PORT OF AUCKLAND.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15174, 13 December 1912, Page 6

PORT OF AUCKLAND.

ARRIVALS. MONOWAI, ».9 (10 a.m.), 3433 tons, A. M Edwin, from Southern and East Coast ports. Passengers: Misses Armstrong, Lange, Cullen, Carrie, Holland, Kettlewell. Chambers, McKay, Nanisty, Davis (2), Dansey (2), Robinson, Don, Mesdamc* Collins, Lovell, Ledingbam, Ooates, Boskruge, Dansey, Meßride, • McNaught and two children, Gilchrist, Messrs. Dacsey, Moore, Bvan, Lovell, Mclldowic, Foster, Anderson, Percy, Thompson, Ingram, Don, Ledingluun, Bodte, Donald, Russell, Murdock, Miller, Dansey (2), Godfrey, Startup, Clark, Gilchrist, Dr. Coates, and 35 steerage.— Union S.S. Co., agents. TALUNE, s.s. (7.45 a.m.), 2037 ton*, P. C. Roes, from the Oook and Society Islands. Passengers: Mis* Sharp, Mesdames Matthew» Akapi, Messrs. Shilson, Millar, Maxwell, Rickiteon, Captain Jarassen, and 13 steerage. —Union S.S. Co., agents. ROSAMOND, s.s* (6 a.m.), 721 tons, J. Morrison, from Gisborne.—Union S.S. Co., agents. " ' SOUTHERN CROSS. *.«. (6.20 a.m.), 537 tons, H. Burgess, from Norfolk Island, via Ruaseil. Passengers: Mesdames Rosgiter and two children, Christian and boy, Bishop C. J. Wood, Captaiu C. V. Maloney, Revs. A. J. Drew, W. H. Sage, A I. Hopkins, Messrs. ■ Srcnson, Orawshaw.—o. 0 Halloran, jun., agent, , TANIWHA, as. (5.35 a.m.), 263 tons, W. Sulli- ; van, from pieroa.—Northern. S.S. Co., agents.' KOTITI, ».«. (12.45 p.m.}, 62 tons, W. 1. ■ . Schischka, from Northern S.S. Co., Agents. '«• ' * GREYHOUND, an*, schooner (10.30 a.m.), 108 tons, H. Subritsky, from Northern ports. Passengers: Mrs. Johnstone, Mr. Hutching.?.— v agents. VESPER, an*, scow, 47 tons, T. Edlington, from Whangarei.— Brothers, agents. ; KAHU, aux. scow (11 a.m.), 42 teas, A. Berridge, ■ - from —Goldfibro' and Co., agents. • MANAIA, s.s. (6.20 p.m.), 1159 tons, E. Stephenson, ~ from Whangarei. Passengers; Misses Crane, Moreloard, Mesdames Smith (i) Gordon, Messrs. Knight,~»unlop.; Graham, Black, Stewart, Smith, Bennic, Bowie, Purcell, Bush, O'More, Hugo, Gregory, Johns, Fraser, Nelson, Milne (2), Girran, Williams, Dr. Gordon, and 16 steerage.—Northern S.S. Co., agents. TTAIOTAHI, s.s. (5.30 p.m.), 278 tons, C. Hopkins, from the Great Barrier. Passengers: Miss . Bush, Mesdames Cunnings, George, Palmer, ,v stringer, Messrs. Stringer, B. Bailey, Moses, Her- . rick, and the Rev. —Northern S.S. Co., >V V agents. t DAPHNE, s.?. (7.50 p.m.), 192 tons, J. Teixeira, ■ ■from VThangaret—Northern S.S. C 0.,; agents. V PELICAN, s.s.' (6 p.m.), 162 tons,. E. Sellan, from Mercury Lisyland-O'Brien Timber Co., ' agents. • - _ • Dxcxiißsa 33. CHELMSFORD, as., 121 tons; ,E. H. Goerts. from Marsden Point and way' ports.—Northern i. S.S. Co., agents.'' » DEPARTURES. KGAPUHI, s.s. (7.10 pjn.), 691 tons, T. HaulV tain, for Tauranga. . v KANIERI, s.B. (IXIS a.m.), 203 tons, T. 'Meyers, •••> : for Whangarei. ' ROTOMAHANA, B.«. (2.45 p.m.), 183 tons, A. '■ Stephenson, tor Coromandel. WAITANGIj a& (2.45 p.m.), 171 tons, I. Corbett, , for the coast. ' • • - ISABELLA DEFRAINE, aux. schooner (2.15 pjn.}, 93 tons, A. Olsen, for Tauranga. ENDEAVOUR, aux. ketch, 84 tons, C. Johnson, for Whangarei. .. . . &V' EXCELSIOR, scow, '18 tons, J. Biddick, for Wha■...'v.: _ ugarei. ' v.--" WAKANUI, s.B. (3.26 p.m.), 5824 tons, G. F.v' . Mead, for .Wellington, Lyttelton, and Dunedin. *.:> r \ . ■ ANGLO-MEXICAN, s.s. (6.30 p.m.), 4796 tons, R. i - ... Calvert, for Wellington, Lyttelton, and Dunedin. f: •* •' GLENELG, s.s. (8.15 pjn.), 288 tons, Jonas,tor WhangureL P '_ ' DBCXMBIB 13, ' ' TANIWHA, «.«. (0.10 a.m.), 263 tons, W. 3ulliv*f'~. 1 Tan, ,or Paeroa.

