LATE SHIPPING.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 47, 25 February 1908, Page 8

LATE SHIPPING.

TOXGARJRO OUTWARD BOUND. Tlio Xcw Zral.ind Shipping Compain reports that the Tonfjanro lpft. Plymouth on Saturday foi Wellington, mii 'leiifrilif, Capetown, and HoIjjit. Tlic steamer is due at tlio Cape- about the 13th March, at Hobait about the 2nd April, and is due in Wellington on the 7th Apul. THE AOTEA'S MOVEMENTS. The stcimci Aoten, (if the bluw, havill, and Albion line, now loading caigu tor London at Oamaru, 13 expected at the bluff to-moirow tn tulu' 111 fuitlii'r cargo. On Friday she will live tor Oisborut", Hiid 011 the 4th -March will continue on to Kuniei. After a day's loading die >e!sel leaver loi I'icton, irom whero slu- is due nt Wellington «,n the 7th March, tier dcpjrtuio for London has been fixed for tht 9th Match. Thn high-pressure turbii><> of thei Maori was lifted foi inspection dm ui{? her laot stay in Wellington. It was found that theie hud been absolutely no wear. Tlio total number of pant-tigers on board the Wdiumoo, due to-morrow morning trom Sydney, is 79 saloon and 100 steerage. The Shaw, Shrill and Albion Company's steamer Maori, now en route fiom London to Auckland, is laden with about 5700 tons of ctugo for the Dominion. At, Auckland 3400 tone will be d'.schaigcd, at Wellington 750 tons, and at the Blult 1500 tons. The transfer of captains in the HuddaitPaiKer steaineir, made necessary hy the arlhal of the Ulimaroa, has been almost defl-n-.tcly icttled. It is practically certain that Captain Entwisle will talco the Wimniera (state 3 thu lottelton 'Xunes;, wnen. Captain Wyllie takes comma nd ot the new steamer. Captain Waller wan offert<l the command of the Wimniera, but wished to 1 emain in the Victoria. The Viet'.na, it was iirst intended, should lay up, but now she will lemain 111 the Sydne\-Aucklancl-Dunedm service. Very piobably the Zpalandia will go to Westo«i Australia. BY TELEGRAPH. OXEHUXGA, 25th Februar. Sailed— Rurawa, for New l'ivmouth. Passengeis: Saloon— Misses Maitin, Jlacky, Jennings, Spiacg (2), Martin, Dawn, Drake, Garden, Heath, Jleldrum, M'Kay, Zohub, Mesdames Martin, Sprjgg, Coombe, Baxter, Black, Powick, O'llagau Fountain. Clayton, Heath, Meldrum, Jiarnett, Jl'Kay. Messis. Wells Aitken, Martin, Harnett, Berk, Mack, Sandon, Gunn, Barber, Hall, Food, Siliuond, Ramasje, Ford, Tuck, Kirkland, Clayton, Powirk, O'llagan, Spragg. Aichbiehop Redwood, Dean M'Kenna, P,evs. Clune, O'&hea, Dr. KiiKland, Master fcpiagg.

As a result of correspondence between the Austrajasian Seamen's Union and the Anchor Shipping and Foundry Company, of Nelson, regarding the claims of lamp trimmers to be paid overtime when required to get up steam for donkey boilers when the company's vessels are in port, intimation has been received by Mr. Young, secretary of the union, that the company has agreed to pay overtime to its lamp trimmers whenever such extra duties are required of them. On tho voyage out from London of the steamer Arawa several of the persons on board the vessel formed a dramatic club, which was much appreciated by the other passengers. Two of the pieces produced were act 1 from "II Pagliacci," and also "Ici on Parle Francais.' The proceeds from the entertainments are to be devoted to the Lifeboat Institute of England. At a short sitting of the court held by Mr. Inglis, J.P., at Petone this morning, two first offending inebriates were convicted and ordered to pay costs. Another llaori war veteran, jddward Alfred Drury, died at Wellington lj^st night. He served under Lieut. -General Cameron, Major Gallaway, and Lieut. - General Bal Nevis, in 1862 and 1863, in the No. 1 Royal Company Auckland Rifle Volunteers. Of late years deceased nad been employed as a messenger in the Government service. "A good deal of rumour and nonsense," was the keynote of the comment made by the Prime Minister at Mr. Lawry's "social" in reference to some suggestion which he said had been made by somo of the friends of the Government party— he would not say it came from those opposed to the Government —as to a possible "swapping of seats" in connection with tho coming election. The people - who made this suggestion could, however, have very little idea of the mettle of which public men wore made. Any man who was made of the true material would never run away from a district which had supported him for a 'ong term of years, but he would stick by it, even if there was a prospect of a hard battle. "I do aot think there is anything at all in these suggestions of swapping," said tho Primo Minister. "I believe there is a good deal of rumour and a good deal of nonsense in them, and perhaps a great deal of sugcstion, it might- be said, on the part of some who desire, and perhaps not unnaturally, to be returned to Parliament themselves. "' An amusing incident happened to the Hon. U. Fowlds's party whilst at the Tuhara hui on the occasion of the opening of the new school (says the Napier Telegraph). With all due respect to the forms and ceremonies of his ancients the rangatira of the settlement, who happened to be the chairman of the School Committee, presented his distinguished visitor, the Hon. G. Fowlds, after a good cTeal of formality, with a novel present in the shape of a sackful of water melons— the pick of the garden— as a special mark of favour. The gift was duly acknowledged with courte&y. Whilst tho Minister and nis companions, however, were in at lunch near by, a tribe of hungry Maor ; boys cams upon the sack, and doubtless thinking they had "struck a patch" in the good things provided for tho hui, set to work on die contents. When tho Hx>n. Mr. Fowlds and the others came out fiom luncheon only tlnec solitary iielons remained ; all the- others had baan eageily devoured with considerable -elish Tria!b of henes both bpforo and after sales \nll be given if ciecjre;! to-morrow in connection with ?»ie?si\» Daigety and Co'i fciinightly hcise s?lp at Wcll.'uqtcn. A list of horses de cribed a> uu'labla ior delhery carta, vans, etc., is advertised in this issue.