SHIPPING.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 16520, 12 May 1919, Page 9

SHIPPING.

PORT OP LXTI'ELTON. ARRIVALS. Saturday, May 10th. Maori, S3. (7.10 a.m), 3412 tons, Cameron, from Wellington. Union Steam Ship Co., agents. Putiki, S3 (11 a.m.), 409 tons, Robertson, from Timaiu. F. E. Sutton, agents. Breeze, s.s (1150 a.m.), 554 to an, Venn, from Wanganui. A. H. Trlmbull and Co., agentsCygnet, S3. (2.15 pan.), 124 tons, Murray, from Akaioa. Steven son. Stewart and Co., agents. Wootton, S3. (5.15 p.m.), 157 tone, Larsen, from Wellington. A. Rhind and Co., agents. Sunday, May 11th. Mararoa, s.B. (9.25 a.m.), 2598 tons, Irwin, from Wellington. Union Steam Ship Co., agents. Wostralia, s.s. (9.25 a.m.), 12884 tans, Sherriff.'from Wellington. Kinsey and Co., Ltd., agents. Invercargill. s-a., Wallstrom, from Taiakohe. Kinsey and Co., Ltd., agents. Ngahere, 83. (8.15 p.m.), 1090 tons, Dilner, from Chatham Islands. Blackball Coal Co., agents. _ DEPARTURES. Saturday May 10th. Maori, S3. (7.50 p.m.), 8412 tons, Cameron, for Wellington. Union' Steam Ship Co., fi-gents* Wakatu, ».s. (2.45 p.m.), 157 tons, Wells, for Cape Campbell. Kineey and Co., Ltd., agents. Ta-inui, S3. (3.30 p.m.), 128 tons, Williamson. for Wanganui. N.Z. Refrigerating- Co., agents. ' .Breeze, ft.s. (5.55 p.m.), 553 tons, Venn, for Dunedin. A. H. Turnbull and Co., agents. Orepuki, m. (11 p.m.), 527 tons, Dewhuxßt, for G royraouth. Reese Bros., agents. F. E. Sutton and Co., port agente. Putiki, s.s. (11.15 p.m.), 409 tons, Robertson, for" Wellington. F. E. Sutton and Co., agents.

EXPECTED ARRIVALS, Kaiapoi, s.s., from Timaru, this day. Ai;awa, s.s., from London, this day. Carpentaria, >4., frcrm Liverpool, this day. Kanika, a.s., from Westport, thia day. Kamona, s.s., from Greymouth, May 13th. Canopus, s.s., from Westport, early. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Invercargill, for Wellington, this day. i Waimarino, s.s., for Auckland, this day. lonic, ba., for Dunedin, this day. Kotare, s.s., for Dunedin, this day. Corinna, s.s., for Nelson, this day. Kaiapoi, s-s., for Wellington, May 13th. SHIPPING NOTES. The Kahika, with a part cargo of coal for discharge at this port, will arrive here tomorrow from Westport. • She will complete her dischargo at Timaru, ' The Monovpai leaves Auckland to-day .lor Napier and Wellington, and from the latter port will sail for Lyttelton and Dunedin. Mr D. B. McLaren ha* joined the Ngatoro as second engineer. Mr F. B. McKay has signed on the Mapourika. as third officer. Mr F. W. Collins has joined the Mararoa as second officer in 1 place of Mr T. C. Sawyers. . Mr A. .Watson has joined the Mararoa as chief engineer in place of Mr Knox, who is to join the Mokoia. The Huddart-Parker steamer Westralia arrived in port yesterday morning' fom. Wellington. The -vessel is timed to Jeave for Dunedin, Bluff, and Melbourne this evening. ' The Union Co.'s cargo steamer Kauri is loading wheat at Melbourne for Dominion ports. . The Kamona, with coal and timber from the West Coast, is expected to make this port early this week. It was stated in on article which appeared in the Dunedin "Star," under the heading "New Bed Funnel Steamers," that the Leitrim and Weetmeath had been torpedoed and sunk by the Germans during the war. The "Star" reported later: —Although this information has appeared in print in. many reliable journals, it is incorrect. The Leitrim, which is one of the finest vessels of her class seen in these waters, was at Wellington only a few weeks ago, when she brought general cargo from New York, and then sailed for Australian ports. This eteamer was very fortunate during -the' war, as she never suffered damage in any way. The Westmeath met with a mishap whilo the war was in progress, when she Tan ashore on the French coast. The vessel was subsequently refloated and repaired, and is still carrying out good work in another part of the world. Both the Leitrim and Westmeath are units of the Union Steam Ship Company's fleet.

