PORT OF BLUFF.

Southland Times, Issue 20201, 11 June 1927, Page 2

PORT OF BLUFF.

ARRIVED. —Friday, June 10.— Pacific Transport, sjb. (Captain Saunders), 4,410 tons, from Port Chalmers, at 4.30 p.m. VESSEL IN PORT. Pacific Transport, s.s. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Kaituna, Dunedin, June 13. Port Hardy, London, June 13. Kaikorai, Newcastle, June 14. Waikouaiti, Newcastle, June 15. City of Khartoum, New York, June 23. Calm, Wellington, June 16. Huntingdon, Liverpool, June 20. Tonganro, Lyttelton, June 28. Waihemo, Pacific Coast, July. Moeraki, Dunedin, July 2. lonic, London, July 10. 1 Beatrice, Seychelles Islands, July. Southland, m.v., Dublin, end of July. Kasama, New York, July. City of Dundee. New York, July. Port Caroline, London, August. Canadian Challenger, Halifax, September 23. Somerset, Liverpool, September. Ruapehu, London, October. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Kaituna, Melbourne, June 14. Kaikorai, Dunedin, June 15. \ Calm, Wellington, June 16. Port Haroy, London, June 16. Huntingdon, Liverpool, June 30. Moeraki, Melbourne, July 2. lonic, London, July 12. GENERAL NOTES. The Kaituna left Westport on Wednesday for Lyttelton, Oamaru, Dunedin and Fluff.

The Kaikorai is scheduled to leave Newcastle early next week for Bluff and Dun-e-fin. The Waikouaiti is to leave Sydney at the end of the present week for Bluff and Dunedin. The Pacific Transport arrived from Port Chalmers yesterday afternoon to discharge the balance of her cargo of Nauru Island phosphates. The Rotorua, now at Auckland, is due at Napier about June 13. Thence she goes to Lyttelton and Wellington, and she is due at Wellington on June 20. Her departure for Southampton and London, via Panama is fixed for 3 p.m. the following day. The New Zealand Shipping Company advises that the Foyle, which left St. John on April 29 for Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton, Dunedin, Melbourne and Sydney, left Newport News on May 4, and Panama on May 12, and is due at Auckland (according to a wireless report) on Saturday. The C. and D. Line steamer Port Hardy arrived at New Plymouth on Saturday from Port Chalmers, to complete discharge of her London cargo. She will leave the Taranaki port at the end of this week for Picton for loading and then proceeds to Bluff The Shaw, Savill and Albion Company advises that the Pakeha will leave London on July 13 with general cargo to put out at Auckland, Wellington and Napier. The vessel is due at Auckland on August 21. The Herminius, Aberdeen liner, formerly the well-known Shaw-Savill steamer Waimana, is now a troopship in China seas. The Hancock, U.S. transport, originally the famous Guion liner Arizona, built in 1879, has been scrapped at San Francisco. She held the Atlantic record for many years, and in 1919 was still capable of making the crossing at an average of 15 knots. The steamer Haggersgate w r as expected to leave Nauru Island on June 6 for Auckland and New Plymouth. The Persian Prince has been fixed to load at Nauru Island in June for Auckland and Wanganui. The Cheniston loads at Makatea about the middle of June for Auckland and Lyttelton. HUNTINGDON’S MOVEMENTS. Under the Federal agency the Huntingdon is discharging Liverpool cargo at Wellington. Thence she sails for Lyttelton, Port Chalmers and Bluff to finish unloading. From Bluff, where she is due on June 20, she proceeds to Timaru, Lyttelton, Wellington and Auckland to load for London, Avonmouth, Glasgow and Liverpool. Due at Auckland on July 15, she sails on July 20 for the United kingdom, via Panama. OVERSEAS NEWS. The Cents, a British steamer purchased as an ex-enemy vessel for £35,000 in 1921, has been sold back to Germany for £14,000. The Cutty Sark, now lying in Falmouth Roads, is to be recommissioned for a voyage to Australia. The Cutty Sark is to the Mercantile Marine what the Victory is to the Navy. The Leviathian, the greatest American liner, is having £lOO,OOO spent on accommodation alterations. Nygoya, a large Japanese seaport, is having a new lighthouse built in the form of a gigantic Buddha, 72ft high. It will have a 10,000 candle-power light in place of the jewel on the forehead. The Gymeric, Andrew Weir Company steamer, has been awarded £2,500 for towing the Spanish steamer Sodupe over 1,100 miles to the Azores. A new flying boat service between Harwich and Norway has been inaugurated with great success. Captain H. W. Broadbent, R.N.R., commander of the Mersey training ship Conway, has retired after 24 years’ service. Captain Gardiner Johnson, shipmaster, celebrated Canadian soldier, Lloyd’s agent

at Vancouver, 8.C., and secretary to the Columbian Pilotage Board, died recently. He was well-known to many New Zealand shipmasters. HEAVY TOLL OF SHIPPING. There was a heavy toll of shipping during the recent fog in the English Channel, according to reports that are just coming to hand. Two British steamers, the Fulmar 1598 tons, and the Rio Claro, 4,086 tons, ! collided, with the result that the former 1 vessel sank. During a violent storm fol- ! lowing the fog the Cardiff steamer Neville, ' 1,081 tons, turned turtle and sank. The Burdale, 4,350 tons, had her steering gear , carried away and the Author, 5,596 tons, | came into collision with the Spanish steamer I Jacinto, 2,300 tons, eight miles from Gibral- ' tar. The Jacinto sank inside ten minutes' and 17 members of the crew, including the captain, were missing. The French sailing- I ship Louis Pasteur, with a crew of eight, was lost with all hands in the rock-strewn | passage off Cape Hague, west of Cherbourg. I The Gadara, 5,281 tons, went aground I twelve miles off Tangier. Most of the fishing fleets were crippled by the storm. WITHIN WIRELESS RANGE. The following vessels were expected to be within range of the undermentioned wireless stations last night:— Auckland. —Tofua, Remuera, West Calera, Foyle, Maunganui, Mamari, Maheno, Kaitoke. Wellington.—Manuka, Wahine, Tamahine, Arahura, Port Auckland, Makura, Tutanekai, Kartigi, Kairanga, Persian Prince, Cumberland, Tairoa, Kawatiri, City of Khartoum, Antonio, Marania. Awarua.—Moeraki, Karetu. Chatham Islands.—Tongariro, Tekoa, Mataroa. TELEGRAPHED REPORTS. COASTAL AND OVERSEAS. Auckland, June 10. Arrived: Corinthic and Kaitangata from Wellington; Foyle from St. John. Sailed: Maheno for Sydney; Katoa for Napier. Wellington, June 10. Arrived: Wahine from Lyttelton; Canadian Pioneer from Auckland; Kartigi from New Plymouth. Sailed: Totara for New Plymouth; Manama for Sydney; Wahine for Lyttelton. Lvttelton, June 10. Arrived: Breeze from Wanganui; Calm and Progress from Timaru; Manuka from Wellington; Kaituna from Westport. Sailed: Kurow, Calm, Progress and Manuka for Wellington; Breeze for Dunedin; Cygnet for Kaikoura. Dunedin, June 10. Arrived: Holmdale from Wellington; Moeraki from Bluff; Maori from Lyttelton. Sailed: Storm for Oamaru.