EXPECTED ARRIVALS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13393, 29 May 1914, Page 2

EXPECTED ARRIVALS.

From North — S.s. Warrimoo, Sunday. May 31. " S.s. Monowai, Wednesday, June 3. From South— S.s. Ripple, Friday, May 29. v S.s. Petone, Saturday, May 30. S.s. Monowai. Saturday, May 30. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. For North— S.s. Monowai. Saturday, May 30. FoV South— . ' - S.s. Warrimoo, Sunday, May 31.

The s.s. Ripple arrived from Wellington and Napier this morning, and left on the return voyage to Wellington about 3 p.m. Th* s.s. Reeulus, with coal from Westport, berthed, at the wharf this morning. ■ • The. s.s. Monowai is due from Southern ports to-morrow ..morning,, and will be tendered' at '6 a.m. and 11 a.m., leaving for Auckland later m the day.

The Shaw, Savill and Albion Co's s.s. Zealandic cleared last evening for Auckland, from where she. sails, to London. The next Shaw, Savill boat to visit Gisborne will be the s.s. Waiwera-v which is due next week.

The s.s. .Kowhai is expected \to load as under for Gisborne: Dunedin June 2nd, Oamaru and Timaru 3rd. Lyttelton sth, ani should arrive at Gisborne about Jiine Bth. A • y " '

The s.s. Petone is due from Napier and other southern, ports on Sunday next, and sails on Monday, for Greymouth; -The auxiliary schooner Elsie Mary (ex Amelia Sims), was placed on tne Wellington .patent' slip to Have a* serious leak repaired! It was found necessary- -to recaulk the vessel along the garboard on both * sides of the keel from .right forward to aft. Captain A. R. Stewart, formerly, m comtiiafpd of the Rosamond, took charge of %.%' Kowhai at. Dupedin, Captain '5?. W^.Hend6r, who -Is ashore oh holiday wave. ■*•-- ' -.-' . ' '-f .'Navigation of the -Panama Canal will have .to he regularly,' suspended, during tfee .early morning hours, or- else..strinjgent Mgulations must>.be enforced; to ensure safety. ■. on account of the . fogs m. the jgulebra ciit, according to Captain Hugh Rodman, U.S.N., who is to become superintendent of operations. It has been iound that from midnight uiitil 7 ois ,8 o}clbck every morning * heavy • mists arid fQgs hang m the cut, which, even without ihe menace of fog, will be one of the riiost difficult parts of the canal for the ipilotsf , Canal '■■ operations will start- .with ;6pt more than,, eight pilots' on the payroll. There appears to have been a .'general belief that \ 6O or more .pilots would lie engaged. s '•By the English mail news was brought 6? .'the sale of the White Star liner Majestic for "breaking-up" purposes. The tfrice paid for this once notable Vessel is rf ported to be ; only £25,000. Built by Harlitnd and. Wolff, of: Belfast, 25 years ago. the' Majestic and the Teutonic, her sister ship, were, the two . bestocnown . liners m the White Star trans- Atlantic service. In their day (says VLloyd's '■, Shipping Gazette) there were.no faster , liners known. They were .fitted- with .a ; view of providing as mhch, comfort asf possible for -all classes of passengers. Their ; handsome .yacht-like appearance, luxurious- accommodation, and regular passages combined, to win for them a high place m the esteem of the travelling public. For some years the Majestic has been running m the Southampton and New York service of th<*; White Star line, while the Teutonic, which some time ago was converted into a ship , for two classes, of passengers— c&bin and third class-^is . at f present' sailing between Liverpool. and Canada In the White Star service. The two liners were among the first of the. merchant steamers fltted with a view, to , use . by .the. Government m time of war. During the Transvaal war the Majestic was empolyed to cdnvey troops to the Cape. , The following vessels will be m. wireless range to-night from Wellington: Victoria, Maori, Wahine, Maunganui, Knight Templar, Tongariro, Borderer, Muritai; from Awanui: Manuka ; from ' Auckland: Warrimoo and Whakarua; from Awarua: Manuka, y

The shipments from Gisborne by the s.^. Zealandlc were as follows:— Gisborne Sheepfarmers' Frozen Meat Go., 14,769 carcases mutton, 4537 do. lamb, 3879. quarters beef, 42 bales wool, 182 cases pre--served meats, and 351 casks- tallow ahd pelts; Dalgety and Co., 420* bales wool; Common'/ /Shelton and Co., 140 bales wool- ;; ■ '.' ..- \

f;lt was originally intended that the Mokoia. should enter the East Coast ser^ vice- in. -place of the Warrimoo, but it is i-eported that this / arrangement has been cancelled. The Mokoia has been, fixed to leave Melbourne . for Wellington, via way ports, on Wednesday,-- June '3. She is due at Wellington on June 12, and* will leave Again the same day fof Melbourne, via the south. Departure will be taken from the Victorian port for W.ellington on |jnne 23. On ' arrival there,, on .July 3, !|se Mokoia will proceed through to Syd;i»ey; Of late a ferry service has been maintained bejweei) Wellington and Syd--sney, and it was reported that there was A possibility of ithe running being continued. From infprmation gathered ;it Appears that the old order of things wUI ho gradually re-established. .