ENNERDALE LEAVES SYDNEY.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 32, 7 February 1908, Page 6

ENNERDALE LEAVES SYDNEY.

Cabled advice received siatre that the Maoril«nd Shtppiug Conipany'a steamer Ennerdale .left Sydney last irght for Auckland and Wellington. * > THE PORT 'OF GkEYMOUTH. ■ The present will be ,a busy week in shipping matters at the port of Greymouth ; in point of foot, it should go pietty near a record (saya the Greymoutli Star). The demand for timber, both from Australian and New Zealand porte, is considerable, while for coal the market 'is very buoyant, the demand being in cxce£3 of the supply. For ooke and blicka the demand is steady, and regular shipments are being made. The wharf is again crowded to its ■utmost capacity, and the harbourmaster has found it necessary to double-bank some of tho vessels. In consequence of some of the sawmills being temporarily clewed down owing to no water being available, consequent on the continued dry weather, some of the sailing vea-. Eels loading 1 white pine for Sydney are experiencing a little delay in getting "their timber to hand. BIG CARGOES. The Wo T3-3er liners Marere. and Nerehana, now en route to Wellington from London, are. freighted with 10,500 tons and; 10,550 tons of eat go respectively. This large amount is lor discharge at Australian and New Zealand pon«. BRISBANE AS A SEAPORT. Although Brisbane has been one of the principal shipping poite in the Southern Hemisphere for years past, it is doubtful (says the Commercial Nevre) if ever there has been so many deep-sea vessels in port there at the one time than during the week before last. On one day there were no fewe<r thnn nine steamers, iv addition to the regular inter-State traders m port there, of a total tonnage of 45/36 tone, either loading or discharging cargo. CARGO FOR LONDON. The Shaw, Savill and Albion Company's a.s. Delphic, which is expected to leave Lyttelton to-morrow for London, has included in her caigo the following: — From Wellington — 5024 bales wool, 21 bales ekins, 1504 hales hemp, 131 casks tallowj 1 bale leather, 425 bales tow, 34 casks pelts. From Port Clinlmers— ssb7 bale? wooL 75 bales ehecpskitw, 92 halts hemp, 64 casks tnllow, 35 pieces jarrah timber, 142 bags £oheelife, and 67 caeca sundries. Imports by the Maheno, which arrived from Jfelbourne, Hobart, and southern ports thia morning, include the following items:— 342 eases fruit, 20 boxes dateo, 55 cases wine, 86 packages tea, 221 hags onions, 100 baga superphosphates, 60 baga flour, 160 l>agg rice, 180 bag* gypsum, 65 bags oysters, 90 cases preserved fruits, 186 oockflfoot, 10 halca leather, 575 bcgg.onts. 900 posts, 5O ba^e of «s£e«sl, 76 <rae«s: *<>??nCC<?, TO iniTOt3 tin, 4050 cases cheese, and a large quantity of sundries; also transhipments ex \Grantala. and Kyarr*. The four-masted barque Drummir, which went nshore on a reef in March last whilst en route from San Francisco to • Algo Bay, ia now at Kewcaetle, and is under effer for'sale. Tliero was I»iwehed it Auckland on Tureday fl small eteanier named the Pitoitoi, built by Mr. W. H. Brown to the order cf iltssts. Bradnev and Bmns, for their hnrbonr trade. The pi ißCipal dimensions of the little vessel are •— Length ovN-nH, 70ft; beam of hull, 17ft- and acroe? Eponsons, 28ft. Captain Burgess is on holiday leave, and he is a passenger for Sydney to-day by the e.s Maheno. The Sydney Commercial News states that threo chartere have been offered for the sh,p Dartford, at present lying in Sydney harbour ad eeveral firms have made overtures with a £'T ll 0 * 1^ P" 10 "^ *■> be converted into a hulk, but theie has be*n no result, The Union steamiflup Company was mentioned a.» one of the firms endeavouring to buy the ship for a