PORT OF BLUFF.

Southland Times, Issue 21577, 15 December 1931, Page 2

PORT OF BLUFF.

EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Wainui, Dunedin, to-day. Breeze, Lyttelton, December 19. Pakeha, Australia, December 21. Wainui, Melbourne, December 28. Waihemo, Dunedin, December 30. Hertford, Lyttelton, December 30. Waipiata, Dunedin, January 3. Rangitane, Port Chalmers, January 6. Kaimiro, Melbourne, January 18. Ilauraki, New Plymouth, January 18. Narbada, Dunedin, January 22. Otaio, Dunedin, February 13. Somerset, Port Chalmers, February 14. Orari, Dunedin, April 13. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Wainui, Melbourne, to-day. Breeze, Dunedin, December 19. Pakeha, Lyttelton, December 22. Wainui, Dunedin, December 28. Waihemo, Melbourne, December 30. Waipiata, , January 3. Hertford, Gisborne, January 5. Rangitane, Wellington, January 0. Kaimiro, Dunedin, January 19. Hauraki, Lyttelton, January 20. Narbada, Newcastle. January 22. Somerset, Timaru, February 16. Otaio, , February 17. Orari, —. , April 17. INWARD CARGO ON HAND. Janus, ex Wainui, in B shed (U. S. S.) Kaitoa, ex Waipiata, in B shed (U. S. 8 -> Matangi, ex Waipiata, in B shed (U. S. Nieuw Zeeland, ex Waikouaiti, in B shed (D. and Co.) Oram a, ex Wainui, in B shed (U. S. 5. Port Dunedin (New York cargo), ex Waioiata, in B shed (Hend.) Sonoma, ex Waipiata, in B shed (U. S. 6. Winton, ex Waipiata, in B shed (J. G. W.) (D. and Co.): Dalgety and Company. (Hend.): Henderson and Company. (H.L.T.): H. L Tapley and Company. (J.G.W.): J. G. Ward and Company. (N.M.A.): National Mortgage and *■86007 company. (N.Z.S.): New Zealand Shipping Company. (0.5. C. Oreti Shipping Company. (U.S.S.): Union Steam Ship Company? (W.S. and Co.): Wright. Stepaenaon tad Company. GENERAL NOTES. The launch Pegasus left for Stewart Island at 4.15 pun. yesterday. The cable repair work in Foveaux Strait was continued yesterday. The Tamatea left Bluff at 7.15 a.m. and returned at 3.40 p.m. The Union Company’s intercolonial steamer Wainui left Port Chalmers at 2.30 p.m. yesterday for Bluff. She is expected to berth early this morning and loads cargo,

