SHIPPING NOTES.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12570, 13 August 1906, Page 9

SHIPPING NOTES.

A Gisborne telegram states that the steamer iiotaro lett yesterday morning for Tokommu, to niuko an eilort to get the stranded ecow Hay off, but aa the weather along the coast is thick aad dirty, operations will be impeded. The Union Company's steamer Kaituna left Greymouth on Saturday alteraoon for Lyttelton. Tho vessel has » large quantity of timber, etc., to put out here, and will afterwards go to Tiniaru to discharge the balance of her oargo. The Itaituna is due here this aiternoon. _. . . . The auxiliary screw schooner Huia is to sail to-day, with a cargo of produce for KaiBurriing liquid fuel instead of coal, the steamer Ooldmouth, of the "Shell" line, recently eteaed U,791 miles, from Singuporo to itottcrdam via the Cape of Good nope, in fifty-two days, without once stopping the engines or checking the generation of steam in tho main boilers. Upon completing her voyage tho vessel still had a sufficient supply of oil to keep her under steam for another twenty days. Captain J. Stott, who is »n command of the steamer Gibraltar, was formerly in the service of (he Union Company, and ia a brother of Captain E. Stott, of the Aparima. Tho quantity of coal shipped at the Government crsmes at the Dyke and Baein, Newcastle, during the week ended at- midnight on Saturday, July 21st waa 83,425 tons. This.is a record for the port, the next highest shipment amounting to 86,323 tone for a week ending May sth of this year. The Westport C al Company's steamer Canopus arrived at 9.30 a.m. on Saturday, after a run of 32£ hours from Westport. The vessel is discharging a full cargo of coal here, and is to sail this evoning for Weetport. The New Zealand Shipping Company c steamer Waimate, which sailed from London and West of England ports on August 4th, for New Zealand, will make Port Chalmers her first port of call, where she will dischargo 3900- tons of cargo. She proceeds thence to Lyttelton, where she will put out 1500 tons. Tho Waimato will be the first vessel of that line to make Port Chalmers. the first port of call from West of England ports. For many years past tho small coastalschooners have pretty well monopolised the timber carrying industry along our coasts, says the Daily Times, , ' but at the present time circumstances indicate a great dearth of small sailing cnttt. Thie is doiibtlese due in great moaeure to the recent disasters to small craft along our coasts, but the fact remains that anxious enquiry by local firms for sailing charters has proved fruitless. According to present indications it looks m though steamers will have to be employed in the timber trade in order to give southern merchants a chance to cope with orders, and also to replace depleted stocks of northern timber. The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamer Ruapehu, having completed the discharge of her cargo, sailed at 12.15 p.m. on Saturday for Timara, Bluff, and Port Chalmers, to load fox London. The veesel will return to Lyttelton in about nine or ten days' time, and after stopping here two or threo days to take in cargo, will go on to Napier and Wellington. She will sail finally from Wellington for London .on August 30th. The Shaw Savill liner Rangatira, which left London on July 4th, is coming to Port Chalmora direct, and is due about August 26th. The veesel afterwards comes to Lyttelton to complete dieoharee. The schooner Annie Hill is to sail to-day with a cargo of produce for Greymouth. ' Advice has been reoeived that the Gorman barque Apollo, 1150 tone, haa been placed on the loading berth at Liverpool for Dunedin and Wellington, and will sail clirect for the former port on, September 10th. Advice has been received that the Athenic left Monte Video on Thursday last, in continuation of her passage from Wellington to London. % Mr S. George, purser of the Botoiti, is under orders to join the Haupiri in a similar capacity. The Union Company's steamer Kini left Greymouth on Saturday evening for Lyttelton. and is due hero this afternoon. . The vessel will discharge part cargo of coal here, and will leave probably to-morrow for Wellington, where she will discharge.the balance. The auxiliary schooner Emma Sims is to sail to-day with a load of produce for Wellington. She afterwards goes to Puponga to load another enrgo of coal for Lyttelton. The Wa-naka went into docket Port Chalmers on Thursday. The Pukaki vacated the dock and railed for Greymouth. The auxiliary perew scow Echo suD«d yesterday morning with a cargo of produce for Wellington. After discharging there, the veeiel goes to Karuneft to load timber for Lyttelton.

Tho steamer Storm left "Wellington on Friday evening for "Wanganui and Onehunga. She will- lond a cargo of timber at Onehunga for ■Wellington, where ehe is due about Friday next.

Last month tfie old three-elector St. Vincent, which was for many ye»re a naval training ship for boye at Portsmouth, was towed out by tugs for conveyance to the Thames, where she is to bo broken up on being , sold out of the service. ,A large crowd gathered to fee tho departure of the old ship. The Victory is the only wooden line-of-battle ship now remaining in the harbour, and the berth so long occupied by the St. Vincent has been appropriated as a depot for submarines. It is utated by the Onnedin "Star" that on the alterations to the Moivna being completed tho Union Comoany will put the steamer in the Australian-Vancouver froeen meat trade for several months of the year—from October to January, and possibly February. For frhia purpose, the forward hold has undergone

considerable enlargement, and is beiaj equipped as a freeing chamber. The flxrt shipment will he made in; October and all, or nearly all, the available froexing space has already 4>een engaged. The e.B. Wootton, which left Greymouth at p.m. on Wednesday, armed at Kaiapoi en Saturday with coal and- timber. Last month the ship Neotefield made a smart passage of twenty-eight day* from Algoa Bay to Newcastle. This recalls to mind the splendid run made by the fourmasted barque Talavcra, which made tee run from Algoa Bay to Lyttelton in 1890 in the record time ot twenty-eight days. Hμ Talavera loaded at Lyttelton, and sailed on May 31st for London. She made a splendid passage Home of seventy-five days, and was lying in the South Wost India Dock, London, on August 15th. On that passage, the Talavera went from St. Helena to London in the record time of thirty-two days.