SHIPPING
■ ARRIVED.—June 5. Kaikorai, s.s. (10.10 a.m.L 3,151 ions, G. B. Corby, from Port Ivembla. KAIKORAI IX ROUGH WEATHER. The steamer Kaikorai. which berthed at Port Chalmers to-day to discharge ri.OOO tons of Port Ivembla coal ior the railway, ran into rough weather on Sundav. When the steamer left Port Kembia last Thursday the conditions were favourable, and continued good until Sunday, when -Hie ran into (hick heavy weather. The- wind blew bard from the north bringing up a lieaw sea, accompanied by a drizzly fog. " Those conditions were difficult, bul Captain Corby, the master of the vessel, is one of the sailing-ship men who were trained to “smell” their way safely through a reef-belt in a fog. The*Kaikorai emerged unscathed from her gruelling, and when the weather cleared yesterday the landfall was right for Eoveaux Strait. The passage across the Tasman, though it included a hard spell and temporary reduction of speed, was done in good time and safely. Coal for the railway has hitherto usually come from Newcastle.
TELEGRAMS. LAS PALMAS, June 3.—Sailed: Rimutaka, for London. PANAMA, June 3.—Arrived: Canadian Constructor, from Montreal. DOS ANGELES, Juno 3.—Sailed: Australia, for Auckland via New York.
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Evening Star, Issue 20193, 5 June 1929, Page 12
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195SHIPPING Evening Star, Issue 20193, 5 June 1929, Page 12
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