SHIPPING.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16396, 16 December 1918, Page 9

SHIPPING.

PORT OF LYTTELTON.

ARRlVED—December 14th. Monowai (7.15 0.m.), from Wellington. Maori (8.45 p.m.), from Port Clidmera. Putiki (8 p.m.), from Wellington. . Waitomo (11.15 p.m.), from Wellington-. December 15th. Waitomo (10 a.m.) from Wellington. Mararoa (11.5 a.m.), from Wellington. SAlLED—December 14th. Karu (noon), for Port Chalmers. Monowai (12.15 p.m.), for Dunedin. December 15th. Maori (2.25 a.m.), for Wellington. SHIPPING NOTES. — To-day being a public holiday waterside work at Lyttelton will be suspended for tho day. The ferry steamer Mararoa"consequently brought no cargo for discharge hore. Captain Larsen has taken-command ci tho liuia, replacing Captain Gandlish. Mr J. hie© has joined tho Monowai as assistant purser. The Wakatu will probably bo despatched from Wellington to-night with general cargo for Kaikoura and Lyttelton. She is due hero to-morrow night. The Cygnet is on a special trip to Knikotfru. und Titirangi. and consequently cannot make her u.iual voyage to Akaroa today. The John Anderson will Gail to-morrow foi Akaroa. Tho Calm is expected here on Wednesday fiom southern ports, and will load hero for Wellington and Wanganui, sailing Wednesday evening. Tho coastal sf-cJrner Coxinnji js expected to reach, this port towards tho end of this week. She will bring southern cargo, and will load her© for Nelson and New Plymouth.

The schooner Oakland's sailing time from Lyttelton is indefinite. Her overhaul is completed, and the vessel is ready for sea, but she is still "under arrest" in connexion with n claim for damage to her cargo. r Tho collier Melbourne, having completed h*»r discharge of coal ana. timber from Newcastle, sailed from Lyttelton about midnight Sunday for Opua, in the Say of Islands, {/am whence she will proceed to Newcastle. The Union Company's email coastal 9,earner Karu went soutbi on Saturday She ill go into dock at Fort Chalmers for her annual overhaul and survey. The Waitomo. laden with cargo from Cilcctta, via Sanmrang, Australia, and Wellington, arrived at Lyttelton yesterday. A start will be mode to-morrow unloading her cargo. From this port she sails for Dunedin and Sydney.

The Wootton, from Wellington with general ■merchandise, put in *at Lyttelton late on Saturday night. She will discharge her cargo and load again lor Wellington to-monw, sailing- in the evening ' The collier Poherua left Westp«rt at 7.20 a.m. on Saturday with a load of coal for Lyttelton. The vessel is due here to-day. The Tarawera will arrive at-this port about the middle of this week, with general cargo from southern ports. She loads _ here for Auckland, and sjwls thence, via. Timaru. The PutQci, with general merchandise from Wellington, arrived at Lyttelton on Saturday evening. Upon completing here the Putiki will sail for Dunedin. .... Following on the representation of the gt serai secretary of the Federated Seamen's Union, the Union Steamship Company has agTeed to rearrange and improve tho accommodation for eeemen in fourteen of its steamers. » . , The F. and, S. liner Durham is due at Melbourne about 30th inst. from Liverpool. The vessel will discharge the whole of her cargo at Australian ports, and will them come on to New Zealand to load for West of J.nghui(l. Saturday's "Otasfo Daily Times say®'— On inquiry we find that there is no foundation for the rumour that negotiations are, ji land for the sale of the Canterbury Steamship Company. The Huddart-Parker lmer River in a, which lias been temporarily withdrawn from tho intercolonial trade owing to the influenza epidemic, is making a trip to the "west.' The vessel left Sydney on December 2nd for Melbourne, Adelaide, Albany, and Fremantb. Captain HcNeilage, of the Bluff dredge Murihiku, lias been appointed to tho command of the Wellington coastal steamer Wiairau. Captain McNeilage had been ?n ofoargo of the Murihiku ever since her arrival at Bluff, and was recently temporarily attached to the pilot staff at Bluff. The French ship Admiral Cecile. en route from New York to Auckland and Wellingtoa with a general cargo, cleared the Panama Canal on November 7th, and is due at Auckland shortly. On completion of discharge at V ellington tie Admiral Cecile will load wool at a Now Zealand port for the United States. , , A ., The superintendent of mercantile marine at Lyttelton has received the following msscage from tho Marine Department:—lnform (•hipping cable buoy moored in Cook Strait in following positionPcncarrow lighthouse 70 degrees true, distant 7J miles, Karon Hock liriit bearing 327 degrees true, distant three miles. Also a cable buoy has been lost in Coon Strait. It is painted black, marked P and T., and broad arrow in white.