VESSELS IN HABBOCB. Iris, coble steamer, in stream. Silvertown, cable steamer, la stream. Muritai, «J»., at Queen-street Wharf. Katoa, m., at Hobe:m-street Wharf. Monowai, a.a., at Biilway Wharf. Taluoe, u., at Holiaon-atroet Wharf. Rosamond, m., at Bail way Wharf. Southern Crow. a.8., at Queen-street Wharf Northern Chief, barque, at Breastwork. ' Greyhound, an*, schooner, at No. 2 Jetty Houroto, m, In at ream. M ' Wharf' four-masted * chooner ' at Hobsowtreat . Ysabel, barmentiae, at No. 2 Jetty. Kereru, ketch, it Hobeon-street Extension. IMPORTS. Per Greyhound, from Northern porta: 750 packages gum, 30 packages sundries. > For Monowai, from Southern porta: 472 sacks flour, 220 100*1 flour, 1280 50"a flour, 10 25's flour. , 1291 sacks wheat. 852 sacks chaff, 50 sack* oatmeal, 79 sacks seed, 28 sacks peas, 55 sacks bran, 22 socks linseed, 90 cases soap, 114 boxes meat, 20 cases tobacco, 1000 boxes raisins, 182 cases oranges, 271 coses apples, 1031 bales straw, 71 sacks oats, 30 cases food, 300 sacks manure, 320 saokd pollard, -70 ISO's pollard, 93 boxes butter, 1011 coses canned fruits, 45 oases matches, 13 eases bacon, 44 caste champagne, 110 cases peaches, 251 eases lemons, and a la? quantity sundries, including transhipments ex Aoracgi and lonio. Tho Blatoa's departure for West port has be*n postponed until noon to-morrow. Th« Karamu left Darga-rille yesterday morning for Greymoutb. The schooner Awanui is now loading at Gilborne for Auckland. She is expected here some time next week. The aux. schooner Orete is at present engaged carrying wool from East Coast bays to disborne Sho is expected to return to Auckland before Christmas. ... The aux. schooner Greyhound, whioh arrived ♦i. on i. rn . portß yesterday morning, sails for the - North again tomorrow. She will return on the 8 remain in port until after <.f T A?,„vi l *' J , ? hoonw " Kaeo ta expected to arrive , at any tiSe noT oWjornß and "' Caa,t »>ays , here on Bunday morning. arrives The Rosamond, which arrived from Otakon. .v uKriifiT; .«f Plenty. fat at 10 a.m. Vymgmw. W 7 The Monowai arrived fit Auckland yesterday morztfntffrom Southern and East Coast ports 1. '.after * fine weather passage. up the coast. she' ■ f : fails on the return voyage to-morrow afternoon. 4 ' The P. aad O. mail steamer Malwa is to leave - Sydney for Auokliuid to-morrow afternoon, she *,■-? la <tU6 ben on Wectoosday morning-, December 18, '■ '" i<• and Is tisMd to Mil-onjtba retain voyage tt wo* jday.: . L '' •' '"'"J

The R.M.S. Makura is due at Suva to-day fron Vancouver and Honolulu. The liner is du« a' Auckland on Tuesday morning next, and is timet to resume her voyage to Sydney the same. day. The au*. .schooner Fair burn is to leave Napici to-morrow for Auckland. She is expected her< ; about the middle of next week, and . will loac general cargo for Woiroa (Hswkft s Bay). Cable advice received by the local agents foi the Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company states thai the R.M S. Athenic left Capetown for Hobart anc Wellington on Sunday evening last, in contmua r tion of her voyage from London. The liner u due at Hobart on December 26, and elhngtot about December 31. The Union Company advise that the Kowhai instead of the Kini, will now bring the AucElan<i transhipments ox the Inverio from San * ran cisco. The Kowhai is expected to leave Wellington for Auckland this evening, and should arrive here on Monday afternoon. The JJavua, which is due at Auckland on Mooday evening from Suva, is scheduled to sail from Auckland to Lovuka. Savu Savu, and Suva on Tuesday, December 31, instead of on Wednesday, January 1, us previously advertised. The. barque Northern Chief was towed down from Chelsea yesterday morning to a, berth at the breantwork. ■ She will be floated into the Graving Dock this morning for cleaning and painting. The Shaw, Savill, and Albion liner Arawa, which left Wellington on October 31 for way ports and London, arrived at her destination yesterday. The A. and A. liner. Anglo-Mexican sailed last evening for Wellington, Lyttelton. anDunedin, to discharge, the balance of her New York cargo. From Dunedin the Anglo-Mexican will probably go to Australia to load for Home. The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamer Wakanui, which sailed yesterday afternoon for Southern porta to put out the balance of her Montreal cargo, will return to Auckland about December 31, to load wool and general cargo for London. Captain P. C.. Ross, of the Talune, comes ashore, on .holiday leave.