SHIPPING.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16274, 26 July 1918, Page 8

SHIPPING.

' PORT OP LYTrELTOff. t ARRIVED—JuIy 25. Himitangi (2.30 a.m.), from Wellington. Maori \6.55 a.m.), from Wellington. Cauopus (8.15 a.m.), from Weetport. Hinomoa (10.40 a.m.), from Wellington. Kini (11.40 p.m.), lrcnn Greyraouth. SAILED —July 25. Maori (8.80 p.m.), for Wellington. Himitaagi (10.15 p.m.), for the Chatham 3. »' . : telegraph notice boa&d. j (July 26th.) Arrived—Wellington, iiaxaroa (9.10 a.m.), fioia Lytteiton. baiiecf— VV elJington, Mararoa (3.10 p.m.); Groymouth, (Jrepuki (la.la pjn.), all for Wteliom. SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. July 23. Arrived, Talune (7 a.m.), Irom Fiji. " SHIPPING NOTES. Work on the waterfront yesterday wae ooca>eionaily interrupted by ram, about tour hours' work being done during the any. The departure of Bcvoral vessels with cargo to load or discharge has consequently been post>-. poned. The Corinna, which is loading general cargo for Nelson and New Plymouth, will now be despatched to-day, and the collier Kauri, from Newcastle, will be detained hero until next week. _ In comparison with her preceding trap from Wellington, the ferry eteamer Maori had a. fair passage south on Wednesday evening. She negotiated the journey under full steam against a fairly strong wind from'-the south. The Defender, which is discharging timber at Wellington, will afterwards load for Lyttelton, and ia expected to leave for this port to-morrow, arriving here on Sunday. The Orepuki, with timber from Greymouth, is expected hero to-morrow. Upon completion of dischaxgo she will load general merohandiso for the West Coast, sailing probably on Monday. , The Cygnot'e weekly trip to Kaikoura has been postponed until , to-night, the sea off Kaikoura being too"' rough yesterday. ine Wakatu, for Kaikoura and Lyttelton, js etill held up at Wellington by wet weather. The Weatralia, from Melbourne, via Wellington, ia due her© to-morrow, jand sails w the evening for Dunediu and Bluff, thenoo to 'Melbourne. ... . Tho Government steamer Hmemoa will depart on her voyage to tile, Southern lishtr ! houses at 7 o'clock this morning. She wrtl I taako her first call at the Akaroa Lighthouse J The Northern ooaetal steamer £nuuni ha 3 been on tho slip at Lyttellon for two weeks, receiving her ■ which should be completed to-morrow The vcs«el will proceed to Patea eivrly next week. Th» Kini, after a protracted voyage from Greymouth, due to rough wrather and heavy s -as, arrived in port at a lato hour Ust evening the voyage having occupied 614 hours. She' brought a load of coal and timber for reports under date May 9lh that the Alaska Steamship Co ™P^4B'and8'and riposa, which was wrecked on St futs Beef, in Summer Straits, Alaska, is .o . salved The Ma-ipo?a was at one time owned by the Oceanic Sieamship Company, and wis a rt£ular trader between San. Francis o, Auckland, and Sydney aW fifUen *,<*> wh»n she maintained the mail and pas senger service across the Pacific in con,un> tion with her sister ship the Alameda. A decidodly rough trip across tho Tubman Sea was experienced by the Manuka, which "at Wellington at 11 a.m. on Tuc* £v, a day late, from Sydney. Departure w taken from Sydney at 1 p.m. on Thursday, fine weather prevailing until Saturday when tho ship ran into the outskirts of the prevailing southerly gale, which was at _it« highest pitch early on Monday morning. Ccm siderablo seas constantly broke over the vessel, but no damage was done. Anchor was dropped in Guard's Bay at 7 p.m. Monday, and the voyage, resumed at 5 on Tuct-iay, the presage across the Strait beinß mido in daylight. The ve«el was scheduled to sail on the return trip to Sydney and Hobart at 6 a.m. to-day. Some idea of the nature of the weather prevailing during the pant week on the West Coast of the South Island may be I bv the length of time taken by the U.S.S. Co.'a steamer Kowhai to make the passage from Grevmouth to Bluff, which is usually accomplished by vessels of her class in 50 hours (eavs Wednesday's "Southland Times ). The Kowhai left Greymouth at 4 p.m. on 'Wednesday last, and arrived at Bluff at 1 o'clock yesterday morning. In tho ordinarv course of events eh* should fif-ve Bluff on Frid*7 evening, and it was thought that her non-arrival was due to the fact that she had taken shelter in the Sour/Is from the heavy weather. Captain Ploughman stake that his vessel has been .steaming steadily into the heavy weather all tho time. Despite the fact that the Kowhai was frequently swept by heavy seas no damage was sustained bv members of the crew, nor was any loss of ship's gear experienced. The rough weather continued 11 the way from Greymouth to Bluff, the Kowhai taking 105 hours to 'complete the paeaags. "It is seventy-six years to-day cicoe we dropped anchor in Wellington Harbour." eaid Mr H. Barltrop in a short chat with a Nelson "Mail" representative on Friday. The vessel was the old Indemnity, airl Mr Barltwrp, who will bo nine-ty-one years of age next October, is the solo survivor of the passengers. The vessel leaked all the way out from Home, and the passengers had to take their turn at the pumps. At Wollin-rtin the vessel rra<j hauled up on a slip at Kaiwarramade on purpose for tne Clyd»side, which had previously Seen repaired there. After the Indemnity w&4 repaired she was loaded with

