UNION S.S. COMPANY'S MOVEMENTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 72, 26 March 1891, Page 4

UNION S.S. COMPANY'S MOVEMENTS.

Saturday.—Alameda arrives from Honolulu and leaves for Sydney ; Wanaka leaves Onehunga.

The schooner Winifred left Sydney last week for Fiji.

The schooner Rio arrived at Napier yesterday from Newcastle. The well-known ship Canterbury is loading at Oamaru for London. The Fleione, ship, is now on her way out from London to Nelson. The ship Pleiades, Capt. Morton, is now loading at Napier for London. The brigantine Linda Weber, Captain Dickson, sails for Rarotonga next week. The R.M.s. Alameda, from San Francisco, should arrive here to-morrow night. The ship Deveron, late from Howland Island, has left Sydney for London with wool. The locally-owned barque Devonport is loadine coals at \\ ollongong (N.S.W.) for Auckland. The s.s. Hauroto does not leave for Southern ports and Melbourne until 11 o'clock to-night. The brigantine Oamaru, Capt. Richards, left Edithburg (S.A.) on tho 11th instant, laden with salt. The barquentine Edith May, of Sydney, 6as been chartered to run in the New Zoaland trade for a time. The barque William Turner, Captain Berry, should be up here again shortly from Fiji with sugar. The Grecian Bend, barquentine, Capt. Stirling, is now running in the MelbourneClarence River trade. The Hinemoa is the name of a large British ship of 2,200 tons now on a voyage out from.London to Melbourne. Before very long tho schooner Olive, Capt. Ross, nhould be showing up here again from' Long Island, guano-laden. The iron barque Ganymede, Captain Alliston, whioh was here recently, sailed from Newcastle on the 14th inst., for •* Guam." The British iron barque Willowbank, which loaded here last year for London, is now on her way out from Home to Fremantle (W.A.). Before leaving again on her New Caledonian round, the s.s. Little Agnes will make a couple of trips henco up to the Bay of Islands for coal. The cutter Leo, purchased lately by Mr "W. A. Harvey for the coasting trade, is being stripped, caulked, and re-coppered on Messrs Henderson and Spraggon's slip. Mr H. G. Subritzsky's coastal trading schooner Medora is in again from the North and Russell with a load of 40 bales flax, 125 sacks and caseß kauri gum, and sundries. The barque Hippolyta, bound to Brisbane from London, Novomber 12th, was towed into Newcastle last week in a disabled condition, having lost her foremast and main topgallant mast. The well-known British iron barque Largo Bay, Captain Smith, of which Auckland shipping people will have a vivid remembrance, is now on her way from London to Cairns (Q.). The German barque Valparaiso has go* the greater portion of her cargo for New York aboard ab the Queen-street Wharf. She has still about 160 tons dressed flax and 360 cases gum to take in. Aucklanders will remember the Swedish barque Stavanger, Capt. Lundwark, which put in here in distress from the Islands a couple of years ago and was repaired. She is now en route from the Baltic to Adelaide" The ship Leading Wind has been shifted to the Railway Wharf, where the work of repairing her injured hull is going on. The planking injured by her burning and scuttling in the harbour recently is being replaced, and various other jobs of re-fit- j ting are proceeding. News from Wellington states that the steamer Rowena, formerly of Auckland, which was purchased recently for £550, has undergoneathoroughoverhaul,_ndshelutely went for a trial trip round the harbour. Her machinery worked to the entire satisfaction'of the Inspector.