OVERSEA VESSELS.

Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 142, 18 June 1919, Page 4

OVERSEA VESSELS.

Wahine, due Port Chalmers dnring July from "port Pirie, due in New Zealand shortly from tondon via Australia, Opawa, due from London in June. Ruahine, due Wellington from Plymouth on H.M.S. New Zealand, from ftnglind, vii Australia, due in August. ' Euapehu, from Plymouth, for Auckland; due 16th July. Waimana, due at Auckland from United Kingdom on the 23rd June. Waitomo, from Calcutta, due Now Zealand in June. ' Maunganui, left United Kingdom in May for port Chalmers; due 2nd July. Waiwera, left New York in May for Lyttelton and Dnnedin; due*23rd June. Prinzessin, due Wellington 25th Jun«, with troops from London. Australrange, left Ncr York 13th May for lyttelton and Dunedin. Paloona, due at Wellington on 27th Jun« Irom San Francisco. War Pilot, due Lyttelton 4th July from Kigoma, from London, due Wellington on the 12th July. Tahiti, due at Auckland on the 2nd July from United Kingdom. Chupra, sailed from London on Bth June for New Zealand. Shropshire, due Napier 26th June from Brisbane. Suffolk, dua Wellington 7th July from Sydney, yia. South.

' BY TELEGFAPH. ATJCKLAHD, 17th June Sailed—Hioemoa, for northern lighthouses ; Talune (5.20 p.m.). for Suva; Mapourika (10 p.m.), for Wellington 18th June Arrived—Otira (3.45 a.m.), from Now York NEW PLYMOUTH, 17th June Arrived—Earawa, from Onehunga; Kara, from Wanganui Sailed—Kara (8.5 p.m.), for Tarakohe; Earawa (9 p.m.), for Onehunga WANGANTJI, 18th June Arrived—Blenheim (8.40 a.m.), frofi WellingNELSOIf, 17th June Arrived—Kennedy (4.10 p.m.), from WestV°T ' "" 18th June Arrrved-Nikau (6 a.m.), from Wellington LYTTIXTON, 17th June Arrived—Breeze (5.30 p.m.) and Tainui (6 p.m.), from Wellington Sailed—Waipori (10 p.mO, for Wellington 18th JuneArrived—Wootton (3.20 a.m.), from Wellington TIMARTJ, 17th June Sailed—Arawa (10.30 a.m.) and Rosamond (S p.m.), for Wellington WESTMORELAND'S DAMAGE. Interest is being taken in Dunedin in the proposed docking of the Westmoreland. The damage to her bottom has been discovered by the diver to be fairly extensive, but the full effects of her striking will not bo seen until she is docked. It has apparently not yet been decided whether permanent repairs -will be effected at Dimedin or whether she will be temporarily repaired there and sent to Europe for final repairs. This matter rests on the amount of plating available.

A NEW SERVICE. The linking together of San Francisco, Seattle, San Diego, and several other Pacific Coast ports by means of a new line of steamships, forms a part of the programme being prepared by the Pacific Coast Steamship Company. The run from San Francisco to Seattle will require 36 hours, and to San Diego about 12 hours. From a statement made it is learned that the steamers to be used will be built especially with a view to speed and accommodation of passengers and cargo. They will be 600 ft in length, and have a speed of 21 knots. Another feature of the proposed construction of the new ships is that they will be built .011 the Pacific Coast if possible, but this is entirely contingent upon the costs of the vessels. If it is found that Pacific Coast build--rs can construct the ships as economically 45 can be tlons elsewhere, plus the cost of bringing the vessels to the coast, the contracts will be let to Pacific Coast bnilders.

During the Dine months ended the 31st Mai?ch,.l9l9, the output of American shipyards ■was three times the amount for the corresponding period a year ago. The output of wooden steamers increased from 23,171 gross tons during the nine months ended 31st March, 1918, to 674 l--,(j gross tons during the nine months jnst endsd.

The Whakatane is to visit Timaru, New Plymouth, jnd Picton before coming to Wellington to complete loading for Home. She is due here about the- 30th June.

To-morrow afternoon the Eimutafca. is leaving Wellington for Tokomam Bay, Whakatane, and Gisborne. She returns to Wellington about the sth July, and is to sail about the Bth July for London, via Panama.

A cargo of caae oil is being brought to tyttelton for the Vacuum Oil Company by the Australian steamer Australrange from New York. She left New York on the 16th May, and is due at Lyttelton at the end of this month.

With coal the steamer Omana arrived at Anckland on Sunday. She experienced exceptionally fine weather on the voyage. This visit is the Omana's third trip to New Zealand since she left Home, having been mostlj engaged in the coastal service in Australia. She will load,timber at Kaipaia (or Australia.