SHIPPING.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16375, 24 June 1927, Page 5

SHIPPING.

ARRIVALS Friday, dune 24. Tiron, s.s. (3.4*i a.m.'i, 206 tons, Clark, from Auckland, via Hicks Bay. I’akura, s.s. ((5.4.1 n.m.), 700 tons, Coldieutt, from Wellington and Napier. DEPARTURES Thursday, June 2d. Huumii, nux. ketch, 126 tons, Thomsen, for Napier. The Waimea leaves Napier this evening and will be discharging at Gisborne to-morrow. She leaves here to-morrow or Monday tor Auckland, where she loads again for Napier and Gisborne. The Kamo is expected to load at Dunedin to-morrow for Napier and Gisborne, via the usual southern pom. She is due here at the end of next week. Tlie Federal Line steamer Cumberland is expected to complete loading this afternoon and sails later tor Napier, tin nee Waikokopu. The Dunbar left to day for Waikokopu, Napier, and Wellington. The Flsie Alary was due to-day from Auckland. She sads again to-morrow night for Auckland. The Tiron. which arrived from And; land this morning, sails to-morrow lor Tokomam Bay. Hicks Bay, and Auckland. The Paktira, which arrived Ibis morning from Napier and Wellington, sails Ur-night for Waikokopu and Wellington. The Awalion arrived to-day from Auckland, via Tokomam Bay. She sails to-night for Tokomam Bay and Auckland.

The l'areia. is expected to arrive al Waikokopu today from Wellington. The Koulnnui left Napier last night lor Wellington In load for Waikokopu.

The Oniana, from Newcastle, via Auckland, is expected here on Sunday with a full cargo of coal. The secretary of the Post and Telegraph Department has received the following message from the radio suit inn al Auckland:" "The following winning was broadcast Ivy Hie Sydney radio at JO. 12 p.m. yesterday: "Master of Kaiwari'a reports passing in int. 31 long! 152 degrees 16 minutes east a floating object standing 10ft above the water. It is apparently a deckhouse, and is dangerous to navigation." The disposal of the remains of the steamer Wanaka lias been decided and all that is left of (lie uld vessel will be sunk outside the limits of the Hauraki Gulf, near which spot she so often passed during her 39 years of sea service. During the past four months she has been stripped of all saleable metal by the shipbreakers, who iirst offered the hull to the Naval Department as a target, and then to the Public 'Works Department as a breakwater. Doth offers were declined. The steamer Kurnnlpi, which Ims been anchored in the Auckland harbor for the past 12 months, lias been sold :it last. Mr F. Appletnn. tin- machinery merchant, of Newmarket, has bought her from the owners, a ikirguville syudi•rite. The Kuhialpi. formerly known as (he. Ilcina. v\as sold by the Melbourne Steamship Co. to her late owners early Inst year. The vessel was run for about five 'months from Auckland to Northern ports, hut the venture did not prove a success, and she was withdrawn from the service and anchored in the stream, where she has been ever since. The Kurnalpi was built in Norway in 1903. She is 116 ft. long and registers 495 tons gross. The Kennedy Aground The coastal steamer Kennedy, which went aground just inside the bar of the Manawatu river a few days ago, was still there on Wednesday. The vessel was bound from Wellington with cargo for Foxton. TELEGRAPHIC SHIPPING Napier: To sail, at 8.30 p.m.., Watmea. for Oisborne. WEATHER REPORT Oisborne. the Bay of Plenty, and Auckland reported blue skies this morning, but overcast conditions continued elsewhere, with rain at Napier and Wellington. Night north-westerly breezes' were reported at Oisborne, and light southevlics The barometer has commenced a. rising movement. Temperatures at 9 o'clock were: Auckland 54 degrees. Tauran'ga 49. Taupo 44. Opotiki. Oisborne. Wanganui 55, Napier 51. New Plymouth 58. and Wellington 50. Rough seas were reported at Cape Maria : heavy at moderate to smooth elsewhere. Wairoa report-: Strong southerly wind ; rough sea ; bar unworkable. WEATHER FORECAST The indications are for southerly moderate to strong winds. The weather will probably prove, cold and showery. The night will probably be very cold. Barometer rising slowly. Seas rough swell. Tides high.