SHIPPING NOTES.

Press, Issue LXVIII, 31 December 1912, Page 8

SHIPPING NOTES.

The* New Zealand Shipping Company 8 steamer Otaki is due here to-morrow, and will complete loading at Lyttelton. Sho is to sail about Saturday for London via Mont© Video, Teneriffe, Gibraltar, and Avonmouth. Tho New Zealand Shipping Company's steamer Hurunui. on her second voyage to Now Zealand, arrived at Auckland on Sunday morning, from Liverpool, via Melbourne and Syancy. Captain Smith is in charge of tho Hurunui, which is due at Lyttelton about January 10th. ■ . % '. The woterfront is -unusually busy this week, and thero are a large number of vessels in port,, yesterday's list including tho following:—Wairuna, s.s.; Canopus, s.s.; Koiraki, s.s.; Liiy, schooner; Annie Hill, schooner; Eliza Firth, schooner; Zealandic, s»s.; Ruapchu, s.s.; Kaniona, s.s.; : Cygnet, b.s. ; Petono, a.s.; Opouri, s.s.; Wootton, s.s.; Eunice, ecow; .Aparima, a.s.; Ngahero, s.s.; Mararoo, s.s.; Wakatu, s.s. The Maori, Storm, Corinna, "Victoria, and Nairnshire, are due to-day, and there will be a large number of arrivals to-morrow, among- those duo being tho New Zealand Shipping Company's Otaki, the Scales Line steamer Clan Alpine, and the Union liners Mararoa, Manuka, and Monowai. The Mamari from London, Kumara from Montreal, Athcnic from London, Hakuskika Maru from Japan, and Hurunui and Kent from Liverpool, are all duo at Lyttelton during the next few days. The Federal-Shire Liuo steamer Nairnshire, from West of England, via way ports, loft Wellington at 1.30 p.m. yesterday, and is duo hero early this morning,. She has 1200 tons of cargo to land here, and will sail about Friday for Diincdin and BIuS. The Poherua will probably be docked on Thursday for survey and overhaul. The Kamona will follow the Poherua in tho dock early next week. The .Blackball Coal Company's collier Ngahcre, is coaling tho Ruapchu, and will await the arrival of tho Otaki on-Thursday, to complete tho coaling of that vessel.

The Huddart-Parkcr steamer Victoria, which is running a day early on account of tho holiday to-morrow, will arrive here this morning from Duncdin, and will leave tonight for Wellington, .Napier, Gisborne, Auckland, and Sydney. The American four-raasted schooner Robert K. Hind, which left Pugot Sound on October 24th with a load of lumber for Lyttelton, haaprobably been delayed by calms or adverse' wind She is 68 days out to-day, and with the prevailing northerly winds, should make part at any time now. After a smart passage of & little over two days, the scow Euhico arrived in port yesterday morning from Have!ock ' The vessel,which is loaded with timber,' experienced fresh northerly and nor'-west winds on the passage. The Storm, which left -Wangamii late on Saturday night, is loading wool at coastal

points on her way South, and ia duo here to-night or to-morrow morninj. She will sail on Thursday for Timaru.