LATE SHIPPING

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 139, 9 December 1918, Page 8

LATE SHIPPING

ARRIVALS. December o —Kaitangata, s.s. (12.5 p.m.), IDBI tons, from Kaipara • „ ' December 9—lris, cable repair steamer (1.20 p.m.), from Cook Strait (in Worser Bay). DEPARTURES. December o—Mapourika, s.s. (1.2S p.m.), 1203 tons, McDonald, for IMcton arid Nelson. PATEENA STILL SHORT. The efforts of the Union Company to secure a full crew for the Pateena to-day have not met with success, and the Monowai will hare to go south in the ferry run again this after. noop. NAVUA LEAVES PAPEETE. The Navua, which has been quarantined at Papeete, and about which there have been several alarming rumours, left Papeete on Saturday night for Wellington. REMU&RA SAILING ON WEDNESDAY. The Remuera (New Zealand Shipping Company) is to leave the wharf at noon on Wednesday next for London. Intending passenger are requested to be on board by 11 a.m. on that day. The list of those making the trip is not yet available. THE KOROMIKO. An endeavour is being made to-day to secure five firemen for the Union Company's cargo steamer Koromiko. If the efforts are successful the vessel. will sal! for Sydney and Newcastle to-night. She is to carry an Australian mail.

PERSONA!,. , Word has been received in CUristchurch that Engineer-Commander K. E. Low, of the s.s. Wahine, has been awarded the D.S.O. He was' bom In Nelson, being a son of the late Cap tain Low, harbourmaster. He served his time as an engineer in Wellington, and afterwards went Home, returning to the Dominion as an engineer on the first trip of the Arahura. He has served in the Wahine since she ,was taken over by the Admiralty, rising to the position of engineer-commander. He was the only officer in the vessel to. receive the decoration. Mr. J. Low, of Addington, is a brother of Commander Low. , Captain J. Smith, of the Northern Steamship Company's steamer Gael, has died from influenza. SALVOR NOT YET AEEIVED. T7p to the time of going to press the chartered steamer Salvor, which was due at 'Wellington yesterday from San Francisco, had not put in an appearance. * THE ARAWA. . The Shaw, Sarill, and Albion Company announced this morning that tha Arawa will probably be ready to leave Wellington on New Year's Eve for England. The New Zealand Shipping Company hopes to have the loading of the Paparoa completed by to-morrow. At last week's meeting of the .Otago Harbour Board it was resolved to suspend the regulations relating to sick pay. and to pay full wages to all hands who had been off dut) owing to the influenza epidemic. It was pointed out that 27 employees of the board were effected. ' Six steamers laden with jute goods are at present bound from India to Australian ports. These are the Sangola (for Adelaide, Melbourne, and Sydney), the Orissa (for Melbourne and other Australian ports), the Janus (for Adelaide and Melbourne), the Carawa, the Gracf:hus, and the Santjiia.. The Union Company hopes to despatch the Kamo for Grcymouth to-night. The movements of the Komata arc at present uncertain. The Kegnlus was placed on the Slip this morning for overhaul. She is to sail on I Wednesday for the West Coast. The Queen of the South has been held up at Foxton, and will not reach Wellington until to-night. She will go on the Slip on Wednesday for cleaning and painting, and will not sail for Foxton again until Friday or Saturday. Richardson's steamer Kahu, which is taking a cargo of case oil to Napier to-night, is due back at Wellington on Thursday. The cable repair steamer Iris, which left Wellington early this morning for Cook Strait, returned to Worser Bay this afternoon. BY TELEGRAPH. SYDNEY, 9th December Arrived—Whangape, from Auckland NAPIER, 9th December Arrived—Ripple (E. 15 a.m.), from Wellington NELSON, 9th December Arrived—PutiM (10 a.m.), from Wellington . WANGANTJI, 9th December Sailed— Mana (3.20 a.m.), for Wellington LYTTELTON, 9th December To sail—Mararoa (6.30 p.m.), for Wellington