SHIPPING

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 10509, 13 February 1928, Page 2

SHIPPING

TIDES AT OSBORNE WHARF High Water. Low Water. Feb. - a.m. p.m. a.m, prm. 3 ... 10.54 11.21 4.45 5.07 ARRIVED. —Saturday, February 11. Pakura, s.s. (6.30 a.m.), 700 tons, Coldioutt. from Lyttelton. —Sunday, February, 12. Putiki, s.s. (10.15 a.m.), 409 tons, Miles, from Wellington and Napier. Koutunui, s.s. (2.45 p.m.), 171 tons Clark, from Napier. Katoa, s.s. (14.35 p.m.), 2,484 tons, from Auckland. SAILED. —/Saturday, February 11. Hertford, s.s. (1 a.m.), 10,922 tons. Weston, for Napier. Pakura, s.s. (10.50 p.m.), 700 tons, Coldicutt, for Wellington. Awabou, s.s. (10 p.m.), 407 tons, Farrell, for Auckland, EXPECTED ARRIVAL*. Kahika, s.s., from Lyttelton and Wellington, to-morrow. W’aimea, s.s., Iron/ Auckland, Thursday. Tiroa, s.s., iron/ Auckland, via Hick’s Bay, Thursday. Gunbar, s.s., from Auckland, via Tokomaru Bay, Thursday.s Parera, s.s., from Wellington and Napier, early. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Putiki, s.S’., for Greymoutli, today. Waimea, s.s. for Napier, Thursday. Gunbar, s.s., for Napier, Thursday. Kahika, s.s., for Lyttelton, early. Katoa, s.s., lbr Lyttelton, early. VESSELS IN PORT. —At the Wharves.— Putiki, s.s. Koutunui, s.s. —ln the Roadstead.— Diomede, H.M.S. Katoa, s.s. NOTES —Union S.S. Co. of N.Z. Ltd.— The W’aimea loads at Auckland today and to-morrow for Gisborne and Napier. The Kahika, loading at southern ports for Napier and Gisborne, left Wellington Saturday for Napier. She is due here on Tuesday or W ednesdav. On completion of discharge here the vessel loads for Lyttelton. The Katoa arrived here last night from Auckland. —Richardson and Co, Ltd.— The Pakura arrived on Saturday morning from Lyttelton and returned to Wellington with sheep. The Awabou load 3 at Auckland tomorrow’ for Tokomaru Bay and Gisborne. The Parera leaves Wellington tomorrow for Napier and Gisborne. The Putiki, which has been delayed at Napier by the strike, arrived here yesterday. The Koutunui arrived here yesterday from Napier. —G.S.F.M. and M. Coy., Ltd.— The Tiroa leaves Auckland to-mor-row for Hick’s Bay and Gisborne. The vessel arrives here on Thursday anu sails the same evening on the return trip north. —DePelichet. McLeod and. Coy.— The Gunbar leaves Auckland to-day for Gisborne direct. The vessel arrives here on Thursday and salts later for Napier. —HALS. Diomede. —-

H.M.S. Diomede, now in the roadstead, is a modern cruiser, having been launched since the Great War. She belongs to the D Class which was first laid down in 1918 and the construction of the class continued until 1922. Her tonnage is 4.650, and her main armaments are six Gin. guns, but she also has three 4in. guns, two pom-poms and 12 torpedo tubes. There arc eight vessels in the D Class, comprising the Dunedin, flagship in the New Zealand station, Danae. Dauntless. Delhi, Despatch, Dragon, and Durban. HALS. Diomede was commissioned at Portsmouth for service on October 21, 1925 as a second cruiser in the New Zealand division.

SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. AUCKLAND. Feb. 12. Arrived. 8.20 p.m. on 11th, Tiroa, from Gisborne. WELL 1N GTON. Feb .12. Arrived, 12.40 a.iu., Parera, from Gisborne. (Aust. and N.Z. Press Assn.) LONDON. Feb. 12. - Arrived, at Colon. Canadian Highlander. Departures: From London, Maloja; from Tampico. Elmbank; from San Francisco, Bullaren; from Panama for New Zealand, Devon: from Los Angeles for New Zealand, Otokia. (Press Association.! AUCKLAND. Fob. 12. Sailed, Katoa. for Gisborne; and warships Veronica, Laburnum and Wakakura, at 5.30 p.m.. for the East Coast to search for the. Northumberland rock.