THE NEW ZEALAND SHIPPING COMPANY'S FLEET.

Otago Witness, Issue 2426, 12 September 1900, Page 54

THE NEW ZEALAND SHIPPING COMPANY'S FLEET.

The following is the approximate time table of the New Zealand Shipping Company's fleet: — Whakatane.— -Left Plymouth on July 21. arrives at Hobart on Wednesday, and is duo at Auckland about the 12th in&L She will sail from Wellington about OcLober ]1. WaimatP.— Left London on August 4 , -and is due at Port Chalmers about the 23rd inst. She will leave on her Homeward voyage about November. « Wakanui. — Left Plymouth on August 18, and is due at "Wellington about October 7, sailing from the -colony about November. Hakaia. — Leaves London cr Plymouth about 6th inst., being due at Auckland about October 29. She will leave the colony about December. Papa.roa. — Leaves London or Plymouth about the 15th inst., and is due at Wellington about November 1. She will leave the colony about December. Tekoa. — Leaves London or Plymouth about October 11, being due at Wellington about December 4. , She leaves on her Homeward voyage about January. Waikato. — Leaves London or Plymouth about October 31, is due at Auckland about December 26, and will leave the colony about January. Papanui. — Leaves London or Plymouth about November* 10, and is clue at Wellington about December 31. She will sail from the colony about January. .Otaranja. — Leaves London or Plymouth aliout November 30, being clue at Port Chalmers about January 22. She will return Homeward about February. Hirnut:?ka. — Leaves London or Plymouth on her n aiden -voyage about December 8, is due at Wellington about January 27, and will sail 'from the coloiiy about February. Whakatane. — Leaves London or Plymouth about December 31, and is due at Auckland about February 20, sailing Homcwarel about March. Kanoitiki. — Leaves London or Plymouth on her nrfkicjen voyage about January 5, 1901, being diis al Wellington about February 2\. She will return Homewards about March. SHIRE LINE STEAMERS. The s.s. Perthshire (Wellington, July 21) passed Las Palmas on the 2nel inst. The s.s. Morayshire parsed Las Palmas on the. 3rd inst.. outward bound for Fremantle, Albany, and New Zealand ports. THE MAPOIJRIKA ACCIDENT. As a result of the circumstance^ attending the stranding of the MaTsourika, on Mabel Island on the 23rd ult., Captain Spence has ictired from the Union Company's service. The company's regulations provide that when navigating their ships in the neighbourhood of land the captain and chief officer mupt never be off the deck together, and the directors consider they had no option but to hold I Captain Spence responsible for the neglect of j this rule, framed diroctly in the interests of j public pafety. i ' The Union Company's steamer Mokoia, Captain W. C. Sinclair, with 30 passengers and a large quantity of general cargo, from Melbeurne. via Hobart and the B^uff, arrived at Port Chalmers on the sth inst., and after landing a quantity of bark steamed i>p to Dunedin in the forenoon. She left Melbourne at 4 p.m. on August 27, had fine weather, and arrived al Hobart on the 291h ult. The phip Perseverance, which is 192 days amt from Probolingo (Java) to Newcastle (JN.S.W.), is now looked upon as lost, and is unii>urnble. What ha« besn the fate of the vessel it is hard to as tho crew had mutinied, and several men were in irons at 4lie time of mailing. The s.s. Mokoia, wiik. the tug Plucky in

attendance, left the tongue wharf shortly after 1 o'clock on Thursday for Sydney, via Wellington.

The Sbaw, Savill, and Albion Company's s.s. Kaugatira, Captain G. Nicol, left Port Chalmers at 4.15 "p.xn- on Thursday with original c?rgo from London for Lyttelton. Her outward cargo Irom this- port for London consisted of 156 b^lcs wool, 99 do rabbi tskins, 3 do sheepskins, 1130 slacks wheat, 17] do giass c eed, 14-3 eaikf. tallow, Z6 bales leather, 3 rlo glue pieces, 22 pkgs sundries, 11,117 crates frozen iabbit=, 100 do hares, 39 cases, 743 quarters beef.

The s.s. Weslralia left for Melbourne, via the Bluff and Hobavt. on Sunday afternoon. The lollowing vessels have been in harbour during the past week: — Arrivals: Sarah and Mary, briganline, 45 ton-, ; Invercargill, s p., 123 tons; Herald, s.s.. 356 tons; Rimu, s.s, 143 tons; Ivini, s.s., 700 tons; Mokoia, s.s., 2503 tons; Moura, s.s., 1276 tons; Westralia, s.s., 1819 tons; Corimia, s.s.. 820 tons; Gresham, s.f., 338 tons; total. 8273 tons. Departures: Moana, fcow, 95 toiM; Invercargill, s.s., 123 tons; Mokoia, f.*.. 2503 tons; Kini, s.s., 700 tons; l*i"iu, 5.«. , 113 tons; Mouro. s.s., 1276 tons : Westralia, .j.s., 1819 tons ; total, 68bl tons.

A new .steamer with a carrying capacity of 1000 tons deadweight on a draught of 14-£ ft, which was originally laid down by Messrs Carmichaei, M'Leau, and Co., and afterwards taken over and finished by Messrs Russell and Co., of Port Glasgow, has been sold to the Union Sream Ship Compai.v of New Zealand, for about £20,000. She has been named the Kotuku. When the vo-sol was. originally conIraoted for with Ai.et.-rs Carmichael and M'Lean in October, 1898, for Norwegian owners, the contract price was about £15,000.