SHIPPING ITEMS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 6492, 11 April 1908, Page 15

SHIPPING ITEMS

riif? Tasman is due at Wellington ihir 7n<>j-ai 11;' with n. load of fdono from Tonga Hay. Capra in .1, f‘eriiOf], tranrferrcd from Urn Wail: urn to Cue Tar.v.vera at: Lytt'dtoa. and W, Hutching.-'- look It iu retried b)i aI; the wooden bnr.|ue Alexander (.']■<<ig Uormerly known as tl.o Iva,l Ijk’oi; midoi, m to bo for u**c as a. eoai hulk. The !’. am! O. steamers Malacca and Formosa, e:mh of mr, lon* gro;-s. and built at. Harrow in IMW u( a cost of about AVTun-. wen- adverted for sale In- ;i ll f 1 1 i (111 on Febnmrv Hath at tiie Baltic liVhange salmnom. Tin- Cnion Company's collier Kamoiia is to 1 ss’. s Wellinglun at noon o-duy for W.v.tjNM-l. Tim A!i '*y Ihmr Ben of I’uthven, cow on !mr r, ;tj froai Sydney to Dunedin, is e.\ jn vi - <! to arrive Imre next ’thur-day. i'in* will proceed from Wellington to A'lrUiin:!, and I lienee to Vancouver. The local a;;er;U for Urn Alley Bine, Al.*~i r- Jobia-’ell an<l Co., advise that Urn Iml rn velli was to have left Van- • ouv'T y< -lei'day for Auckland, Wellington, and Svdney. She is duo here mi about a month. The iron harauo Hazel Craig 'formerly known as the Cjua t h lam ha;, *lO7 tons, lately owned hy the Hazel Craig Shipping ' 'oi.ijmny, hats keen bought hy Mr U. T. N'icol, of Auckland. The Simiv, Savill and Albion steamer Mama.ri 1-eft: Wed I i nglon I a sit evening for CvHi lion for Homeward cargo. Slio will arrive back hero next Thursday. Tim (hiv.-rnment t rain lug-ship Amokui a. arrived at Whangaroa on Thursday aiU-moon from Auckland, via Unwell. Tim “Otago Daily Times” states that the Shaw. Savill and Albion steamer Kia Ora is to leave Pori. Chalmers next Wednesday for Wellington for coaling, and is to go from here to Napier,»Gird>oi nc, and Auckland. She is to leave Wellington early next month for London, to catch the July wool sales. i'hc departure of Hie Arahura for Pic-Mcd-on. We.-dport, and Grcymouth. has been postponed from 12.15 p.m. today till 8 o'clock this evening. 'l'm; departure of the Maheno from Wellington lor Sydney has been used for jkkui next Friday, iimtcud of 1 p.m., as previously announced. Thu steamer Maori. of the Shaw, Savill and Albion Co.’s Meet, met with a somewhat serious accident a few days oif (he New Zealand coast. Uuo of her propeller blades was stripped and struck one of idle stern plates, knocking a hole in it below the water-line. The engineers succeeded in plugging up tho hole, and Auckland was made safely on Thursday, v i ttruoon.

STIUTHAVON, EROM NEW YORK. The Now Zealand and African Steamship Company advise that the A. and A. liner Struthavon. was to have left Sydney last evenin'? for Auckland. The Htrathnvon is expected to arrive at Wellington about the 23rd instant. BUCEROS LEAVES NEW YORK. The New Zealand and African Steamship Company advise that tho cargo steamer Buceros, *IO3B tons. Captain llu rcliiiison. sailed from New York on Wednesday for Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton, and Dunedin. The Buceros, which is under charter to the A. and A. Line, is duo at Wellington about; Juno lOth.