SHIPPING NOTES.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 13614, 24 December 1909, Page 11

SHIPPING NOTES.

The Kaiapoi Shipping and Trading Compar.v's steamer Kairaki leit Greymouth at ,2 a.m. yesterday with a cargo of timber for Lyttelton, and is due here about midnight ' to-night. The Scales Line steamer Clan Ogilvy is getting down to her mark, and will probably finish loading to-night. The vessel is taking about 3300 bales of wool here, and w : .!l be a full ship. She is to set out early to-morrow morning on her long homeward passage to London, via St. Vincent. Four Norwegian barques have been chartered to load cargoes of timber at New Zealand ports for the United Kingdom. The Afrhmore is due shortly at Hokianga, and will load for Glasgow; "the Aquila (formerly the Opawa) is on her way from Buenos Ayres to Kaipara to load kauri for London; - and the • Njord will load at Kaipara for Liverpool. The Lalla Rookh is now due at Mercury Bay to lond timber for Glasgow, and it is reported that the Italian barque Doride, now on her way out from Marseilles to Wellington and Auckland with a cargo of tiles, will afterwards load timber at Mercury Bay for the United Kingdom. Certain Free will probably go to England ti bring the new RSOO-toi: Huddart-Parker steamei Zealandia cut to Melbourne. The Maoriland Shipping Company's steamer La.dcrda'.e left Port Huon, Tasmania, at 1 a.m. on Tuesday last, with a cargo of hardwood for Dunedin, Lyttelton, and Napier.