SHIPPING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 17880, 7 September 1921, Page 5

SHIPPING.

PORT OF AUCKLAND.

ARRIVALS. Xniwfe («.5 ..m.). from P«roa.

DEPARTURES AST** Biver> "° hooner *«« P-m.). for Beareij Kanieri (8.5 p.m.), forWna^ar^?*

VESSELS DUE TO-DAY. ai *>. from Whangarei. 6 a.m Ngapuhi from Tauransa. V a.m HauiU. from Coromandel, 3 p.m itamen. from Whan«-arei. 10 p.m.

VESSELS SAILING TO-DAY. Kakapo. for Greymouth. 5 p.m. Manaia. for Whangarei, 10 p.m. Daphne,, tor Great Barrier, midnigut Wajotahi. for Opotiki. 8 a.m. Waie Mary, schooner, for Gisborne.

VESSELS EXPECTED AT AUCKLAND.

OVEBSBAS. R^fJ!, t . Hol^ ok • 'Prieco, to sail Sept 18. Aumara, Liverpool, September 11. wit ems «' P . r i aa !« September 1% Waikawa. Pacific Coast, September 12. Southampton. Sept. 10. rv^- u - nd ? n ' September 12 r»S;^ rav l- 1^r - Vancouver, to sail. Sept. 15. Spinner, Montreal, September 22. Bemuera, London, October :. t-anadian Mariner. New Yori.. Ootober 1. «*?• SWttwh, Vancouver, to sail Oct. 15. Canadian Conqueror, New York, October 6. t£2 Hacking, New York. October. gort Darwm. Glastrow, November. l*ort Alma. New York. November. Wesfmeath. London. November, Highlander. Vancouver, Nov. Waimate, Liverpool. December. I lako. Liverpool, to sail Yashido' Maru 1., Seattle, to sail. Yashida Ma.ru 11.. Seattle, to sail. Canadian Ranger. Montreal, to sail, early. nfTEBCOLONTM, AKO COASTAL. Whangapo, Melbourne, to eail. Eastern Pacific, Beptember 9. Kiyerma. Sydney. SeDtember d. lorua. Western Pacific, September 12. vyingatui. Southern ports, September 13. Jtaiapoi, Adelaide, September 17.

COLLTEEB. Port SteDhens. Barry. SeptemoeT 18 W« 3 tport, to sail. Tresithney, Barry, October.

OCEAN MAIL STEAMERS. a f l S -? du » Auckland. Sept. 13. ianrU. left San Francisco for Wellington. via ports on August 26; due Wefliagton. September 17. * Niagara, haves Vancouver September 10, due Auckland. September 30. Marama. left Wellington for San Franr ■ c, i *v"9. Anguet 81. Corwthic. left Southampton, July 28. fo* Wellington, due September 10

VESSELS IN PORT King's Wharf— E. R. Sterling (barouentine), Kakapo, Easterner. in Stream—lris, Talune. Senorita (batno.). r, Laurafbqtne.l. Meko. Atua' Vueen 9 Wharf-Rakanoa. Port Lyttelton. ilobson Wharf—Kawatin Central Wharf—Waimarino. Sheerlegs- Wharf-H.M.S. Philomel. Dock WW-H.M.S. Veronicu,. Dock—Southern Cross.

The dep«rj;ure of the Waiotahi for Opotiki ati M, n Postponed until 10 a.m. to-day. °* TauraDga en route. The Wairuna has been fixed tc load coal at Newcastle for two ports in Java W? nS . fou & ma j'*«>d barque Elginshire, which at her destination on August 23. The barque Manurewa ie to load a cargo of coal at Newcastle for Eaipara. The Kakapo is now timed to sail for Greymouth at 5 p.m. to-day. -i2?« 6 * Ka , nna Bai:ed for Whnnearei kst night to load cement for the South She m due back at Auckland on Friday ,3*j Ar * hu ". sailed- for thr. East Coast yesterday evening. Bhe i 8 due back at Auckland on Sunday The Kini is expected to leave Picton to. «5 wL.° Ilch 1 un, L*- -^f teT discharging It the Utter port. she will go to Wellington Mlnunga* 10 * 011 *° ™*** » PrT^,^ 1 "^* 11 ! 1 k*° f aU for Newcastle on Friday to load cargo for a destination not yet announced. fjfn Win « a te i « to loave Bluff to-night for Oamaru. Timaru. and Auckland. R,^ w8 r5 a * beon J at Sydney by Burns. Philp and Co., Ltd.. that the auxiliary schooner Murua has become a 11 £* Gilbor - t Inlands. Advices received a few days ago intimated that tho th° W > axe Baie and ba-d arrived at Jaiuit. lhe Murua was reported to be overdue on wifi s S d . "• auxiliary schooners Mokoo, and Motau were despatched frorn pevuka and Tarawa respectively to search tor her. The veasel wae in charge of Captain W. Johnstone, snd the last advice regarding her was that she was proceeding to Aanomanga and the two moat northerly islands in the Ellice group

