SHIPPING NOTES. '

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 14289, 27 February 1912, Page 9

SHIPPING NOTES. '

The Now Zealand Shipping- Company'e steamer llakaia left Wellington at 2.15 p.m. ycete-d&y, and will arrive hero this morning to complete loading. . The R&kaia 19 to tail to-morrow for London via Monte Vicdo. Tie Now Zealand Shipping Company's liner Rotorua, which is loading at' Bluff and Timani, is duo back here to-morrow, and will leave on Thursday or Friday for Wellington to complete loading for London. The Kini arrived at Greymouth. on Sunday morning after a quick run of 41 hours from Lyttelton. She ia loading a full cargo" of timber, and is to sail on Thursday for Lyttelton, being due hero on Saturday. The Pukaki arrived at Greymouth yesterday from Lyttelton, and is loading a cargo of coal for Wellington and Lyttelton. She ia to leave the Grey to-day, and is due here about Friday or Saturday. The Corinna, due hero from Timaru this morning, will Eail early this afternoon for Wellington, Noleon, Now , Plymouth, and OnehuDga. Xho Tβ Anau, which has been undergoing an overhaul at Port Chalmers, will leave Dunedin on Thursday, in place of the Koonya, end after calling at Oamaru and Timaru will arrive at Lyttelton on Saturday. She will leave here the same day for Wellington, New Plymouth, Weetport, and Grcymouth. The Defender arrived yesterday afternoon from Hokitika via Westport, with a full cargo of timber. The vessel ia to sail to-night for Wellington, Picton, and Hokitika. The departure of tho Kapiti for Wellington and Patea has been postponed until noon today. . The Wakatu is duo to-night from Wellington via Kaikoura, and will- sail tomorrow evening on the Teturn trip. Tho Harbour Board's tug Canterbury, which has beeh overhauled and cleaned and painted, was floated out of dock yostorday afternoon. The schooner Eliza Firth, which loft Lyttelton early on Thursday morning, arrivod at Kaipera yesterday after a smart passage of 4 days G hours. The ecow Eunice, which left in company with the Eliza Firth, wae on her way up Pelorus Sound to Havelock yesterday morning. Tho Federal-Houider-Shire Line steamer Drayton Grange loaded the following cargo at Lyttelton:—For Avonmouth: 3243 carcases mutton and lamb, 4961 crates cheese, GV3 bozos butter. For Liverpool: 14,689 carcases frozen mutton and lamb, 128 crate* cheese,. 27 ooska tallow, 1059 sacks bran, 607 sacks wheat. For Glasgow: 4964 carcases mutton and lamb, 78 bales tow, 49 bales wool, 200 cases preserved meats. 268 seeks beef, and 409 crates chocso. The Drayton Grange will leave Wellington to-day for West of England ports. The Kairaki landed 1650 ehecp from Pelorus Sound yesterday, and left again in the-afternoon for the Sound for another load. Since the commencement of the season tho Kairaki has landed about 29,000 cheep at Lyttelton or Kaiapoi. The Breeze is due back on Thursday from Wangenui via Picton, and will leave tho same day for Dunedin and Timaru. She will return North on Sunday, and will leave Lvttelton again en Monday for Picton and Wengamii. The Cygnet is .due back to-d»y from Akaroa, and will leave to-morrow night for Kaikoura.