SHIPPING NOTES.

Press, Volume L, Issue 14985, 4 June 1914, Page 11

SHIPPING NOTES.

• ..___. -f YcEterday, the King's Birthday, -was ob- . served as a holiday along tho Lyttelton l wateTfrbnt, and the only work done waa on , tbe ferry steamer and the East Coast vessel. : En route from Liverpool to New Zealand, , 'Mo liner Delphic passed Cape of Good Hope on May 27th. She is due at Lyttelton about June 27th. > In order to cope with the -Australian ! coastal trado the Huddart-Parker Company ' has chartered the steamer. Inchmoor, t.n--nage34.s, for six months. : On her run from Lvttelton' to Wellington a few days ago, the Kaiapoi Shipping Company's steamer Kairaki , encountered very 1 rough weather, in xonseruence of which somo damage waa done to deck fittings, and a . quantity of cargo also suffered from water shipped. The Maoriland Compiny's steamer Enn«rdala ia to leaver' Port H»on, Tasmania, this week, with timber for Timaru and Oamaru. The Bo'mdnle is to load timber this week at Grevmouth for Oisborne. Mr C. Duncan, lute '.of the Arahura. has signed on tho Himitangi ns second Me«sr« S. W. Sorners-Vine and J. Curtis, chief rffi-ers of the TunAina and Botorua renoectivelv. have exchanged ■ positions. , Mr A. Thorpe, son of Captain Thorpe, of Lvttelton, is now third of the Rotoraa, havi .<» succeeded Mr Andrews, who hfs loft ; t">e New Zealand Shin-urn,' Company. Mr Thnrrx. was formerly on the T«rakina. .Mr Laneston, late fourth officer of th." F"torna, has been promoted to third of tho Whakstane. Mr J. - Thomas, late of • th<» Turakina, has filled the vacancy on the Roto--rua. Mr W. Edwsrds joined- the Rotorua At London as fifth engineer in place of Mr Ineer«oll. who went rshore to sit for his •"xsmination for a chief engineer', ticket. Mr Edwards was formerly on the Indrabarah.