LATE SHIPPING.

Evening Star, Issue 15073, 3 January 1913, Page 4

LATE SHIPPING.

SAlLED.—January 3.

Monowai, s.s., 3,505 tons. Edwin, for Auckland via East Coast ports. Passengers : Misses Williamson, Jackson, Gardner, M'Donald, Tilbury (2), Eraser, Dill, Nixon, Blake, Mitchell, Do Joux, Curtis, Mesdames Vernon, Sangster, Warren, Kelly and child, Cairns, King, O'Meara, Mitchell, Cotter and family, Julius and two children. Do Joux, Every, Curtis, Messrs M. G. A. Fallenor, Waters, Foote, Every, Cash, Gorton, Howard, Wilkinson, Smith, Hand, Budge, Sangster, Vernon, Smith, Ferriman, Julius. P. D. Ferguson, King, Cain, Dill, O'Meara, Captain Pryde; 30 steerage.

Hinemoa. Government steamer, 963 tons, Bollons, for Southern lighthouses. Captain Pryde was a passenger north by the Monowai to-day. Wanaka, s.s., at present under overhaul in dock at Port Chalmers, resumes commission on the Bth, taking up the East Coast cargo service from the Bluff. Kowhai, s.s., docked this morning for cleaning, painting, and survey. On the. 7th she, resumes her usual running to East Coast ports, finishing at Gisborne. Zealandic, s.s., at present loading wool at Port Chalmers, leaves on Sunday morning for other Dominion loading ports, starting probably with Timaru. Hinemoa, lightship steamer, picks up at Port Chalmers this trip a number of the mark buoys used for the purpose of marking shallows in Government harbors such as Kaipara, Hokianga, etc., where no harbor boards exist. Papnroa, s.s., at present loading at the Bluff, will call at Port Chalmers in a day or two to pick up produce on her way to Northern ports. The Westport Harbor Board (says a P.A. telegram) have, agreed to charter the suction dredee Rubi Seddon to the Nelson Board for £'soo a month. The Westport Board will fake the insurance risk. THE REAL REASON. [Pcr United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, January 3. It. transpires that the reason for the abandonment of the Maori's trip from Wellington to Picton on New Year's Day was not that the firemen demanded 3Us and were refused by the company, but simply that the, weather conditions were unsatisfactory. SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. LYTTELTON, January 3.-9.55 a.m., Mararoa, from Wellington (connected with the second express). OAMARU, January 3.—8.15 p.m. 2nd, Flora, from Dunedin. SYDNEY, January 3.—9 a.m., Maheno, from Auckland.—Star of India for New Zealand.