SHIPPING NOTES.

Press, Volume L, Issue 15022, 17 July 1914, Page 8

SHIPPING NOTES.

The Chatham Islands Fishing Company received wireless advice that the Himitangi left the Chathams at 5 p.m. on Monday for Lyttelton and Wellington. A wireless message received on Tuesday evening stated U'oat the v_.sel was sheltering at Waitangi. The local agents report that they have not received any further advice regarding the vessel's subsequent movements. To complete discharge of tho balance of her cargo from the West Coast the steamer Poherua ia to sail from Lyttelton at noon today for Timaru. Tho Kini is due at Lyttelton on Sunday from Greymouth with a load of State coal. ■ It is announced that tho Shaw, Savill and Albion liner Delphic, which i 3 now discharging cargo from Liverpool at Dunedin, will upon completion, load in the Dominion for Boston and Ne*v York. Tho liner is expected to be despatched finally about August 17th. * Mr A. Goeset, second officer of the auxiliary schooner Huia, left tf_e veseel at Lyttelton yesterday, and ha_ been succeeded by Mr E. Jackson. , Mr T. E. Duviee has signed on the Ma- j pourika as third engine*--. Mr A. C. Watts, late chief steward of the • Kittiwa, has been succeeded at Lyttelton hy: Mr B. Collins. Mr F. W. Banks, who has been acting as ] extra officer of the'Warrimoo, signed off tho vessel's articles at Wellington on Tuesday. He signed on the Kowhai at Lyttelton on Wednesday as second officer in place of Mr H. C. White, who came ashore ou sick leave. Th. auxiliary schooner Huia is new loading produce at Lyttelton, and is expected to sail to-day for Auckland. , , , ,„ I Mr G. E. Senior, who formerly traded to |

Auckland as an officer of one of thr intercolonial cargo steamers, is now third officer of the Fiona. "Mr Senior is in the- employ of the Adelaide Steamship Company, and 15 making o;ie or two trip, on the Fiona as relieving officer. Mr J. B. Speaku-.au, of the local o.ffice of the Huddart-Parker Company, returned from Sydney by the Manuka on Tuesday, after a holiday visit to Ta. mania. Captain I . E. Smith, who waa in charsro of the mail steamer Maram_ irom Auckland to Sydney ;l fortnight ago, lias returned to Auckland. It is reported that Captain Allen »nd Captain J. Beighton. who were formerly in the Union Company", service, have been appointed to the New South Wales pilot service. O .ing to the weather being still too rough at, Kaikoura for v_i_;l» to work th. t port, the Cygnet did not leave Lvttelton last night. For _ similar reason the Wakatu is probably still at Wellington.