SHIPPING NOTES

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 13231, 26 September 1908, Page 11

SHIPPING NOTES

A close holiday will be observed on. the wharves to-day. The only boats to bo worked ore tbe ferry steamer Maori and tho Wimmers, which 'arrives from Sydney via Auckland and East Coast ports and goes on > to Dunedin. It is pointed out. however, that, although the Railway Department advertised a ciose holiday and no Roods traffic, the Christchurch authorities will run two f* ; ns to Lyttelton at 8 a.m. and 1 p.m. to-day. « .oe Blackball Coal Company's new 1600----ton collier Ngahore, which left Glasgow on August 21st for New -enlsnd. is expend to signal at the Bluff about October 20th and to come.on thence to Lyttelton or Wellington. It is understood that Captain J. Christian, of the Petone. will oe given command of the new vessel when she settles down in the coal trade, and that Captain Dillnor will tako charge of the Petono. .

The repairs to the engines of the BlackI ball coiner Pelone are noaring completion. ;_iie work has been carried out in a tnosi expeditious manner by ilossrs Andersons Ltd., who will finish a'full week under'contract time. The new bed-plate for the enirinee, which was cast in the firm's Chris*church foundry and finished off in the iiyttelton shops, woighs about two and a hail tons, aikt is raid to be _ very fino casting. _ue new crank snait, which w«.s turned out. in the Lyttelton worki has boon fitted to the engines, of which it is hoped to have a trial run to-day or Monday. All being well, it is expected that the Petone win leave hero on Monday or Tuesday for Greymouth. Ill© Kaitnna, which has just completed aai overhaul at Port Oh-iiae-s,. will tako up tee flora's running in p.aoe of tihe Kaitpoi. The Kahuna arrives here on Tuesday r.iert, and leaves the same day for WcUir._*on, Westport, and GrcrmouthJ Th* Rinclo left Giibo-rne on Thursony for Oamaru. She will work the lat-ter port and Tireia.ru on Moi.day, and Lyttelton on Tuesday next, on which day she leaves for Wellington. Sho will return to I/ylitelton and wi'j leave hero probab.y on. October 2nd fen- tho Chatham Is-lai.--. Th- barquo Bona.- now discharging timbeT from ixaipara at Melbourne, is to proceed thence to a Tasma-ian port, -to load hardwood for Duue-din. Tho barnw' Ban-fields, which left Ljittel-t-oa on _torday afternoon. 14th inst., arrived off Grey-mouth bar last Mor.d«y mor-iig, but owirug to the heavy eea did not get into pca-t until yestcrduy moTtiing. j The Kotuku Left Wo r t->ort at 1 p.m. v©s- | terday fcr Greiymoulih complete loading - a cai_o of coal and tinn>.T for Ly-Wol-ten. Tho Storm arrived yesterday afternoon from Wani„anui, and after taking in a quantity o. cargo sailed lor Lurtdin and Timaru to oomplete loading for Wcngamiui. Tbe Union Company's chartered steamer Otterbuin, whidh Left i, Newcastle on Tuesday i fliLg-ht, is bringing a full careo of ooal for [ discharge ait Weiling-ten, Lyttelton, T_maru, and Oaraaxu. Tho vessel is dv© at Weilfe§4on Monday. After an "abseno© of severs.! weeks, during whioh time eih© has been engaged Ln the WctftpoTt-WelHmgton coaJ trs/10, t_o Wes-t----poxt Coal Company's steamer Canopus arrived yesterday evening wit— a full cargo of coal from Wesitpori. Sh*> is expected to lcnre again on Tuceday cm her return to Weftport. Under the. commnmd of Oaptaia Holm, tho Mainland Shipping Oomptw.iy's newly-acquir-ed steamer Taieri left Grey—lollth yesterday mcrcinig with s caTgo of timber for Adelaide. Thenco the vc*©! prooeeds to Melbourne, and Newcastle*, and back to New Zealand. The scow Wbangaroa* which' has been refitted a-nd risked at WeiHotirton. is now lying 'in the etr-enm there, as cthe ia onv. seaman) short of her complement. Captain Barber is csp-eT-iencmg swmie dnilEorujlity in obtaining tha required A.B. Tho Whangaxoa is bound to Wanganui. ■ Captain Jordan at- bis offioexa transforxed from t_e Hautcrto to the Manaponri at Dunedin. Mr S. George is now purser of the lttter veeseJ. -Mr P. Keynes has joined the Weikam as sooond officer, in place of Mr W. G. Braund. Mr R. Wiflinm'tm, late feoorsd ofßoer of tho Hawea, joined the Apsrimc, in a similar capacity at Lvttelton on Thursday. Capftain N. E. Bower, ton of Captain Bower, town ' clerk Napier, is in command of tho New Zealand Shiming Company's stoarnerr Turakrna, due <tA WeKKigtan yesterday irom London. The "Wairimoo was docked yesterday afternoon for hor annual survey and overhaul. A »taff of men arrived last night from Bert Chalmers to work on tho vessel. She will bn floated out of dock some time next week, and will go down to* Port Chalmers to complete her overhaul. i The Tyrcz steamer Indralema, bound Dunedin to Brisbenp. passed LytteltoD Ilcflds at 8 o'clock yesterday .morning. Tho Union Company's collier en route from Timaru. to the West Coast passed north at 9.30 am. , Our Dunedin correspondent telegraphed last evening:—The new Union Company's steamer Makura leaves the Clyde to-morrow with 200 passensera for the Capo and Australia. In addition, 150 passengers have alrepdy been booked at Capetown and Dur- i ban for Australia. i