the ferry service. Tho ferry steamer Maori did not put : n an appearance at Lyttelton until Saturday right from Port Chalmers, and it was some lime aftor midnight before Bflo was in Beadito take the ferry trip north. Tho Monowai, having completed her temtorarv engagement in tho ferry service, was dcepatohed on Saturday fop Dunedm on lior nnnAl east coast running* NIAGARA LEAVES VANCOUVER. Cable advice received by tho Union Company states that the Niagara left Vancouver at noon on the 9th m»t. tor Honolulu, Suva, and Auckland. She xs bringing a largo number of passengers and. tho usual shipment of Caaadmn mercfaandiie for Now Zealand and Australia. The vessel w due at Auckland on 28th mat., and will | *eave there about SOth inst. for Sydney. | TALUNE'S PASSENGERS. ' By the Talnno the following passengers left Ancllacd last week for the Islands:— Misers Cramp ton (3), Clapcott (2), Hernmgs, Cuthbert, Watson, Bono, Cameron, Jones, Anderson, Booth, Sister Hogg, three nurses, J)r. Gladys Montgomery, Mesdames Sander, Hall, Anderson, Bealley, Grant, Messrs I 2>iven, Rayrling, Coberg, Lee, Stuart, Ander- •

son, Barker, Clapcott, Ah Chin-g (2), Beulley, ilawson, Grant, Gladding, Atldns, Beddoes, Carter. Corquadale, Rase. Maw, Moochy. Outhbert, Patrick, ±,'ead, Specth, Hunt, 71 solders and 7 steerage. . SALVOR QUARANTINED. From cabled information received the Wellinrtor. officc of Dalgety and Co., Ltd., unaetstvnds tlxat their chartered steamer Salvor, which left San Francisco on the Bth November for Wellington, has been qnarantin'd at Papeete owing to an outbreak of influenza on board. No particulars were given in the cable messase. A wirelc33 message has now been sent diverting the Salvor to Auckland. She will later come on to Wellington. THE DORSET. LIGHTERING OPERATIONS CONTINUED. tpRES* ' ""OCTATTOK TBT,*GItAM.^ WELLINGTON, December 14. Lightering operations on the Dorset (which, owing to the southerly swell, had to be discontinued yes tord Ay morning) were resumed at 8 o'clock last night when the weather conditions were excellent. '1 lie work went on all night, and is being proceeded with to-dey. Th© watersiders will also work all day tomorrow, and it is hoped by the evening t-> have sufficient cargo oijt of tho Dorset to warrant another attempt to reflect hor. An attempt to free the vessel without the aid of the tugs was l made by the captain yesterday afternoon, but this was unsuccessful. December 15. There is_ no change in the position of the Dorset. Lightering work was continued today and another attempt may be made tonight to refloat tho vessel. SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. MELBOURNE, December 14. Arrived, Kauri, from .ofew Zealand. SYDNEY, December 15. Arrived, Zingara. Sailed, Port Sydney, for New Zealand. MELBOURNE, December 15. Arrived, Kainpoi, from Greymouth. AUCKLAND, December 14. Arrived, Mokoia (9.20 a.m.), from Dtmedin. Sailed, Huia, schooner (9.30 a.m.), from Melbourne.