LATE SHIPPING

Evening Star, Issue 17544, 27 December 1920, Page 6

LATE SHIPPING

The Norwegian steamer Henrick Lund arrived at Auckland last night from Galveston (Texas) with a cargo of sulphur. The vessel will discharge part cargo at Auckland, and the balance at Port Chalmers. THE SYDNEY STEAMER. Th ..Union liner Manuka arrived at Wellington at 11.40 a.m. to-day from Sydney with mails, 420 passengers, and a large shipment of general cargo. She will complete her discharge at Lyttelton, and is timed to leave Wellington again on Thursday afternoon for Sydney and Hobtra. COAL FOR THE RAILWAYS. The Swedish steamer Sydic from Norfolk via Panama arrived in the lower harbor this afternoon with 6,000 tons of American coal for the New Zealand railways. PORT CURTIS AT NEW YORK. Advice has been received that the C. and D. liner Port Curtis, which left Wellington on November 12 for New York and Boston, arrived at New York on December 16. COMMONWEALTH FLEET. The latest addition to the Commonwealth Government Line of steamers is the Erriba, which was launched at Wilhamstown on December 10. The Erriba, which is 331 ft in length and 6,100 tons gioss, is the second of the “E” class to be launched in Victoria, and the fifth in Australia. Three other vessels of the same class, built in N<rw South Wales, are now nearing completion. Walker and Sons, of Maryborough (Q.), have one ship oi the same class well advanced, one commenced, and the materials for two others ordered j and. Poole and Steele, of Adelaide, have a similar number in the same condition. Six ships of the original class have been completed, and are in commission, and have a total net tonnage of 33,600 tons. ' DUTCH LINER’S EXPERIENCE. Australian files to hand by the last mail give full particulars of the damage done by the cyclone which swept over Sydney and the State of New South Wales recently. Many large oversea liners, including the Niagara, had a trying time off the New South Wales coast. About 200 tons of coal was swept off the decks of the Dutch liner Soerakarta during the cyclone. The Soerakarta, which is running under the auspices of the Hol-land-Australia Line, was bound from Brisbane to Sydney, en route to Rotterdam, when she ran into the storm on December 9, and for two days she had a trying time. The mountainous seas swept her deck? fore and. aft, threatening the lives of the crew. In addition to carrying overboard the coal, the waves tore the doors off the officers’ cabins in the alleyways, flooding the cabins. The seas also tore the iron plating covering the deck steam pipes adrift. The wind reached a velocity of between sixty and seventy miles an hour-in the storm. SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. AUCKLAND, December 26.—9 p.m., Henrick Lund, from Galveston. ’ WELLINGTON, December 27.—11,40 a.m., Manuka, from Sydney.