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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 151, 26 June 1912, Page 6

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' NEW YOEK, Sth June. Sailed— Waltraute, for Auckland. KKEMANTLE, 25th June. Arrived— Ofcway, from London AUCKLAND', 26tli June. ArriTed— Kaikoora (j.lO a.m.), from Meloourne. ONEHUNGA, 26'h June. Arrived— Harawa (8.30 sum.), from New Plymonth. J » . „. „, GISBOBNE, 26Hi June. Arrived— Terawhltl (6 a.m.). from Wellington. WANGANTJI, 26th June Arrived— Arapuwa (6.20 a.m.;, from Wellington. c . . n FOXTOX-. 26th June. Arrived— Queen of the South (7.30 a jn.), from Welliiig^n. BM _ N*W PLYMOUTH, 25th June. SttFfl— Earawa (B.UO p.m.), toe On&iungd. XAI'IEH, 2-ith June. Arrived— Navua (4 p.m.), from Wellington MOTUEKA, 2utit June.' Arrived— Manaroa (j p.m.), from Wellington Sailed— Mauaroa (5.80 p.m.), for Wellington BLENHEIM, 20th June. * Arrived — Opawa CA a.m.). iioin Wellington NELSON. 2lith June. Arrived— Mapourika (3 a.m.), N'ikau (6 a.m.), Kapifci C 7.10 a.m.;, and Kuru (8,&0 a.m.), from Wellington. Sailed— Aleiander. from ancborge (3.80 &.m.) for Westport, with barque Tliora in tow WESTPORT, 26th June. Arrived— Eakiura (7.20 last night), from Fretnantle. GEEYMOTJTH, 26th June. Arrived— Kittawa (5.15 a.m.) and Ngahere (8.30 aJO.), from Wellington. KAIKOUBA. 2fith June. ~ Arrived — Wakatu (0 a.m.), from Wellington TIMARF, 2t;th Jun«. ' Arrived— Wanaka (7 a.m.), from Wellington. LYT'I'KL'ION. 25th June. Arriwsl— Taviunl (early), from Ww-tport; i'ukaki, from Ureymoutii ; Woottou, from I'upotiJM. Hailed— Petoue (12.4.1 p.m.), for Wellington. 20th Juue. \i rived — Mararoa (".o.j a.m.), from AVellingiton. DUJfKDIN. 25th June. Arrived— lmercar«»Jll, irom ■Waikawa; Ko\»Tiai, from Urejiinoutli vut Oamaru; Moanu, iwm MeU>ourju> via Klull. B»ited— isj&ffßTitt lor £aeb Coast- portu-aniL

Auckland. Passengers for Wellington: Saloon —Misses McGill, Patterson, Kroou, Mesdamefi Boss, Lodge, Hegg, McKenlie and child, John- < son and 3 children. Miller, Messrs Miller, i Simas, Langford, Brent, Fioekart, Sewell; 27 steerage. WIMMEIfA, FROM SYDNEY. At about 8 o'clock this morning the *.s. ■AVlmmera, thin ■week's intercolonial steamer from Sydney, arrived »t Wellington. The vessal left the New South Walet. port on Saturday, and brought 08 saloon and 47 steerage passenger*. She had on board 600 £ons of general cargo, wnich ie being discharged a.t Queen's Wharf, No. 6. On the run across ahe encountered exceptionally fine weather and smooth sea*. To-morrow alternooa the Wim1 mera leaver for Hobart aud Melbourne, via southern ports. WITHIN WIBELESS RANGE. The postal authorities advise thmt the following vessels will probably be within wireless range of Wellington this evening: — Zealandic (from Wellington to Timaru), Moana (from Melbourne and Hobart to Wellington, via couthem ports), AVestralla (from Sydney to Wellington, via northern ports), Talune and Hauroto. STAB OF INDIA, FROM LONDON. The Tyser liner Star of India, which left London on the 22nd April for 'Wellington, -via Australian ports, Auckland, and Napier, arrived iv port at 7.40 o'clock this morning, and berthed at the King's Wharf. She is to take up the Star of Canada's loading berth In New Zealand for Home ports. On completion. Of her dtetharge of 800 tons ai this port the vessel sails for Gisbome and Napier, where she commences her Homeward loading. THE POWERFUL The cruiser Powerful, sometime the flagship and pride of the Australian station, has recently been dismantled, and now lies at the Motherbank. there to await the Admiralty* decision whether she ie to be cold for breaking up purposes, or, being a very roomy vessel, retained hi the service as a depot ship. The passing of the Powerful is significant. She is not an old ship, seeing that she -was only laid down hi March, 1894, and commissioned in June, 1897. She and her sister (the Terrible) cost about £680,000' each— more than, half as much as the cost of the largest protected cruisers which had been built before them. RUAPEHU, FOR LONDON. At noon to-morrow the New Zealand Shipping Company's s.s. Ruapehu ie due to leave Wellington for London, via, Monte Video and Teneriffe. The vessel is> due Home on rtjie Bth August, and on, the 31st of the same month she sails