SHIPPING.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17813, 12 July 1923, Page 14

SHIPPING.

PORT OF LYTTELTON. ARRIVALS. Wednesday, July 11th. Cygnet, s.s. (1.40 a.m.), 129 tons, Murray, from Kaikoura. Pitcaithly Bros., agents.. Port Macquarie, a s. (7.50 a.m.), 7230 tons, Durham, from New York,, via Aucklund and Wellington. Kinsey and Co., Ltd., agents. Mararoa, s.s. (9.25 a.m.), 2598 tons, S'ewell, from Wellington. Union Steam Ship Co., agents. Koromiko, s.s. (9.45 a.m.), 2479 tons, Rankine, from Wellington. Union Steam Ship Co., agents. Gale, s.s. (12.5S p.m.), 610 tona, Sharpo, from Wellington. A H. Turnbull and Co., agents. John, s.s. (8 p.m.), 342 tons, Hawick, from Wellington. F. E. Sutton end Co., agents. DEPARTURES. Wednesday, July 11th. Wootton. s,s, (1.15 p.'m.), 150 tona, Lessen, for Wellington. A. Khind amd Co., agenta. Gale s.s (5.40 p.m.), 610 tons, Shaipe, from f>unedin. A. H. Turnbull and Co., agents. Mararoa, s.s. (8.40 p.m.), 2598 tons, Sewell, for Wellington, Union Steam Ship Co., agenta. Port Macquarie, s.s. (7.25 p.m.), 7236 toni, Ihirham, for Dunedin. Kinsey eJid Co., Ltd., agents. Canopus, s.b. (9.40 p.m.), 1887 tons, Sillars, for Westport. Westport Coal Co., agents. Cygnet, s.s. (9.45 p.m.), 120 tons, Murray, for Kaikoura. Pitcaithly Bros., agents.

Expected Arrirals. Wahine, "Wellington, thi« day. Orepuki, Grey mo nth, this d*y. Mararoa, Wc.lington, July 13th. Wakatu, Kaikoure, July 18th. City of Bagdad, Wellington, July 18th. Kennedy, Wellington, July 13th. Cumberland, Wellington, July 18th. Breeze, Timaru, July 18th. Ca.m, "Wellington, July 13th. Storm, Westport, July 13th. Tee 3, Greymouth, July 18th. Wingatui, Timaru. July 14th. Whaiigape, Dunedin, July 14th. Kamo, Greymouth, July 14th. Port Chalmers, London, July 14th. Orraa, Greymouth, Ju]y Hth. Katoa, Wellington, July 14th. Kurow Wellington, July 17th. Port Hunter, Timaru, July 17th. Corinna, Timaru, July 17th. Waihemo, New Plymouth, July 18th. Kalomo, New Plymouth. July 18fck. Atholl, Wellington, July 19th. Kini, Timaru, July 20th. Westmoreland, Wellington, July 2«th. Canadian Miller, Dunedin, July 28th. Koamo, Wellington, August 6th. aritifii, Auo-ust l'th. Doon&olm, Wellington, August 18th. Projected Departures. Ho-vrra, Melbourne, this day. John, Wellington, this day. Wahine, Wellington, this day. Wellington, July 13th. • Koromi ko, We-itport, July 13th. Wingatui, Auckland, July 18th. Ovepuki, Grcym.uth, July 13th. Breeze, Picton, July 13tb. Celm, Bluff. July 14th. Storm, Dunedin, Ju'y 14th. Katoa, Dunedin, July 14th. Wakatu, Kaikourn-. July 15th. Kamo, Dunedin, July 16th. Wingatui, Auckland, J#ly 16ta. Owa, Wellington. Cynet, Dunedin, July 16tn. Whnr.gape, Sydney, July 17th. Comma, July 17th. Kennedy, Kcxton, Jtur ISth. mt ». SidSf mn.'rfVSlrngto. My M.' , Karinga, Dunedin, August 21st. SHIPPING NOTES. Tim Jolin which arrived yesterday - afternoon from Wellington, will completer loading to-day for Wellington, Wanganui, and -New P steamer Howra, which has been discharging sulphur and general cargo i» -o aail this morning- for Mcloourne. The Whangape is due from Dunedin on Saturday to discharge Sydney and cargo. She will load here for Sydney, sailing on Tuesday. _. a-*,,, The Wingatui, due from Timaru on Saturday, is to sail on Monday for Auckland, via Wellington. „ . The Waihemo has been delayed at * a P ier bv bad weather, and is now due via Hew Pivmouth, on Wednesday next. The Kamo is expected to arrive, on Saturday night from Greymouth, and is to sail on Monday for Dunedin to complete die- , chaxg*.

