THE FERRY SERVICE.

Evening Star, Issue 18158, 26 December 1922, Page 1

THE FERRY SERVICE.

The* Waihinc arrived at Lyttelton at 6.25 a.m. to-day from and mails and passengers connected with the first express for the south. OVERSEA STEAMERS REPORTED. A. cablegram from London states that the steamers Jervis Bay, Orvieto, and Australmead, en route from. Australian ports to , the United Kingdom, passed Perim on December 23. The steamer Woodarra, Wind from Australian ports to London and Hull, passed Gibraltar on December 23. The steamer Opawa (Port Pirie to London.) and the Dorset (Auckland to London)'passed Dover on December 23. The steamer Armagh (Liverpool to Melbourne) passed Las Palmas on December 23. KAIKOURA LEAVES LIVERPOOL. The Federal Line has been advised by cable that, the Kaikmma left Liverpool on December 18, cargo laden. for_ Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton, Dunedin, and Fluff. The vessel is duo at Auckland on February 1. MARAMA FOR SYDNEY. The Union Company’s passenger steamer Manama, which lias Ibcen. laid up at the Clyde quay whart, Wellington, for several months, will leave the northern port next Friday for Sydney io take up the intercolonial! passenger running. CARGO FROM PACIFIC COAST. The Union Company advises that the Waimarine left Union Bav (Vancouver Island) on December 16 for San Francisco, where’ she was duo on December 21 to complete loading for New Zealand and Australian ports. The vessel was to leave San Francisco on December 23 for Nopier, Wellington, New Plymouth, Lyttelton. Dunedin, and Sydney. CUMBERLAND TO LOAD. The New Zealand Shipping Company advises that the .Cumberland is duo at Wellington on January 4 from Port Pirie to load for London. The vessel will also load at Port Chalmers, Timaru, Lyttelton, Tokovna.ru Bay, and Napier. She wail sail finally from 'Wellington daring the first week in February for England. .WESTMORELAND’S MOVEMENTS. The liner Westmoreland, due at Auckland on January 12 from Liverpool, will discharge at Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton, and Dunedin. The New Zealand Shipping Company will subsequently load the vessel at Bluff, Wellington, and Auckland. She is to sail from the last-men-tioned port about the middle of February for London, via Montevideo. RUAPEHU’S ITINERARY. The liner Ruapehu, due at Wellington on January 10 from London and Southampton, after discharge at Wellington, Lyttelton, and Dunedin, will load in New Zealand, under the auspices of the Federal Line, for West Coast porta of the United Kingdom. The vessel will proceed from Dunedin to Timanij Gisborne, Napier, Lyttelton, and Wellington for loading, and is to sail finally from Wellington on February 10 for Southampton to land Sussen.gera, and West Coast ports of the nited Kingdom. REMUERA LEAVES LONDON. The Rcmuera sailed from London on December 18 for Wellington. This as hei twenty-seventh voyage; but she is no longer a coal-burning steamer. In conjunction with repairs to her hull an oilburning’installation has been fitted, and the Remuera is the first steamer of the New Zealand 'Shipping Company’s fleet to run on oil fuel. For five months the steamer has been out of commission, undergoing repairs to damage causqd by a collision in the English Channel ten July 21 with the BHerman liner Marengo, : when she was en route from London to Auckland. '

LINERS IN COLLISION, A cable received on December 9 from London by the Sydney Marine Underwriters and Salvage Association stated that the Commonwealth Government liner Australbrook had been in collision in the Thames. The vessel was undamaged, but she lost an anchor and chain. The Australbrook is from Sydney via Newcastle and Fiji The Sydney Marine Underwriters and Salvage Association has received a cable advising that the While Star liner Suevic was in collision while proceeding up the river Thames. The damage is not serious. The Moncton Boy, of the Commonwealth Government Line, was also in collision with a steamer, no damage being done in this instance. VESSELS IN WIRELESS CALL. The following vessels are expected to ba within range of the undermentioned wireloss stations to-night:— Auckland. —Kauri, Kaiapoi, Port Lincoln. Ulimaroa. Wellington.—Wahine, Maori, Ngaio, Tahiti, Maungonui, Moeraki, City of Winchester, Carpentaria, Suffolk. Chatham Islands. —Waiwera (Picton to London), SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. AUCKLAND, December 23.—Arrived : Omana (11.45 a-m.), from Tauranga; Wingatui (7.55 p.m.), from Gisborne. Sailed ; City of Newcastle (11.15 tun.), for Wellington; Matukana (12.35 p.m.), for London via Montevideo j Kauri (12.35 p.m. ), for Newcastle. December 24—Arrived : Arahura (10.10 a.m.), from Gisborne. December 25—Arrived : Tekoa (4.45 a.m.), from Newcastle; Port Hunter (1.45 a.m.), from Newcastle. WELLINGTON, December 23.—Arrived : Port Victor (6.56 a.m.), from 'Wanganui} Whangapo (9.60 a.m.), from Sydney. December 24—Arrived : Rimutaka (7.5 a.m.), from Napier. SYDNEY, December 2o.—Sailed ; Uumoioa (1 p-m.), for Auckland. December 24-—Arrived : Lindstol, bqtne, from Auckland. . MELBOURNE, December 24.—Arrived ; Trematon, from Timaru. SINGAPORE, December 23.—Sailed : Tooronga, tug, for Melbourne; Gorgon, for Adelaide. BATAVIA, December 23.—Sailed ; Eknaren, for Melbourne; Eurelia, for Melbourne. _ , ’ SUEZ, December 23.—Sailed ! Orsova, for Fremantle; Hanau, for Melbourne. PANAMA, December 23.—Sailed : City of Manila, for Sydney. NEWPORT, December 25.—bailed : Montesanto, for Melbourne. , GIBRALTAR, December 23.—Arrived : Enggano, from. Sydney. , AVONMOUTH, December 23.—Sailed ; Whakatano, for Auckland. MANCHESTER, December 23—Sailed : Somerset, for Melbourne. GRAVESEND, December 23.—Sailed ; Bailor, for Adelaide. GENOA, December 23.—Soiled: Somarinda, for Rotterdam. . BREMEN, December 25.—Arrived: Merauke, from Sydney. . HULL, December 33.—Arrived : Raranga, from Melbourne. LONDON, December 23.—Arrived : Waimana, from Auckland; Kaiyan, for Sydney. __ (For continuation see Late Shipping.)