and mails, leaving on completion for Melbourne to-day. The Canadian Highlander, which left Dunedin on September 16 for Canada, via Australia left New York on November 24, arrived at Boston on December 4, and left there the same day for Halifax, where she arrived on December 6. The Scales chartered steamer Benlawers is to call at Picton about December 16 to commence loading wool for Dunkirk; London, and Hull. She will also load at Napier, Tolaga Bay, Wellington, Lyttelton, Timaru, and Port Chalmers. The vessel is due at Port Chalmers early in January. The Marine Department advises that the beacon shown on the south-western extreme of Te Motu Island and the beacon shown northeastward of Rangihua Point, in Kawhia Harbour, are non-existent, and are to be expunged from the chart. A Wellington message states that repairs to the coastal steamer Pakura, which struck a rock on the East Coast near Tora Landing on November 7, have been almost completed. The vessel will leave Wellington on Monday, when she will resume her running in the Wellington,Napier-Gisborne trade. The Canadian Scottish is on her way out to New Zealand in ballast, via South America. She was to have left Buenos Aires at the end of November, and will call at Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton and Dunedin. The vessel will return to Canada direct. Messrs H. L. Tapley and Company advise that the Canterbury Shipping Company’s coastal trader Breeze leaves Wellington on December 16 and Lyttelton on December 17 and arrives at Bluff on December 19. The vessel loads back for Wellington and Wanganui. Messrs J. G. Ward and Company advise that the ffrffo is to sail from Liverpool on December 19 for Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton, Dunedin and Blpff. Due at Bluff on February 13 the vessel is to sail on February 17. The Orari is to sail on February 20 for Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton, Dunedin and Bluff and is due at Bluff on April 13. The vessel is to sail on April 17. The Union Company’s intercolonial freighter Wainui was to leave Dunedin at 1 p.m. yesterday and is due at Bluff at 6.30 a.m. to-day. The vessel is to sail at 1 p.m. for Melbourne. Personal Items. Mr W. Walker has joined the Holmdale as third engineer. Mr J. Farrant, of the Union Company, is to go on sick leave at the end of this week to enable him to enter a private hospital to undergo a minor operation. CALLS AT JAMAICA. STEAMERS FOR NEW ZEALAND. Arrangements have been made for the steamers of the Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company in the regular service between England and New Zealand, via Panama, to call at Jamaica (West Indies) on the outward and Homeward run to replenish their bunkers. Hitherto the steamers of the company have usually bunkered at Cristobel, at the Atlantic end of the Panama canal. Now, owing to the change in the relationship between sterling and dollars, it is found cheaper for the vessels to be coaled at Execution Dock, Port Royal, Jamaica, and one result of the change will be that cargoes of British coal will need to be transported to the island. By these developments Jamacia will gain the advantage of additional communication by large British liners; passengers to and from New Zealand and Great Britain wil have the benefit of another very interesting port of call on the voyage; and work will be provided for British miners, and for the seamen in the British ships which carry the coal to the bunkering station. The company’s liner lonic, now at Auckland, bunkered at Jamaica on the voyage to New Zealand, and she will also call at Jamacia on the return voyage. The liner Corinthic also bunkered at the same port when she was recently proceeding from New Zealand to London. The Tainui, which left Southampton for Wellington on December 4, will bunker at Jamaica on the voyage to New Zealand, and she will also bunker there on the return voyage. The Raranga, which arrived at Bluff on December 4 from London in ballast, came to New Zealand via the Cape of Good Hope, instead of via Panama, and she bunkered at Cape Town. On the voyage from New Zealand to London she will proceed via the Panama canal route and bunker at Jamaica. The company’s steamers Hemiinius and Tairoa are en route from London to New Zealand, in ballast, via the Cape of Good Hope, and they also bunkered at ■ Cape Town. On the return voyage from New Zealand they will bunker at Jamaica. The Matakana and the Pakeha, which are scheduled to load in New Zealand, will proceed to London via the Panama canal, and will both bunker at Jamaica. The alteration of the routq of so many steamers will mean that America will lose a large amount of money which will go to British merchants. The decreased value of the pound sterling and the high canal dues at Panama have caused other shipping companies to alter the routes of their vessels,' a number of motor ships having proceeded recently from New Zealand to England via Cape Horn and called at Las Palmas or Dakar for bunkers. The New Zealand Shipping Company’s motor ship Opawa, the Shaw, Savill, and Albion motor ship Zealandic, and the Commonwealth and Dominion Line motor ships Port Alma and Port Fairy were despatched from New Zealand for London via Cape Horn. In addition, the Commonwealth and Dominion Line will despatch six motor ships and eight steamers from New Zealand for England via the Cape Horn route, instead of through the Panama canal, during the next six months. WITHIN WIRELESS RANGE. The following vessels were within range of the undermentioned wireless stations yesterday :— ’ Auckland: Paxen, lonic, Karetu, Kartigi, Sonoma, Tofua, Ulimaroa, Vacuoline, Ventura, Waihemo, Waiotapu, Weirbank. Wellington: Aorangi, Marama, Matai, Maunganui, Poolta, Port Dunedin, Rangatira, Rangitane, Rangitata, Rotorua, Surat, Tamahine, Tairoa, Tynemouth, Waihine. Awarua: Cathay, Comorin, Makura, Mongolia, Waikouaiti, Wainui. Chatham Islands: Canadian Challenger, Matakana. TELEGRAPHED REPORTS. COASTAL AND OVERSEAS. (Per United Press Association.) Wellington, December 14. Arrived:—Monowai 12.5 a.m. from San Francisco; Kini 5 a.m. from Greymouth. Sailed:-—Rotorua 4.10 p.m. for Port Chalmers; Rangatira 7.50 p.m. for Lyttelton. Lyttelton, December 14. Arrived:—Tees 1120 a.m. from Chatham Islands. Sailed: —Holmdale noon for Wellington; Opihi 1.15 p.m. for Wellington; Kaitoa 4.55 pan. for Nelson ; Wahine 8.15 p.m. for Wellington. Dunedin, December 14. x Arrived:—Wainui 6.30 a.m. from Wellington. Sailed:—Wainui 1.30 pun. for Bluff; Waipiata 5.30 p.m. for Timaru; John 6.15 p.m. for Timaru.