OVERSEA VESSELS. STEAMERS BOUND FOR WELLINGTON.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 73, 27 March 1914, Page 6

OVERSEA VESSELS. STEAMERS BOUND FOR WELLINGTON.

Star of Scotland, left London 6th January, Tia Australian ports and Auckland; due on Monday. Buteshire, left Liverpool on 17th January, via 'Australian ports and Auckland; due about the 31st March. Star of Victoria, left London on the 4th February, via Australian ports and Auckland; due about 4th April. Jesenc left St. John 4th January, via Aus,'tralian ports and Auckland; due here about the 4th April. Inverkip, left New York 31st December, tU 'Australian ports and Auckland ; due here about the sth April. Eemuera, left London 19th February, via TenerifTe, Capetown, and Hobart; due about the 7th April. Pakeha, left London on the 12th February, via Auckland; due about the 6th April. Henrik Ibsen, left New York on 23rd January, via Australian ports and Auckland; due about 12th April. Tokomaru. left London on the Ist March; due about the ISth April. Hollington, left St. John on the 28th January, via. Australian ports and Auckland; dut about the 20th April. Cojiothic, left London on the 7th March, via Plymouth, Tenerilfe, Capetown, and Hobart; due about the 23rd April. ■ Nerehaua, left London lflth February, via 'Australian ports and Auckland; due about the 20th AprlT. Westmeath, left Liverpool 14th February, via Hobart and Auckland; due about the 27th April. John Hardie, left New York 23rd February, via Auckland; due about 3rd May. Ruanine, left London on the 21st March, via Teneriffe, Capetown, and Hobart; due about 'the sth May. Tongariro, left London on the 18th March, via Durban and Auckland; due about the 7th May. Southport, left New York Bth February, via 'Australian ports and Auckland; due about the Bth May. Rinwtaka, left London 14th March, via Auckr Jandj due about Bth May s

