MONGOLIA'S PASSENGERS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 15823, 23 July 1913, Page 4

MONGOLIA'S PASSENGERS.

MELBOURNE, . T u!y 22. Iho following arc rlio Mongolia's N<w Z-caland passnngcrs:—M«ssrst Harrison, Jones, Salmond and wife, White, Burdon, Miss Haifbaad.

The Havre completed discharging the, Dunedin portion of her benzine oargo yes- 1 terday afternoon, and ivill leave this morning for Lyttelton, Wellington, and Napier. The Monowai sailed yesterday afternoon for Auckland, via East Coaet ports. The Breeze 6ailed last evening for Wanganui, via coastal ports. The Kauri is duo to arrive at Auckland to-morrow with a cargo of sugar from Fiji. After discharging her cargo she will proceed' to Fiji again, returning thence to Auckland. The Tyeer liner Whakarua is soheduled to. leave London to-day for Auckland, Napier, and Wellington, via Melbourne and Sydney. j The Taviuni is due to-day from Westport, via Bluff. She is, to sail to-morrow afternoon for the West Coast, via way porta. ,

Th© Rakoia sailed from Port Chalmers early yesterday morning for Slydney, where f>ho will go on the loading berth for London.

Captain G. B. Corby, of the Arapawa, is at present on holiday "leave. Mr C. Thompson, mate, is acting master, and Mr A. J. Tornton has joined as.mate. Mr G. Aimes, assistant purser of the Willochra, has been transferred to the Union Compaq's Wellington office. Mr C. B. V. Wheeler, purser on the 6ame vessel, will join the company's Sydney office staff. The big tramp steamer Crown of Toledo, which was originally to have come to New Zealaaid ports, but which is now completing discharge of her New York cargo in Australia, has been chartered to load Seaham coal at Newcastle, for Java.

The Waitomo is due this morning from Oamaru, where she completed the discharge of her Newcastle coal. She will bo laid up at Port Chalmers on arrival for sighting and docking. The ICaitangata will probably have her overhaul and survey completed by about Friday, when she is expected to leave Port Chalmers for the West Coast.

Very bad weather has prevailed at Greymouth and Westport during the past few days, and tic movements ot steamers have been considerably hampered, especially steamers engaged in Ihe coal-carrying trade. The early arrival of the New Zealand Shipping Company's liner Orari is looked for at Port Chalmers. She left London on June 7, and i 6 nxpected to put in an appear&noe within the next day or two. Dunedin is her first port of discharge. The ferry steamer Maori came out of dock yesterday afternoon, and her place was taken by the Maitai. The overhaul of the Maori will be continued at the wharf, and 6he 'will bo docked later for cleaning and painting. Owing to the thick mist which enveloped the Heads yesterday morning the Maunganui was unable to enter the harbour until 10 a.m., after Captain Worrall had made a couple of attempts to locate the entrance. At 10.30 a.m. the Maunganui was made fast to the George street pier, where she will remain until this afternoon, when she will sail for Sydney, via Cook jjtrait. The Federal-Shire liner Kent arrived at Port Ohalmere yesterday about noon and anchored in the stream until the tide . served in tllfi afternoon, when she steamed up to t?wn and was berthed at tho Victoria wharf. She has about 1000 tons of Liverpool cargo to land here before proceeding to Bluff lor final discharge. The twin-screw motor launch Muritai, which is well known in Lyttelton, Akaroa, and the bays, has changed hands, and is now owned by an Auckland syndicate, which intends running her as tonder to the Union Company and Huddiarf-Parker boats calling at Tokomaru Bay. The Muritai will proceed to Auckland under her own power, and is to leave Lyttelton on her venturesome voyage abouti the end of this week. The Chatham Islands Fishing Company has purchased the cutter Seagull, 20 tons, well known in the Akaroa trade, for use as a tender at the Islands. Captain Gilberton, late of the Manaroa, is to take tho Seagull to Wellington with a cargo of produce, and the vessel will probably be fitted with a motor engine. The Seagull will subsequently proceed to the'Chathams, and will make Owenga fishing station her headquarters. Speaking about the two tragic deaths to divers recently, one of a Filipino diver on the stranded steamer Nippon, and the other that of the well-known 6ailor boxer " Demon" Young, at Olongapo (states an Eastern exchange), brought to the mind of Captain Breckwoldt, representative of the Marine Underwriters of Hamburg, a new invention for diving that, he said, promised to do away with the helmet diving apparatus. "My country has been working very hard on the ftew apparatus," 6aid the captain, " and demonstrations have proved it very satisfactory. I have seen a model myself, and no doubt the day of tho helmet diver is nearly over. The apparatus consists of an iron and glass cage with mechanical arms. These mechanical arms are worked by tho man inside the cage by electrical power from above, and one can chisel off a bolt or fasten a tow-line much easier than a man in a divine euit. and with no danger to the loss of his life." ,