SHIPPING NOTES

Press, Volume L, Issue 14916, 14 March 1914, Page 13

SHIPPING NOTES

"WTmm she hae disciarped tho local portion of her cargo from London, tho New Zealand Shipping , Company's liner E-aikouxa, whiri is due here next Wednesday, will commence Homeward loading. To continue the came the veeaei will call at Timani, Napier, and Wellinsrton. Final departure will be taken from Wellington for London on April 9th. The New Zealand Shipping Company , chartered steamer Cairacroas is dnc at Lyttelton eerly next week from Montreal, via Australian porte, Auckland, and Wellington. Prom Lyttelton the veseol goeeion to Dxinedin to complete discharj*o, and subsequently calls at Wanganui, Picton, and Wellington, takingfinal departure from the laet-mentioned port ; for London. The F«deial and Shire liner Suffolk, which ie running under engagement to tie New Zealand Shipping Compsaiy, is to finish dis--charging hex London cargo at Wellington and Nelson. She kaa already taken a quantity of frozen meat from Napier for Home, and erub- j aecruently loads %t Waitara and LyUelton. j To-day the x>aasahire if due at Wellington j to load for Boston and New York. She wOl j be followed by tho Roscommon, which is due at the Northern port next month, and the J Norfolk, v»-hich will arrive some time in May. Tho Commonwealth and Dominion Line's j **earner Harare j« to leave Now York on 1

May 4th (or Australian and New Zealand porU. Tlh» Wanafea is due on Monday to load {Train ior Westport, lMuu, ui:d uuncd.n. 'Iho hanio is to leavo tirovtnouth to-day for Wellington and Lyttelton with coal and timber. Captain White-Parsons, of the Monowui, having been granted holiday leave, hia positwn will be taken by Captain Carson. Mr E. Larwn, mute of 'he Wakatu. ha« gone ashore, lie is beinj; relieved by Mx G. Brown. Captain J. A. Kobilliard. late of the Wailiui. is now in charge of the Koouyu. Mr \V. A. Kennedy, manager ot the Wellington branch of tho Union Company, leaves Wellington by the Tahiti on the 27th mat., for Papeete, on a holiday trip. During his absence Mr W. H. Price, of tie Invercargill branch, will a-ct as manager. Mr C. Broadicy has signed on as fvecond engineer of the Nfratoro. Mr K. Garvey, third engineer of the same vessel, has gone ashore. Tho Wakatu arrived last night from Wellington, via Kaikoura. She will leave on her return to-morrow night Considerable increases in the pay of junior officers of the British and Argentine Steam Navigation* Company are reported to the Imperial Merchant Service Guild, there being no restriction as to what certificates are held. . £10 per month is now offered for third officers and £3 per month for fourth officers. Also, .the Tyser Line, of London, have docided from the beginning of tho present year to supply bed and bedding to all their officers, this formerly only applying to the captains and chief officers. The Guild are also notified of an increase of £-1 per month all round in connexion with the officers serving in the eteamera belonging to the Indiarubber, Gnttu Perdu* and Telegraphy Company. Messrs W. Strange and Company have on 7ul W n2 "»-' lr . window a very line model of tl»e Orient Line twin ecrew steamer Otway of 12,077 tons, which trades between Australia and England. This vessel has ail the latest improvements for the comfort of paarengcre, and ia one of the latest additions to their already fine fleet Captain J. Grondin, who visited Lyttelton about four years ago in command of the 1-rench barque'Jlarie, is now in charge of tho ship Chateaubriand, which arrived at Newcastle hist month from Antwerp