PORT OF AUCKLAND.

New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15307, 21 May 1913, Page 6

PORT OF AUCKLAND.

>' - - - ARRIVALS. SIUBITAr, s.i (6.45 p.m.), : 7220 tons, J. Firth, v. from- London, via Melbourne and Sydney.— 'Heather, Roberton, Limited, agents. .v. MANAIA, s.s. (6.15 p.m.). 1159 tons, E. Stephen«ionv from Whangarei. - Passengers: ; Mesdanies Simons, Evans, Kin?, Brown, Misses Jones, Leigh- ;• ton, Kirker, Knox, Messrs. Jones, Clowes, Upton, Davis, Woods, White, Wilson, Dickeson, Hayes. Macindoe, ■ Edwards, Smith, Morgan, How.ett. : Blade,' Dickeson, Seed. Walsh, Jones, Luhning, Swsffield, Burnside, .Elliott,. Swaffield, . Mcllroy, Wright, » Collins, f Hosking, Gunner, ; Hunter, ViaIssingf,;Faykel, H&wkes, Tasfcer, Wells, Sadler, Johnson, Stanley, James, Cohen, Mlllington, Hundley, Bowman, Sergeant Cahill, Rev. Ilawkes, Lieutenant i Rhodes, General Godley, and 10 .steerage.— Northern S.S. Co., agents. , V. JV.AIOJAHI, B.S. j(9.15 p.m.), 278 tons, C. Hop-. 3'.' kins, from Mercury Bay and Kuaotunu. PasBengiers : Mesdaptes "Joyce, :Sarah,. Dukson,' Kemp iWarid two ' children',' -Miss ■ ■ Picpeary, Messrs. Mcffi-•- Gregor, Kempr, and ? Master Kemp.—Northern S.S. 'Co., - agents.' .* r\ J ;~ r BADEN-POWELL; s.s. (8.15 p.m.), 176 tons, H. Petersen, from -Whangarei.— S.S. Co., -■gents." ; ■ AHAJiA, s.s. (12.20 p.m.), 183 tons, A. . r from Ooromandel. —Northern S.S>. Co., agents...'" r': NGARU, - scow,' 66 tons, W. Bourke," from the <••• ccast;—'E. -Ford, agent. M*\. VESPER, aui. scow, 47 i tons, T. EdUngton, from |-£^angarei.—■Biddicfk Brothers, agents. : DEPARTURES. ' v ,"'V,RIMUTAKA, : s.s.' (3.45 p.m.) 7952 tons, Hemtting, iov Wellington, Lyttelton, and Duneain. . TOFUA,- VK''T (12.50 p.m."), 4355 tons, R. Crawford, for.;Toi>ga, Samoa, Fiji, and Sydney. (Pas- •; t senger published yesterday.)• V' sjs. > (5;5 p.m.), ; 3393 tons, A. Carson, for East Cca%t '?nd f Southern • ports. Passengers: , For; disSofne—Mesdaines McConcell, ( Hood ; and two children, - Coffey, : Townley, Rodger, Messrs. Kingston; •* Kme," Shepherd, ; WilkitJson,\ : Miller, Beckett. Foster, $: Oates, ?Pea&y, ? Edwards, Finlay- ■' so= tJ , JtcOonnell.' v For Napier—Misses . Haves, Graham,, Walter.:-; For ' Wellington Miss Smith, f0 Mesdanies Constan, - Brown, Rosa,- Messrs.Brown,. ;Birdie, Ponsford,-;- Robb; -~.. .For Lyttelton-T-Mrs. Taylor and five sons, Mr. O'Mallcy. For Dun- , - edia—Messrs. 'AS IK Orr and • Mr. Hotup,} and 30 steerage for all ports. •' TANIWHA, s.s. (11.15 p.m.), 263 tons, W. Sulli- ' van, -for Paeroa. . .. KANIERI, s.s. (6.45 p.m.), 203 tons, T. Meyer*, .'"/ for Whangatei. . * . .. ■-' f. . • 4', , 'PELICAN, ; 5.5.,." 162; tons, E. SeUani,_for the / . coast. , ■ - " - r ■ f - ill'! : •' .f: - -: STEA JfERS DUE to-day. Rosamond, Iram Gisborne. , . '' . ■ .'i Kamona, : from * Newcastle. ' ' " . ' / • V®?' J»gapuhL,' ramk Tauranga. -» . Clansman, from Russell and Opua. " - , -- Xauieri, from.. Whangarei. t too®, Westport. • 'STEAMERS . SAILING ■ TO-DAY. , "-'-Kavua/ "Fiji ports. ' pqcM. .' 