SHIPPING NOTES.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 12974, 29 November 1907, Page 9

SHIPPING NOTES.

The Mararca -prill bo dockrd to-day for cleaning'and pn-fnling, and will en.il to-mor-row night for Wellington in place of the Afnori. The turbino rteamer trill po info dook to-Biorrow. for cleaning »nd painfincr, and will fee brought out npain on Monday or Tuesday, and will rerame running in the ierry eoince on Tuesday night

The Mararoa will return here from Wellington on Tuesday, and will sail the ewus day for Newcastle where she will relieve the Outiah in the Sydney-Hobart trade. The Tβ Anau will not leave Dunedin until noon on Monday She will work Oamaru and Timaru, and arrive here on T'ua'-day afternoon, eaiiing again th-o eaine uight ior Wellington, Picten, Kelson, Woetport arid Greymouth. The Union Company's steamer Waihora will leave Calcutta on December 3rd fpr New Zealand ports, aud wiil be followed on December 10th by the chartered eteftiucr Sofala. The Mouia eailed laet night for Weet-poi-t, where she will load coal, probably for Port Chalmers.

iron V/n&ißuers. The Coal Company* steamer Canopus arrived at an early hour this morning from Wcatport. The vessel will oonJ II.ALS. Pioneer to-day with about 210 ton* of bunker coal. The Tyser Lino steamer Star of New Zealand, from Now York, via way ports, left Wellington at 7 sum. yesterday, and woe expected to arrive in the stream late last night. The vessel will bo berthed this morning to discharge a quantity of cargo from .New York. The Now Zealand Shipping Company"c steamer Kaikoura arrived at Port Chalmers Heads at 2.80 p.m. yesterday from London, , via Capetown. After discharging ft quantity of enrgo at Dunedin, the veeeel comes on to Lyttolton. Tho etoatner Glauous i« under charter to load at the Mitohelaon Timber Company's Kftipara mill early in l>eocmber for MolIwurno. She ie expected to carry closo on : 000.000 ieet of sawn limber. I Tho F.H.B. liner Nairnehire grounded in Adelaide harbour on the 10th mat., and after remaining fast for eooie hours, floated! off apparently uninjured. Tli© FJH.S. liner Fifeshire, from West of England, via way ports, is due at Lyttolton abcut December 24th. The vessel has 0817 tone of carao for New Zealand ports. The A. arid A. Line eteanwsr Lord Stanley, from New York, via Auckland, Iβ due at Wellington on Tuesday, and should reach Lyttelton about Friday next. "The Now Zoal'and Shipping Company's steamer Tongarirq, from London, via Wellington, will not arrive here until tomorrow. The arrival of the eteamer Marenq, under charter to the Australian Union Line, at London on tbo 14th inst. from Australian ports, ie reported. She will bo despatched from London for Melbourne, Sydney, and New Zealand ports on the 13th prox., under the auspices of tho Tyeer Line. . ~ The four-masted French barque, President Felix Faure, bound from Havre to New Caledonia, was parcel in tho Tttemnn Sea on Thursday lost by tho Manuka, which arrived at Auckland from Sydney on Sunday. Tb-9 barqueniine Alcxa is loading hardwood at Clarence River for Wesfcpori. The barque Howthornbank left Newcastle last week with 2160 tons of coal for Adelaide. The lEawthornbonk was loaded and' ready to sail for a West Coast port with this cargo, when the strike happened, and ac a templing oiler w«s made for the cargo, tho former charter'was altered, and tho oargo of Caledonian coal aold to Messrs W. IV. Cave and Co. Tho Norddeutecher Lloyd steamer Westfalen has been chartered to bring 3000 tons of phosphates from Bremoa to Auckland, where she ie due about the middle of. February next. She is coining Instead of One ship Herzosin Sophie Charlotte, %n& will be the first steamer of that famous line to visit New Zealand. The Union Company's nteamer itDabeno, from Melbourne, via way porta, landed about 700.tons of cargo at Lyttelton yesterday, including the following lines-.—420 boxea prunes, 06 boxes soap, 174 boxes date?, 46 cases E bottles, SI casks sugar, 25 cases Qoneva, 60 oases cocoa, Si cases sordines, 20 cases salmon, 55 casks treacle, 15 aasea wine, 85 cc ccc beer, 1120 oaeos schnapp, 25 case* milk, 63 caaks oil, 16 barrels oil, 40 packages paper, 33 ginger, 62 packages rocoanuts, 801 packages toa. 893 package* dried fruite, 160 pnokages fruit. 60 ba®s floor, 80 bags seed, 325 bags bark, 210 bags superphosphate, 2:14 bales twine. 11 bales fibro, 26 ooilg netting. 300 bundles palinge, 2715 crates oheexo, and a large quantity of Rundriee; also transhipments ex Brranen, Dumbea, Umta, Moldavia, Varzin, Goelar. Linden, JUvcrina and Ottenson.

It is reported that the well-known barquentine River Boyne has been Bold to Messrs Z. Patterson, eon and Co., Melbourne and is \a be converted into a hulk after hex next trip from Australia to New Zealand. The River Boyne. one of the best known New Zealand traders, w*e built tvt Glasgow in 1867, and was formerly known as the Siriui. The price paid has not yet transpired. The barque Be*tfleld is to leave Liverpool about January 20th, for Wellington and Dunedin.

After undergoing an extensive overhaul at Port Chalmore, the Pateena ie to Mil tomorrow for Wellingion, to enler tne NeleonWellington cervioo.

The Delphic arrived at Melbourne last Sunday, after a passage of 40 days from Liverpool, having called at Adelaide en rmite. She soiled for Sydney yesterday, and prococde thence to Newcastle to ooal. and afterwards comes on to New Zealand ports in all probability.