A BUSY PORT.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 141, 13 June 1912, Page 7

A BUSY PORT.

SKIPPING FOR AUCKLAND.

I There are afc present an unusually | liar _ number oi deep water steamers a_d sailers in port, and by Monday ne__ iit is expected that the berthage accom-1 modation at a_ the wharves will be fully occupied. I Already there is a demand for more j berths at the Railway wharf than can be supplied, and the Melbourne Steam-, ship Co.'s steamer Melbourne, which ar-! rived from Newcastle with coal this morning is lying in the stream awaiting the departure of the Union Co.'s Kurow I •before she can go alongside. In addition to the Kurow, which is landing West Coast coal, there are at the l__wa.y| wharf the tramp steamer Biv_ Clyde! with Christmas Island phosphate, the Nairnshire, from Liverpool, with gen-i eral cargo, the Oan Ogilvy irom New-1 castle with coal, and the barques Hazel Craig and Northern Chief. The big White Star liner Zealandic is discharging' Home cargo at the Queen-street whaxf, while at Chelsea the Blackball Coal Co.'a, Ngahere ia landing Greymout_ coal. At I Hahson-streefc the small steamer Chilota is completing overhaul, and the 6chooner| 1 Samoa at 'No. 4 jetty is T____erga_ng a.-| terations. The cable repair steamer Iris. ■is at <ber moorings off the Devonport i -wharf, awaiting orders to to sea. It is expected -that the Sh_w-Sa_U j Delphic _H arrive from London direct j late this aiternoon, and she will go to the Powder Ground at Mbtiiihi Island to j ,l__id explosives be_o.e coming up to tbej I Railway wharf. The Wahka is due from Southern ports with produce 'to-morrow, and the Navua, the mid-week passenger ! steamer from Dirnedin and way ports, may be erpected about noon on the same day. Cable information received 'by the local agents indicates that the Tofca will make port from Sydney and the Friendly Islands on Saturday mornin<. and the turbine steamer Maheno I may be expected from Sydney direct earlv-oruSiimiay afternoon. TheHanroto is due from Fiji on Monday, and the |Wa_t-or-, irom Newcastle on that evening.