'X . ' " ■ Whangarei. | Clansman, for Northern ppttt. ' - - J Ugatiatra. for Tauranga and Opofiki. ' , I g^',W4HOtabi^for Oh: Great Barrier. ;y.. " * ' Rotoniaha'nS, for Coromandel. ■* - . ? i"-"' WsumaH6* "ferTaeroa. • : sisl - " ij , Daphne, for Te Sao and Parengarenga. | - Chelmsford, for'Marsden Point- and way ports. . a - Paeroa, for ° Whananaki and Tutukaka. | VESSELS expected AT AUCKLAND. 1 J *->7 " ! -V" - ' - ' - ' * Approx. I Vess'eL Sailed- '■' - From . ; , date, |,2;! Karamea-- jtc " ... j Mar. 29 Liverpool ... May ,22 lifVg. Waiwera ...'Apr. : 4 London ... May',- 24 J'ifiWaihori £; 11 ... . Apr. 13 ' I Calcutta ... May 24 p:?'iCourtfie!d r- ~. % Mar. , 2 . New York/...' May '/6 teffeEakaia '• ... .„ 'Apr." 7 . St.' John ... l ' : May 29 |psSSlwaru ■>„.'" v. Apr. 12, 5 Liverpool- ... June 2 ' 'Snqwdomari ' — Christmas Is. June :■ 3 Makura May 14 Vancouver June 3 Brauenfels ... Mar. 26 New York ... June - 3 ; :vJndrapura.-^ i Apr. -. 8 -'-h London ' ... June 4 J<'4" Star -of, India ; ... ; Apr. 22 London ... " June 24 Hurunui.. ... May 10 London ... June 25 ' ' Crown of Toledo S Apr. 24 ' New York ... June 30 Niagara. ... To sail SJS-L Vancouver ,< ■ July 1 .Kent ... ... '' May 3Xs Liverpool ... July 12: Kumars ... Apr. 25#it!: St John - ... July 4 Makarini... ' . ... ' May 10 r London ■ ... July 7 Aberlour -> ... $ Apr. 24 New York ... July 8 . .Star of Austraaa; — >. New York ... July 20 , VESSELS IN", HARBOUR. ' Iris, cable steamer, in 'f stream. • ,7 ' : Muritai,"=s.s.,- iir stream. . Triton, barque, at Railway Wharf, i Rons, barque, in Graving Dock;- - r ' a.®., in stream. '"J- '' < ' ' ' • N»vua/>-8.8.y at Railway Wharf. V Wa'nak*/-5.5., ! at Queen' Street Wharf. ' r Squall, 5.5./ it No.-2 Jetty. t.S. Sieyhound, aux.'-,' schooner, at No. .2. Jetty. • . ; j r& •; IMPORTS. v- Per.Muritai, : from London: 3600 tons general .T-*f merchandise. . • " "■ ' " ' EXPORrs.' ■ ' . Per f Maheno', f for Sydney: '189 bags sand, 100 -7. jacks: sawdust, 1140 boxes, butter, 18 sacks hematite, 17 cases (rum, 121; bags glass, 40 sacks hides Jpt 157 ; hides, 84 ; bales soap, 40 bags ore, 1400. sacks - . copra, 6 boxes gold,' and quantity sundries. Thd^*Unio^ s Company's , steamer Tofua sai'ed X 'fshortly;aftefr noon yesterday 'for South Sea .Island jS ports and Sydney. Shis is due at the New Soutb Wales port on June 11. ,.■ 'The r Navua Is timed to sail at 2 p.m. to-day for - Savu iSavu,', Suva, and Levuka. ; The Haupiri left Wellington at 8 p.m. on Monig ~ day for ; Picton,' New Plymouth, : and Onehunga She is due at the latter;port on Friday morning. . The Willocbra is duft 'at Wellington this morn- - ing from Sydney direct. - She leaves Wellington to-vnorrow evening i for Southern i ports, i Hobart '-"i : and' Melbourne. 'V ">. ; - •- « Owing to the heavy fresh in the river at West-..l-:•port the-bar unworkable Yesterday, and ; the , ■:!'|ScoHi€r. ; Kaitangata is unable :r to:' get : away 'or . i Auckland. She has ron ; board 1a ,■ full - cargo of | ,coal lot this port. r ? \ • M'-.yf-i The Atua leaves..Sydney this evening for Fiji, '(&&%■ Samoa,' Tonga, and Auckland;. She is due here on : .June 12.' ..." _ , The, HuddarUParker steamer ;■ Victoria.left^'-Dun-Win yesterday afternoon for East Coast ports and -Auckland. «' She is'.due here : op. Sunday morning ' next, and sails for Sydney, on Monday evening, " ■ May 26. 1 ' The Komata is - to take a cargo of coal from ;v?; Westport to Akaroa to bunker H.M.S. New Zealand. She will afterwards go to Dunedin for '~ survey. The New Zealand ' Shipping Company's steamer para is at'present loading Homeward cargo at Tokomaru Bay. - - .. , :V; ' The steamer Rimutaka sailed . yesterday after-

