LATE SHIPPING

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 147, 23 June 1915, Page 8

LATE SHIPPING

' MARAMA DELAYED A wireless message from the it.M.S. Muratna etafces that she does not expect to teach port from Sydney until 6 o'clock to-morrow morning, having encountered heavy weather in the Tasman Sea. She continues her voyage to San Francisco at B p.m. to-morrow WAIHEMO LEFT SAN FRANCISCO ' The local office of the Union Company has been advised that the steamer Waihomo left S&tt Francisco on Wednesday last, with ft full cargo for Wellington, Sydney, and Melbourne. She Is due here about the 16th July The time of sailing of the s.s. Ulimaroa is noon on Friday next, and not 6 p.m., as adver. tised in our columns last night

The Hon. Jamee Allen has received a cable message stating that the No. 1 Stationary Hospital has reached another stage of the/ journey— "AH well." The Mayor of Lower Hutt (Mr. H. Baldwin) has received a petition from over seventy ratepayers of the Hutt re* questing him to call a public meeting- to consider the advisability of the affairs of the Hutt River being taken over by the Lower Hutt Borough Council. Mr. Baldwin has accordingly called a meet* ing for Tuesday evening next. The river is at present under the jurisdiction of the Hutt River Board, and it is hoped that a considerable saving will be .effected by the absorption of the boa-rd by th© council. A former member of the New Zealand , Times reporting staff, Mr. F. J. Tliomp* son, is reported missing at the Dardanelles. Mr. (Thompson had taken part in the early fighting on 'the peninsula with the now famous Third Australian Brigade. Some of tho results of tho raffles in connection with the Eastbourno Patriotic Carnival' are' advertised in this issue. A meeting of the general committee is to be held on Friday evening, by which tiuia all moneys are to roach tho hon. Bccrot&rj;.