LATE NEWS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 230, 26 September 1906, Page 4

LATE NEWS.

The C.ineas. — Cambrian, who won tte Ou:r..--.i3. pairl a dividend of £.1 I",'. Nursery Handicap. - Quadroon 1, 2. Frontino ". p i-c-( ••i'.eci- - i\iy ar.d Martfa. Woa by a !en;jtu. Time 52 2-se. Dividends —XL 17/ and Phimpicn H-ai:dirap. — ALarana 1. Apolrgue 1\ V.ail:at.> 3. S.-ratcfced - ;:;.-!-1.-.oj-ie and ( iaremcnt. V,cn by a length. Time 1.45 1-5. fti-.-IdenCs - - £1 15/ and £.2 2 . Kingiland HacrMcap. - Fcsrl Necklet ..,; _ Aaua Keg.a Keep Step, Inteni&l. Wen by a lengili. Time 1.19 1-6.

The s.s. Te Anau left Gisborne at 10.30 a.m. to-day, and should arrive at Auckland about the same hour to-morrow. The steamer Como, 5137 tons, left New York on September sth for Melbourne, Sydney, Auckland, Wellington, L/ytteaton, and Port Chalmers. Messrs. Lave and Sons are building at their Auckland yards a 2Sft fishing boat for Napier. She will be fitted with a 5 h.p. Zealandia engine. ' The s.s. Kotoiti arrived at 5.30 o'clock this morning from Wellington, via ports. She left .again for NfifW Plymouth, Nelson and Wellington this afternoon. The R.M..S. Sierra, en route from San Francisco, left Honolulu at midnight last Wednesday for Auckland, via Samoa. The vessel, which is well up to echeduie time, j should reach Anckland next Monday afternoon or evening. The Northern S.S. Co. has placed an order with Messrs. Lane and Sons, Auckland, for an auxilia-ry scow for river trade. She will be 35ft long by 12ft beam, and is to be fitted with a five horse-power Price engine. She is being built to carry deck , cargo. i Arrangements have been made for Ihe fine White 'Star liner lonic to vlslc Auckland to load dairy product. , tuid general cargo on or about the SOrJi October next for lx»n- i don. This will be the first occasion "U which this splendid steamer, wliir-h its a sister ship to zhc Lorimnjo, lias vislied Auckland. Tlifl s.s. Torgauten arrived at 3 a.m. today from Wellington. 'J'he trip up occupied 36 hour.s only. Previous to arriving at Wellington tlie Torjruuten had something of an experience at Port liobinson, near Cheviot. Fit a week she was in thnt port, which is litlln more lh.in an open .bay, and at nLght . slir- had tf> heave anchor ajifl steam out to - sen. For two days it was so rough .that no unloading could be done, and the method adopted iv removing cargv* tvsls rather ■ unique. A lighter was lised, and when ' loaded was pulled through the snrf and up skids inco a shed. In a. similar majiner when loading, the lighter was piLed up with cargo inside the shed, then released down the skid, and hauled alongside the ship.