The Kurow is due from Auckland via Wellington on Tuesday, and will load at L,yttelton and Timaru for Auckland. The Orepuk : should arrive to-day from Greymouth, fox which, port she is to sail on the return trip on Saturday. The Kennedy is to load to-morrow for Foxton direct. The City of Bagdad, with New York cargo for discharge, is due from Wellington tomorrow. The intercolonial steamer Marama arrivedat Wellington from Sydney late on Tuesday afternoon, with 155 passengers and general cargo from Wellington. She is to sail for Sydney to-morrow. VESSELS WITHIN WIRELESS RANGE OF N.Z. Auckland—Coolana, Cragness, Canadian Ranger, E. R. Sterling, Flora, Kaitangata, Katoa, Kaitoke, Laburnum, Las Vegas, Makura, Niagara, Pinno. Sonoma, Tofua, Waimate, Cumberland, Westmoreland. Wellington—Wahine, Mararoa, Ngaio, Moe--raki, Waiotapu, Kauri,- Kaiapoi, Kaimanawa, Waihora, Wingatui, Tutanekai, Devon City, Havre, Port Chalmers, El Kantara. Chatham Islands—Port Kembta, Port Lincoln. N.Z. SHIPPING COMPANY'S LINE. PapaToa—Left Liverpool 7th instant, for Auckland and Southcmi port#. Weatir.eath—Left Las Palmaa 6th instant, en route to London. Armagh—Arrived Colon Bth. instant, en route from London to Fiji, Auckland, and Southern ports. PASSENGERS BY THE MOERAKI. The Moeraki, which left Wellington at 10.45 p.m. on Monday for Melbourne, took the following passengers:—Saloon—Misses 0. R. McDuff, C E. Carew, H. Marsb, D. Moreland, L. P. Mills, J. Hogan, McGriggor, D. M. Carty, C. R. MoDonald, L. A. Feast, A. Oato3, Mesdames N, C.. Gadsden, J. McCann, L. J. McDuff and infant, L. A. Prater, H. Lungier, R. C. Gainaford, J. Williamson, P. N. Rundle, P. T. Brown, I. A. M. Gothard, E. M., McG-hee, B. A. Wiggs, H. Nitschke, D'Arcy, C. Duncan, E. Moreland J. Combs, M. A. Morton, J. Dowling, L. P. Mills, Lawson, McCracken and two children, M. A, M. Hall, J. M. Cooke, Laurie, J. M. Doolan, C. J. Lemon, Lewis and family. C. J. McDonald, W. M. Ford and two children, M. A. M. McKehna and child, Messrs J. S. Hay, Perry, A. L. Rhodes, NYC. Gadsden, E. A. Adamß, Mills, Larsen, Nimmo, J. McCann, J. H. M. Duff, L. J. Duff, R. C. Gainsford, J. Williamson, P. N. Rundle, C. R. Stowe, Hi M. McDonald,. F. C. Stillwell, H. Nitschke, H. Hoffmann, A. L. Nitschke, J. Combs. L. P. Mills, J. D. McCracken, Lawson, W. E. Gurry, G. F. T. Donaldson, R. T. Tcmlinr son, J. F. Hathaway, A. C. Smith, C. Heyer, E. Jones, W. Binns, Sulbert, P. Gill, T. lie'nskaw, Tresaider, E. J. MoVicar, A. E McKenna, C. J. T,emon, Colonel J. Lewis and boy, Master L. J. McDufi. i THE PORT AUCKLAND. [ . (PBBSS AB9OCTATTOK TJTL*OfiAM.) . . . WELLTKGTON, July 11. A start was made to-day with the restowmg of the cargo of 3000 tons of concentrates in No. 3 hold cf the Port Auckland, which was damaged ty heavy easterly weather while en route from to London, neoessitat ; ng her return to Wellington last Saturday. After the vessel's cajgo haw been redistributed, certain .minor repairs will be made, and it is then expected thet the steamer will be able to continue her voyage It is not anticipated that the liner has suffered any serious structural damage from the buffetting she xej oeived from the waves. j ROCKET AT SEA. | ,(PBESB vSSO jmt'i* TILinKAK) Wellington, July n; A Melbourne radio message says that the steamer Loongana, at 3.40 a.m. on July 11th, in latitude 88.40 3., longitude 146.20 E., advises seeing & rooket. The bearing was ■ north-weat. LOSS OF THE SUMATRA. ISLAND STEAMER'S TRAGIC FATE. (raou oua owa cobbespohdeot.) SYDNEY, July 6. J-uat at the moment when everybody was marvelling at the wonderful escape from death of the majority of the Trevassa's complement came the tragic news of the mysterious loss of the New Guinea Administration's steamer Sumatra oft the north of Wew .Souih Wales. j The Sumatra, a German-built steamer I about 86 years of age, which waa engaged in the Uerman PadJio archipelago b«iore the war and was seized by the Australian foroes when the islanda were captured had been to bydney for repairs and left a week laat Monday on her return to Rabaul She haa on board Captain Bell and his mother five other white per-sons and a co.oured crew hate ° n Monday night the Pennant Hills wireless Btation in Bydney received a wireless message from her that all was well and that is the last that was heard from her.' As the night wore. on the terrible i etorm which swept the coast for more than twelve hours came up, increasing in vio. lenoo until the wind howled »t 70 zoiles an hour. All shipping hastened to she.ter, and the next day citizens heaved a sigh of relief when no serious oocurrence was re- . ported; Nobody seems to have remembered ! the little aix-hundred ton Sumatra ploughing her way -northward; or if they did it was thought that she had put out irom the coast and wns tiierelore reported by none of the stations, and had not thought it worth while to wireless! Three days passed and then came a report that the body oi ! a man had-been -washed u» on thn -ji ooast of the State, with a life belt round J- Still nobody thought of the Su^tr a "Tvext day came the news that the nam* j Fewtrell had been found on the clothes ot the dead man, which had been made at L officer of the Sumatra. Immediately less messages searched the face of the calm eea but there was no response from the Sumatra Shipmng was interroguted b l\! n °?! J had eee " the Sumatra. Theh an' f r nd ' and immediately identified as Captain Bell. Odd bit ß 3 wreckage followed leaving no doubt that the litth- steamer had been swallowed by the rT't .T'l W 'pf,?' ever y Boul aboard tv » • + 11 • was slle Io »t. On that pomt all le anrmise. The most proV ab.e theory is that when the storm wm at its li«i?bt 3n !he -ijnk Hours of morning Mr Fewtrell, who was- on bridge had taken the wheel from th* tlT l °>-dinarDv have held it below mth all the others, and had called the captain from his bunk So much is 3educ«a /rom the fact that the captains,clothea had evidently been hantifr

