LATE SHIPPING
DEPARTURES
August 19—Pateena, s.s. (1.30' p.m.), 1212 tons, Irwin. for Picton and Kelson August 19—Maori, s.s. (3 p.m.), 3412 tons, Manning, tor Lyttetton
PEESONAL.
Private advices received in Sydney state that two sons of the late Captain F. Ho'.ui have been doing good work in the North Sea. One holds the rank of engineer-commander, and at last report was in hospital; and the other, Commander M. Holm, has charge of a British patrol boat of 2000 tons.
The Kapiti was taken on the Patent Slip about 8 o'clock this morning for cleaning and overhaul. It is .expected that she will bo despatched ou Wednesday for Wanganui
The Riverina, with passengers and mails, is due about 4 o'clock to-morrow afternoon from Sydney, and is timed to sail on the return trip at 11 p.m. on Thursday
Information has been received by the Melbourne oiitce of the P. and O. Company that a new steamer has been delivered to the company by Messrs. Caird and Co., of Greenock. When she was laid down it was intended that she should be a passenger vessel, but as the claims of the ships of other classes became more insistent, work on her was stopped. Late last winter it was decided to transform her into a cargo-carrier. She has * carrying capacity of 14,000 tons, and her speed is 19 knots. She is the largest steamer that has ever been dry-docked in the Clyde
The steamer Tangaroa, which has been laid aside for some weeks, undergoing repairs necessitated by the collision with the Weka at Napier, has resumed her running
BY TELEGRAPH. NAPIER, 17th August Arrived—Rosamond (6 p.m.), from Wellington
PICTON, 18th AugustArrived—Kahika (C a.m.), from Wellington PATEA, 19th August Arrived—Waverley (6.40 a.m.) and Hawera(6.4s a.m.), from Wellington To sail—Waverley (7 p.ni.), : for Wellington LYTTELTON, 19th August To sail—Mar.roa (0.30 p.m.), for Wellington TARAKOHE, 19th August Sailed—lnvercargill (7 a.m.), for Wellington KELSON, 19th August To sail—Nikau (10 p.m.), for Wellington
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Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 43, 19 August 1918, Page 8
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325LATE SHIPPING Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 43, 19 August 1918, Page 8
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