SHIPPING

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 15 October 1921, Page 6

SHIPPING

EXPECTED ARRIVALS

At Patea

Hawera, from Wellington, OctT. 15. Warerley, from Wellington, Oct. 16.

; At Wanganui. Kapiti, from Wellington," Oct. 15. Storm, from Wellington, Oct. 15.

At New Plymouth. Corinna, from Onehunga, Oct. 16 Karamu, from south, Oct. 18. Rarawa, from Onshunga, Oct. 18

The Ngakuta arrived at New Plymouth at 3 a.m. yesterday. She sailed for Greymouth at 3.10 p.m. to discharge the balance of her cargo. • The Wellington Times states that the Karamu is due at "Wellington tomorrow from Dunedin, Oamaru, Timaru, , and Lyttelton. The vessel will leave Wellington on Monday for New Plymouth, taking cargo. j The Cofinna is now expected to leave .Onehunga to-day. She will therefore ' arrive at New Plymouth to-morrow to load dairy produce. l The City of Chester left New York !on September 30, and Newport News on October 5 for Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton } Dunedin, Melbourne, Sydney, and Brisbane. The vessel is due at Auckland about December 3, and at i Wellington a week later. I The passenger stoamer Maheno left Auckland yesterday for Sydney, and is ,to sail from the latter port on W«cba«iday next for Wellington. She is due at Wellington on the 23rd instant, and is to leave there on the 26th instant for Sydney. The Hororata arrived at Durban on the 11th inst. from Australia, en route to Liverpool anjl London. The Kaitunaj with a cargo from Adelaide and Edinburgh, is due at Welling- ' ton about the beginning of November, and later comes to New Plymouth. . The Canadian Pioneer left Panama on October 2. en route to Auckland from Montreal and New York. She is due at Auckland on November 3. After discharge of the Auckland portion: of her cargo she will visit Napier, Wellington, New Plymouth, liyttelton, Dunedin and Australian ports. The Black Star Line, the shipping corporation wholly controlled by negroes, of which Marcus Gervey is the president, has bought from the United States Shipping Board the twin screw steel steamship Orion, formerly known as the Prinz Oskar^ and will use it in the trade with the West Indies and West Africa, including Monrovia, Liberia. The Orion can carry 6026 tons, and. is also fitted for about 150 firstclass and 600 second-class passengers. The present trade conditions, on the African coast especially, justify the venture according to the new owners, and the opportunities for a direct line especially appeal to the management. Cabled advise has just been received by Messrs Dalgety and Co., Ltd., to the effect that the Sophocles, the first of the new steamers of the Aberdeen Line, has been launched at Belfast. The Sophocles is a turbine vessel of 12,500 tone, with accommodation for about 120 first-class and 400 third-clnss passengers. She is expected to be dispatched from England* about March 2 on her first voyase to Australia, and it is at present advertised to sail fr^m Sidney .homewards about Mnv 10. T^»

Diogenes, a sister/ ship, which is st:ll under construction at Belfast, will be launched-at an early date. Both vessels are being turned out at the fanonn sliinbui'din*;' yards of Messrs Harland and Woolff, and will prove a. decide^ acquisition •■ to the old-established Aberdeen line. so favourably known to the travelling. public.