donned over Ha pyjamas. These two _alon*, it is surmised, stood bottling witli tuc j vast sds6f and wiiil© all th<s others id. their cabins swjcessive seas struck the vessel and overwhe.mod ha - , but the two on the bridge going to the botton without even the chance of making their way against the elements. It is acknowledged that the | steamer was never intended ior deep sea work, but whether there ia any basis for sensational allegations that she was unaest-' worthy, which have been made in certain , quarters, will remain to be elicited by the Court of Enquiry which the Federal Government has decided to institute. Captain Be.l'e widow resides in Sydney. He woa 30 years of age and was second mate .of the Orsova prior to entering the service .of the | New Guinea Administration. One of many sad stories associated with the disaster « that of the second engineer, Mr C. J. Kirk- • Patrick. After war service as « lieutenantengineer in the British Navy, he found the trade so dull in England that he came to Sydney. He was a widower, and when signing on .as second engineer of the Sumatra he said to the official of the New Guinea Trade Agency, "I took this positjen becaus J engineering ia very dull in Sydney ■ now. I have only my two boys, and I ani trying to give them the best start in life that I can. They are at the Camden Grammar School. It will, take all I o an get,.; but I will make the best of it." ■ SCOW ASHORE. (PBSSS ABSOCIATTOir TKIiKOBAM.) AUCKLAND, July 11. The scow Altair is ashore at Orewa beach, through the loss of her rudder. ' There is a fair surf on the beach, and the vessel is well ashcre.> The vessel is. owned by "Wilson's Portland Cement Company. PORT OP TIMARU. EXPECTED ABRirVAIrS. Breezo, from Dunedin, to-day. Wingatui, from Dunedin, to-day. Canopus, from West port, to-day.. Gale, from Dunedin. Saturday. Port Hunter, from South. Saturday. Arawa, from South, Saturday. Kakapo, fiom Dunedin, Monday. Corinna, from Dunedin, Monday. Storm, from Dunedin. Monday. Kini from Onmaru, July 20th. Atholl, from Montreal, July 22nd. Kaloroo, July. NOTES. fir «s arrivals and departure# were concerned, Tuesday and idle diyo on the waterfm>nt. The Wingatui should reach Timaru to-day from Auckland, Lyttelton, Dunedin, and Oaraaru. She will put out cargo from Auckland and load for ieturh, ©ailing via Xiyttelton on tho same day. The Kini is due here from DunedSn on July 30th, to load produce for Wellington, Napier, unci* G"islx)rn6. SIIO will 6ail for tnoss ports, via. I/yttolton, the some dfcy. The Kakapo is expected to a:rive here from Dunedin on Monday, to load general cargo for Westport and Greymouth, sailing for thoe* porta the same day-

SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. NEW YORK, July ?• Sailed, Swaii, for .New Zealand. CULUn, Julv 9. Arrived, Doonholm, from Mxjntrefcl, foi New Zealand. HONOLULU, Mr 9. Sailed, Mature (from Vancouver), for Auckland. DURBAN, July 9, Arrived, Matatua, from Australia, for United Kingdom. . . NEWCASTLE, July' 11. Arrived, Waimarino, from New Zealand. PORT KEMBLA, July 11. : Arrived, Australind, from-New Zealand. AUCKLAND, July 11. Arrived, Ulimaroa. (10.15 futa.), from Sydney. Sailed, Cumberland (7 for Wellington; Katoa. (noon), for Wellington. DUNEDIN, Julv 11. Arrived, Breeze (2.86 p.m.), from Welliu' T "' ton; Tutanekai (2.40 p.m.), from . Welling ton. Sailed, Wingatui (11.85 aim.), for Oamaxu.