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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 147, 23 June 1915, Page 6

BY TELEGRAPH.

ULIMAROA SAILS FRIDAY Owing to the large amount of cargo to be taken in at Lyttelton, th« UUmaroa will not arrive here from that port until Friday morning. She will sail for i Sydney direct at noon the same day FOR BUNKER COAL An expected arrival at Wellington about Wednesday next is the tramp steamer Poleric, 6182 tons, Captain Chisholm, from Calcutta and Rangoon, via Sydney. The vessel left Rangoon on the 20th May, having loaded for South America. She is calling at this port for bunker coal NIAGARA, FROM VANCOUVER The Niagara, en route from Vancouver and way ports to Auckland and Sydney, with European and American mails, 120 passengers, and over 2500 tons of Canadian merchandise for New Zealand and Australia, is due at Suva to-morrow, and at Auckland on Sunday next. She is timed to sail at 2 p.m. on Monday for Sydney / On a recent trip from Auckland to Vancouver the Niagara broke all previous transpacific records in point of speed. From Auckland to Suva she averaged 17.2 knots, from Suva to Honolulu 17.3 knote, and from the last named port to Vancouver 17.7 knots, under ordinary weather conditions Latest information from New York concerning the sailing tonnage for Australia states that the latest fixtures have been made at a big increase compared with the prices paid for vessels fixed come months ago. The charters have been made at from 47s to 65s per ton The Rakanoa has left Edithburg for Lyttelton, Wellington, and New Plymouth A projected departure from Newcastle this week is the Koromiko, with a full load ot coal for Wellington The Indrabarah. at present discharging a part cargo from London, at Auckland, left ' London on the loth April, and called at Capetown for coal, afterwards discharging at Melbourne and Sydney. _ A certain amount of bad weather was met with on the voyage, and this caused some delay. The steamer was also kept back by heavy rain at Sydney. Napier is the vessel's next port of call) and then Wellington