SHIPPING NOTES.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13710, 18 April 1910, Page 9

SHIPPING NOTES.

The Shaw, Savill and Albion liner Athenic, from London, via Plymouth, Teneriffe, Capetown and Hobart, ia due at Wellington this morning. An effort will be made .to get tho vessel down to Lyttelton on Friday next to complete discharging, as there is a large quantity of meat and other cargo awaiting shipment. The French barque Jacques will go out into the stream at Wellington this morning, in readiness to sail with the first favourable Wind for Lyttelton, where she is to load come 26,000 eacks of wheat on account of Messrs Friedlander Bros., for tho English Channel for orders. Tho Austrian steamer Georgia, from New York, via Auckland and Wellington, is expected to arrive at* Lyttelton early this morning. The vessel has a . large quantity of case oil, etc., to land here, and will " sail about the end of the week for Dunedin to complete discharging. She will subsequently load general cargo at Timaru, Lyt-

telton, Wellington and Auckland for London, under charter to tho New /eaUind Shipping Company. The Georgia b-aa about 90,000 cases of oil on board for Lyttelton and Dunedin. , Til A. and A. Line steamer Spithead, from Now York, via tho usual way ports, is duo at Lyttelton to-morrow morning. Tho A. and A. Line steamer Aberlour, from Now York, via Melbourne and Sydney, called at Newcastle for bunker coal. and was to have left that port yesterday for Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton and Port Chalmers. The vessel is due at Lyttelton about the 30th inst. Tho M-anapouri, which arrived at Melbourne on Thursday, will, according to the "Otago Doily Times," be laid up there for six months, owing to the destruction of the fruit crops by the recent hurricane in the Isl-nds. The Kurow, after discharging a cargo of Westport coal at Auckland, will dock there, and aiterwards return to Westport to load coal for the worships at Albany. The Kittawa, which is running in place of the To Anou, will arrive _ here to-morrow morning from Dunedin, via Oamaru and Timaru, and will sail again about mid-day for Wellington, New Plymouth, Westport, and Greymouth. The Maitai, from Vancouver, passed through Suva last Wednesday, on her way to Sydney. She will enter the intercolonial service, in place of the Manuka, on May 7th, leaving Sydney on that day for Wellington. The Manuka will leave Sydney on May 9th for Vancouver. Tho Union Company's steamer Taviuni, which has been lying at Port Chalmers einco Bhe was towed round from Westport some months ago, will bo docked in a day or two. The steamer Dilkera left Port Chalmers on Friday for Port Kembla, N.S.W. She will probably proceed to Bunbury later on, to load a cargo of jarrah sleepers for Timaru and Lyttelton. The Marine Department has been advised that the Bluff lightship has been shifted four lengths out of position by tho heavywesterly gale, but will be replaced as soon os the weather moderates. The barque Hazel Craig, which arrived at Wellington late on Thursday night, made the passage across from Sydney in 17 days. The vessel has 80,000 feet of ironbark and a quantity *>i wheelwright material to land at Wellington, the balance of her cargo, chiefly tramway poles and ironbark, beinfr for at Lyttelton. The barque will leave Wellington some time this week for Lyttelton. Mr A. Murdoch, who has been purser of tho Maori for some time past, transferred to the Monowai on Saturday. Mr C. Garwood, late of the Tarawera", joined the Maori as purser. The Kapiti, which arrived late on Saturday night will »ail this afternoon with a full cargo for Wellington, Wanganui, and Patco, Tho Canterbury Shipping Company's steamer* Breeze, which docked on Friday morning, completed her survey And overhaul on Saturday, and after taking in some cargo, sailed for tho BluS to load for northern ports. The Storm also sailed ot Saturday night for Wanganui. . . A Napier Press Association message stw&s that while the Wairuna was berthing at Glain gow wharf on Saturday morning- she-ran in to the structure, breaking two springer piles, the ferro-concrete column supporting the flooring, an iron bollard, and some woodwork. The steamer had a portion of her port hawse hole broken. Questioned as to the cause of the accident, tho local manager of the Unicn Company said the Wairuna w«s to haw berthed on the east side of tho wharf, but sho was signalled to go to the wide side, aid while steaming slowly to her berth she wws caught by a strong westerly puff, and c*rri«d on to the wharf.