LATE SHIPPING

Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 24, 28 January 1918, Page 8

LATE SHIPPING

! , DEPARTURES January 28—Pateena, s.s. (12.45 p.m.). 1212 tons, Irwin, ior Picton and Nelson PERSONAL Mr. W. Naismith, chief engineer on the Rosamond, his come ashore, and has been succeeded by Mr. K. Graham Mr. H. E. Schmidt, mate on the Waverley, haß come ashore "A DISABLED SCHOONER | At about 0.50 a.m. yesterday the auxiliary , schooner Huanui, in tow of the Wairau, arrived in Wellington from Port Underwood, where she had been sheltering for a week, ow- j ing to an accident to her foremast. Anchor was dropped in the stream, and the Wairo-u proceeded to the wharf. On her trip from Onehunga to Dunedin with a load of timber the Huanui was without auxiliary power, the engineer, Private J. S. Gibbons (a son of the harbourmaster at Onehunga) having gone into camp and no other engineer being available. Captain C. Anderson was iv charge of the vessel. ■ ' '. On the night of the 19th January, when the Huanui was battling against a southerly gale the foremost snapped about 25ft above the deck. When the accident happened the schooner was eight miles oil White Bluff, between Cape Campbell and the Wairau, bar. She then made for Port Underwood for shelter. The Wairau took her in tow at 9 o'clock on Saturday night, and good weather was experienced coming across the strait, ton hours being occupied in the trip. The Huanui is a wooden vessel of about 70 tons register. The stepping of a new mast is expected, to take some time

The Biulen Powell put into Wellington this morning while bound from Plcton to Westport, owing to a mishap to her engines The Putiki went on the Patent Slip this morning for cleaning and painting. She will be brought'oft'to-morrow 'BY TELEG.RAPH XAPJER, 27th January Arrived—Monowai (1.30 p.m.), from WellingLVTTEI.TON, 28th January To sail—Mararou (0.30 p.m.), tor Wellington

PICTOK, 28tli January 'Arrived—Defender (8.30 a.m.), from Wellington