SHIPPING NOTES.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 13332, 26 January 1909, Page 9

SHIPPING NOTES.

The Shaw S_vill and Albion Co. _ steamer lonic, from London, via way _orts, let Hobart at 11 o'clock on Friday morning and is d_e at Wellington about mid-day to-day. i'he •lonic, which is commanded by Captain An-unff, with __. J. Hughe, as chief oHioer, is due ot Lyttelton about Tuerday next The Blackball Co*] Co. _ collier _.___ ere w_s engaged yesterday in "bunkering** tbo Cornwall and di___u-jrin_ into th* hulk Wai-iti. The Ngabere mails to-day «t 10 a.m. the delay being- dua to shortage of labour.

The F_H_S. Line steamer Conrw___ sailed last night for Dunedin to fini._ dischargingThe ves__ then goes on the loading 3____t for West of England lorts. The Kaituna. from Wettport via Wellington, -with a pari cargo of oo__. _ 8 dub hero to-morrow. The schooner Clyde ta expected to sail te. oov for Wellington. Kait_Bg_ta is expected 1 to finish dij<aiargin«r her cargo of ooa* to-morrow, when «_•■ will leave for Gr_yn_-it!_ The Wa__k_ will amvo here this momi.s- from Timaru. and will siiip ISO tons of bridge material for Auckland. The vessel will sail to-night for Auckland, via Napier. The steamer Clan Macau lay. which left Lyttelton at 1 o'clock on Sunday morning for Sydney, loaded the folic wing cargo at Wellington. Picton, ana Lyttelton for. Loudon:—6634 bales of wool. 10 carles ot I tal'ow, 55 ca_9S sundries, end abcut 3501 tons of nanip-iron. The vesw. will take in ! bunker ooa] at Sydney, asd wi!l afterwards ,o on to Banbury to fill up with jarrah for London. The Scales Line steamer Clan Sutherland, ' which left Lyttelton last Thursday niaht for London, via Los Pa'mas. loaded B__) bales of wool «t New Zealand ports for London. where she is due about March 22nd. The R'.ple is expected to sail this m_- ] in* for Motonau, to load wooi for L. ttelton. : The vessel i» to leav. here on Monday next for the Chatham Islands. The New Zealand Shipping- Company's steamer Orari will arrive here this morning from Wellinjrton t<> comolete loading for London. Tho vesse' w_l leave Lyttelton, oi. the homeward passage on Thursday a.ier- | nocn. On Thursday afternoon the tug Dnco took

the Westport Coal Company's wooden hulk Charles and Arthur about twenty-five miles ou: in Cook i-U_.it- and scalded her, as tha hmk's days ol usefulness were over. The Charles and Arthur was built on tbe Don river, Tasmania, in 1870, aad traded aa a briganiino b-tween Australia and New Zealand. She afterwards ran between Wanganui and Wel;in__oa, and on breaking her back on tbe Wanganui bar she was condemned as un&cawort_y. The vessel has been used as a hulk at Wellington for about twenty years, and was purchased by the Westport Coal Company from Mr Martin Kennedy in 1834. Tbe -vessel's capacity was about 200 tons of coal, Lately she has been showing weakness in her top-sides, aad it was decided to give her a last resting place at the bottom of tho 3_n. About thirty tons of stu&e ballast was place in the hulk and ho>s were bored in her sides, into which plu_s were inserted. The plugs were knocked oat to scuttle her.

The Waiwera left Monte Video, en route for London, __ Friday evening last.