SHIPPING NOTES.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 13472, 12 July 1909, Page 9

SHIPPING NOTES.

Tlie Federal-Houlder-Shire Line steamer Morayshire, from Liverpool, via Wellington, urrived at Auckland on Thursday last. She is expected to leave Auckland to-morrow for Lyltelton, where she is chic on Thursday. "The Mnheno had her three shafts drawn for inspection on Thursday, and was to be floated out of the Otogo Dock on Saturday. The Union Company's new steamer Kurow arrived at Hobart at 10 o'clock lost Tuesday night from Glasgow, via South Africa, and is proceeding to Wee t port to load coal for Wellington. The local agents of the Shaw, Savill and Albion Company expect that the White Star liner Athenic will arrivo at Wellington tomorrow morning from London, via Capetown and Hobart. The appointments of Captain R- H. Gibbons and F. A. Hardy as harbourmaster and pilot et Mamikau and HokUnga respectively arc gazetted. ' Tho eteamor Clan Mclnnes, running tinder the anapiccs of the Australian Moil Line, sailed from San Francisco on Monday last for Apia, Auckland, und Sydney. The vessel is due at Auckland about August sth. An unexpected position arose on Friday (s-ays a Wellington exchange), at tho patent slin. when the spare propeller of the Blackball Company's collier Petone was being , substituted for the damaged propeller from which, one blade had been broken oft «t sea on Tuesday. The tail shaft was found to be too small for tho spare propeller,, and as c result am order has been given to Messrs W. Cable and Co. to ■manufacture another propeller. The Potone wus brought off the clip on Saturday morning to wait et tho wharf till about the end of this week, when the now screw is to be ready. It appears thnt the vessel's spare propeller, which came from England, was made to fit the vessel's original tail-shaft, but the latter wag replaced some time ago by a smaller tail-shaft.

The Union Company's steamer Talune. which ia at present running on tho. east coast between Dunedin and Auckland, Will, on arrival at Auckland on August Ist withdraw from that trade, and take the Haliroto's running to the Islands. After transhipping as usual to the Mokoia, qho is to sail from Auckland on the 3rd August for Rarolonsra. The veeael that is to take her place in the East Coast trade is not yet aunourjc«d. The directors of the Howard Smith Company, Ltd., who control the San Francisco service known as the Australian Mail Line, have under consideration a proposal to extend the route to Vancouver. According to the "Sydney Morning Herald." negotiations are proceeding between the Canadian Government and tho San Francisco representative of tho Howard Smith Company Ltd., with a view to a subsidy being granted for tho extension, and if a sufficient inducement in offered th© company will inaugurate the line forthwith. The proposal is th« outcome of tho suspension of'the Alley Line of steamers, which until recently tradied beHween Van. couver and New Zealand, with occasional visits to Sydney. Under tho existing arrangements the Australian Mail Line eteomer3, after calling at S-au Francisco, proceed to Pußet Sound ports, to load timber for , .Australia, but should a subsidy be gTanted by the Canadian Government, Vancouver will h* mada the terminal port of the steamers on the other aide of mc Pacific. The Tyaer Line steamer Whakarua has been chartered to load at Now York by the A. and A. Lino for Melbourne, Sydney, end New Zealand ports, and is to Bail .about August 15th.