SHIPPING NOTES.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18150, 13 August 1924, Page 14

SHIPPING NOTES.

The Holmdale should bo here this morning from Timaru to load for "Wellington and Wanganui. The Gale is to load here to-day for Wellington. Picton, and Wanganui. The Cygnet is to be despatched to-night with cargo for. Kafkoura, Motueka and NelBon. The Wakatu is timed to sail to-night for Kaikoura and Wellington. The Calm is expected to-morrow from Wellington, and is to sail this afternoon for Blllff. ' , ' mCorinna, due to-morrow from Timaru, will load for Kelson ard New Plymouth. The Navua. completes loaaing he-e to-day for Auckland, »Dd sails via Wellington. The Flora is due from'Tmaru to-mo.row to load for Napier and GisbDrne. The Navua is expected bacx fro-n the South on Saturday to load for Auck'.and and sails via Wellington. . The Hains steamer Trem-odow is dne at Lyttelton on Wednesday next from Nauru la'ana with a cergo of pWpha/« to the agency of the TJ.S.S. Co. She will complete discharge at.lhinedin Captain J. T. Kolls, Cominodor- of the TJ.S.S. Company's fleet and who has been for 40* years a master with the Union Steam Ship Company, will retire from'the am thia month. When theß**«J mt. steamerN,agara arrives at Sydney on August 23ri, hs wiU retire. In 1884 Captain Bolls was aptWnted havin°- alreadv had seme expenen~: as an jf r jj_ -p. Chadwick, who wfs second mate of the Cpua has com* nahore. _ Mr C T. R-*b has signed on the Wanaia's articles as an extra tiurd mat*

officer. His rise in the service was steady, and in 1M.4 he was appointed commands of the Niagara,-of which he has been in command ever since. Captain Rolls will be succeeded by Captain A. E. B rlow, who has been transferred from ths Makuia. Captain F. Mackenzie is now in command of thi Opua, vice Captain J. W. Venn, who has reverted to first mate of the vessel. Mr R. Griffiths has succeeded T. Davis as second mate of the Navua. Mr C. C. Mos.ey. is now th'rd engineer of the Navua, vice Mr J. Deer, who has joined the Waikouaiti in a similar capacity. The A. an 3 A. liner City of Canton, leaves Wejlintjton to-morrow for Lyttelton and Dunedin, to continue discharge of cargo from New York. ■ VESSELS WITHIN WIRELESS RANGE OF N.Z. Auckland—Sierra, Port Hunter, Karori, Niagara, iNerbudaiv, Tekoa, botioma,- lorua, I».M.S. Dunedin, Keelung, Trernere, Beuast, Maru, Ngakuta, Largo iiaw. Aiahura, Waiotapu, Rania, Orient City, Waipori. Chatham Islands—Port iLunter, ■ Ruapehu. Wellington—Miori, Maraioa, Ruapehu, Mericos JI. Whittier, Corinthic, Waimunno, Tutanekai, Kaiwarra, Wanaka, Waikou. ti, Xaimahawa, Tairoa, Kaituna, Port Curtis, Moernki.

SHAW, SAVILL LINERS. The Shaw, Sayill Company advises the following movements of vesßjls: The Waimaha now ieaves Weflingto i on Friday for completion of loaaing at Gisborne and Auckland, and is to Bail finally from Auckland on August 23rd for London, via Tencriffe. The Tairoa leaves Wanganui on Friday next for loading at "Wellington and Giaborne. She returns to Wellington to complete her cargo, and is to tail from "Wellington on September 2nd for London, via Tentriffe. •

The lonic, en route from Southampton to London, left Balboa on August 9*5. She is due at Wellington on August 31st. The Corinthic, now loading at Gishorne, leaves .there to-day for Napier and Wellington. The vessel is due at We'lington on August 17th to complete her cargo, and sails from Wellington at da£brea> on August 21st, for Southampton and London, via Monte Video and Teneriffe.

