PORT OF BLUFF

Southland Times, Issue 22472, 7 November 1934, Page 2

PORT OF BLUFF

VESSEL IN PORT. Waiwera m.v. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Waikouaiti. Hobart, to-day. Wingatui, Dunedin, November 9. Gale. Wellington, November 10. Waimarino, Dunedin. November 15. Wairuna, Dunedin, November 18. Maheno. Melbourne, November 19. Ruahine. Port Chalmers, November 23. Port Fairy, Suva, December —. Mamari, Dunedin, December 31. H.M S. Leith, Dunedin. January 23. Narbada, Dunedin. January —. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Waiwera. Gisborne, to-day. Waikouaiti, Dunedin, to-morrow. Wingatui. Dunedin, November 9. Gale, Dunedin, November 10. Waimarino, Dunedin. November 16. Wairuna, Melbourne, November 18. Maheno. Dunedin. November 19. Ruahine. , November Port Fairy. Lyttelton. December —. Mamari, Napier, January —. H.M.S. Leith, West Coast Sounds, January 28. Narbada, —, January —. GENERAL NOTES. The Tamatea sails at 10.15 a.m. to-day on her weekly trip to Stewart Island. She returns to connect with the 5.10 p.m. train for Invercargill. Loading operations were carried out In excellent conditions on the Shaw, Savill liner Waiwera yesterday. Work should finish to-day and the vessel’s departure taken for her further Dominion ports. The Waikouaiti sailed from Hopart at 10 p.m. on Saturday. She is due at Bluff this evening and sails to-morrow for Dunedin. The Waimarino leaves Auckland on Friday for Wellington, Lyttelton, Dunedin and Bluff. She is due on the 15th and sails the next day for Dunedin, Wellington and Auckland. Due to delays in the north the sailing of the Storm has been cancelled. She has been replaced by the Gale which is due at Bluff on Saturday morning from Wellington. The vessel sails later in the day for Dunedin. Mr C. S. Sparks, late purser of the Monowai, is relieving Mr C. C. Callis as purser of the Niagara. Mr Callis, is joining the Monowal prior to going on holiday leave. Advice has been received that the Parracombe has left Ocean Island with 8250 tons of phosphates for discharge at Auckland. She is due at Auckland about November 9. TANGIER. Here is an essay submitted by a young traveller who took one of the “Scholars’ Cruises" so popular in England. Those who have never visited the East have, nevertheless, a mental conception of white-walled houses, narrow streets, pictur-esquely-habited, swarthy natives, domed mosques and a scorching sun. Although in the same longitude as Land’s End, Tangier will remind one of the times when Europe was threatened with Mohammedan domination. Its chief difference lies in the essential difference between it and the English way of living. The natives are fascinating; the dress is bizarre, their speech garrulous, for they use their arms as much as their voices. Shopkeepers squat Inside their crowded little shops, surrounded by their wares, while their satellites hawk in the streets with a persistence unrivalled in England Higher up, on well made roads, where one can see the sky it is much pleasanter. Instead of stuffy streets, there are Moorish gardens, ablaze with gaudy flowers, vivid splashes of reds, blues and yellows, green bushes and unfamiliar trees, the brightly coloured mosaic titles which so distinguish the architecture of the Orient. The popularity of bright colours, natural and artificial, although more so with the men than with the women, is obvious, and are as pleasing to the eye as the tortuous streets are confusing. But as darkness falls, and the glare of white walls fade, the town takes on a dark, forbidding aspect; the pedlars seem menacing figures in the dusk, and, as the lights twinkle across the water, one feels that one prefers the Arabian Days to the Arabian Nights. WITHIN WIRELESS RANGE. The following vessels were expected to be within range of the undermentioned wireless stations yesterday:— .. . Auckland: City ot Delhi, Hertford,

Karepo, H.M.S. Laburnum. Ngakuta, Parracoombe, Phobos, Recorder, Waipahl, Wanganella. Wellington: Brisbane Maru. Evlnos, Kanna, Maori, Maul Pomare, Nucula, Port Dunedin, Rangitane. Raranga. Remuera. Ruahine, Tamahine, Tamaroa, Trojan Star, Wahine. Awarua: Karetu, King William, Lacklan, Makura, Matai, Maunganui, Omana, Waikouaiti. Chatham Islands: Nil. TELEGRAPHED REPORTS. COASTAL AND OVERSEAS. (Per United Press Association.) Auckland, November 6. Sailed: Canopus 8.20 a.m. for Westport. Wellington, November 6. Arrived: Echo 1.10 a.m. from Blenheim; Matangi 5.30 a.m. from Nelson; Maori 7 a.m., Totara 11.25 a.m., Awahou 1.55 p.m. from Lyttelton; Marama 7 а. from Sydney; Kapiti 7.10 a.m., Rata 8.30 a.m. from Wanganui; Tamahine 6.40 p.m. from Picton. Sailed: Wingatui 2.20 p.m., Maori 7.50 p.m. for Lyttelton; Maui Pomare 4 p.m. for Apia; Rata 4.50 p.n). for Westport; Trojan Star 5.10 p.m. for New Plymouth; Kohi 6 a.m., Matangi 7.35 p.m. for Nelson; Echo 6.5 p.m. for Blenheim; Kapiti 6.5 p.m. for Wanganui; Paua 6.10 p.m. for Auckland; Koutunui б. p.m., Awahou 6.40 p.m. for Napier; Totara 7.45 p.m. for Dunedin. Lyttelton, November 6. Arrived: Wahine 6.50 a.m. from Wellington; Port Whangarei 1.35 p.m. from Wellington. Sailed: Port Whangarei 6.10 p.m. for Dunedin; Wahine 8.10 p.m. for Wellington. Dunedin, November 6. Arrived: Wainui 7.30 a.m. from Bluff; Parera 11 a.m. from Bluff; Armadale 2 pm. from Lyttelton. Sailed: Huia 6 a.m. for Wellington; Matai 8 a.m. for southern lighthouses; Lachlan 2.30 p.m. for Auckland; Waitaki 4.30 p.m. for Lyttelton; Wainui 5.30 p.m. for Oamaru; Opihi 5.30 p.m. for Oamaru; Parera 6.15 p.m. for Timaru. (Rec. 10 p.m.) Sydney, November 6. Arrived—Port Waikato from New Zealand. Fremantle, November 6. ■Arrived—Strathaird from, London.