LATE SHIPPING.

Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 135, 5 December 1910, Page 8

LATE SHIPPING.

DCFARTURCS. December 3— l'ateemi, s.s. (12.50 p.m.), 1212 tons-, Criivrfoid, lor Pieton and Nelson. P.'is-t-eugeis: Saloon — For Pictou : Mii-s Clayton, -Mr.-. Mills, Mx-ssi :.. G<-et'n, Jamieson. Goidoi), Bird, Clajton. For Nelfon • MiM>e& Palmer, MeAndu'w, SUnton, Xinnes Mtisdames, JCerr, Stott, .Me«bi-s. Kerr, Claiid»e, Stott, Stanton, "Uinray, Hill, Biittcn, Harrison, Siuelair, and Colvin. MANUKA LEFT SYDXCY. C.ibled advice has bei-n received b> the local i (>lhce ol the Union Company that the Manuka I left Sjdncy at 3 p.m. ou"Satuiday last for Wellington daect, with 180 saloon and 83 steerage passengers. The vessel is- due about S a.m. on Wednesday. S.VOWDOXIAX, FOR THE EAST. Discharging operations on the tramp Snowdnniau will deiain the vessel at Wellington till Thursday, when she is to lea^e for Ljttelton with the residue of jauah c.ngo. Krom the southern poit the Snowdonian will proceed to Newcastle to load coal lor the Philippine Islands. The. Snowdonian, which is a. repiesentative oi Messrs O. and W. William* and Company's fleet, is at present on a iovin<?' coininif>-ion. Tliere are three branches ot the service carried on" by the company to which the belongs— to Spam, to Italj, ami to the River Plate (from Great Britain). It is possible that alter discharge at the Philippines, the tramp will return to Australia. KIXG MALCOLM, FOR SYDNEY. Another fortnight will elapsp befoie the Italian barque King Malcolm has dischaiged the Wellington portion ot her chrgo of roofing tiles, and she will then lea^e for Sjdney with the balance. At the New South Wales poit the barque will load wool for the United Kingdom or Continent. HAWKES BAY ARRIVES. After an . absence of about two years from Xew Zealand, during which she has been engaged in the Loudon-AiistraJian trade, the Tyser steamer Hawkes Bay re-appeaied early this morning, bringing a geneial cargo fiom Liverpool. An account ot her loyage to Auckland has already been given in tho Post, only one call— at Las Patinas— being made on the" voyage to Xew Zealand. The Hawkes Bay lett Auckland tor Wellington on Friday morning, and - encountered stiong head winds and swell till Cape Turnagain was passed,' otherwise port would have been reached yesterday. It is expected that discharging operations will be completed on Wednesday afternoon, when the vessel will leave for Ljttelton and Dunedin with the residue. .From the latter poit the Hawkes Bay will sail for Brisbane and other Australian ports to'load for London. She is now berthed at W, Jervois-quay. Mr W. W. Luke, second engineer of the Wanaka, ua» come ashore, and lite place has been filled by the piomotion ol" the third engineei (Mr. Crawford) Mr W P. Whjte has joined, the vessel as third. Resuming her voyage from London, the Tyser liner Star of Canada left Sjdney for Auckland- on Thursday last. She "is due at the northern port to-morrow, at Wellington about the 14t(i iust. . A fine steaming performance was ell'ected by the Atua on her last passage irom Nukualofa to Auckland by way of various islands. The vetsel arrived at Auckland at 3 p.m. on Thursday last, after a voyage of 3 dajs 11 hours from Nukualofa— said to be a recoid. Captain D. McLean (late of the Tarawera) is now master of the Mokoia, which has taken the place "of the "Hauroto in tlie Dunedin-Auck-land trade, and arrived here yesterday morning. The vessel underwent a thorough overhaul at Port Chalmers. Her ofliceif. are:— Chief, Mr W r . Hender; second, Mr R. .1 Reeves thud, Mr If. Dinsmore; fourth, Mr F. Clark; chiei' engineer, Mr A. Mcßiide; second, Mr Geo. Nelson; third, Mr T. King; fourth, Mr Maxwell; fifth, Mr Mitchell; purser, Mr Val. Duff; chief steward, Mr C. Carter (late of the Maori). « Slight damage was caused to tho rudder of the Woottou, when the steamer stuck on a. mud bank in the Waimakarhi river on Thursday. She wab laden -with timber. The R.M.S. Tongariro, which left Wellington for London on the 20lh October, arrived at Plymouth on Thursday last. Captain J. B. Allsop is now master of the Biee'ze, which left Lyttelton for Chatham Islands on Friday. Some improvements have been made in the vestd'a pabscnger accommodation. Early jesterday morning the Paparoa, en loute from Waitaia to 'Xiipier, landed a gang ol stevedores at Worser Bay. Captain Charles Watchlin has sold his interest in the scow Ngsmi to the Maoriland Steam Ship Company, and will shortly join the schooner Clyde in the Welliiigton-Chathams trade, a» chiei ofhcei. Necessary lepairs to the tramp Strathclyde, which recently put into Lyttelton with a damaged rudder, en locite from* Newcastle to South Ameiica, will be carried but by Messrs Stevenson and Cook, of Port Chalmeis. The rudder and its damaged accessories will be restored, and repairs will also b6 made to the engines and deck fittings. . The woik will occupy about a month. It is expected that the Papaioa will leave Napier on Wednesday for Wellington. Krom here the vessel goeb on Saturday" to Lyttelton, whence she sails for London about the 15th inst.