- He leaves for Sydney by the Maheno on Monday, en route for Tasmania. Mr. M.' H. Longroore, chief officer of the Talune, proceeds to Sydney by the Maheno on Monday to join the "K.M.S. Aorangi as chief officer. The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamer Rotorua left Wellington yesterday for London, via Monte Video, Teneriffe,' and Plymouth. She is due at the Home port on January 23. Mr. J. Lowry and Mr. F. K. Allen, second and third officers of the Talune, stand by the vessel during the time she is laid up at Auckland. ■ , Mr. H. P.- Corlett, assistant-purser of the Talune, leaves by the Monowai to-morrow for Wellington for orders. The New Zealand Shipping ,Company's liner Ruapehu is due at Wellington to-morrow evening from London, via Tenerifle, Capetown, and Hobart. ' BY "WIRELESS. '' | The Auckland radio station advised last night that the following steamers arc expected to bo within wireless range to-night:—Rotorua. (Wellington to London), Malieno (Sydney to Auckland), Moeraki (Wellington to Sydney). Manuka (Lyttelton to Dunedin), and Wimmeru (Wellingl- - to Lyttelton). Tho Wellington radio station advised last night that the steamers Ruapehu, Moreaki, Manuka, 'Wimmera, and Rotorua were within wireless range. " THE KUMARA. The New Zealand Shipping Company is advised that tho steamer Kumara arrived at Sydney yesterday from Montreal and Melbourne. The vessel is due at Auckland about December' 23, and after discharging 1400 tons of cargo will proceed to Wellington, Lyttelton, and Dunedin to put out the balance. » ~ ' THIS WEEK'S SYDNEY STEAMER. ► The local office of th© Union Company is advised that the steamer Maheno cleared Sydney at 1 p.m. on. Wednesday for Auckland direct. She has on board 176 saloon and 170 steerage passengers. The Maheno is due here early on Sunday afternoon.'' TALUNE .FROM EASTERN PACIFIC. _ An early arrival at Auckland yesterday morning was the Union Company's sttamer .Talune, from the Cook and Society Islands. The' vessel berthed at the Hobson-street Wharf, where the medical inspection was made. The purser reports that 'he Talune left Auckland on November 19, and made the usual calls at Rarotonga Papeete, Raiatea, • Aitutaki, and Atiu, taking her departure from Rarotonga for Auckland at 7 p.m. on December 5. : Fine weather was experienced throughout the voyage. After discharging her iniit cargo, the Talune will go to an. anchorage in the stream, where she will lay up until January 14, when she leaves for the Cook and Society Islands. • '

CASTLEPOINT LIGHT. Notice is given by the Marine Department that on or about Wednesday, January 1, a secondorder incandescent light will be exhibited from a* white lighthouse on Castlepoint. The light Will be a group flashing light, with three white flashes every 45 seconds. - • The are of visibility will cover, approximately, 180deg, from about N 12aeg. E. (magnetic) to S. 12deg. W. The height of light is 170 ft, and it should be visible for a distance of 19i miles. Charts, etc., affected : Admiralty charts, Nos. 2528' and 1212; New Zealand Pilot, eighth edition, 1908, Chapter IV., page 137. THE CRAIG LINE.' The steamer Ihumata is at present loading a cargo of timber at Kopu for Melbourne, and is expected to sail early next week. On completion of discharge at the Victorian port the will proceed to Newcastle for the'purpose of towing the hulk Eure to Auckland, for the Northern Steamship Company. The steamer Joan Craig left Newcastle on Wednesday for Auckland, with a • full cargo of coal. She is due here about Tuesday, and after discharging will probably go to Kaipura and Hokianga to load timber for an Australian port. The