SHIPPING.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 16120, 8 May 1923, Page 5

SHIPPING.

DEPARTURES. Tuesday, May 8

lluanui, ketch (9.80 a.m.). 126 ton •Stephens, for Auckland.

r l iron, s.s. (11.15 a.m.), 206 ton ( lark, for Coast. Hays and Auckland.

To-morrow the Arakina is to leave. Auckland for Tokomaru Bay and Gisborne. The steamer is to be tendered here at 2 p.m. (meantime) on Thursday, with one launch only for inward and outward passengers. She sails for Napier that evening. Returning to Gisborric on Saturday morning sliq proceeds on to Tokomaru Bay and Auckland after being tendered. With Southern produce to discharge the Wat in ka- is to leave Napier this evening for Gisborne. Upon completion at this port the steamer goes to Auckland.

Kit route to Napier, Gisborne, and Auckland with produce, the Wingatui ise to be dispatched from Dunedin tomorrow via Oamaru, Timaru, Lyttelton, and Wellington. lip to the time of going to press today the s.s. Ramona had not made an appearance in the bay. This steamer loft Westport early on Saturday morning for Gisborne. She lias coal to discharge here, and also Napier and Wellington. The C. and D. Line l steamer Port. Auckland, at present in Australian waters, is due at ■Gisborne about the 29th insti. She comes to Gisborne after first loading at Tokomaru Bay. Prom Gisborne the vessel goes to Wellington atidl Lyttelton, sailing finally from the latter port for London, via Monte Video. At this port she is to lift 11,000 freight carcases of frozen meat and general

cargo. The. S.S. and A. Uo.’s steamer Waimana is to leave Whakatano to-night, arriving here to-morrbw to load cargo for American and; English ports. She will probably complete loading hero on Friday, and! then proceeds to Napier. The C. and D. Line steamer Port Melbourne is scheduled to arrive at Gisborne on May 21 to load frozen meat andl general cargo. Upon completion here she goes toi Napier, and! Wellington to clear for the United Kingdom. • The Putiki was sailing hence for Napier to-day. The Ripple is expected' to leave Wellington to-night for Napier andl Gisborne. The departure of the Awahou from Auckland is posted for to-morrow. The steamer is to visit coast bays, on route to Gisborne. The Mako left Napier last night. She is due in Auckland on Thursday and loads for the Coast and Gisborne. The Koutunui is due here from Napier tc-morrow and' loads for the Coast. She departs hence to-morrow night. The Tiroa left Gisborne 1 this morning for Coast hays and Auckland. 'the ketch Iluanni sailed from Gisborne tliis morning for Auckland’, loaded with maize. At the latter port she is to lend coni and! general cargo for Gisborne. It is hoped to dispatch the. schooner War Lord: for Opotiki with timber in two or three days’ time. From Opotiki she goes to Whakatano to load sand for Gisborne. The topsail i schooner Elsie Marv should finish loading here' for Auckland to-dfciy. The new steamer Age, which was _recently purchased' by Howard! Smith. Ltd'.,’ for the interstate cargo trade, left Barry on March 1 last for Melbourne. The new vessel is a sister ship tot the <ylie, at present engaged in the coal trade. She is of 6,780 tons dead-weiglit, and! is equipped! for the consumption of either coal or oil fuel.

TTki is tho name ol' (lie latest addition |o (jin North Const S.N. Company’s fleet. Site was launched 1 recently from the yards of Lithgows, Ltd., on the Clyde, and is now on route from Glasgow to Sydney. The* Uki, which is namedi after a. rich dairying and! timber district on the Upper Tweed', is a large steamer, specially Resigned for bar-harbor won'k, and, according to the plans, should prove a. useful acquisition to the North Coast licet. . . The Japanese steamer Keigi Maru, which went ashore on Arena Island at the end of March, is reported to-he a total wreck. The Keigi Maru left Kobe om March 18 for-Sydney, but struck on Arena Island, and both the forward holds and? the engine room were floodedl A message was received in Sydney on April 17 by the Marino Underwriters’ And! Salvage Association stating that salvage was hopeless. The Keigi Maru was a steel steamer of 5,187 tons gross register, and wag built at Belfast in 1896. TELEGRAPHIC SHIPPING, London, May 7: Arrival, Pakeha, from New Zealand, Sydney: Arrived 1 at 6.30 a.m., Mamma, from New Zealand, Auckland: Sailed at 11,35 a,m., Niagara, far Vancouver. Auckland: Arrived at 12,15 a,m., Awahoti, from Gisborne and East Coast bays, , Napier: To sail at 7 p.m., Ivoutunui for Gisborne. WITHIN WIRELESS RANGE. Auckland; Ivaitoke, .Veronica, Tofua, Flora, Waimana, Pawnee, Easterner, Trevithick, Montrose, Canadian Ranger, Tfcrenga, Manuka, Niagara, Kauri, Bradford City, Wan aka. ‘Wellington; Mararoa, Wahine, Ngaio, Maunganui, Pt, Nicholson, Moeraki, Dorset, Koromfko, Tainui, Katoa, Waikouaiti. Arahnra. Chatham Island; Koilcoura, Whnkatane. WEATHER REPORT. i<Yesh N.E. breezes -were blowing this morning at Cape Maria and New Plymouth, >S.W. breozes at Napier, light S,E, at Wellington, light variable winds elsewhere. Rain was falling at Now Plymouth and Castlepoint, Wellington reported 136 ppipts of rainfall. Temperature readings at 9 a.m, ; Cape i Maria 63, Auckland 54, Tauranga 54, j Gisborne 54, Napier 60, New Plymouth 62, Wellington 56, STATE of the SEA, Considerable seas wore reported at Cape Marla and Castlepoint. rough at Capo Palliscr, moderate at Tiritiri, and Tauranga, moderate swell at Napier, slight swell at Gisborne, j WEATHER FORECAST, j The indications are for moderate to 1 strong easterly wind's prevailing and freshening. Expect dull weather with pinch mist and; fog in parts, and heavy r.qifi i,s to be expected 1 . Barometer falling again soon. Seas considerable. Tidies pigli.