--'noonifor .Wellington, Lyttelton, and Dunedin, 10 . 'discharge <■ the . balance of her Liverpool cargo. t Ori completion ol discharge at Dunedin the vessel ; will bp. taken over by her owners, the New Zea- ., f., land Shipping':,Company, 7 and" willi load at'; various Dominion .ports-for London. :The local office r .y, o( that «the. Ilitnutaka I ■'•will c%rry. passengers on and outward voydischarge the balance of her Liverpool cargo. R On completion ot discharge at Dunedin the vessel ' will be taken ov<yr by her ownerii, the New Zealand Shipping "Company, and will load at various Dominion ports for London. The local oflice of the company announces that -the. Kimutaka will carry saloon passengers on her outward voyage t.> London. ~ ■' • Mr. E. -Peters, an ex-Dartford cadet, has been - appointed third officer . of the Kowhai, vice Mr. : Arnold, who, has come ashore to sit for a higher- | grade certificate. " , ■ Mr. J, Beeves having rejoined the Takapuna is'- • as_chief officer/ Mr. S. B. : Page has reverted -10 •is ' his"former position as second officer of ; the Maitai. ! Captain Williams, of the- Auckland Harbour t " Board's pilot "launch Waitcmata, has come ashore l&fRVi on eif-k leave, "and;. Captain Lockie, night officer. ' took command of, .the vessel yesterday. ; • . ' The Northern Company announces that the ~ ' Atipouri, which has just completed ;• her overhaul, .will. leave . Auckland for the Thames at 1 p.m. ■.. to-day, from, the east side of No. . 4 . Jetty, in«tesd of the usual place at No. 3 Jetty.' - ■ _•> The aux. schooner. Isabella Defraine will load general cargo at Auckland at the end of this : . week ■ for Hokianga and other ports. She will i '- probably l sail on Saturday afternoon. --„ : The following'vessels are expected to be within , wireless range of the Auckland radio station to- <:.• night Maheno ? (Auckland to :■ Sydney), t Victoria (Lytteltdnt.tO' Wellington), ManuKa (Dunedin • to - -iytt<Slto&)i Mflitai (Gisborne to Napier), Rimutaka f|p4 (Auckland „.to Wellington), ; Navua ; (Auckland to f§.#'< Suva), Tofua (Auckland to ? Tonga), Moan a: (Sydney to Wellington), and Aorangi (Karotonga to Wellington). ' Mr. O. K. St. G. Tucker, third officer, of the Arahura, left that vessel at Wellington on. Saturday last. - •• - Captain A. Cain, has been doing B.N.E. drill, has r&joUied.the § Kaitangata •. as - master. Captain J. Baldwin; who has Tjeen relieving him, haa come ashore for instructions. Mr. E. V. third engineer the

