LATE SHIPPING

Evening Star, Issue 16991, 13 March 1919, Page 4

LATE SHIPPING

.The Kowha-i left Tiraaru at 8 last night for New Plymouth and Greymouth.. A considerable sea was running off Greymouth to-day, bub was moderating. The bar was unworkable. The weather was fine, with a light south-westerly wind. The American barque Na.rwnal was to have left Wanganui early this week for the Friendly Islands, where she will load for San Francisco. The steamer Wallscnd arrived at New Plymouth yesterday from Adelaide with a cargo of phosphates. After discharge she will go to Greymouth to load timber for Australia. It is not yet known whether the American barquentine Thrasher will load at New Plymouth, where she has just completed discharging a cargo of case oil from Ban Francisco. _ In the meantime trouble is being experienced in keeping a full crew, seven members having absented themselves and failed to return to ihe ship. MOKOIA LEAVES AUCKLAND. The Union Company advise that the Mokoia left Auckland at 11 last night for Wellington and Dunedin with a large shipment of general and transhipment cargo. She is expected to arrive hero about ihe middle of next week. SCHOONER ALERT SIGHTED. The American schooner Alert, bound from San Francisco to Dunedin,was sighted by the officers of the steamer Breeze yesterday morning 10 miles northeast of ‘Moeraki. The schooner evidently caught the fores of last night’s sou'wester, for she had not been sighted at Otago Heads at 10 a.m. to-day. The Alert left San Francisco at the same time a 8 the schooner Planter, which arrived here on Tuesday morning.