SHIPPING NOTES.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 13250, 19 October 1908, Page 9

SHIPPING NOTES.

The nshi-ri-r beat Waircra, which arrived at Lyttelton last night, retorted that a barque bound north was off Akaroa Heads yestcr- ; day afternoon. There- was very little wind at tbo time. The vesnel is probably the barquo bound from Port Huon, Ta.?tnandai with a cargo cf hardwood for Lytt_Kon. Sho rfcould arrive in, port this morn- ; ir.lz. Having loaded a quantity of frozen mutton and other cargo, tho big Shaw-Savill liner

Aihenio Bailed on Saturday afternoon to pay ber first visit to Port Chalmers. Tho vessel was open for public inspection at tho Southern port yesterday and this afternoon Coptain ELempson wiil entertain a large number of guests at an "at homo" on board. __« Athenic will leave Port Chalmers to-morrow for Auckland, end will afterwards return to "Wellington to complete- loading:. The Athenic will leave WellingU v finally for London via Alonto Video, and Plymouth on , JJovtsmber sth. ! After lying in the stream for three or four days tho Shaw-Savill steamer Aotea. which has been laid up at Lytte'ton for over six weeks, was brought in on Saturday afternoon, j and berthed at .No. 6 wharf. I The largo German four-masted barque Nal ' left Antwerp last week with a cargo of superphosphates for Auckland. The Nal, which ' was formerly a British ship known as '.he Lord Ripon, is probably tbo largest sailing ship that haa over loaded for a. New Ze*iI laud port. Her gross registered tonnage is j 2761 fons. The stoamer Indravelli, from Vancouver I via way ports, has been delayed ot Timaru ' by a shortage of railway trucka. and will not arrive hero until to-morrow. The vessel has & large quantity of Oregon pino and laths to laud here, and will go on to Wellington to complete discharging. Sh« has about a million and a- quarter feet of timber to tend at that port, and after cooling there will sail for ! Vancouver via ports. i The Union Company's chartered Bteamer j Gtterbum arrived at tho Bluff from Timaru on Saturday, to load produco and other cargo I for Auckland. The vessel proceeds from Auckland to Newcastle, where she will be delivered to her owners, as her charter expires j about the end of the month. The Rosamond is due here this morning ! from Westport and Greymouth, with a* cool j cargo, and is expected to leave again to-mor-row for Greymouth. The Kamona is to leave Greymouth to-mor- : row night with o cargo of coal and timber for Lyttelton, and is due here on Thursday. It is expected that the. Blackball Coal Company's new collier Ngahore, from Glasgow, will report at tho Blufi to-morrow, and it is probable that she will be ordered on to I Lyttelton. ' I Captain Jordan, of the Mianspouri, left by 1 the Waikare on Friday on a holiday visit to Sydney. Captain Aldwell, of the Rotoiti, has joined tho Manapouri, and Captain P. Naylor has taken charge of tho Rotoiti I Captain Ramsay, harbourmaster at Oanwru, left for Sydney by the Waikare last week., i Captain Stainton Clarke, master of the four-masted barque Loch Carron, which arrived at Port Adelaide from London about a fortnight ago, has (says the "Sydney Telegraph") held command of his ship for almost a quarter of a century. He ha 3 been at sea for over thirty-seven years : having served bis time on the Liverpool ship Sulina, engaged in the Calcutta trade. Five years were spent on the Sulina four as apprentice, and one as seoond officer. Then an introduction to Messrb Thomas Skinner and Co., of London, procured him a berth in tho Euntlcy Castle, one of tho old-time China tea clippers. Captain Clarke made two voyages- on the Huntley Criftle as second officer, and then he was transferred to tho Edinburgh Castle, and afterwards to the Lonnos Castle. At tho ago ol twenty-eight he obtained his master's certificate, his first ship being the Douglo** Castlo. Some timo afterwards the Douglas Castle was oold'and he then became master of his old ship, .the Lennox Castlo. In lf&s the Loch. Carron was being fitted out on the Clyde for her maiden voyage. Recommended for the position aa master, Captain Clarke woe fortunate enough to obtain the appointment, and from that time until to-day he has guided the destinies of the Loch Carron in all her wanderings. The first voyage of the vessel was begun on 20th May, 1885, and was frjm London to Sydney ' ■ Mr H. White-Parsons, late chief officer of ' the Maitai. ia at present undergoing his annual month's drill on H.M.S. Pioneer, as sub-lieutenant in the Royal Naval Reserve. Mr C-. S. Hill, late third officer of the Waitemat a. is now third of the Rotoiti, in place of Mr Richardson, who is awaiting orders, at Wellington. Mr Sizer, late fourth officer of the Warrimoo, has transferred to the Waikare. Mr W. McKenzia is now fourth officer of the Waikare. in place of Mr W. Thompson, who has joined the Kaituna as third officer. Whon the Waikare arrives at Sydney on Tuesday. Captain F. W. Mcßeth will transfer to the Union Company's recently purchased steamer Paloona (late Huddart-Parkor Company's Zealandia), and Captain E. Stott will fake oommancl of the Waikare. The Paloona is to be docked before resuming her running in the Sydney-Hobart trade. Captain J. V. Bontley will leave, tho Paloona at Sydney, and await instructions. . Mr Keynes, seoond officer of the Waikare, went ashore for order* nt Dunedin, his place being taken by Mr Nicholls. The Shaw-Savill steamer Ksramea, with a largo number of passengers, is due at Dunedin about the end of Ibis week from London. I This week the Flora will replace tho Haupiri in the coastal trade between Napier and Auckland. Tbe Flora Jb a much larger vessel than the Haupiri, which will be laid .up either at Wellington or Auoklond. Loading by tho Fene.ral-Houlder-Shire steamer Rippingham Grange will be commenced at Port Chalmers shortly. She will afterwards call at Bluff. Timaru, Lyttelton, ' and Wellington. The vessel will leave Wellington finally about November 25th, for , West of England ports. : On Saturday next (ho Federal-Houldcr-Shire liner Oswestry. Grange will leave Wellington for Avonmouth. and other West of F.ngland ports. She arrives at Wellington • to-monrow from tho Bluff to complete load- I ' ing. On her way to England the vessel will call at Bahia Blanca to replenish her bunkers.