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Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 44, 21 February 1908, Page 6

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MELBOURNE, 20th February. Arrived— Selwyn Craig, from Thames. HOIUUT, aOtU February. Sailed— Arawa. (12.Z0 p.m.), i'-e lVell'Mtft'm. NEWCASTLE, 21st February. .»rrlved — Lai go L<Sailed—^hangape, for New Zealand. ADELAIDE, 21st February. Arrived— Ayrshire, from Liverpool. KAIPARA, 20th February. Armed— Haia, auxiliary isohooner, from Lyttelton. AUCKLAND, 20tli February. Arrived— Westfalen (2.20 p.m.), from Bremen, ntk Sydney ; Kaipara, from Waitara ; Wanaka, froir southern nurts. NEW PLYMOUTH, 2Qth February. Sailed— Taka puna (9 p.m.), {or Onelunga. 21st February. Arrived— Rarawa (8.20 a.m.), from Onehunga; Corlnna (9 a.m.), from Wellington. GISBORNE, 20th February. £, j.'ed— Haupiri (6 p.m.)i for Wellington via the coast. ONEHUNGA, 21et February. A?iiied— Takapuni* (8.30 a.m.), from New Plyitouth. PIOTON, 20th Febiu.iry. Arrived— Penguin (5.45 p.m.), from Wellington Sailed— Penguin (11.30 p.m.), for Nelson. 21st February. To eail — Tc Arau (5.30 p.m.), for Wellington. HAVELOCK, 21st Februaiy. Arrived — Manaroa (10.30 a.m.), from Wellington, via bounds. BLENHEIM, 21st February Arrived— Opawa. (10.15 a.m.), from Wellington FOXTON, 2JsS February. Sailed— Kennedy (10 a.m.), for Wellington. EAST CAPE, 21«t February. Ennerdalo passed south at 8.45 a.m. NAPIER, 21st February. Arrived— Kahu (1 a.m.), from Wellington via the coast. KELSON, 21st February. Arrived— Ttismin (6.30 a.m.) and Te Anau, (9 a.m.), from Wellington. Arrived— Penguin (7.45 a.m.), from Pioton. To eail— Mapourika (11.30 p.m.), for Welling011 LYTTELTON, 20th February. ' Arrived— Wakatu (<.45 p.m.), from Kaikoura; Thorpe Grange (5.50 p.m.), from Timaru. Sailed— Puiiki (3.20 p.m.), for Wellington ; Cygnet, for Kaikoura. • b ' 21st February. Vrrived— Hawea V 6 V 6 a.m.), Mai eno (6.50 a.m.), Rotomahana (8.45 a.m.), and Ruapehu (8.55 a.m.) from Wellington. To sail — Rotonuhana (6.15 p.m.), for Wellington. MOTCJSKA., 21st February. Arrived— Hula. (9.45 ajn.), from Wellington. SaUed— Hu ! a (11.10 a.m.). for Wellington. WBSTPORT, 20tH February. Arrived— Poh«rua (9.40 p.m.), from Wellington. 21st February. Sailed— Kaiapoi (12.15 p.m.), for Wellington. Arrived— Mapourika (8 a,m.), from Greymouth S..:led— Mapourika. (10 a.m.), for Nelson. GREYMOUTH, 20th February. Sailed— Pareora (10.5^ p.m.), for Wellington. DUNEDIN 20th February. Sailed— Flora (3 p.m.), for northern ports. THE ARAWA. HOBART, 20th February. >ni\ed — Arnwa, from ijondon. Fis;ht pasteogers Ur.oed .iere, and 2ob are proceeding to Kew Zealftnd She sailed for Wellington at ll.cG o'clock to-night. fhe vessel is lne at Wellington on Tuesiay mcrninff. THE PIONEER. The cruiser Pioneer, at pr«eent with the equadron, is expected to be in port at Wellington in April and May in connection with her dut'es as training-ship in New Zealand watcM. She will bo e.tuated at Auckland in June, July, and August, the two following months ehewill bo at Lyttelton, and during November and December will be quartered at Dunedin. A NEW TUGBOAT FOR AUCKLAND. Twenty-three tenders have besn received by the Auckland Harbour Board for the construction of a strum tug. All the tenders, with one exception (that' of tW Palmer Engineering Company, Dunedin), are from Home firms (reports the New Zealand Herald), and in nearly every case a large number of alternative tenders (varying in amounts according to the different classes of boilers and machinery) are submitted. The amounts of the tenders lange from between £12,000 and £13,000 to £22,550. THE EIA ORA. Til© Shaw, Sftvill, and Albion Company' 6 new steamer Kia Ora is expected to leave Auckland on Tuesday next in continuation of her voyag» to Wellington from Liverpool. She is discharging 2300 tons of cargo at Auckland, and will unload the rema : nder as follows: — 2100 tons at Wellington, 850 tons at Lyttelton. and 1000 tonß at Port Chalmers. The' Kia Ora is due here on Thursday. —~— ™ / Captain D. M'Lcin left Auckland by the Hauroto on Wednesday io join the R.JT.S. Moana at Suva, for Vancouver. Captain M'Lean, who is accompanied by Mrs. M'Lean, is proceeding to Scotland to bring out to New Zeainnd tho Union Company's new rteamer Waitemota. Messrs. S. Brown, Limited, have chartered the steamer Auchendile to load hardwood »t Bunbury in May for Wellington and" Timaru. Impoits by the Wimmeia, which arrived this morning fro.n Afelbcurne, Hobart, iind southern ports, include the following :— 122 cases fruit, 288 packages tea, 71 joints, 100 'Irums carbide, 195 cases preserved fruits, 241 caeee spirits, 25 bsrrela oil, 28 bags onions, 39 pieces etone, 169 pieces timber, 91 cases bottles. 865 posts, 200 bogs rice, 140 bagß menl, 76 ingot? tin, 2 horses, 70 baga flour, 85 bags pollard, 46 bags bark, 278 eases milk, 402 bar^ iron, 212 baga oats, 4778 bags «^d, and a large quantity of sundries. The Karamea, of the Shaw-Savill line, now en mute from London to Dunedin, has 4400 tons of cargo to dtecharge at her port of destination and also MO tons at Lyttelton. She is due abcut the 3rd March. Tho Emily Reid, -which line been reported as having: been wrecked at On^on, was a wooden ship of 1C651 C 65 tons, built in 1880, and waf> owned in San Francisco. She left Neircastle on the 3rd November last witli n cargo of coal for Portland, Oregon. It will be remembered (Gays the Chrietciiurch Press) that the Emily Reid 1 put into Lylteiton about five years .igo owing to he" crew refuwng duty. The barque Reliance, a vessel well-known in New Zealand ports, was «v>lc! at Callno recently, and is now sailing under the Peruvian flag. Ciptain C. ReTiaut has been ordered to Greymouth to assume command of the Taieri.