SHIPPING.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16885, 13 July 1920, Page 5

SHIPPING.

_ *-— PORT OF LYTTELTON. ARRIVALS. Monday, July 12th. Canopns, s.s. (3.40 a.m.), 1350 tons, Selkrs, from Westport. Westport Coal Company, Ltd., agents. DEPARTURES. MocSay, July 12th. Cygnet, s.s. (2 pjn.), 124 tons, for Akaroa. Stevenson, Stewart and Co., agents. (8.55 p.m.) 4505 tons, Mawson, for-Wellington. Union Steam Ship Company, agenta. - SHIPPING NOTES. The Eemnera, bound Homeward from New Zealand, was at Colon on Sunday, according! to private advice received in Cbristchurch yesterday. The Manuka did not leave Sydney -until 3 p.m. on Saturday, and she is due at Wellington early to-morrow morning. At. present she is timed to arrive here on Thursday, and in that case her Lyttelton paeengers will not be transhipped. ' The Kamo was expected to leave Greyraouth last night with coal and timber for Lyftelton, but no word has been received of her departure. The Kaituna left Sydney on Wednesday last for Bluff, Dunedin, Timaru, and Lyttelton. She brings a cargo of hardwood. The Sofala has been delayed at Wellington, and is now due here on Thursday. From here 6he goes to Dunedin. On completion of discharge of her cargo of timber, the Ngatoro will load for Greymouth for whi6h port she is expected to leave to-morrow.- Messiß Rhind and Co. are the loading.agents. The Ngakuta -is due here on Friday from Greymouth with coal. She will return to . Greymouth to load. Tho Westralia is due here this morning to discharge about 300 -tons of cargo. She is timed to sail to-morrow afternoon for Dunedin, Bluff, and Melbourne. The schooner Lily is expected to leave LytItelton to-day with a full' cargo for Welling-* '■ ton. The Maori went into dock here yesterday 1 , morning, and the work of cleaning and p-aint- • ing her hull was commenced. She will alsohave her port and starboard propellers ex* j changed, and the centre propeller will be cleaned up. The Marama arrived at San Francisco on July Bth from Wellington, and sails on her < return to-day. The Waikawl arrived at San Francisco on : i July Bth from Auckland. I The Tofua,' owing to bad weather at Rarotonga, en route from San Francisco, did notclear tho island port till 10 a.m. on Wednesday for Wellington, where she is due to- * morrow afternoon. ]'' The "Sydney Shipping List" of July 2nd j - publishes the following obituary:—Mr-H.' - T. I \ Wynyard, chief officer of the steamer Horo- ] rata, died at St. Vincent's Private Hospital ] on Tuesday. The lute Mr Wynyard coninfluenza, and was getting along well 'towards recovery when complications set in, i wheh ended in his death. He was a popular ] officer, was only 39 years of age, and leaves , a widow, who resides at Chijstchurch, New \ Zealand. The remaine were laid to rest at . Rookwood cemetery on Wednesday last, and amongst those who attended were Mr G. H. Wynyard, Messrs C. P. Dixon, and J. , Dongoll (representing Birt and Co., Ltd.), officers, engineers, and cadets from the Hotorata, officers and engineers from the Somerset. Among the floral tributes was a beautiful wreath from deceased's widow. COMMONWEALTH .LINE. ] HOSTILITY OF THE COMBINE. \ (FROM OUR OVm CORRESPONDENT.) x SYDNEY, 29. < Sooner or later, say shrewd judges of the J shipping situation, there must develop a t struggle between the Shipping Combine— I which now includes practically every British c shipowner operating in the southern seas— and the Commonwealth of Australia. The Commonwealth line of steamers is frankly a challengo to the Shipping Combine —and is just as frankly accepted as such by the lat- , ter. The plain speaking on bohalf of the ~ Commonwealth and the King is romarkablo. Tho Combine does not seek to disguise the *: fact that it is a Combine, nor to hide the « chagrin witJi which it regards the Common- s wealth fleet. f Tho Commonwealth line is by far the big- t gost British mercantile fleet outside the Com- f bino. Its nucleus, it will be rememberad, i were the fifteen smallish cargo-carriers purchased by Kr Hughes in 1916. About the * same time, Australia brought the seventeen s German steamers which she had captured s into commission under her flag. (They axe s still running in the Australian service, earning big profits, psnding the decision of the League of Nations.) To this comfortable . fleet Australia-added a number of small ( wooden*steamers and inotor-ahips, bought in' America —but these were not successful, and *• most of them were sold after the armistice. • Then shipbuilding commenced in Australia, s and .five or six fine iron stMinvirs, built in the various dockyards, are already in commission. Othera are being tnilt rapidly; while- in the English and Scottish •.'.ockyards, ai the present moment, -three big passengercarrying- liners are being completed to the order of the Australian Government; and other and even bigger ships are to follow from tho English yards. Thus, it may bs seen that, literally every month, with build- t ing operations going on apace, 'he position jj of Australia- as a thin-owning nation is being strengthened; and the feelings- of *he Com- g bine, which naturally desires to be all-power-ful, can be imagined. The Sght has been going on. in a sort of ■way, for & long time. The Combine grants 1 shippers a substantial rebate if, after a cer- n tain time, they Drove they have not been | shipping by non-Combine vessel-;. It is a _ stiff handicap—but, eo far, the Commonwealth has survived and flourished. Now the British papers are pointing out that, if the £ Commonwealth is going to fight. the Com- t biaev the powerful interests therein xepte- a

Rented will see to it that the Commonvvalth Government will get no money when it goes in Lonr'on. Only the future will show what this will lead to. This much seem? sure : The Australian people ? are generally behind the Australian' Govexnment in its defiance of the Combine. SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. SYDNEY, July 12. Arrived, Wairuna, from New Zealand; "Climaroa (noon), from Wcllin^toTi. NEWCASTLE, July 12. Arrived, Paloona and Kaitangata, from New ZeaJa ° d ' ATOKLAN-D, July 12, Arrived, Arahura (2.45 p.m.), from Gis- , borne. , ' Sailed Taliiti (5.30 p.m.), for Sydney; " Rona, 'e.a. (5.20 p.m.), for Sydney; Glaucus (5.15 p.m.), ior Noumea. ( P ' WELLINGTON, July 12. Arrived, John (5 a.m.), from Timaru; r Wootton (3.30 p.m.), from Lyttelton. 3 Sailed, Wm. E. Bumham (10.50 a.m.), for 1 Newcastle; .Wahine (7.55 p.m.), for Lyttelton.