RAILWAY TIME-TABLE.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20622, 11 August 1932, Page 15

RAILWAY TIME-TABLE.

Sxpresa Trains Leaves Christ church. For Invercargiil: 8.85 a.m. Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday; .11.2 p.m. Sunday (connects with Invercargiil train at Dunedin). For Dunedin: 8.35 a.m. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday; 12.25 p.m. Wednesday and Friday; 11.2 p.m. Sunday. For Greymouth: 8.20 a.m. Monday; 10 a.m. Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. For Parnassus: 7.55 a.m. daily (except Sunday). For Culvcrden: 9.24 a.m. daily (except Sunday). For Walau. 9.24 a.m. Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. Express Train* Reach Christchuich. From Invercargiil: 7.18 a.m. Monday; 7.26 p.m. Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. From Dunedin: 7.18 a.m. Monday; 5.10 p.m. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday; 7.26 p.m. Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. From Greymouth: 4.50 p.m. Monday; 5 p.m., Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. From Parnassus: 5.51 p.m. daily (except Sunday). From Culverden: 5.51 p.m. daily (except Sunday). From Waiau: 5.51* p.m. Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. Ferry train leaves Christchurch for Lyttei>ton 7.10 p.m, daily (except Sunday). •

PORT .OF TIMARU. Arrivals. "Wednesday, August 10ti>. Somerset, 8607 tons, from "Wellington. Union Steam Ship Co., agents. Waikouaiti, 3680 tons, from Dunedin. Union Steam Ship Co., agents. Totara. from Wellington. Union Steam Ship Co., agents. Departure. "Wednesday, August 10; li. Holmda!c, for Lyttelton. Vessels in Port. No. 8 "Wharf—Somerset. No. 2 Wharf —Totara and Waikouaiti. Expected Arrivals. Galo, Oamaru, to-day. Holmglen, Dunediu, August 12th. Wingatui, Dunedin, August 14th. Storru, Dunedin, August 15th. Opihi, Oamaru, August 16th. Poolta, Oamaru, August 17th Cambridge, Fort Chalmers, August 19tli Piako, Bluff, September 4th. Projected Departures. Waikouaiti, Lyttelton, to-day. Gale, Lyttelton, to-day. Totara, Lyttelton, to-day. Holmglen, Lyttelton, Augrust 12th. Wingatui, Lyttelton, August 15th. Storm, Lyttelton, August 15th. Opihi, Lyttelton, August 16th. Poolta, Lyttelton, August 17th. Kotos. The Sumerset is in port, loading inoat iinti general cargo for London. Tho Cambridge is due at Timaru on August JDtb to load meat and general cargo for Londou and W.C.U.K. Tho Piako is due at Timaru on September 4th to load meat and general cargo for London. The Narbada has left Calcutta for Penang, Singapore, and Samarang, thence Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton, Timaru, Dunedin, and Bluff. Tho Waikouaiti is in port, loading for Lyttelton and Oamaru. The Wingatui has left Auckland for Portland, Wellington, Lyttelton, Dunedin, and Timaru. Due Timaru about August 15th. The Totara is in port, loading for Wellington and New Plymouth, via Lyttelton. Tho Poolta loads at Dunedin on August 15th for Wellington, Napier, and Gisborne, via Oamaru, Timaru, and Lyttelton. Sho ii due at Timaru on August 17th. BUOY IN NAPIER HARBOUR. In a notice to mariner*, the Marine Department advises that a .red conical buoy has been moored in the following position:—— Approximately 018deg., 1.7 miles from Ahurirx Bluff Lighthouse, lat. 39deg. 37Jmin S., long. 17Gdeg. 56min E., in 42ft. M.L.W.S. close southward of a shoal with a least depth of 26ft M.L.W.S. Masters of averseas vessels of a draught approaching 24ft should not proceed inwards beyond Ahuriri Bluff Lighthouse bearing 210deg., where they should wait until boarded by a pilot.

BRITANNIC'S NEW COMMANDER. Captain P. K. Vaughan, D.S.C., haajbeen appointed commander of the motor-liner Britannic and took her out from Liverpool for tho first time on May 19th. He has succeeded Captain F. F. Summers, who is r.ow in charge of the sister ship Georgic. la 1892, at the age of sixteen years, Captain Vaughan joined the barque Craigmullen, owned by Messrs Staverley Taylor and Company, aa an apprentice. His first voyage was. by no means without excitement,' for when off Capa Horn, bound for Chile, the Craigmullen took fire. The master, fortunately, was able to put back to the .River Plate, where the ship was beached. Refloated and repaired, she put to sea again and Captain Vaughan spent three years in her. He served in the same firm's clipper ship Edderside, and took his master's ticket when in. tho barque Ballumbie. Captain Vaughan joined the "White Star Line as"fourth officer in 1901, three years later becoming second officer in the lonic in the New Zealand trade, in which he was well known. Whil-j chief officer in the Athenic in 1920, Captain Vaughan was presented with a pair of binoculars by the United States Government for bravery in rescuing the passengers and crew of the eteamer Mnnamar. During the war he was in the minesweeping service and commanded several fast mine-sweeping craft. Captain Vaughan received from his Majesty the King at Buckingham Palace, the Distinguished Service. Cross. His commands have included the Albertic and the Laurentic, and for some time Captain Vaughan was assistant commander of tho Majestic.