LATE SHIPPING.

Evening Star, Issue 14627, 25 July 1911, Page 6

LATE SHIPPING.

ARRIVED.—JuIy 25. Manuka, s.s., 4,505 tens. Neville, from Melbourne* via Hobart and the Bluff. Passengers : intercolonial—Missrs Aden (2), Had cliff e, M'Kenzie, Bond, Vale. Me&dames Morris, Si-aig, Messrs Slimon, Mitchell, Morris, Bath, Norton ; 12 steerage. Coastal—Misses Dufaur, .Stewart, Mrs Stewart, Mr J. Allen: two steerage. Manuka, s.s., left the BlufT just after midnight, and came up to D lined in with this afternoons tide. . w he left Melbourne at 2 p.m. last Wednesday, met with smooth, clear weather to Hobart. theme strong southerly wind and sea till the nicihi of the 23rd, when the wind veered round to the east, with heavy head sea, which lasted until arrival at the Bluff ; after leaving the Bluff she met with luVgh head seas and N.E. wind, which lasted until arrival. To-morrow afternoon the Manuka sails for Sydney via Lytteltcn and Wellington. CAPTAIN SMITH RETIEES. At tho meeting of the Union Steam rTliip Company's directors to-day it was intimated that Captain I'. E. Smith, of theMokoia, retires from the service, having reached the- ago limit. Tho Board agreed, he being one of the old captains, to uiaka him a. "liberal letiring allowance, and to present him with a. timepiece. Captain (smith went to sea in 1862, and traded to the Mediterranean and tho West Indies. He came to New Zealand in the Queen Beo in 1569, then sailed for England in the Christian M'Auniand, of vhich tho junior apprentice was the present Minister of Railways. John Andrew Millar. Returning to the Dominion in the s.a. /calandia, he woi'ked the oast, on the Lady of the Lake, to Cat line and the Molyncux then became chief officer of the Ino in trie- srime trade, and left to join the Union Company as second officer oi the Taiaroa in Augr-i, 1877. His first command was of the Beautiful Star, then in turn of the Taiaroa, (Jmanerc, Pchexua, Ovalau, ami Taviuni (iiix years in the. Islands trade), and became master of the Mokoia eight years ago. On occasions he has relieved as master in ueaily every onei 01 the company's big ships. His career as a. master is remarkable : 27 years' service and only one mishap, when the Tavirmi, in thick weather, touched a reef at Tonga, but was so Jit tic: damaged that she came to New Zealand on her own screw. .SHJPPING TELEGRAMS. • LYTTELTON, July 25.-8.20 a.m., Maori, from Wellington (connected with the socoikl express). _ OAMAIIU, July 25.— CA0 p.m., Flora, for Dunedin. MELBOURNE, July 25.—:Senorita, from Wliangapo'.