RUAHINE REPORTS

Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 145, 15 March 1932, Page 12

RUAHINE REPORTS

Due Auckland Saturday

The New Zealand Shipping Company has received a wireless message from its liner Ruahine, en route from London via the Panama Canal, reporting that she expects to reach Auckland next Saturday evening. She will later proceed to Wellington to complete discharge of her London cargo, and is due here on March 25. • PORT HUON LEAVES LIVERPOOL. Cabled ■ advice has been received that the C. and D. Line motor-ehip Port Huon left Liverpool on Saturday for Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton, Dunedin, and Timaru. COPTIC SAILS. Having completed her Homeward loading the Shaw-Savill motor-ship Coptic left Lyttelton last night for Southampton • and London via Cape Horn and Las Palmas. KARTIGI LEAVES NEWCASTLE. Cabled advice has been received by the Union Company that the Kartigi left Newcastle at 10.30 p.m. on Saturday for Dunedin, Oamaru, Timaru, and Lyttelton. PORT FREMANTLE AT LONDON. Cabled advice has been received that the C. and D. Line motor-ship Port Fremantle reached London on Sunday. She left Wellington on February 6 for London, via Cape Horn and Dakar. THE CORNWALL. The Federal steamer Cornwall is -to leave Auckland to-day for Napier, Wellington, Lyttelton and Dunedin to complete discharge of her cargo from Glasgow and Liverpool. She is due here next Saturday. TONGARIRO AT TOKOMARU In ballast from Falmouth, the New Zealand Shipping ' Company's steamer Tongariro reached Tokomaru Bay at 10.10 a.m. on Saturday to commence her Homeward loading.' She is to leave there again to-morrow morning for Bluff for further loading. WAINUI AT MELBOURNE. Cabled advice has been received by the Union Company that the Wainui. from Wellington, via Bluff, reached Melbourne at 8 a.m. on Saturday. She will leave there again to-mo’™''— for Bluff. Dunedin. Lyttelton, and Wellington, and is due here on March 24. THE SIERRA. The Matson Line steamer Sierra, from San Francisco and Los Angeles, via Honolulu and Pago Pago, was to have left Suva yesterday for Auckland, where she is due on Friday morning. She will leave there again later the same day for Sydney. TOFUA AT AUCKLAND. The Union Company’s Island passenger steamer Tofua reached Auckland yesterday afternoon from Suva. She is to leave Auckland again next Monday on her last trip to Fiji, Tonga and Samoa before being withdrawn from the service and laid up. MAIMOA AGAIN REPORTS. The Shaw Saviil Company has receiv-. ed a further wireless 1 message from the Maimoa, in ballast from London, via the Cape of Good Hope, reporting that she now expects to reach Oamaru next Sunday afternoon to commence her Homeward loading. THE MAUI POMARE. The Government motor-ship Maui Pomare is due at Lyttelton on March 22 from Apia and Niue Island with a fruit cargo. She is due at Wellington the following day, and goes on to Auckland to complete discharge. Gardiner, Binnie and Halliburton are the local agents. BISCA IN PORT. Running under charter to the British International Oil Company, the motor tanker Bisca is due at Wellington this morning from Auckland, and will berth at the Point Howard Wharf to discharge bulk motor spirit from Los Angeles. She is expected to leave here again to-day for Sydney.

WAIKAWA REPORTS. . The Union Company has received a wireless message from the Waikawa, en route from Los Angeles via Papeete, reporting that she expects to reach Auckland on Friday afternoon. She will later proceed to Wellington, Melbourne, and Sydney to complete discharge, and is due here next Monday.

ULIMAROA DUE 10 A.M. TO-DAY. Bound from Sydney to Wellington, the Huddart, Parker steamer Ulimaroa has reported by wireless that she expects to arrive in the stream at 10 o’clock this morning. She will berth at No. 2 Queen’s Wharf shortly after 11 a.m. Tire Ulimaroa is timed to leave here again at noon on Friday on the return trip to Sydney. ZEALANDIC IN PORT. To continue her homeward loading, the Shaw, Savill motor-ship Zealandic is due at Wellington about 10 o’clock this morning from Napier, and will berth at the King’s Wharf. She is to leave here again on Thursday for Port Chalmers and Bluff, to fill up, and is scheduled to clear the last-named port on March 29 for London. via Cape Horn and Las Palmas. PIAKO REPORTS. The New Zealand Shipping Company has received a wireless message from the Piako. in ballast from Cardiff via the Cape of ’Good Hope, reporting that she expects to reach Wellington, on March 24 to commence her Homeward loading. She will later complete at Auckland, and is scheduled to clear the northern port finally on April 8 for London via Cape Hojn. TARANAKI’S MOVEMENTS. The Shaw Savill motor-ship Taranaln was to have left Lyttelton yesterday for Napier, where she is due this afternoon to continue her Homeward loading. She is due at Wellington next Saturday for further loading and will leave here again on March 23.f0r Auckland to fill up. She is scheduled to dear Auckland finally on April 4 for Southampton. London, and the Continent, via Cape Horn and Las Palmas. THURSDAY ISLAND CRUISES. Johnston and Co., Ltd., local agents for the A. and O. Line, have received advice that arrangements have been made for A. and O. Line steamers to connect at Thursday Island during the winter months, affording passengers the opportunity of visiting Thursday Island and returning within three weeks. The first sailing will be the Taiping, leaving Sydney" on April 20 and connecting with the Changte. TRAINING SHIP MERCATOR. . Messrs. Ramage and Ferguson, Leith, on December 10 launched the auxiliary three-masted training ship Mercator,’barquentine rigged, of 770 tons gross, to have accommodation for training 71 cadets for service in the mercantile marine, nnd Io be fitted with a set of 500 h.h.p. Diesel engines made by (lie Societe Aanyme John Cockerill, Seraing, under license from Messrs. Burmeister and Warn. Copenhagen. She has been built to the order of the Belgian Government.