SHIPPING.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16405, 27 December 1918, Page 5

SHIPPING.

PORT OF LYTTELTOW.

ARRIVED —December 26th. Mana (3.15 a.m.). from Wanganui. i I Maori (6.50 a.m.), from Wellington. r 1 SAlLED—December 26th. j i Monowai (10.30 p.m.), for Wellington.

\ ' SHIPPING NOTES.

The Canterbury Shipping Co.'o steamer Breeze is expected to return to Lyttelton, on Monday, and will lo4d at this port for Picton and Wanganui. The steamer Putiki, with general cargo from Wellington, is clue at Lyttelton, tomorrow. She will take in cargo here for Wellington, and is expected to sail north on Saturday everting. Mr S. F. Chandler, chief engineer of the, John, haa gone ashore. Mt R. Cornish has joined the same vessel as second engineer. Mr C. Dempster has signed on the Kaitoa as second mate. Captain 0. J. Foster has taken charge of the Navua in place of Captain Doorley. . The schooccr John Ena is expected to leave Dunedin to-day or to-morrow for Sydney, at which port Bhe will load for San FianCl The Regulus will probably reach Lyttelton on Monday, leaving this port the. eama day for Wellington, Nelson, Westpcxt, and Greymouth. , , An arrival in port yesterda-y wa* the coastal steamer Man*, which will probably remain here until after the holidays. "The Canopua is expected to come out of dock at Lyttelton on Tuesday next. Her overhaul, however, is not likely to be completed before about two weeks later. The Kamo will probably be ready far deDArturo from this port for New Plymouth tomorrow. She is taking general cargo. The Storm arrived at Lyttelton on Tuesday morning with cargo from Wanganui, but no labour being available during the holidays to handle her cargo, she has been detained here. It is expected that she will get away to-day i for Wanganui. •;, , , The Wootton, laden with general meictoan- ' dise, will leave this port to-day for Weilineton, being duo to return to port on Sun- : day. She will subsequently undergo overhaul before returning north. i Waterside work ceased at Lyttelton at noon ! on Tuesday for the Christmas holidays, and will be resumed this morning. The barque Albert, which arrived at Timara on Monday from Son Francisco, did not Bignt «iy ships during her 52 days' parage from America to here, and her crew did not know that the armistice had been signed, till in- ■ formed of the fact at Timaru. A good word for Noah's prescience as a | ship builder is found in an allusion to his ; Ark in "Nauticus." "It would not be a i difficult task," says that journal, to pick I out of Lloyd's Register many shipe built within the last twenty years wh<®| drmen- ; ! eiona suggest a form closely resembling tnat 'of Noah's Ark. According to the dimensions given in, the Bible, as translated in terms of modern measurements, the Ark wue 480 feet • lons-, 80 feet wide, and 48 feet deep. Her i tonnage was 11,413, and she bad plenty of , loom for pairs of all the distinct epecies of I animals that are classed by Buffon—2l4— I and she should have accommodated 1000 persons, and then had plenty of room for the storage of roppKes." . - . , * Captain Gray, R-N•» who waa in" charge i of a "hush" boat in the Atlantic daring the I w*r, was a passenger by the transport AyrI which arrived at Auckland on Monday, ! en route to Wellington, where his parents 1 reside. He is going to the South Sea j Islands to renew his pre-war work.

SHIPPING TELEGRAMS.

SYDNEY, December 26. | Arrived, Bakanoa. ; LONDON, December 21 (delayed). Sailed, Holmes, 8.8., for Bluff. I