NEW ZEALAND SHIPPING.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2220, 5 August 1914, Page 9

NEW ZEALAND SHIPPING.

PRODUCE EN ROUTE TO

LONDONi

VESSELS HOMEWARD BOUND.

■ There'are eleven steamers Homeward bound from New Zealand at the present time, and ono of them;,the'Durham,' should have arrived at Avonmouth, from Lyttelton, on August 4. The ; other ten' vesselsjandstheir due dates at Home ports are:—Whakatane and _ Rotorua, August 13; Riniutaka, Au- ' Rust 18; Iridrabarahf.August'l9;Kaipara, Auguet, 25; Indrapura, Waiwera, and lonic, August 27;'Makarini, September 12; and Tiirakina, November 4. The cargoes afloat in the above-men-tioned steamers include: 25,000 bales of . wool and skino, 8000 casks of tallow and pells, 1350 boxes of butter, 2000 crates of cheese, 244,000 carcasses of mutton, , 366,000 carcassee of lamb, 38,000 quar- ' 1 ters of beef, and .10,000 bales of hemp and tow. .\ • ./.. ;■■..'■'. • ■ * ; FOR THE ISLANDS, NAVUA'S, DEPARTURE POSTPONED (By Telegraph—Press Association.)'-. ■■;,■■■'■■' ,'Aubkland, August 4. ■'.•? The departure of the steamer Navua for Samoa, Fiji, and Tonga,, announced .■■■■■ for to-morrow, . has been indefinitely postponed. The ■ vessel,: whioh is partly . loaded, stopped taking ' cargo. The Union Company decline to give any reaBon for the vessel's detention, •■'■.-. ■'■; , - HINTS TO MARINERS. \- • V : CONTROL ; OF THE PORT. .;/ '■'.; 'The control of the Wellington Har- •'.- boiir 'is now in the hands of the military authorities, and a comprehensive notice to: mariners and shipowners, giving the particulars of the regulations to be observed; appears in our. advertsiing ■ columns to-day, i ' Under the regulations; shipowners and agents are obliged ■ to arrange; the movements of vessels in order that they- may arrive off the- examination .anchorage (Worser Bay) bo- . tween sunrise and sunset, and so facilitate their'entrance to the r»rt/ They ■i.are also requested to-forward a description of the vessels expected, and also ' the likely : time of their arrival'to tho chief examining'officer, the harhouT- ■ master.; Pilotage irom; the examine"tion anchorage, to the port is compul- : s6ry, except in the : case of H.M. ships, Fleet auxiliaries, and' transport ships. '' Port dues will not be levied. on • vessels "not proceeding inwards from thel examination' ground, provided that they have : come there only, to give information regarding friendly or hostile waiships and -hostile merchantmen,-.'and have made •■;. "use of the port for no other purpose. Vessels or boaris are forbidden to approach the following, \ without, permis- : sion from the officer commanding the coast d^fences :—H.M.' ; ships; Fleet .auxiliaries; and Army- transports_ in' ■ port; Fort Dorset and-itn electric .'light. ■ 'station. Disregard for this regulation will render , offending vessels .or boats .'■ liable to befired on without warning. ■',-. Vessels: leaving port without hav- : ing' obtained the necessary clearance cer--1! tificate 'will he- fired on; ; - '■'■'-'

N.D.L. MAIL BOATS.

THEIR vWBBREABOII^SMN^PACIFIO ; . ; :., r ■,':'•

"■'■""? sAmorig-the inost anxious steamship .:' ' . proprietaries' at the jpresent time should ''■'''?■ Dβ*. North 'German' lilbyd . Company, who3e fine fleet of steamers, j ; .;.'■'■;■ trade to alLparts of tho civilised world, ■;■■■'■ including ' Australia. , Yesterday's cablegrams announced that the N.D.L. ..liner /Seydlitz. left. % Sydney" su'dden- ;•.-'. lyv. her band playing the German '".' National Anthem as she'steamed down the harbour and out to sea.; The Roon is time-tabled to; arrive at Fremantle • from Colombo on Monday nest, but the y chances are that she will be advised by '..;' wireless 'of the course of events, and : will bear away to; some neutral port, : probably'.in Java.r The Zeitan is due to arrive .at Aden (homeward bound) to-morrow. The -new. liner Gneisenau . -was'to have left.Bremerhayen (Ger- .. many) on July 29, but the prospects are that she still lies there, and the Scharn-horst,'.which.was.time-tabled to arrive at Bromerhaven on .'July 4,, is not scheduled to leave again until August ' '■- " *Oi . - - ■ .■' ■. • ' . ■ , ''.