EXPECTED ARRIVALS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1273, 27 May 1912, Page 4

EXPECTED ARRIVALS.

From Auckland— S.s. Wimmera, Thursday, May 30. S.b. Monowai, Sunday, June 2. From South — S.s. Monowai, Wednesday) May 29. S.s. Tarawera, Saturday, June 1. PROJECTED DEPARTURE*. For Auckland— S.B. Monowai, Wednesday, May* 29. S.B. Tarawwra, Saturday, June 1. For South— S.s. .Wimmera, Thursday, May 30. S.s. • Monowai, Sunday, June 2.

The Union- Co.'b s.s. Mokoia left Auckland ut 3 p.m. on Saturday, called at: Tokomaru Bay, and arrived at Gisborne on Sunday at 4.30 p.m. She left for South at 10 p.m. The Union S.S. Co.'s Kowhai left Timaru for ' Napier direct, is due there to-day, and should arrive m Gisborne to-morrow. On discharging her cargo she loads 2000 sacks of barIcy tor transhipment to Australia. *l'hc Union S.S. Co's Squall arrived at Auc'c luiul on Saturday morning, and leaves there to-day for Gisborne, via Tolaga Bay. She should arrive .m Gisborne on Wednesday next. The Union S.S. Co's Monowai is dve l-from south 'on Wednesday, and proceeds to Auckland the same day. ■' The Shaw, Saviil and Albion Co's Pakeha arrived at Gisborne at 3.30 p.m. yesterday trom Napier. She proceeds to Auckland either lale on Tuesday night or early Wednesday morning. The Huddart Parker's Co's Wimmera arrives, from Sydney and Auckland on Thursday aitcrnoon, and proceeds south the same day. The launch is timed to leave the wharf at the usual hour. The scow Alert left Gisborne for Ngunguru at 10 this morning. .. ■ The ketch Coronation left Gisborne at 7 a.m. yesteriay with a cargo of produce for Auck land,, and was all day becalmed off Tuahine. The schooner Amelia Sims arrived from Tauranga at S a.m. this morning, with a load of timber. Owing to Saturday's fatality the loading operations m connection with the Tyser Co's Ma'rcrc were suspended to-day. Messrs ' Richartuon and Co.'s steamer Koutunui iirrives from Auckland to-morrow morning. Slio sails at 5 p.m. for all Coast ports ond Auckland. When proceeding down Otago harbor on Wednesday morning last, en route to Greymouth, the Pukaki's steering gear jammed, and the vessel went aground on the east,side of the Vcitoria channel, at a point nearly opposite Burkes. It was expected that she would be floated off on the flood tide the same evening. On completion of the discharge of her cargo at Adelaide, the Union Co.'s steamer Kaitan.gata will load coal at Newcastle for Gisborne, Tokomaru Bay, arid Napier. On the evening of May 15th a fire which broke out on the steamer Tofua at the Margaret street wharf, Sydney, damaged some of the cargo of copra. ,'.'.' • Reports from Stewart Island state tqat a* quantity of-wreckage has been washed up on the soUth-western portion of the island. Mr Harry Koderique, of Stewart Man i, informed the Bluff correspondent of the Dunedin Star that he picked- up several pieces near South Cape. These! include a double cabin bunk made of white Baltic pine, with metal fittings, and also part of a cabin wall with coat-hook, etc. There was nothing to show whence the wreckage came, but it appeared to have been m the water only about three or four months. Mr Itoderique thought that it might have been caught m the Tasmau Sea current, and washed up by the south drift current. He expressed tne opinion that it might be from the foundered s.s. Yongala, but the chances are more m fuvor of its being from the missing barquentiue Mary Isabel. In the absence ot there having been a wreck, there appears to have been a collision, and the washing up of further wreckage will be awaited with interest. According to Sylney shipping files, the Oceanic Steamship Co.'s steamers Sonoina and Ventura are to assume running shortly m the 'Frisco-Sydney service. According to pre sent arrangements the new service will v be inaugurated-by the Sonoma, which is scheduled to leave San Francisco on July 2, to B 6 followed by the Ventura, leaving 'Frisco on July 30. Thereafter a four-weekly service will be maintained for a time, until the 'future policy of the Oceanic Company is definitely formulated. It is therefore not known at present whether the service will be extended to New Zealand, but meanwhile a 30-day trip to London from Sydney, via 'Frisco,' is. announced. The Sonoma and Ventura haye been converte-i from coal to oS-burning steamers, and that important factor should go a long way to eliminate any possibility of delay due to coal strikes or stokehold troubles. As yet only meagre details have come to hand.