LATE SHIPPING

Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 110, 11 May 1909, Page 8

LATE SHIPPING

♦ DIRTY WEATHER. The strong south-easterly that lias swept over Cook Stiait to-day made itself felt by vessels arriving in port. The Monowai took eighteen hour* on the run trom Napier this morning. She left for Wellington at 5.30 p.m. y<,*«terday, and all went well till 4 o'clock this morning, when a stiong southeasterly gale sprang up, and from that time till arriving the vessel was in the midst of a heavy sea. Quantities of spray swept her decks, but she rode through safely, and arrived here at 11.30 a.m. onicers of the Kia Ora, which arrived at the same time from Lyttelton, reported that a big south-easterly sea was running south of 1 Cook Strait this morning. The vessel had a head sea to contend with coming up. The Wairau is now due at any time from Nelson and Mojueka. She left the latter port at 12.30 p.m. yesterday, and is probably sheltering somewhere. CLAN GRANT LEFT SYDNEY, fllr. 6. H. Scales is in receipt of cabled advice that the Clan Grant safled from Syd--ney at 6 a.m. to-day for Lyttelton, where the vessel is due next Sunday. TAINUI AT HOBART. fBT TELEGEAPn — PREBS ASSOCIATION.] (Received May 11, 2 p.m.) HOBART, 11th May. The Tainui, which arrived from London this morninc, sails for Wellington at 4 o'clock this afternoon. Seventeen passengers were landed here, and 284 are proceeding to New Zealand. i The Poverty Bay Herald states that the firemen employed on the Union Company's s.B. Squall were the cause of their steamer being delayed in sailing for Auckland last Friday eveninc. The cargo had been discharged, and an effort was being made to hasten the Squall's return to Auckland. . The firemen, however, who had been indulging in a little jollification, refused to go on board, despite all the efforts of the officers. Steam had to be blown off and the men allowed their own way until Saturday morning, when the steamer was able to proceed north at 7 o'clock BT TELEGKAPH. _, „. „ MELBOURNE, 10th May. The Waitemata, bound from South Africa to New via Newcastle, passed Nelson's Promontory; all well. . . . „ AUCKLAND, HtU May. Arrived— Mimiro (12.15 p.m.), from Sydney. To sail— Maheno (i p.m.), for southern ports. Passengers for Wellington— Mesdames Knox, Davey, Messis. M'Cullough, Ingles ..„„.. FOXTON, llth May. Arrived— Gertie (1.30 p m.), from Wellington. m, -.ir -. • .. WANGANUI, llth Mly. The Waihi, bound from Wellington to Pa■tea, put in for shelter at 12.45 p.m. Arrived— Huia and Arapawa (12.30 p.m.), from Wellington. Sailed— Whakarua (2 p.m.), for Wellington. ... „. MOTUEKA, llth May. Arrived — Manaroa (12.20 p.m.), from Wellington. t. xr v CHRISTCHURCH, llth May. The New Zealand Shipping Company's s.s. Tonganro arrived at Plymouth yesterday. „,, ,„ PICTON, lltl) May. The Wauau put in here through stress of weather at 2.30 p.m.