SHIPPING NOTES.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12364, 1 December 1905, Page 9

SHIPPING NOTES.

The schooner Morning Light, timber laden from Wartapu, arrived yesterday morning and anciiored in the stream at 6.45 a.m. The vessel waß afterwards berthed at tho Gladstone Pier. Th* Morning -_ff_t left Waitapu at 10 o'clock on Mw.day night, and experienced strong westerly winds throughout the trip. 'Ike Union Steam Ship Company advises that its new turbine steamer Moneno will .cave Sydney for Vancouver on April 16th, relieving the Now Zealand Shipping Company's steamer Aorangi in that trade. Tho schooner Amelia Sims left Wellington on Wednesday, for Oolhugwood. where she is to load timber for L. .iciton. The following well-known steamers lately beionging to the Heath Line, Ltd., have been purchased by. Messrs Harris and Dixon, London : —Heathcraig, Heat-burn, Heauhlord, and iieathgien. The four-masted barque General Roberts, 19U tons register, built by Messrs Russell and Co., Greenock, in 1881, and owned by Messrs Lewis, Davies and Co., Liverpool, has been sold to Norwegians for lAxAit £6050. Tbe iron four-masted barque Euphrates, 1573 tons register, buiit by Mossrs H. Murray and Co., Port Glasgow, in 1879, and owned by Mr W. Bowen, Greenock, has been sold to Norwegians for £4150. The German iron barque Minnie Cords, 658 tons, has beon purchased by Mr Svon. O. Stray, Chriy tiania, for about £14C0. Last month, at Hamburg, tie iron ship Anemone (ex MoCaJlum More), 1596 tons register, built by Messrs R. Duncan and Co., Port Glasgow, in 1833, was sold at auction to Norwegians for 63,400 marks. In 1301 this vessel was sold for £700). The Dutch steel barque Martina Johanna, 1360 tons register, built in 1691, is reported told to Veils owners. Tho American four-masted barque Fort George, 1769 tone, is now 100 dlaya out from' New York, and should arrive here within tbe next three weeks. Tho vessel has a . full cargo of case 0.l consisting of 62.000 cases of kerosene and 7000 catos of other oils. Tho vtrsel will discbarge half of her cargo at Lyttelton end halt at Dunedin, after which she go<_. :n ballast to Newcastle, where sho will load coal for Honolulu. The Toroa will arrive here this morning fiom Wellington, and will aa.il again to-night with p-assecgera, mails and cargo for the Chatham Islands. . Th© Now Zealand Shipping Company's steamer Rakaia, which was to hive left Auckland finally for -London, will now make Wellirgton her final port of departure, and is expected to tail from there about tho 12th inatairt. Tbe New Zoaland Shipping- Company's liner Bimutaka will arrivo here thfs morning, from Lontkm, via Capetown. Hobart, and Wellingtcn.The vessel haa tnb.ut 1500 tons ot general cargo to land here, amd will gail on Monday. •4th inst.. for Timaru, to load. 6be returns hero on the lOtb inst., and leaves aguin on' the 14th for Wellington, whenoe she sails finally for London on the 21st inst. The new steamer Riverina, specially built for Messrs-Huddnrt. Pn»ke'- -rd Co.. arrived a.t Melbourne' on tho 23rd ult., on her maiden voyage from Southampton, and will be employed in tie trade between Sydney and Fremantle, via Melbourne. The new vessel is built generally on the lines of the Wimmera. but is much larger, and affords even greater attractions for pa?£en_rers than thoit vessel. During her passage from Soutlmnip. ton tbe vessel used only four boilers, her average apecd throughout being 13 knots per hour. She is aaid to have exhibited remarka'b'e «U;id : ne>fs In beany weather. T' is,nofew rfhy tihat the vessel come tbe whole distnnce from Southampton to Melbmirnc without ooalin?. Her engines are reported to have worked without a hitch, and generally

the first effort of the vessel was crowned with success. She is said to haive cost £J.20,0u0 to build and eq..ip. The Riverina ia the largest of the Huaoari-Parker Co.'s fleet, being a.Olt in _en 6 'tn # aOH breadth, nmd 'Mit deptn of hold. Her machinery consists of tripie-czpansion engines, of 50U0 horse-power, wil.oh, \in iyer tn_k_ trip, easi.y maintained an average speid «f 15 Knot* an hour, nctwithstanding the fact that she waa deeply laden. AocouMnoa-aiUon is provided for 150 saloon passengers in two and lour-berth deck state rooais amidships, and lar 128 second-class passengers on tho pop and upper deck oft, oabins being lour-berth ones. Accommodation is n.so arranged ior 100 steerage passengers in tLe forward part of "the ship. Tho schooner Joseph -Sims sailed yesterday afternoon, m baLast, for Westport, where sho wiii load timber ior Lyttelton.