oil, bones, etc., from the whaling stations, and proceeded Home under Captain Seddcwick, who previously traded with the, throomas tod schooner called the Ceprey. A man who was a common sailor in an American ellip, but who was dreeeed with the imprccsivenese and correctness of an ambassadorial envoy, and bore tho name of Viadimor Prusiynski, was arrested at Auckland on Tuesday, on a chargo of breaking the conditions 011 which, as an alien eeaman, he had been permitted ashore. Pruszynski, who gave his age _as 29 years, and his ■ nationality as Russian Pole, was so obviously in dress, manner, and appearance out of tune with his rolo of ordinary sailor, that the matter of over-staying liis shore leave was looked on with suspicion, and when he oamc before Mr F. K. Hunt, S.M., ho was remanded for a week, pending enquiry. The Manuka, which arrived at Wellington from Sydney on Tuesday, brought the following paesongeiß for Lyttelton :—Misses Wardell, Hendry, White (2), Mcsdamce Rowley, Rhodes, White, Hanning, Messrs McAlister, Hendry, Rowley, White, Hanning, Ogilvie, Porter; four steerage, « SHIP COUNTY OF ANGLESEY (special to "tots press.") DUNEDIN, July 25. The Union Company advise th.-it arrangementfl have been made for the Te Anau to tow the on"-tim» paiiinc ol>ip On-nnfv 0 f ,\ n . glesAa from Auckland to Port Chalmers. In pursuance of their policy, to utilise every available hull for the carriage of general r TT W " ° f n oT<>nt « hort nse of ship- . m" Compnny decided to -bring the Countv of An-leeea to port to fit her out as a seagoing vessel again. The Ccunty of Anglesey waa formerly a full-riTced shin and W rcs,nWvi tT.ion Comt?riv qbo" t Auckland ," tie year 1914, and was dkmantolk. nort,l<?rn Port and used aa a NGAHERE'S LUCKY ESCAPE. (PRESS ASSOCIATION* TET,EnitAM.) TJ,„ „ , GISRORVE, Julv 25. ■ „ c BlackbaH steamer Ngahere, while leavm? port this morning, was caught bv a sea l' kro 7' f '"' « lc channel at the trance. A heavy sea, was coming: in, and Srf J, 03X1 l Ppe:Lr <i » time to be' in a predicament b-t a ) 10 nltimntelv drvawn back under the shelter of the wall. It 6110 had no f ,® a P fa , in Di,n ?r states that he Baa a !r li g f x ?, minal f on °f the interior of the "apparently no damage, lbe vessel will eail for Greymouth when the weather moderates. • SEAMEN IN CAPTIVITY. - ■ JIATUNGA AND WAIRUNA CREWS. Distressing accounts 'are given in lttlero received in Auckland of the ■ sufferings which the crew of the Matunga, tlie Buins-Pliiip steamer, which captured by tho raider • jV 60rae *tweJve months ago, are enduring in the. Gorman internment campa. It is shown that both officers and men are without ooots, and have only the remnantß of tho clothing in winch they were captuml. Apparently, ako, their food is vety restricted, llio officer® and crew of the Union Company's steamer Wairuna, another captured vessel, ore aiso prisoners of war in Germany, but aro evidently faring better than their Australian comrades. The. writer of one of the letters stutc6 that, tho W&iruna men aro regularly in receipt of parcels sent by the Union ComPany, hut thai lio and the, other unfortunate® from- the Matunga have not received any ae* sistance, either from Burns, Philp and Company or the_ Australian Government. The position of the dependants of the two crews is also pathetic. During the months in vJuch thero was uncertainty as to the fate of the vessels, they received no regular monetary allowance from the shipping companies, whose liability for tho payment of wages legally ceases with the loss of the ship,' which was presumed from tho fact of her disappearance, and would become liable for compensation oniy in case an officer or member of the crew waa killed or physically injured while on duty. It. is stated .(says tho Auckland Herald 0 that the total allowance made by Burns, Phiip and Company to the .wife and four children of one of the Matunga's officers is £2 17s f>J a we>»k, nn-1 from coming to them thero is to be deducted on advance made as a kind of clin: Stable contribution ""bile the fnt* of th» -Vjn UTI . known. _ This allowance waa not commenced until six months after the capture of the eteamer.

THE WAITEMATA'S OFFICERS. . • (PRESS ASSOCIATION TET.ECBAM.) „ . . „ „ WELLINGTON, Julv 25. CaTjtoin G. Ferprr«on was in command of if Un J° n st< »™ Ship Company's Waitcma'a when she was 6unk in European waters. Mr A. v. Barton, as far as is known, was third oonc\r. • Tho following engineers are beb'evecl to have been onj hoard:—Chief, Mr G R. Skinner; second, Mr .T. Hamer; .third, 'Mr J." P. Henderson; fourth, Mr E. P. Rcvington.