Russell and Somen. LUI.. Auckland, have received advic® that tlie Dutch steamer Roggeneen 13 due at Auckland with a cargo of en gar from Java on May 23rd. After discharging Jier cargo ebo will load general cargo for Sydney. The eame firm has also received advice that the Abemama left Newcastle on Wednesday for Auckland ■with a cargo of superphosphates. Sho will probably load timber -at Kaipaja for Australia. Th© New Zealand Shipping Company's KeikourA has had her loading operations at Tokomaru Bay temporarily suspended owing to rough ecas. She was to have left last night for Wellington, arriving to-morrow morning. The date o" her sailing for London lias accordingly been moved forward, and it is now May 17th. _ According to advice received by the Australian Shipping Board, » new Whito Star liner, the vedic, has been launched .and placed on the loading berth lor Australia. The Vedic, a steel twin screw refrigerating vessel of 9060 tons gross and 6600 ton* n?t, was constructed for the Oceanic S.r>. Companv (White Ster Line) by Harland and Woiff, Ltd., Belfast. She has three decks, and is 460 ft long by 58ft in. beam. The communication with regard to the jeeeel received br the Shipping Board indicates that «he will" leave England this month with troops for Australia. The Vedic, although « steamer,. i» several thousand tons smaller than the Ceramic of thesame line. Aniong the departures from Wellington. O" Frkiav "was the Norwegian steamer JBessa, ,048 ton*, which has been undergoing temW—* lopairs, having struck a rock at Wei-

lin Eton Heads on April 18th. _ The Beesa is proceeding to Sydney, and will latw go Jo Melbourne, where permanent TCpaira wil} probably lie carried out. It is understoo* that those repairs will be very costly, us tha damage consists of throo fractured plates, about CO feet of dents, and a number of started bolts.

Tho steel, 6Halter-deck standard steamer War Bastion has beeni purchased by ths Union Company. She is 5800 tons gross, built at Nowcastl© in 1913 by the Northumberland Shipbuilding Company, Ltd., class 100 A 1 Lloyd's, engines 27, 45, »nd 75 by 54in stroke, carries about 9000 ton# dead weight on 26ft tin drought. Her dimensions uro 400 ft by 53?t by 26ft lin. Captain Neville is about to resume oom•maud of tho hospital ship Maheno At Dun* cdin. The vassal is to sail at tho end of tho month for Australia, Singapore, and England.

"Fair Play," tho shipping journal, writes: —"It is not every Primo' Minister who has tho good fortuno to purchase a boat, thereafter to earn her cost in two years, and then sell hor at Bomothiup liko 45 por "cent, mora than the prico ho paid for hor* Yflt such is Mr Hughes's happy position in regard to. tho Conrmonwoolth Government Lino stearoor Australstream, which, no longer in her first youth, has just been eold to Belgium for £20 per ion, oa againfeb tho £11 paid for her in 1916." STATE-OWNED STEAMERS. At the last moating of the Pete* Harboar Board, the Milton Borough Council's resolution urging the Government to secure ft State-owned mercantile fleet of steamers was unanimously supported. The chairman remarked that tho scheme might oecm a trig one but, with regard to the financial aspect of it there wae • any amount of money in tlio faominicm, and it might have been eotioed from banking returns that thore wero twenty-two millions of 1 money _ lying idle in the banks. Ho added that if the country- decided to go in for a< mercantile fleet, and raised the necessary loone to do , so. say, fivo or eix millions, within the Dominion, tho internet for them wouldi .be circulated in tho country. MISHAP TO KINI. (FBESS ASSOCIATION TKLEGBAK.) DtTNEDIN, May 10. The Kini's delay at BluS was caused by a. fracturo to a high-pressure oylinder cover. The engineers effected temporary repairs on Thureday night while the ship was at anchor off Bluff. The vessel averaged seven knots oil the run. to Dune din, arriving here etirly this morning. Repairs axe sow being csfried out. NO MORE SAILERS FROM NEW YORK. According to the "American . Export Monthly," of March Bth, tho ship Bragdo eailed from New York on March 7th for Sydney, via the Cape of Good Hope. The barque Asmund, for Melbourne,, has since ' sailed, and also the barque Janna, for Sydney. These are the last sailing vessels to load at New York for Australasian, ports no others have been .announced, and in view of the . reduction in ' steamer sates, it is doubtful if further sailers will come to Australia and New Zealand from New York. - SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. SYDNEY,- May 10. Arrived, Koromiko. from Lyttelton. • . May 11. The Moeraki sails for Levuk* direct at midnight, taking passengers for transference to .the Makura at Fiji. Arrived, Melbourne, from Greymosith.. AUCKLAND, May 10. Arrived, Arahura (1 a.m.), from Gisborne. Sailed, Arabura (5.20 p.m.), for Gisborne. M»y 11. Arrived, Kaituna (10 a.m.), from Weatport; Tarawera (noon), from Lyttelton. . WELLINGTON, May 10. Arrived, Mapourik* (3.40 a.m.), from Auckland.. . %r ~ May 11. Arrived, Atua (7.50 a.m.), from, Sydney; Remuera (8.50 a.m.), from London, via AuckOrissa (7.<0 a.m.), for New Plymonth; Komata (1-10 lot Westport; Tutanekei (1.25 p.in), for Anoklana#