LATE SHIPPING.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 24, 29 January 1908, Page 8

LATE SHIPPING.

ENTERED OUTWARDS. Janiiarj 29— Arnhura, e.s. (4 p.m.), 1595 tons, Lambert, for Picton and Kelson.— iO p;>£6cngers, Jaiiuaiy 29 — Maori, s.s.' (8 p.m.), 5399 tons, Marking, for Lyttelton.— ls4 paiscnge.is. THE UNION COMPANY'S PASSENGER SERVICE. MISHAPS TO ROTOITI AND PATEENA. Two of the Union Company's coastal passenger eteanieis aie tit pierent lying 1 in Wellington undergoing icpaiis, namely the I'ateen.x and Rotmt:. The former \cssel whilst being piloted stern first tv the Nelson whaif at 1 a.m. \«sterday smashed into the niiurf, resulting in her stern 1-p.iig badly dented. The Kotmti, while en luute from New .Plymouth to Wei lingtou at about 7.30 last' night, .had a brenk in her machinery, consequently tho vessel was propelled to poit at reduced * speed. In order to maintain as far as possible the tinietablo the company has been compelled to make alight alteiatioiu?. The Penguin, will take up tho Rotoiti's running, and sails at 5 p.m. tomorrow for Pioton, Nelson, New Plymouth, and Onehunga. The Pateenn will reni'mo her running nu Friday, pud the Te Annu will enter the Picton-Nelson service, and will take up Penguin's run on Friday. The Flora will pick up tho Tp Anau's trade on the West Coast, and tho Koonja will art re substitute for the Flora. It is expected that repairs tv the Rotoiti's machinery will occupy two or three weeks. FIFESHIRE'S CARGO FOR ENGLAND. The Federal-Houldor-Shire steamer Fiffshire, which departed from Wellington list Saturday morning for r \vonmouth, is laden with the following New Zealand cargo :— 17.605 carcase? lamb, 1624 quarters beef, 5831 castG boned beef, 5103 boxes butter, 6247 boxes butter, 7 boxes frozen sundnes, 1 carciiee veal, 763 bplcs wool, 47 bales sheepskins, 360 bales flax, 7 casks casings, 1080 cases preserved meats, 9 cases general, 311 dumps tow, 8170 pieces fimber, 9 bales leather. EXPORT OF QUEENSLAND BUTTER. The Orient steamer Ormuz has loaded for London 'ii addition to other cargo 20,200 boxes of Queensland butter. This 13 the largest shipment of butter yet despatched fiom Brisbane since the inception »of the dairying industry in Queensland. It is also , said to be one of the laigest consignments winch have left Australia in one bottom. A WHEAT CARGO. The barque Obotnta has finished loading wheat at Sidney, and has .sailed for Queerustown. She has 18,853 bags of the cereal under hatchc?. This is (says tho Commercial Xews) the first cargo of wheat loaded at Sidney this season, and to all appearances will be the last. PASSENGERS BY OSWESTRY GRANGE. The Federal-Houlder-Shire steamer Oswcstry Grange, which is due at this port about the 20th of next month from Liverpool, vj Hobart and Auckland, fi\i the following pajcrngen:— For Wellington— ilisses Bruce, M'Donald, Taylor, Mesdamcs Beaufoit, Stupit, Mcosre. Jackson, Oainc, Hawthorne, E. Jones. Brew, Alex Reid, Stanley, W. Haytor. G. Hnytor, Adams, Pollitt, J. Stuart, George Stuart, England, Sumner, Paikes, Fickering, B. Jones, L. Webb. The following charters are reported :—Defiance, brigantir.e, 199 tuns, Newcastle to Kaipaia, w'tli coal; Jlanurewa, barque, 327 tons, Port Stephens ',o Wellington, with hardwood ; Mary Isabel, barque, 307 tons, Port Stephens to Gieboine, with hardwood. Mr. T. Tobiassen, late chief mate of the harque Pleionc, is being invalided home, and is to leave by the Athenic to-morrow. The Government eteamer Tutanekai is timed to leave Well'iigton at midtusht to-night for Cook Strait lighthouses.