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Evening Post, Volume LXXIV, Issue 150, 21 December 1907, Page 6

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SYDNEY, 20Hi December. Sailed— Wimmera (3.15 p.m.), for Wellington. LONDON, 20th December. Sailed— Oswestry Grange- iand Marere, for Auckland. - NEWCASTLE, 21st December. Arrived— Kaiapoi, ' from Dnncdin. PORT STEPHENS, 21st December. Sailed— Marjorie Craig, barque, for Bluff. i .„ . . BRISBANE, 21st December. Sailed— lndramayo, for Onmaru. I / HOKIAXGA, 20tli December. ' Arrived— Tor&auten (10 a.m.), from Wellington NEW PLYMOUTH, 20tli Drcember. Sailed— Rarawa. (9.25 p.m.), for Orohiinga. 21st December. Arrived— Takapuna (6 a.m.), from Onehunga. PICTOK, 20th December. Arrived— Te Anau (5.25 p.m.), from Wellington. Sailed— Alexander (6 p.m.) and Te Anau (10 I p.m.), for Nelson. PATRA, 21st December Arrived— Aorere (8.45 a.m.), from Wellington. WAKGANUI, 21st December. Arrived— Putiki (8.40 a.m.), from Wellington. KAIKOURA, 21et December 'Arrived— Wakatu (4 a.m.), from Wellington. MOTUBKA, 21st December Arrived — Huia, (9 a.m.), from Wellington. To sail— Huia. (9 p.m.), for Wellin^ou. BLENHEIM, 21rt December Arrived— Waihi and Blenheim (7 n.m.), from (Wellington. NELSOX, 2lst December. Arrived — Alexander (4.30 a.m.) and Te AnftU "'(7 a.m.), from Picton; Cliarlcs Edward (6.1& turn.), from Wellington. Sailed-r-Te Anau (10 a.m.). for Picton. LYTTELTON, 20th December. Arrived— H.Jf.S. Pioneer (5.15 p.m.), from fffanaru. 21fit December. Arrived— Maori (6.50 a.m.), Kaituna. (8.30 a.m.) «nrl Victoria (9.10 a.m.), from WeUincrton. To sail— Maori (8.30 p.m.) and Waikaro (11.30 p.m.), for Wellington. To sail— Cornwall (5 p.m.), for Wellington. GRBTMOUTH, 20th December Safled— Moa (8 p.m.), for Wellington. 21st December. Arrived— Kittawa (8 a.m.), Pareori (8.5 a.m.) Irom Wellington. WESTPORT*, 21«fc December. To £\U— Hawea and Waipori (11 p.m.), for ■ .Wellington. TEEOPURU, 21et December. Sailed— Glaucua. lor Melbourne. POUT CHALMERS, 21st Deccmbr. Sailed— Foraoea./ baraua 19-W a.m.y. for Adelaide. '

BLUFF, 2pth December. Sailed— Amokura (4 p.m.), for Tort Chalmers. A NEW SOOW. A new scow ia to b& launched nt Auckland to-day from the yard of Mr. G. T. Kiccol. The Kiatia, as she has been christened, is 65ft long, 18ft 6in broad, with a draught of 4ft, and a carrying capacity of about 40 tons. The Kintia baa been built for Captain J. Kasper, end is lor Auckland trading. ( The barquentine Mary Isabel has completed her discharge of limber for tho Wellington dock, and is now taking in ballast. She will bo leady for eeo by Monday afternoon. Captain Scuutze speaks in high terms of tho dischaiging facilities employed in Wellington. The Mary leabel is bound for Wluingi'pe, thence to Sydney and Port Stephens. The preseut charter will expire after the vessel has completed two more trips to Wellington. 'On her arrival at Dunedin from northern poita on the 15th January flic Waikare will withdraw for tho Union Company's annual excursion to the West Coast Sounds. The steamer will resume her usual running again on the 2nd Feb^U9jy. Mtfawrhjle, thd Waikare a coastal service will bo maintained by tho Talune. Tho Union Company's steamer Poherua, now discharging Westport coal at Auckland, has ben fixed to load 300,000 ft of timber for Wellington. • . Tho Government steamer Hiuemoa is due in Auckland to-day, snd is expected to sail for the Kermndtc Idands to-day weelc. Ou Boxing i>ay th Huddart-Parker steamer Victoria is to run an excursion, to Picton. On New Year's Day the TTnion Company proposes to send the Maori on the Picton trip. ; _ The Union Company's steamer Manapoun is timed to leave Auckland on Tuesday for Fiji in place of the Hauroto, and when, she returns her fruit consignment will 'be only for Wellington and tho South. The Largo Law, which is to leave Suva on Wednesday, will have a cargo of fruit for Auckland. The Hauroto is expected to sail fifth) Auckland for Fiji direct to load raw sugar back. The New Zealand Shipping Company's chartered 6teamer Crown of Galioia, which lias arrived '«t Auckland after a passage of 13 days from Honolulu, ia a new vessel, and baa a c«rgo capacity of from 8000 tons to 9000 tons. A peculiarity about tlie ship i« that her maeta, really derrick poles, aro placed near the side?, instead of amidships, on innovation which ia eaid to bo a preat improvement on the old arrangement. The steamer, which ia of 4821 tons, is capable of 12| knots per hour. The Lyttelton Time 3 -states that the Government will be asked to allow one of their etcamers to tow the Nimrod to the pack-ioe in order to save that vessel's coal. As the Federal Government has decided to erect stations throughout Australia for the transmission of wireless telegraphy messages, it ia very probable (saj-s the Sydney Shipping List) that man.v of the steamers employed in the Australian "trado will now be fitted with the neceasary apparatus for receiving and de- ] ipfttching any communications. The Union Steam Ship Company has already promised to do so. 1 There were twenty-three' vessels in port at Lvttplfcon on Wednesday, and the wharves (says the Christchurch Pre-sss) presented a very animated appearance. The vessels ninppcl in size from the big White Si ait liner of 12,234 tons to the small coaling steamer of 52 tons. The fleet in port included 6eventcen steamers, the Antarctic ship Kimrod, and five coasting schooners, the total tonnage being 50,843 tone. Shipping in Wellington, this wc*k lia-st not been remarkably busy, but still there has been an averager amount of trading done. Tuesday waa one of tho busiest days «o far as eonwns the number of vessels, which trade out of Wellington, that were in port on tlwl day. In. all there were about 33 vessels, tofalling 55,244 tons. Of oour«e, this is the- sxogb tonnage. The Union Company's steamer I'lorft. which has ' been engaged for some years in the Tasmanian tiade. is said to be due in Wellington next week from Newcastle with a. full cargo of cosl