SHIPPING NOTES.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 13612, 22 December 1909, Page 8

SHIPPING NOTES.

Woo], batter, cheese, and frozen meat are the principal lines of cargo being shipped by the White Star liner Athenic at Lyttelton. Work is being carried on day and night, and it is hoped to get the big steamer away about 8 o'clock to-night. She is going to Wellington to fill up, and will leave that port on the 30th inst. for London. On Wednesday lost the fleet of vessels in port at Newcastle waiting to load coal for foreign port* numbered forty-six vessels of a total net register of 117,998 tons, lue fleet comprised eighteen large sailing ships and twenty-eight tramp steamers. lne New Zealand Shipping Company's chartered steamer Swanley has left Honolulu for Auckland, where she is due on New Year's Day. The report that she -was coming from Para, Brazil, is apparently incorrect.

Captain Mcßride, late of the Flora, took command of the Hauroto at Wellington yesterday, in place of Captain J. Dawson, who has gone to Dunedin. It is reported that Captain Davson will go to Melbourne, to take charge of the M&napbnri in place of Captain F. P. Evans, R.N,R., who returns to New Zealand for orders?

The Scales line steamer Clan Ogilvy carries an all-British crew of 33 all told. On her last visit to New Zealand the vessel carried 57 Lascar sailors, firemen, and stewards. The Clan Ogilvy is due here to-day from Wellington tn finish loading for London, and will sail to-morrow night or on Friday.