THE DIRECT STEAMERS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 14702, 9 December 1909, Page 6

THE DIRECT STEAMERS.

~|L ™ LTON December B.—Arrived a.m.), from Bunburv. SIDNEY, December 8.-Sailcd:'Nairn em-re, tor Auckland.

Tho Ulimaroa on her next trin from hydney. will leave that port on Christmas , c> and will probably reach Duncdir a day ahead of time-table dale. Tho Tarawera, which left Ly II el ton yesterdav afternoon, _ is due here about 10 o clock this morning. K °? n 5' a ' du « nl Gre.vmouth la-,t , wil j proceed afterwards to Westport, Bluff, and Dunedin. She is due here next Tuesday. The Government stcame." Ilinemoa. left Dunedin at an early hour yesterday morning foi Capo Saunders lighthouse" where stores were landed, after which she relumed to Dunedin, ivherc she arrived about 2.45 p.m. The Marairiii, which has left the Vancouver service to're-enter the intercolonial scry,ice, and which arrived at Wellington ear y yesterday morning, brought 90 saloon and 110 sleerago passengers for Dominion ports. She will leave Wellington to-day for the south, and is due here on Saturday.

Iho Ivotare, from Stewart Island ami Waikowa, arrived at Dunedin about 330 p.m. yesterday.

Iho Manilla stcamwi' down to Port Chalmers yesterday morning to take in bunker coal before leaving for Svdnev via. Cook Strait. '

1 lie New Zeaiarid Times states that on Saturday morning last Messrs M'Artliur and llull were advised bv cable tint the timber-stackers who wore" on . strike were returning to work, and that the discharge o till) LiuiderdrJo was cxocctcd to be completed on the 7lh inst. Tho steamer goes to Iluon (Tasmania) to load for Dunedin and northern ports. Tho auxiliary steamer Ilolmdale, on her recent trip from Orcymouth to Dunedin, lell ill with some heavy weather when oft , r rJi on Inlct > ,m<l S,IG lw( i lo iettison froin 7000 ft to 10,000 ft of her timbe;- cargo. llio steamer Anglo-Saxon, which ha* come from Chili under charter to the New Ala and Shipping Company to load in New Zealand for London, arrival at Auckland early on Sunday. The Anel :-Sa;;on is lo sail from Wellington on the 31st inst, llomcword bound.

Karamea, the comparatively new nort on the West Consi, north of Wcstport. has now risen to t he dignity of an export, port. On November 27 the thice-niasled sc-ow n liangaro.l. 131 tons, railed from Karcmca with a full_ load of while pine for Svdney. This is the lirsl .shipment Kent away Ironj Kwaiuea fliioct lo an oversea port. Captain Pearson. o[ the Whangfiina, -exprcssed himself well silislbd' °with llie safety of the port ami hie'ily pleased with the loading facilities, as his vesv'l iva-i only seven days in tlt.il port. T| in Whangarosi was towed out over the bar by tho steamer Manpanapa. The \\ hangaroa, which is owned hv Air O. \Y. Wha'nior n of Sydney, has been lix»d to loud hardwood at Now South Wales for Westnort. and will return to Karamca to again load for Sydney.