Kia Ora, left St. John on the 6th March, 1 via Australian ports and Auckland ; due about the 12th May. Muritai, left London 13th March, via Australian ports, Auckland, and Napier; due about the ISth May. Tongariro, left London 18th March, via Durban and Auckland ; duo about 14th M«iy. Whakarua, left New York on the 15th March, via Australian ports and Auckland; due about the 4th June. BY TELEGRAPH. NEWCASTLE, 26th March. Arrived — Argenfels, from Dunetlin. Sailed — Waitomo, for New Zealand. AUCKLAND, 26th March. Arrived — Maitai (9 a.m.), from southern ports; Wairuna (11 p.m.), from Newcastle. 27th March, i Arrived — Wairuna a.m.), from Newcastle ONEHUNGA, 26th March. Sailed— Raraw a (3.20 p.m.), for Xew Plymouth HEW PLYMOUTH, 27th March. Arrived— Raran a (4.50 a.m.), from Onehunga. NAPIER, BCth March. Sailed — Monowai (10.30 p.m.), for Wellington. FOXTON, 27th March. Arrived— Queen of the South (10 a.m.), from Wellington. BLENHEIM, 27th March. Arrived— Blenheim (7.50 a.m.), from Wellington. NELSON, 27th March. Arrived— Nikau (6.45 a.m.), from Wellington. GREYMOUTH, 27th March. Arrived— Poherua (2.30 a.m.), from Wellington. WESTPORT, 26th March. Arrived— Mapourika (3.5 p.m.), from Welling- J ton. j LYTTELTON, 20th March. Arrived— Karamu (5 a.m.), from Greymouth. Sailed— Breeze (11.20 a.m.), for Dunedin; Storm, for P : cton. 27th March. Arrived — Rakiura (155 a.m.), Maori (6.40 a.m.) and UHmaroa (8.15 a.m.), from Wellington. To sail— Maori (8.30 p.m.), for Wellington. DUNEDIN, 26th March. Arrived— Westraiia (11.55 a.m.), from northern ports; Waimate (3.30 p.m.), from Vancouver via Lyttelton. Sailed— Flora (6.50 p.m.), for West Coast ports PERSONAL Captain A. T. Norton has taken command of the Waitemata, relieving Captain S. Nicolson. Mr. F. Home, chief officer of the Moeraki, has rejoined the vessel after a spell ashore on sick leave. Mr. Page, who has been acting chief of the vessel, has been granted holiday leave-. Mr. Sangster, second officer of the Warrimoo, returned to Dunedin luy the Moeraki after spending a holiday in Australia. Captain John Johnson, late of the barque Northern Chief, is now in command of the ketch Lizzie Taylor, having succeeded Captain, Petersen, who has resigned. Passengers from Sydney by the Tahiti yesterday included Captain B. Irwin, formerly of the Poherua, Mr W. Smart, superintendent engineer of the Union Company, and Captain McDonald, of the Union Company's headquorters staff. Mr. F. W. Mclntyre, chief engineer of the Tahiti, signed off the vessel's articles to-day, and Mr. J. McLean filled the vacancy. ' KAIKOURA TO LOAD. I The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamer Kaikoura is due here from Napier on the Ist April. She will complete loading operations at this port, and is fixed to sail for London on the 9th April. IONIC LEAVES RIO DE JANEIRO. Homeward bound from Wellington, the Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company's R.M.S. lonic sailed from Rio de Janeiro on Tuesday evening last. She left here on the 26th February, and is due at London on the 10th April. NEW WHITE STAR LINERS. The success that has followed the introduction of the 18,400-ton White Star liner Ceramic in the United Kingdom-South African-Australian trade, has induced the owners to place orders for two more large vessels to join her in the service. So far but the most meagre news regarding the decision has reached Sydney, but it is stated on the best of authority that the new steamers will be constructed by Messrs. | Harland and Wolff at Belfast on similar lines to the Ceramic, but they will be somewhat larger and greater cargo-carriers. The importance of such a decision as this cannot be overestimated (says the Sydney Shipping List), for it clearly snows that, great as the development in the size of vessels- trading to Australia during the past few years has been, a continuance can be looked for in the future, and very likely even greater strides will be made. And, too, it is the most convincing proof of the trade prospects ahead of the Commonwealth, which until recently appeared to be more In evidence in regard to Continental trade than with the United Kingdom. So far no news has been received regarding the time of delivery Dy the builders, but it is anticipated that at least one of the vessels will be ready about the end « of the year. RANGATIRA SAILS ON MONDAY. The Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company's s.s. Rangatira, which arrived from Auckland /esterday afternoon to complete Homeward loading, is now expected to sail for London, via ports, on Monday afternoon next. The local agents previously announced that the vessel would sail to-morrow afternoon. THE HAWKES BAY'S MOVEMENTS. The Tyser steamer Hawkes Bay was due at Lyttelton to-day from Napier. She takes in a quantity of cargo at the southern port, and then comes on to Wellington, being due here on Sunday morning. This will be the vessel's final port, and she will sail for London next Tuesday. THE BUTESHIRE. The Federal and Shire Line's steamer Buteshire, which arrived at Auckland to-day from Liverpool, via. Australian ports, has 1600 tons of cargo to pat out at the northern port before coming on to Wellington. She is due here about Tuesday or Wednesday next, and subsequently goes to Lyttelton and Dunedin to complete discharge. At the last mentioned port she commences loading for Home, and afterwards visits the following ports in the order mentioned :— Bluft, Gisborne, Waitara, Wanganui, Timaru, Lyttelton, and Wellington. She is scheduled to sail finally from here for Avonmouth, via Las Palmas, on the '2nd May. The S'apourika arrived at Greymouth from Wellington at midnight last night, and is to sail on her return trip, via Westport, at 9 p.m. to-day. She is due here on Sunday morning. The Poherua arrived at Greymouth at 2 o'clock this morning, and, after' taking in a load- of coal, will leave to-morrow night for Wellington. Owing to a serious shortage of railway trucks, the Union Company's big collier Waihora is being unduly delayed in Wellington. An effort is being made to despatch her to Newcastle to-morrow evening. It is probable that the Arapawa, due here on Sunday next from Lyttelton, will make another trip to Gisborne, sailing on Monday. When the Union Company's steamer Flora was docked at Port Chalmers nearly a year j ago her under body was divided into four sections for the purpose of testing a locally-made anti-fouling composition with- a similar compound made abroad. An examination of the vessel in dock on Wednesday la«t showed that the locally made compound had proved quite equal to expectations m preventing the growth of weed an.d shellfish in the vessel's hull. The Pacific Cable Company's repairing steamer Iris is to leave Auckland on the 25th May on a visit of inspection to the stations at Norfolk Island, Suva, and Fanning Island. The vessel has been laid up at Auckland for some time. Shortly after 2 p.m. on Wednesday the Melanesian Mission steamer Southern Cross left Auckland on an extended cruise to the various mission stations at Norfolk Island, the New Hebrides, and the Solomon Islands. The vessel has on board the Revs. Morse and Turner, and five lady missionaries. She is due back at Auckland about the end of July or early in August. There appears to be some anxiety in regard to Mr. Somerville'a three-masted scow Arrah- j Na-Pogue, which is due at Anckland from Onehunga in ballast (says the Auckland Star of Wednesday's date). The vessel left the West Coast port on the 20th March, and is, therefore, 15 days out. In view of the fact, however, of the recent prevalence of easterly and southeasterly winds, a sailing vessel would not easily make the passage from Cape Maria during the past ten days. With about 0000 bales of wool and 200 bales of flax aboard, the Clan Maclaren sailed from Wellington shortly before noon yesterday for Dunkirk, Hamburg,, and Swansea, via the Suez Canal. The cargo was loaded at Bluff, Timaru, and Wellington. An arrival in port yesterday was the ketch Lizzie Taylor, from Timaru. Her cargo for this port comprised 1149 bags of grain and peas, and on completion of discharge she will sail, probably to-morrow, for Nydla Bay, to load timber for Timaru. The New Zealand Shipping Company's s.s. Cairnross left Wanganui last night for Picton, and will probably arrive here on Monday morning. She will saik for London c>n the Ist or 2nd of April. According to the Sydney Shipping List, four sailers have been chartered to load phosphates at the Seychelles for New Zealand. They are the barques Actio (669 tons), Ashmore (1046 tons), and Fram (6D9 tons). The Seychelles are a group of islands in the Indian Ocean 700 miles north-east of Madagascar. Whilst loading at Lyttelton for Greyraouth late on Tuesday evening the steamer Opouri had her mainmast carried away, and in consequence will be delayed for a week or so. A portion of a traction engine, weighing übout five tons, was being shipped, and was just übout level wltfl the hatch coamings, when the mast,

of 3-8 inch steel, snapped at the jaws of the derrick, close to the deck, ;ind fell across the deck, smashing a ventilator, but fortunately injuring nobody. The mainmast was SOU in height, with a diameter of sixteen inches.