SHIPPING

Evening Star, Issue 21721, 16 May 1934, Page 12

SHIPPING

ARRIVED.—May 16, Port Waikato, s.s. (1.5 p.m.), 688 tons, Watchlin, from Lyttelton. Parera, s.s. (1.20 p.m.), 555 tops, Kanerva, from Bluff, BUOY REMOVED. Tlie harbour master has received the following telegram from the Lyttelton Harbour Board:—“ Please advise masters that the whistling buoy at Lyttelton Heads has been removed, and has been replaced by a can buoy.” THE HARBOUR ENTRANCE. A “ harrow ” has been made to stir up the sand opposite the mole and at the spit with a view to tidal action deepening a southerly outlet at the Heads. The tug Dunedin will pull.the harrow along the bottom when the weather is favourable for carrying out such an operation, ft is interesting, to note that the ship,Maori, 700 tons, was unable to enter the harbour by the south channel in 1857. She discharged at Lyttelton, and the southern portion of her cargo was brought down the coast by coastal schooners. TELEGRAPHIC ADVICE. AUCKLAND, May 16.—Arrived; Deebank (3.10 a.m.), from Ocean Island. WELLINGTON, May 16.—Arrived: Rangatira (7 a.m.). from Lyttelton; Trojan Star (7.45 a.m.), put back to port. LYTTELTON, May 16.—Arrived': Waikawa (10 a.m.), from Wellington. Sailed: Waipiata (11.30 a.m.), for Dunedin. COLON, May 14.—Sailed; Surrey, for the United Kingdom. HONOLULU, May 14.—Arrived; Monterey, from Auckland. LONDON, May 15.—Arrived; Karamea, from Napier.