IN PORT.

Grey River Argus, 23 June 1906, Page 2

IN PORT.

Jap, from Lyttelton, Kaituna, from Lyttelton. Kotuku, from Wellington. Charles Edward, from Welington. Alexander, from Wellington. TJie Arahura leaves Wellington today for Coast ports.. She is due here at. 9 a.m on Monday and leaves on her return trip at 10 p.m the same day. The Kotuku arrived yesterday from Wellington for which, port she loads 1250 tons of coal. The Charles Edward from Wellington, via ports, arrived last night and is to leave for Foxton to-night. The Pareora arrived yesterday from Wellington and left last night, coalladen, for the same port. The Koonya left for the Bluff yesterday with 670 tons of coal and 20,---000 super ft of Jimber. The Oreti arrived yesterday from Wanganui and after loading coal left for the same port later in the day. • Messrs Mark Sprot and Co advisethat the scow schooner Whangaroa which left this port laden with machinery on May 29th arrived at Sydney on the nth inst after an excellent run across. Not a single word of command was audible last Sunday morning when the Oswestry Grange was being berthed at the Glasgow wharf. a The pilot on board worked in conjunction with men ashore by means of a system of light signals arranged by Captain Johnston, harbormaster, and the-ves-sel was handled as skilfully as if she had been berthed in daylight. Lines were run out and adjusted and the exact position the vessel had to occupy ascertained by the signalling ar rangement with the greatest of ease. The steamer Thode Fagelund, 4352 tons. Captain Kumfjord, is dve f at Wellington shortly from Bunbury with 600,000 ft of hardwood. Mr R. Wallace, chief engineer of the turbine steamer Maheno, jproceeds to Dumbarton early next month for the purpose of superintending the construction of machinery for the Union Company's new steamers to be built at Denny's yards. Mr James Dunlop, chief engineer of the Loongana, will transfer to the' Maherio. Mr Perano, owner of the little steam er Elsie, which was recently on fire and was scuttled , in the Sounds, has abandoned the vessel. The Elsie was valued at about ,£IOOO, but was insured for only The Rob Roy is now engaged in making the weekly trip from Picton to the Sounds in place of the Elsie, and also a trip to Wellington each week. Mr Perano in tends to build another steamer to replace the Elsie 1 . The Norddeutacher Lloyd at the present time employs on its ocean stea mers 887s men," and on its river steamers 700 men ; add to these46so men employed on land-, the entire number will amount to 14,525. Of these 5270 are married, 240 are widowers, while 8650 men are single. According to this, about 39- per cent of the men are married or widowers. Add to this the number of children/, of whom there are 93T1 under fifteen years of age and 1739 over fifteen, and the im posing " number of 30,445 people is given. Of the sixty-two captains of its ocean steamers twenty-nine have been empioyed over fifteen years, twenty ' over twenty, and six over twenty-five y.ears by the company ; and of the sixty-four first-class engineers employed on the ocean steamers three have been employed over eight years, two over ten, sixteen over fifteen, twenty-five j>ver' twenty, and eighteen over twenty~-fiye years;