SHIPPING NEWS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2915, 26 January 1910, Page 66

SHIPPING NEWS.

TO ARRIVE. AT AUCKLAND. Devon, left Liverpool December 11, duo February 7. Marere, left London December 3. Andromeda, left New York December 3. Don Crombie, left London January 1. Kumara, left Liverpool December 26; due about February 19. Spithead, left New York January 7; due end of MarchAT WELLINGTON. Star of Scotland, left London September 28; arrived Auckland November 22. Arawa, left London December 14, and Hobart January 20. Buteshire, left London December 11. Ruapehu, left- Plymouth December 25, and Capetown January 17. AT DUNEDIN. Morayshire (via Northern ports), due about . January 31. Wakanui (via northern ports), about February 2. Star of New Zealand (via northern ports), due about January 21. Buteshire (via northern ports), about February 20. Aotea, left London January 11 ; due about end of February, for Dunsdin direct. Orari (via northern ports), due about January 27. HOMEWARD BOUND. Drayton Grange, left Wellington November 21. Opawa, left "Wellington December 15. Turakina, left Wellington December 16. Star of Scotland, left Wellington December 22; Sussex, left Wellington December 23. Clan Ogilvy, left Lvttelton, December 24. Athenic, left Wellington December 31. Waitemata, left Auckland January 1. Tokomaru, left Wellington January 7. Delphic, left Wellington January 8. Tongariro, left Wellington January 15. Clan MacFarlane, left Napier January 16. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. FEOM WELLINGTON. Rakaia, early. Swanley, January 27. FEOM AUCKLAND. Invertay, eajrly. FEOM LYTTELTON. Matatua, February 1. FEOM BLUFF. Falls of Nifch, early. THE NEW ORIENT LINERS. Referring to the fleet of five new 12,000ton mail steamers, Mr Frederick Green, addressing a meeting of shareholders in the Orient S.S. Company held! in London last month, said: —"The company now own all the steamers formerly constituting the Orient Line, and the last of the new steamers left for Australia on November 26. It is a great satisfaction to us that in every essential the new steamers have fully answered our expectations, and we believe the verdict of expert and public opinion to be as favourable. as our own. They are not only capable of earning large revenues, but, what is better, they have already shown their capability in this respect. It would have been beyond expectation that all the new steamers should have gone without defects on their first voyages. I am happy to say that those little points, chiefly connected with the .domestic arrangements of the vessels, some of which were pointed out by friendly critics among the passengers, will be, if they have not already been, overcome. There have been no serious defects, or any that would be of an expensive nature to remedy. None of the faults so far detected have been of any consequence. There is nothing to lessen our belief in the future prosperity of Australia, and nothing to lessen our belief in the future prosperity of this company. On the contrary, in so far as the time which has elapsed since June 30 last can form a guide, there is much to confirm us in our confidence." ARRIVAL OF THE KAIKOURA. The twin-screw steamer Kailcoura, flying the fiais of the New Zealand Steamship Company, arrived off Ta.ia.rca, Heads at 11.25 a.m. on Wednesday, and came up to Port Chalmers early in the afternoon, but too late to come up to Dunedin on the tide. She accordingly, after having been passed by the health officer and Customs, berthed at the George street pier, and will come up to town on this morning's tide. She left London at 9.15 a.m. on Sunday. December 6, and, owinsy to dirty weather in the English Channel, had to land the pilot at Portland. A heavy south-west gale was encountered in the Ray of Biscay, during which one of the sailors, while securing a lifeboat, had the misfortune to have one of his legrs broken, and he had to be landed at Capetown for hcsipital treatment. Teneriffe was passed on Dacamber 11, at 4.40 p.m.. and fine weather was nvet with from thence until within three days of Ca.pet.own. where she arrived on December 27, and left again the same dnv. She had exceptionally fine weather and smooth seas across the Southern Ocean, , with \he exception ~ f a two days' heaw

' Rale in the longitude of Kerguclen Island. The Snares were passed at 3 p.m. on Tuesday, and a south east wind prevailed from there till arrival at Otaigo Heads. The Kaikoura brings general cargo for Dun-e-din, Lyttelton, • and Bluff, and after discharge here will proceed to Lyttelton. Captain M'Kella.r nas associated with him the following officers: —Chief, Mr W. Olpbert: second, Mr G. E. Fox; third, Mr H. J. Wilde; fourth, Mr W. D. Croudace. Mr Scott is in charge of the engineroom, with Mr J. H. Reay second, Mr D. H. Bake,r-Ga,ll third, Mr H. M. Dixon fourth, Mr B. D. Powell fifth, Mr a Gr. You'Dig sixth. Mr (J. Houston is chie* refrigerating engineer and Mr D. L*. Howie second. The ohiof electrician fa Mr A. H. Selig. Mr A. J. Smith is in charge of the stewards' department, and Dr Ulrich is surgeon. A large shipment of wool, amounting' to ; ; about- 5000 bales, is beinor loaded at Lyttelton by the Shaw, Savill, and Albion line steamer Corinthic. She is ako loading some big lines of dairy produce and frozen meat, and is taking in bunker coal from the Koromiko. The Corinthic is to Leave Lyttelton on Saturday for Wellington, to complete loading, and mil sail finally from that port on the 27th insfc. The vessel wDI call at Monto Video, Rio de Janeiro, Teneriffe, j and Plymouth on her way Ham/©, and ia i due at London on March 11. I Regarding Australian traffic, the directors <'f the P. and O. Company point cut in their last report that any development that lias occurred appears mostly in the direction of third class passengers, a business in which the- P. and O. Company did not at present participate. The pV-sc connection between their India, China, and Australian passenger cervices has had the effect of confining their mail steamers to first and second saloon passenger traffic exclusively. The expenditure for the year ehdwed an increase of upwards of £BO,OOO, chiefly diu» to the increased size and the more ccsfcly character of the ahips now employed in the mail service, and to the higher speed at which the steamers have to be driven in 1 order to fulfil the conditions of the contract In less than four years the company's disbursement, fcavo increased by I £IGO,OM per annu n, partly owing to ad : - Yano* in prices and partly to the other 1 features alluded to. j The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamer Orari, which arrived at Auckland ! from London on December 23, is expected here on Friday morning from 'Napier. She left London on November 7. Captain Foradick is in command, and has with him tho following officers:—Chief officer, Mr F. B. Nicholson; second officer, Mr P. G-. ! Hyde; third officer, Mr A. Willis; fourtft officer, Mr H. Bartiett; chief engineer, Mr J. Turner. The ship's surgeon is Dr Blennerhassett. The Government Shipping Master has issued the following table showing' the average rate of wage* paid monthly to able seamen engaged in the Government shipping office at the pert of Sydney during ; the year 1909:—Great Britain and Europe direct: Sailing vessels, £4. West Coast of America: Sailing vessels, £4 to £4- ss. Island trade and back: Sailing vessels, £410s. Interstate trade: Sailing vessels, £410s to £5; steamships, £7. Coast trade: Sailing vessels, £4 17a 6d to £5 10s; steamships, £7 to £3. Steamships (inter-Stata and State trade): Mates, first,, second, and third respectively, £l2 to £l7 (includes "only mates"), £8 to £l4, &ad £3 to £U; engineers, first, eecond, and third respectively, £l4- to £29, £l2 to £2O, and £l4- to £l6; firemen, £9 to £10; trimmers, £7 to £B. Steamships {foreign trade): Able seamen, £3 10s to £7; firemen, £4 to 9; trimi mere, £3 to 7.