne at 10.30 a.m. on Monday. She loaves for Sydney this evening.

A Christchurch paper says:— " The Kate barque, is to load ab Lybtelton for Capetown. Captain Monro, her master, informs us'that he intends trying a voyage to thab porb via Torres Straib instead of by Cape Horn, the usual course. His passage hence will be* watched with interesb, aa we believe this trip of his will be the firsb made from 3STew Zealand via that route." It will >iOb be tho first, as the brigantine Stanley, hence to Porb Natal recently, went via Torres Strait;