LATE SHIPPING

Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 38, 15 February 1919, Page 5

LATE SHIPPING

MONOWAI BUSSING LATE. Bad weather has detained the Monowal at 'Auckland,' and she will not sail from that port till Monday -next. . She will arrive in Weir lington late, and is expected to get away for Lyttelton and Dunedin on Thursday next. PERSONAL. Mr. J. B. Burns, second engineer on the Maponrika, bas come ashore. .. PORT MELBOURNE DUE. Advice has been received by the Wellington office of the Commonwealth and Dominion Line that the;liner Port Melbourne, from London to New Zealand with troops, left Panama on the 14th February, and should reach Auckland on the Eth March. CANADIAN STEAMERS. The Canadian Pioneer, the first of the Canadian Government's fleet of steamers,, was launched at Montreal in December last. - She is 8100 tons deadweight, 100ft in length, and has a speed of 11J knots. Mr. Bsllantyne, the Minister of Marine, announced that the Gov ernmemV is, building 31 vessels, including two of 10,000 tons each. BY TELEGRAPH. NELSON, 15th February Sailed—Mapouriia (9.15 a.m.), for Picton and Wellington

'At the men's meeting in the V.M.C.A., (Willis-street, on; Sunday at 4 p.m., a welcome homo will' bo tendered to Sergeant 'J. Johnson, who has just returned from (France, where he was specially, set apart !by the military for V.M.C.A. work.

The Wellington Golf Club has decided jto hold a four days' tournament at Easter on the links at Heretaunga. In addition rto the Wellington ajnateur championship lor a silver cup presented by Sir Joseph ,Ward, and other events, there will be ioompetitions and putting for ladies. .•-.'-■■