barque Louisa Craig is now 21 days out on the passage from Adelaide to - Auckland with a cargo of gypsum and bark. The barque Marjorie Craig arrived at Adelaide from Hokianga last Tuesday. After discharge of her timber cargo she will probably ' load a cargo of salt and bark at Adelaide for Auckland. The barque Joseph Craig is at present loading at Melbourne for Auckland. MYRA FELL'S CHARTER. The steamer Myra Fell, which has been carrying coal from Newcastle to Auckland for the past few months under charter to the Union Company, will make one more trip to this port before her charter expires. The vessel is <'ue here next week from Newcastle, and on completion of discharge of her coal cargo she wSll return to load a cargo of wheat at Sydney or one of the Southern Australian ports for the United Kingdom or Continent. This well-known vessel was built about five .years ago for the Commonwealth ' Line of steamers, and was en-gaged-for some years running in the Australian coastal service, chiefly between Port Pirie, Sydney, and Newcastle, after which the was taken up on time-charters for the same business by the diflerenb inter-State steamship companies. , RETURN OF THE SOUTHERN CROSS. The Melanesian Mission steamer Southern Cross arrived at Auckland yesterday morning from her periodical visit to Norfolk Island and the various mission stations, after an absence of three months. The vessel berthed at. the Queen-street - Wharf, where her arrival • was greeted by a large number of friends. The Southern. Cross .left Auckland on September 6, reaching Norfolk Island four days later, leaving again on September 11 for Vila, New Hebrides, where she coaled. Vila was left on September 17, and the steamer then proceeded through the New Hebrides, Banks, Torres, Santa Cruz, acd Solomon Groups, making numerous calls. She reached Tulagi, the official, centre of the Solomon?, on October 18, and remained in the group till' November 14, afterwards making a second series of calls at ail the mission stations. Vila was reached again, on November 26, and Norfolk Island on December 3. The Southern Cross left Norfolk Island ait '5.30 E.m. on December 6, meeting with exceptionally eavy head seas. It was found necessary to put into Russell on Tuesday last owing to a shortage of coal, a supply of which was obtained from the whaling company there, and tho voyage was resumed at noon on Wednesday. The vessel will go to an anchorage off Judge's Bay until April I next, when she leaves again for Norfolk Island i and the mission stations.

* VESSELS EXPECTED TO-DAT. Ve«»el. From *Mhek*" Walmarte... _ Paeroa »„• 6 a-m. Taaman ... ... ... Whakatane 8 a.m. . Rotoiimnana ... ... Coramandel 1 pan. ... — — Walpu ■ ... 5 pjn. Karueri ... . «. ... Whangarei 9 pm. Kaeo ... ... ... GiBbame Due VESSELS SAILING TO-DAY. — Appro*. VtmtU Destination. tun*. Paeroa ... _ ... Ohiwa ..., 9 a.m. Kawaii Mangawai ... 1.30 p.m. Waimari«_. ... ...Paeroa .. rf . Jpi Botomahana Coromandel 5 p.m. .. ChehnsMtd _ ...Port Charles 5 p.m. AS aaotahi ... ... ... Mercury Bay . . 7 pjn. Manaia ... k „ ... Whangarei 10 pjn. VESSELS EXPECTED AT AUCKLAND. STEAM, Vessel. From • . 1 " Nairnshire „ fci . Liverpool w Dea 14 Koromiko ... ... Newcastle k _ Deo. 15 Maheno ... ..j .„ Sydney ... I>eo. 15 Tarawera... ... Sonthern port" Deo. 15 Natal Transport ._ Bunbury ... Dec. 16 Navua Fiji Dec. 15 Kent ... ._ Liverpool ». ]Dea 16 Kowhai ... Wellington ... .'Dec. 16 Makers ... ... _ Vancouver _. Deo. 17 Fairburn... — Napier ... Dea 17 Zealandic... ... ...Bluff ... Deo. 17 Joan Craig ... ... Newcastle ... Deo. 17 Myra Pell .„ ... Newcastle ... Deo. 18 Kittawa ,.4 .... ... Greyxnouth .„ Dec. 18 VESSELS TO SAIL FROM AUCKLAND. Vessel. Destination A ?5,tof* Katoi :.. m _ Westport ._ Dea 1* M. Turner ... ... Paget Bound Deri, 14 Greyhound ... , M . Northern porta Dec 14 Rosamond _. ... GUborne ... Dei* 14 Monowai... ... .... Southern porta Dec. 14 Silvertowa ... Newcastle „ Dec. 14 Muritai ... ... ...Napier I Dm 14 Kereru _ Hiue ... „ Dea 16 Maheno _. ... „ Sydney „ Deo. 16 N«tu* ... ~ ... Wellington ... Dec. 17