SHIPPING NOTES.

Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14760, 2 September 1913, Page 8

SHIPPING NOTES.

It is expected thai th* New Zealand Shipping Company's liner Rotorua will be ready to eail for Bhiff at noon to-morrow. From tho eouthern port the vessel . will subsequently proceed to Timaxu and Auckland for Homeward loading before returning to Wellington, .from which port ehe Iβ to eau for London on September 18th. ■ ' .• ; The Wakatu is due at Lyitelton pom Kaikbuxa to-monow, and will eail on her return on Otureday. - * ■ - • -The Kittawa is due at Lyttelton to-day from the Wesf Coast, via. Wellington, with * load of timber. After- having been in port for about three weeks, part of which time wae duo to the lo»s of one of her anchors, the schooner Lily, having obtained an additional anchor, left for Greymouth yesterday morning with & favourable breeae ot her back. The eteamer Matatua, running from Montreal to New Zealand porta, via AtwtwJi*, under the auspices of the New Zealand Shipping Company, arrived from "Wellington on Sunday night and anchored in the etre&m at 1- o'clock? She was berthed yesterday morning,, and, after completing the discharge of her cargo for this port, sailed last'nigh* for Dunedin to finish. Ftom the southern part tho vessel Jβ expected to sail for Aus-. tralia for Homeward loading. .- i ' On Thursday the Union Company* intercolonial steamer Manuka is' due at Lytteitoa from Sydney, ria Wellington. Instead, however, of proceeding South,.the vceeelwiirreturn to Sydney," via Wellington, leaving Lyttelton the same afternoon. ... Tha steamer Ennerda.'e, which at prewsnt is .discharging hardwood at ' Lyttelton ffosa Httoa, Tasmania, is expected to- wil for Timaru and Oamaru about Wednesday next to load produce for Auckland. The scow JEtraioe arrived from Havelodc yost?rday forenoon wi'.h a carpo of timber for trrtWton. The" vesee! was eff Kaiicrura on of 'ast week, but the rtrong adverse winds which she nv?t with oh that and <rub-. siKtifDt days c»ufed her to eeek shelter, and delayed' hex arrival at juyttelton. till yesterday. Tbe U.S. and A. liner RhcinWs, which is due at Lyttelton from New York, via Australian and naithprn about September • OOfh, wi'l. upon the comp'etion of the djecher'sjing of her cargo for New ZraJand, pro.oecd to Newcastle to lond coal, throughthe .'Sco'f'»h-At'stralia.Ti Mining Company's Apency, for Pccarg or Singapore. "The stoamer BoTsrermficter was announced a few day* ago »s. the ve«sel would t*ke the Aurngt-Sepfc-niber loading -at New York for New Zealand port* under the auTJ : oce of the Vacuum Oil Com- • oiny, but as the vessel caught firo in N«w York harbour a few d»r« ago with 3000 tone of cnidi oil aboard, the company -witt probably have to m»ke other arrangement* for, a shipment to the Dominion.