ISLAND SHIPPING.
Writing under date of Noumea (New Caledonia), August 20fch, a correspondent sends the following particulars as to the shipping movements in the, islands :— Have just returned from Long Island, one of the Chesterfield Group, where Messrs Desmazurea, Maning and Co. are engaged in the collection and shipment of guano. The Clansman, schooner, of Auckland, ■which brought to Noumea a iot of Loyalty and New Hebrides natives, whose time of service had expired, also carried 270 tons guano, which goes to Dunedin. At Long Island the Waireka, schooner, of Auckland, was loading guano for Invcrcargill, and would probably sail about the 12th inst. The Sydney whaling barque Menschikoff was anchored off Bates Island, inside the reef. She has been there since the middle of June, much too early for the whales, and reported having met with indifferent success.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXI, Issue 215, 11 September 1890, Page 4
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