COAL FOR THE RAILWAYS. The Haine steamer Tresithney is due at Auckland early in October with a cargo of cpaJ from Berry for the New Zealand Government The Union Company has been appointed agents for the vessel. VESSELS REPORTED. The New Zealand Shipping Company ?3 a e! ,7^ d a**™* *hat the Ruahine. which left [Wellington on August 11 with passengers and cargo for London, arrived at Papama on September 2. The Somerset, which left Wellington the same day as the Kuanine. and followed the 3ame route arrived at Panama on September 8. RUAPEHU'S PASSENOERS. The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamer Ruapehu, which ia due here from England on Monday, has 30 saloon and 79 steerage passengers for Auckland, besides passengers for other parts of New J^ealaxd. THE PORT LYTTELTON. The C. and D. steamer Port Lyttelton. which came up from the explosive anchorage on Monday evening, berthed at the Queen's Wharf yesterday morning to discharge tho Auckland portion of her cargo from England. Bhe had an uneventful voyage and experienced fine weather throughout. Four passengers arrived from London by the vessel. They are: Mesdames R. C. Roberts, E. Graham, and Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Campbell.

CUNARD ANNIVERSARY. ' An anniversary of great interest to the shipping world took p'nr-e on July 4 Eighty-oue years ago (July 4. 1840) the Cunard Company, with a fleet of four ships, totalling 4600 tons, established the ftrst regular steam communication between England and America. To-day the Canard Company, with its associated lines, controls a fleet of 109 vessels, built or building, totalling over 1 oon 000 tons and serving the chief ports of the world. It possesses the largest ship in i.ommi!.Mor in tne world, the Berengaria. of 62.000 tons; the ship that holds ail Atlantic speed records, tho Mauretania, of 31.000 tons; and the ship which since her conversion to oil burning has oarried a greater number of passengers than any other ship, the Aquitania, of 46,000 tons. These three vessels are engaged in the Ounard 6«rviice between Southampton, Cherbourg, and New York. The 81 years of Cunard history represent practically the history of steam navigation. The first Cunarder had a tonnage of 1154. and carried 100 passengers and a crew of 38. The latest has a. tonnage of 52,000, and accommodation for 3000 passengers and a crew of nearly 1000. The old wooden paddlewheel Britannia, with the aid of sails, attained a epeed of eight and a-half knots. The steel quadruple screw trrbine Mauretania has averaged over 26 knots between England and America.

THE RIVERINA. The Huddart-Parker steamer Riverina left Sydney for Auckland at 2 p.m. on Monday. She is due here on Friday, and is bringing 158 passengers and 1600 tons of general cargo.

HOME VIA CAPE HORN. The five-masted barque France, sailed from Wellington on Monday for London, via Cape Horn. The tug Pelican shifted the sauer from her moorings in the stream, where she had been awaiting a favourable wind, and took her in tow down the harbour When opposite Ward Island, the France caught the breeze, and the tui? was cast off She opened up the Heads under full sail at 11-40 a.m. and 40 minutes later had disanpeared from view around Baring Head bao took the following careo:—From Lvttnl ton, 4916 bales of wool, 3C82 casks of tallow! 406 casks of r>elts. 89 tons of general. From Wenine-ton. 60R6 bales of wool. 2798 cariVi of tallow. 258 casks of pelts. 20 tons of |eS