LATE SHIPPING

Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 93, 18 October 1915, Page 8

LATE SHIPPING

DEPARTUKES October 18— Arahura, s.s. (12.50 p.m.), 1(86 tons, Holmes, for Nelson and Picton NIAGARA AT AUCKLAND (BT TELEGRAPH— PRESS ASSOCIATION*.) AUCKLAND, 18th October Arrived— Niagara, from Vancouver. Passengers for Auckland: First saloon— Miss Holmes, Mesdames Murray, Blood, Thompson, Blyth Wright, Wilson, Holmes, Reeves, McJPlierson. Ball, Findlay, Studbolme, March, Kuthenord, Messrs. Murray, Blood, Thompson, Nordoo, V Llson, Blyth, Keeves, Kotham, Broadbent, McPherson, Smith McKenzie, Ball, Brown, Findlay. Moorhouse, Studholme, Grant, and Archbishop O'Shea; 88 second and third class Shortly before 6 o'clock tins morning the R.M.S. Niagara arrived at Auckland from Vancouver, via Honolulu and Suva. The Niagara left the Canadian port on the 29th Septembei with 227 passengers and 1100 tons of cargo. She is expected to continue her journey to Sydney this evening KARAMEA LEAVES SYDNEY Cabled advice from Sydney states that the steamer Karamea, bound from Montreal, left that port on Saturday last for Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton, and Dunedin. The vessel should reach this port about the 26th October ROTORUA REPORTED Cabled intimation received by the local office . of the New Zealand Shipping Company states that the Rotorua, which left Wellington for London, via ports, on the 9th September last, resumed her voyage from Teneriffe on Thursday last. She is due at Plymouth to-morrow RANGATIRA, FROM LONDON A radio message irom the liner Rangatira, bound from London to New Zealand ports, states that thi vessel -expects to arrive at Hobart on Wednesday morning. Her first port of call in the Dominion is Auckland, after which the vessel will come on to Wellington, arriving here about the Ist November MANUKA'S EXPECTED ARRIVAL The latest advice received states that the Manuka, from Sydney direct, passed Stephens Island at 2 p.m., and should therefore reach Wellington at 7 o'clock this evening Ov ing to bad weather on the West Co»st the Mapourika has had .to put tack to Westport, and in consequence will not work Greymouth on this trip En route from Liverpool to New Zealand ports the Orari arrived at Melbourne on Friday last The vessel will subsequently call at . Sydney and Auckland before arriving here about the 2nd November" Overhaul at the Slip completed, the Pateena. came round to the wharf this morning. Her place on the cradle was occupied by the Queen"* 1 of the South BY TELEGRAPH SUVA, ISth October Sailed— Waitomo (Sunday), for Auckland, with, SiSi tons of sugar

The Rt. Hon. W. F. Maeeey (Prime Minister) will remain in Wellington 'for some time yet. Later oa he will pay visits both North and to the South Island. Police Superintendent J. O'Donovan, of Dunedin, will succeed Superintendent J. Ellison at Wellington, and Inspector Wright/ of Hamilton, has been promoted to the rank of superintendent, and- will succeed Superintendent O'Donovan at Dunedin. Both police officers are to be congratulated ,on Ihe change that has been made, and it will be welcome news to numerous friends in this city. Superintendent O'Donovan was known for very many years in Wellington as an efficient,, courteous officer, marked out by natural qualities ' backed 'up hy assiduity and untiring industry for promotion, and during the time that he has occupied responsible positions at Invercargill, Napier, and Dunedin he has thoroughly fulfilled .the hopes thai had been expressed of his success. Inspector Wright was for some years on the staff of the district office at Wellington, and later chief of staff in the office of the Commissioner of Police. He left there some years ago on more active service as inspector in charge of the Hamilton district, and hae carried out his duties with marked ability. In the Supreme Oouri this morning, the hearing was continued of the application by the "New Zealand Law Society to hava W. G. Somerville, barrister and solicitor, Taumarunoi, struck off the io!Ls. The Bench was occupied by Mr. Justice Denniston, Mr. Justice Cooper, and Mr. Justice Chapman. Mr. A. Gray, K.C., with him Mr. D. 11. Hoggard, appeared in support of the application, antl Mr. M. Myers opposed the application. > The ground of the application was :Jiat Somerville had been, while under suspension, conv ; cte4 of a breach of the Lioensing Act by illegally selling liquor, and Gned £50. with the alternative of three months' imprisonment. For the defendant, Mr. Myers read a considerable number of affidavits from people who dodared that the liquor brought into the house during the period relating to the j charge had been imported for purely family and social, purposes, and that the evidence was not in the slightest degree biifneient . to establish the charge of sly grog-selling. The hearing of the case had not concluded when The Post went to press.