DEATH OF CAPTAIN JOHN HENDERSON. Captain John Henderson, a well-known figure on the Wellington waterfront, died on 'Saturday night. He was ; in his 72nd year. Born in Aberdeen ■in 1852, and educated at Peterhead, he begun his life at sea" with his father, who was master of a vessel trading on the coast of Scotland. In 1880 ha obtained hig master's certificate, and made a number oi trips to many parts of the worid/ hia first command being tne schooner Minnie, in which he voyaged to Portugal and the Rio Grande. In .1886 Captain Henderson arrived in Auckland by the Oid steamer lonic, and for a time was skipper of the brigantine Sarah Pile, in which he traded between Kaipara and Townsville. Two years after Arriving, in this country he joined the Wellington Harbour Board staff and was a member of the crew of the pilot boat-on August 17th, 1889, when it capsized while being towed out to the Heads by the steamer Herald to meet the ship Pleione. It was a dark night, and a big sea was running, with a heavy southerly. Pilot Sims and two of his men were drowned, Captain Henderson being. one of the two men saved. Following this experience, he joined the tally clerks' staff, until his retirement on superannuation twelve years ago. He is survived by his widow, two sons (James and Russell), and six daughters (Mrs E. Reynolds, Mrs P. S. Isbister, Mrs H. Mrs P. Jenks, and Misses D. and J. Henderson).

. PORT OF TIMARU. Arrived, . Gale, from Oamaru; Hoimdale, from o»maru. bailed, ■ liale, for Lyttelton; Hoimdale, for Lyttelton. Expected Arrivals. Corinna, from Oamaru, to-day. i'.oia, irorn Uaniaru, to-day. Progress, irom .uumatu, to-morrow. ■Bieexe; irom Uamaru, to-moriow. Xntawu, - i»om famaiu, iriday. Kauri, from li.utf, Monday. . C«un, from Biuif, Monday. Rakanoa, irom iNewcaswe, Tuesday. . KaitangaU, from Dunedin, August 18th. Wtngatui, from Dunedin, August Port Curtis, irom Dunedin, August 2lst. Huanme, irom Jjytteiioii, August 2ist. hordbp, from Lyttelton, August 2lst. Kaikorai, from Uamaru, August 2ord. Hauraki, from Oamaru, August 2bla. Ivaiwurta, from Uamaru, August 2ath. Largo Law, ' from Lytteitun, end of August. t Lowan», from Lyttelton, end of September. ,*vrt Eowen, from New York, end of Septemher. Projected Departures. Corinna, for Lyttelton, to-day. Flor.T, for Lyttelton, to-day. 'Progress, for Lyttelton, tc-morrow. Breeze, for - Lyttelton, to-morrow. Kauri, for Lyttelton, Monday. Kaitangata, lor Lyttelton, August 18th. •Calm, lor Lyttelton, Monday. Wingatui, for Lyttelton, August 2oth; Eakanoa, for Lyttelton, Tuesday. Kittawa, for Lyttelton, Friday. Port Curtis, for Lyttelton, August 22nd. Ruahine, lor Dunecun, August it-xud. •Nordbo, for Dunedin, August 22nd. Notes. The Gale arrived from Oamaru yesterday, and after loading geneial. produce, saued in the e-.-emng for Lytteiton, Wellington, and Wanganm. The Hoimdale arrived from Oaraaru yesterday and sailed lust night for Lyttelton, .Wellington,- and Wanganui with a general cargo. ° The Corinna is due from Dunedin and Oamaru to-day. She will .pick up general cargo for Lyttelton, Wellington, Nelson,.and New Plymouth. >j*"" The .Mora ia expected from Oamaru to-day %&&&£? Carg ° f ° r Lyttelt ° n ' Na P ier > ** •P hed ««W to arrive here from Oamaru to-morrow to load for northern ports, sailing via LytteW fW„^" ! * > ,? A ™> from Dunedin and wX^^ o Wan^n 1 i 3 . ad *".***>».