LATE SHIPPING

Evening Star, Issue 14554, 1 May 1911, Page 4

LATE SHIPPING

Rakaia, 5.6., was to leave Port Comers at four o'clock this afternon for Tnoaxu and other loading ports. Is it necessary to work on Sunday? was a question discussed in shipping cstclbb at , Port, Chalmers to-day. Tho point at iasne j was not whether work on Sunday i* fegsl, i but whether the prosperity of a port wonki , suffer were Sunday work prohibited : amongst tho shipping. The port of Mel- i bourne was quoted as an instance where ; prosperity is not handicapped by the sop- : : pression of Sunday labor. No vessel, it I was stated, is permitted to sail from Mel- 1 bourne on Sunday, and the working of ) cargo on the Day of Best is not only • prohibited, but tho crew may not be I employed on Sunday to prepare the ship ' for the working of cargo after midnight. At most ports Sunday has to make considerable concessions to expediency, but on tho whole the Day of Rest is fairly well • observed. A YACHT WRECKED. [Sfecial to the Sun.] BLUFF, May 1. The yacht Muritai, which was ono»' owned at Dunedin, but which was purchased three yeans ago by Mr Chas. Stewart, of Stewart Island, and transferred intoa cutter, and fitted with an auxiliary oil engine, was wrecked at the Bluff on .Sunday shortly after noon- The crew bad received permission to take a sail up the harbor during Mr Stewart's absence ashore, and so two of them set a couieo towards the entrance of the harbor. Tho Muritai was badly steered, and went all over the place, just missing the lightship, and eventually crashing into tho rocks at Stirling Point. Tho masts ard sails went by the board, and her position was such that two members got into a dingy and pulled ashore. Then they remembered that one member wa* asleep below. They returned and brought him off. Ho had wakened to find thccabin flooded, and himself in a precariou6 position. The Muritai is 5 tons register, and has a length of 35ft. She is badly damaged, having lost masts, sails, and bulwarks, besides having her bottom etovo in. The owner expects to be able to salvage the engine. SHIPPING TELEGRAMS.

BLUF, Slav I.—lo a.m., Moana, from Melbourne via Hobart (with English mail). Passengers for Dnnodin: Mjbbcw Rout, Turnbull, l>rummond (2), Bnrgett, Woksterholme. Mesdames Ben (Z), Grigg and two children, Fuller, Baxter, Elmore, Moody, Bristcck, Messrs Cromarty, Dowling, 'Hore, Fuller, Grieg, Bell, Howton, Williams. Staig (2), Rand. Sloffitt, Austin, Moodv, Dewar. Rev. Harper; fourteen, steerage.—Mokoia, from Dunedhu—lodrabarah, from Timaru.