' FERRY STEAMER WAHINE. j' -T The Union Company's new turbine terry steamer Wahine is reported by cable to have left London last week 1 for New Zealand.' where she .will take up her running in the Wellington-Lyttelton terry service, 'in conjunction with the - Maori.. lne Wahine is being navigated to New Zealand by Captain'Vint, late, of the Aparima. :w : . THE KAMONA. ' The Union Company's collier Kamona is making a somewhat lengthy passage from Newcastle to Auckland. The vessel left the New South Wales coal port on the morning of Tuesday, May 13, and is therefore eight days out to-day.. She has no doubt been considerably, delayed on .the passage by the stormy weather which has been experienced in the Tasman Sea of late. The lightkeeper at (Jape Maria Van' Diemen reported yesterday that a steamer passed east at 8 a.m., which 'is thought to be the Kamona, in -which case she should reach port about 8 a.m. to-day. WILLOCHRA REPLACES AOKANGI. The- Union Company announces that the new steamer Wiliochra, which w*s recently chartered from the Adelaide Steamship Company, will replace the mail steamer Aorangi in the Sydney-Wellington-San Francisco service in September next. The Wiliochra is a splendid type of passenger steamer, her registtred tonnage- being 7786. She is at present engaged in the SydneyCook Strait-Bluff-Melbourne service, and is under the command of Captain Neville. J . DELAYED AT NEWCASTLE. - . ■ The Union Company has received advice to the effect : that, owing to the heavy floods at Newcastle, as an. outcome of the recent stormy weather experienced in Australia, no coal ,is avai.able at the present time. A large number of vessels are at Newcastle waiting to load, and, >n consequence of the congestion, several of. the Union Company's . colliers will < meet with considerable de'.ay., The Kurow, Katoa, AYairuna, Koroniiko, Waipori, and Waitemata, which were expected to load at Newcastle this week for Jew Zealand, will' probably be held for somo time. WAIHORA LEAVES SYDNEY." The ; Union Company's steamer Waihora left Sydney "yesterday for Auckland, in continuation of her voyage 'from Calcutta, and Sam&rang. - The vessel is due here : oil Saturday; and after discharging a quantity, of Eastern merchandise visits Wellington, Lyttelton, and Dunedin to put out the remainder. .... ; ■"■ -— „ ' * ' MURITAI FROM LONDON. : ' ; . A few minutes before 7 o'clock last evening the Tyser liner Muritai arrived at Auckland from London, via Australian ports, and anchored in the stream. She will berth at the Railway Wharf this morning, and after discharging 3600 tons .of general cargo proceeds to Napier ana Wellington to complete. - The second officer reports that the -Muritai left London at midnight on March 20, end encountered heavy weather in the English Channel and crossing the Bay of Biscay. ; Las IVmas was reached on. March £<■, and after coaling the voyage was resumed the same dav % :.. The Cape of Good Hope was passed | on April 11* and the vessel was considerably hampered for - several • days •' by heavy fogs ana again by south-westerly gales. Melbourne, was reached on April 30, after a passage from the Home port of 39 « days 9 v hours, at an average spe6d of 12.32 knot*. On the run from Sydney, which port she : left at 2 P.m. on Friday last, strong north-west winds ana heavy ram squalls were experienced. . ®