MERCANTILE MARINE.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume IV, Issue 203, 12 August 1914, Page 5

MERCANTILE MARINE.

SHIPS IN CHINA SEAS.

(Received 12, 9.10 a.m.) London, Aug. 11.

Tin' consul at. .Shanghai reports that no British vOss<ds were molested up to the* 9th inst. AMERICA'S FRIENDLY ACTION. New York. Aug. 11. Au embargo has been placed on the wireless apparatus on all foreign ships in Hie harbour to prevent the possibility ol communication with cruisers supposed Io he off tin* coast. HAMBURG I.INEB CAUGHT. London Aug. 10. Advice has been received that a British cruiser captured the Ham* burg-South American liner Cap Ortegal with a nr.ibon in specie, presumably in Erazili'oi waters. GERMAN CRUISERS AT SAMOA. (Received 12, JO a.m.) Sydney, Aug. 12. The steamer St. Louis has reached Newcastle from Noumea. She reports three German cruisers are ho* lieved to be at Samoa. Four German vessels, steamer Wootten, the barques Susane, Ninnen*, Carldrudgert Ninnen ship Olinda were seized at Newcastle. GERMAN LINER SEIZED. (Received 12. 10 a.m.) Melbourne, Aug. 12. The German Australia steamer Hobart arrived and was seized. She only called at Capetown. The captain was unaware that war had been declared. A REPORTED CAPTURE. (Received 12, 9.25 a.m.) London, Aug. 11. The (‘apt ortegal arrived at Teneriffe on the 3rd inst. from Buenos Ayres. It ir. reported that British warships have captured her. FREIGHTS ADVANCE £5 P.C. London, Aug. 10. Freights to Australia hove advanced on the average 25 per eent. AUSTRALIAN ITEMS. Sydney, Aug. 11. The embargo against notifying the departure of oversea vessels has been removed. Advices have been received that the German mail steamer Roon, due at Fremantle last Monday, is sheltering in a neutral port in Java. There are many Australian passengers aboard. “STRANGERS WITHIN OUR GATES.” . NOT TO BE NATURALISED. [BY telegraph—special.]

Welling! on, Aug. 12. A statement in referente to the question of naturalisation of aliens at present in the Dominion was made yesterday by the Prime Minister in reply to Mr. 11. McKenzie. Mr. Massey said that the Government needed io be very careful at present in o yard to naturalisation. Ho would consult the Minister for Internal Affairs in regard to a particular ease raised by Mr. McKenzie. Ind he could not enc<:iit">ge .any idea that Ihe (i<o eminent was going in for issuing miluralisaiion papers in a wholesale way for a long time to eiHtie. OVERSEA S MAIL. SUEZ SERVICE ABAXQOXED. On the advice of the Imperial Post Office the Suex route for the United Kingdom and Continental mails is abandoned for the present. All mails will be sent via San Francisco and Vancouver. These alternative routes will suit for duplicate documents. All correspondence is being sent on to London. The Chief Postmaster Napier adrises that the usual mail despatched via San Francisco will not take place on Thursday next. Arrangements are being made to despatch a mail at as early a date as possible.