PORT OF AUCKLAND.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16796, 12 March 1918, Page 3

PORT OF AUCKLAND.

DEPARTURES. MANAIA (10.10 p.m.). for Whangarei In Saloon. Misses May. Joskins. Bar?. Taylor, Shortndge, Towers (2). Caplen, Puckey. Mel fctoM? mM §? rr M V Austin Dunfal. Benton, Kemp, Wright, Long, Miller, Sand «rißht. Pasted Donaldson, Gillies Smith Brown Lamb Bayliss. Oswald. Ead Me Leon. T i" en - Babe, Rhhwhite, CullenV Haytor, Jackson. McKay, Blomfield, Brown. Messrs Haycock. Harris. MacDohald, Mori T„»l J? ""'ion.,Austin, Schub«r (2), Towton. Diver, Dutchart. Hytcr, Sutton. fcfe P ? Killc ?" D , ri s ke - Will am." SiS: Western. rl M l& Johnson, McGregor. Ifer I< n ar r> or ' ? aw Jf- Ca Pi on ' Duncalf, ttcr, Lowell. Peacock, Evers, Horspool FerRuson, Brown, Eady, Hill, Bayliss 18) Gil- ,' Leren, Fitzpatnck. Laren. Curtis, Fratee Gabltc's. Goldwater. Arthbert (0), Vangione, Buchanan, Sanders, Browaon. Mays. Sands. Neale. Stevenson, Hood, Sime, Hayton, Jiieutcnant-Colo-'ol Bancroft. Lieutenant Bayley, Hons. Eraser and Russell. WAIMARIE (9.50 p.m.). for Ncth'rton. NGAPUHI (5.25 p.m.). for Tauranga WAIOTAHI (10.15 p.m.). for Houhora. CLAYMORE (1.25 p.m.), for Mercury Bay. WAIPU (11.40 a.m.). for Coromandel CHELMSFORD (3.45 p.m.), for Maradoa Point. VESSELS DDE TO-DAY. Manaia, from Whanearei. at 6.30 p.m. JLum.wha, from Paeroa at 2 a.m. Kanieri. from Whangarci. at 2 a _i. \\aipu, from Coromandel, at noon. Chelmsford, from Mangapai. at 11 p.m. VESSELS SAILING TO-DAY. Clansman, for Russell, at 6.15 p.m. laniwha. for Paeroa, at 10 pm. Kanieri, for Whangarei. at 6.80 p.m. Aupoun, for Onotiki. at 2 p.m. lasiwm. for Whakalane, at 10 p.m. Mr. Applcton, second officer of & Union Company s _ steamer, -has joined tho Kaituna as chief otlicer. relieving Mr. Mahood. who baa resigned from the company's service. The, Richardson steamer Mako is due at, any time from the East Coast. She is to go on tho slip ncr«, and is timed to sail for the const.on Thursday evening. Ihe Kaituna is booked to load at Westport on Thursday for Auckland. ihe local superintendent of mercantile marine, Captain Fleming, has received inl structions from tho Secretary of Marine, noti- . fying masters of vessels leaving for Napier I that the tomporary light on tno Auckland rock buoy will be replaced to-day by the original light showing flash 8-10 of a second, ] eclipse- 2-10 of a second. I There will not bo a Northern Company's steamer leaving Onehunga, for Waitara, this week, owing to the shallowness of tho bar there making the port unworkable.

THE MAPOURIKA. The Mapourika is duo from Wellington this morning, and is to berth at '.he Hob son wharf. She is to sail for Wellington direct at noon on Friday. STEAMER STELLA SOLD. The steamer Stella, which has been laid ill) hero for the last few years, has been purchased by the Otago Iron Rolling Mills Company, . which will use her for conveying material to, and irom Dimedin. The vessel will be placed on the Harbour Board lip to-morrow lor. overhaul and necessary alterations. Sho is oxpectcd to carry about 325 tons of cargo at nine or ten knots. Tho Stella was built at Cartsdyke, Scotland, in 18/6, for the New Zealand Government. pome years later she was sold to tho Ley-land-OBnen Timber Company, which haa owned her ever since. She has been used by them as a tug. mostly towing rafts of timber from tht coast to Auckland. Sho 18 296 tons gross, and 158.3 ft long, with' 211 ft beam, and. 12.2 ft depth. Her engines aro 90 h.p. Eighteen years ago shs ran into and sank the barnuonlme Waiteruata between Rangitoto beacon and Tiritiri.