SHIPPING NEWS

North Otago Times, Volume CV, Issue 13939, 24 July 1917, Page 2

SHIPPING NEWS

HIGH WATER AT OAMARU. To i.lay .. ..- .. (i.ti a.m. > O'.o'O p.m. Tomorrow .. . (j.-ll ;i, m , 7,5 pj Hi BUlffilSE AND SUNSET. liiso. Set. Today 7.27 a.m. 4.5!) p.m. To-morrow .. . 7.20 a.m. LSI) p.m. DEPARTURES. July 2;<nl. John, e.s, ;;J0 tons (Robertson), for Timani. NOTES. After loading about DO tons of produce for Wellington and Wangamii, Hie Job sailed at ekvee. o'clock last night, via Timani. • The To Auau was expected (0 p,;il from Bluff at midnight, and is due here late this afternoon, to load 1000 tons of riirgo for Auckland. Napier and Giiiborne, tilic sails on Thursday, via Timani, ; The Covin 11a is due on Saturday from Diinedin to load for Wellington, Xelson, and Nov; Plymouth, and will sail the same day, via Timani ;::id Lyt'elton, The Polienia, nfler discharge of lvr cargo of con! at Wellington, will pro'■cert lo Vi'cslpoi'f lo load coal for Oain-. am and Dmiedin. She is due here ea'rly next week, / The Breeze leaves Dunedin on Wednesday, and is due here on TliurVlay to load about SO tons of produce for Wellington and Wangauui. She sails the .''.'inic day, via Timani,

Neutral shipowners, notwithstanding , the heavy taxation whieh they have to meet, serin to l»c inskinsj snlisfacloiy rectus, Van Xievelt, (ioudriann ami To.'s Steamship Company, of Rotterdam, who own fourteen steamers, of 41,021 lons gross, have announced the paymeut of a dividend of 100 per cent, (lie same as in the previous year. The Triton Slc:iisuOiip Company, of Rotterdam, who own three steamers, aggregating o,7i:i tens gross, also pay a dividend oil 100 per cent, against 40 per cent for IPilo. Tlio Stoomvanrt Alnatschnppij "dc Mars," Rotterdam, owning one steamer, oi" I,'iOO tons gross, have, dedared a dividend of 100 per cent, against 7fi per cent a year ivhile A C. Larson's Eleomvaart Maalschappij ilisiriljiite a similar amount.

'Hie lirirnniinc Aratnpu; one of Use iv.v remninisu; Xcw Zealand sailing vessel?, has bought by Messrs if I/. Tapley ami Co. from Mrs William Cook, of Lyltclion, Captain P. Laina;, of TJu-iciiin, who inspected the vessel at Ly.telton some time found (hat !-hfl was in rplendid toiidiliovallhougli ti'.b h now ):cr fortieth year of ecivicd. The briirantinc mil be 'employed in the Dnnedin-Kaiaara limber trade, and she is now going north from .Lyltelton to load her first cargo under her new owners. Captain Uennie will ■remain' in command of the vessel. The Aratapu was at one tiino in tlio intercolonial trade, and made some noteworthy passages between New Zealand and Australia. She was built in 1873 at Auckland by Mr Barber, and is a' good testimony f 0 the excellence of his workmanship. Jlcr dimensions are as follow:—LciijtJi <Jsft, breadth 21ift 71 n, depth of hold Off, gross register 122 tons.

FEBEY SEBVICE.

Tho following vcsselfl leave Lyttoiton 'or Wellington on tha arrival of trains from Christehurch as under:— To-day—Maori, at G. 55 p.m. To-morrow—Mararoa, at fi.2o p.m.