SHIPPING.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 4978, 10 April 1889, Page 2

SHIPPING.

POET OP TIMAEU. The flagstaff of Timarn is situated in 171 dag. 17.20 min. East longitude ; and 44deg. 23min. South latitude. ARRIVED. Nil. SAILED. Nil. _ VESSELS HOMEWARD BOUND. Vessel. Days oufc - Camana (Capt. Worrall) 113 Eangitiki (Capt. Taylor; 71 Lowes water (Capt. Fletcher) ... 67 Ganymede (Capt. Alleson) ... ... 53 Paula (Capt. Breymann) • • ... 33 Mathilde Hennings (Capt. Dade) ... 23 There were no arrivals at or departures from this port to-day. . The Union Company’s Eosamond is advertised to leave for Northern and West Coast Ports to-morrow evening. The schooner Lily left Napier for Timarn vi a Lyttelton on Monday. She should therefore put in an appearance. At present there is a great boom in the shipping trade. Many vessels are reaping a harvest, especially the ships that can cany petroleum to the Far East. One of the most notable features of the oil market early in February was the chartering of the American ship F. E. Kelly, now in Havre, to come to New York and load 80,000 oases of refined oil for Japan, at 43c per case, an exceptionally high rate. — Industries. A Sydney paper says that Captain Hansby, late of the Union Company’s s.s. Hawea, and latterly of the s.s. Age, of Melbourne, takes command of the s.s. Dupleix, which steamer is expected to leave Sydney in about a month to enter into the Intercolonial trade between New Zealand and New South Wales. . The Wellington Pot t understands that Captain Stuart, of the Arawa has been instructed to look out when at Home for steamers suitable for the Mokihinui coal trade. Work a,t. the mine, we understand, is being pushed ahead.