again for Wellington, aniving here about the 18th October. ESSEX, FROM "WEST OF ENGLAND. j The local agents of the Federal-Houlder-Shire Line have received advice to the effect that the steamer Essex left Liverpool for Wellington via Las Palmas. Capetown, Hobant, and Auckland on Saturday last. The vessel, which is due here on the 15th August, discharges subsequently at Lyttelton, Dunedin, and Blufl. A NEW LIGHT. Shipmasters using the southern Kaipara harbour speak -well of the new light erected between Kaipara South Head and Shelly Beach. The light is a tki&k one. ■ showing every two seconds, and is self-lighting by means of gas, the material for which is supplied every three mouths. The equipment contains three double jets-. By the installation of the light a long-standing disability which affected vessels trading (to Helentville during the night hours has been remedied. The light is clearly visible from Helensville, a, distance of 16 miles. FROM CHRISTMAS ISLAND. The tramp steamer River Clyde, with phosphates, from Christmas Island, arrived at Port Chalmers on Saturday, and berthed at the George-street pier, where ehe Is discharging about 1700 dons of phosphates. Chribtmas Island is situated near Java, and the phosphates are mined near the top of a hill, whence they are transferred to the ship by pouters, and the work is earned out by about 1800 Chinamen, supervised by Europeans. At a cable length from the -wharf, which the ship cannot lie close alongside of on account of the surf, the water is 1000 ft deep. The ship Is tied up by wire-rope hawsers underneath shoots run out on piles, and from these shoots the phosphates pour into the vessel's holds. This steamer loaded 6000 tons in four days. The River Clyde discharges about 1700 tons of phosphates nere, and proceeds with the balance to the Bluff, thence proceeding to Newcastle to load for Java. INDRALEMA LEAVES' NEW YORK. Advices state that the U.T. liner Indralema -was despatched from New York on the 16W1 im>t. for Melbourne, Sydney, and New Zealand porte. THE SOUTHERN TO LOAD FOR NEW ZEALAND. The steamer Soutliern, one of the latest additions ip the fleet of steamers under charter to load case oil at New York, is a new vessel owned by the Lundsford Steamship Company, of London. At latest advices she -was on her way to Laurvig, from -where ebe will go to the American port and ship her cargo for New Zealand. DEVITT AND MOORE'S TRAINING SHIPS. ' The Sydney agent for Messrs. Devitt sad Moore, has received a ciible advising him that the Medway has been fixed to load a cargo of ease oil from New York to Australian or ' New Zealand ports. The Port Jackson will i load at London, for Sydney as usual, and will be despatched in August. WHAT'S IN A NAME? \ From fdxne to tune there appear in the English files names of new Scandinavian shipping companies, most of them seeming of inordinate length to a Britisher. Imagine an underpaid shipping clerk having frequently to write such a word as "Norsk Bjergningskompagni," which is the title of a new salvage company formed at Christiania with a, capital of 1,200,000 kroner. ANGLO-SAXON REPORTED. The Vacuum Oil Company has been advised by cable thai the Anglo-Saxon, which left New York on the 25th April for Wellington, via Auckland, put into Hobaxt yesterday for bunker coal. The vessel is now expected to reach Wellington about the 12th July. Mr. S. Patrick, late purser of the Rotomahana, has joined the Wimmera. in the same capacity. It is expected that (the Union Company's steamer Rakanoa, at present loading coal at Newcastle, will leave that port for Dunedin direct about, the end of this week. A cargo of explosives (ex Delphic) was taken by the South Taranuki Steamship Company's steamer KapitL which left Wellington last evening for Neteon and M'est Coast ports. The steamer AVoottou is due to arrive at Wellington to-morrow with a load of railway material from Lytteltou. The vessel leaves for Nydia. Bay on Friday. Mr. M. Aleiander has joined the Kiui afi second engineer in. place of Mr. R. Graham, who reverts to his position as third engineer. Mr. F. Fogarty, acting-third, has signed off the vessel's articles. Mr. Adkins. chief officer of the Waipori, came a>hore at Auckland on holiday leave, hit. place being taken by VupUiu J. Morrison, late of the Haupiri.