PORT OF BLUFF

Southland Times, Issue 22486, 23 November 1934, Page 2

PORT OF BLUFF

EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Waikouaiti, Lyttelton, to-day. Kalingo, Dunedin, to-morrow. Breeze, Wellington, November 26. Maheno, Wellington, November 26. Norfolk, Melbourne, Australia, November 28.

Paua, Lyttelton, November 29. Waipiata, Dunedin, November 29. Parera, Wellington. December 3. Mamari, Dunedin, December 31. H.M.S. Leith, Dunedin. January 23. Narbada, Dunedin, January 27. Port Hobart, New Plymouth, February 14. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Waikouaiti, Sydney, to-day. Kalingo, Greymouth, November 26. Maheno, Hobart, November 26. Norfolk, —, November —. Breeze, Dunedin, November 26. Paua. Dunedin, November 30. Waipiata, Dunedin, November 30. Ruahine, Lyttelton, December 1. Parera, Dunedin. December 3. Mamari, Napier, January —. H.M.S. Leith, West Coast Sounds, Januiry 28. Narbada. —, January —. Port Hobart, —, February 17. GENERAL NOTES. The New Zealand Shipping Company's liner Ruahine, which is due at Bluff this morning from Port Chalmers, has 1919 tons of cargo to discharge. She afterwards loads 11,500 crates of cheese, 8000 boxes of butter and 500 tons of general cargo. She should finish working about Thursday or Friday next, and will then sail for Lyttelton. The Launch Pegasus arrived with cased fish from Stewart Island at 6.50 a.m. yesterday. Her local agents (Messrs Nichol Bros) advise that the coastal steamer Parera is due at Bluff, from Wellington, on Monday, December 3. After working general cargo she sails the same evening for Dunedin, Timaru, Lyttelton, Wellington, New Plymouth, Wanganui, Nelson and Port Waikato. The Union Company’s intercolonial steamer Waikouaiti, which left Lyttelton on Wednesday afternoon should also arrive to start working this morning. She sails later for Sydney. The Breeze is due on Monday from Wellington and sails later in the day for Dunedin.

The Norfolk should arrive at Bluff from Melbourne on Wednesday. Her sailing schedule from Bluff is not yet known. The Kalingo leaves Dunedin this evening for Bluff where she is due on Saturday, afternoon. The vessel sails on Monday for Greymouth. The Royal Mail liner Makura sailed on Wednesday from San Francisco for Wellington and Sydney, via Papeete and Rarotonga. She is due at Wellington on December 10. Reported to have reached Cristobal. Panama, the Shaw. Savill and Albion liner Mataroa is en route from London to Auckland and Wellington. She is due at Auckland on December 5. HAIL TO NEW YORK.

I caught my first glimpse of America at about 7 o’clock on the Tuesday morning. It was with an air of expectancy that X had gone on deck on this last day. For five days in succession I had done the same thing, to be met each time by an unbroken expanse of grey, gleaming in the early sun. Always had there been the same subdued throb, steady and relentless. It had become part of one's life, stowed away into the sub-concious.

But now you became aware of it once again, like the repacked trunks neatly piled on deck ready for disembarking. It was the calm dispassionate voice, of one grown blase at the sight of the irregular line westward on which all eyes were at the moment fixed. The hum of the engines was the one constant thing in an atmosphere that had suddenly changed. . It seemed Impossible to reconcile the heavily muffled figures leaning on the rail, pointing and staring, with the gay, colourful crowd of the previous evening's gala. Had that rather forbidding, impassive Wall Street financier really worn a paper hat and made the air hideous with a raucous cardboard trumpet? And had that dignified lady in Paris hat and costly furs actually been blowing enthusiastically into a snakelike contraption which swelled out and whistled curiously. . . .? And surely those scurrying figures pushing trollies and piling baggage were not the sedate cabin stewards of earlier days. Only the cats and the ship remained undisturbed. We were getting well in now. The ship had at last deigned to notice the fact. The pace was slowing down. New York, "Cleanest and least smoky of cities,” lay shrouded in mist. The great expanse of water made It difficult to appreciate the actual height of such skyscrapers as the Singer and the Woolworth buildings, which together with many mcve' of a like character go to form Lower Manhattan.

Finally at 11 o’clock we came to rest by the huge Customs shed. Shrieks of recognition and greeting from the crowd on the pier below. Hawsers made fast. Tugs cast off. Gangway lowered. I stepped ashore. The final phase was enacted in a villainous yellow cab, driven by an- equally fearsome looking Negro. And so in my garish vehicle, speeding jerkily through a phantasmagoria of towering buildings, the rattling. elevated, roaring traffic, beggars, winking lights and street cars. I was ushered into "God’s Own Country."—Peter Holloway. WITHIN WIRELESS RANGE.

The following vessels were expected to be within range of the undermentioned wireless stations yesterday:— Auckland: Aorangi. Elmbank. Erlanger. Kent. H.M.S. Leith, Marama. Maridal, Maui Pomare, Omana, Recorder, Strathaird, Trojan Star. Wellington: Canadian Challenger, Kanna, H.M.S. Laburnum, Maheno, Maori, Mariposa, Mataroa. Monterey, Niagara, Rangitata. Rangitiki, Raranga. Remuera, Tamahine, Tamaroa, Tuscan Star, Wahine, Waiwera, Wanganella. Awarua: Abel Tasman, City of Delhi,

Kalingo, Makura, Matai, Maunganul, Ngakuta, Norfolk, Waikouaiti, Wairuna. Chatham Islands: Nil. FEDERAL STEAMER CORNWALL. NEW PROPELLER SHAFT TO BE FITTED. (Per United Press Association.) Dunedin, November. 22. The Federal Line steamer Cornwall, which arrived this morning from Liverpool and northern ports, will dock at Port Chalmers next week to have a propeller shaft fitted in place of the one which was cracked just after the vessel left Auckland on November 10. TELEGRAPHED REPORTS. COASTAL AND OVERSEAS, (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) Auckland, November 22 Arrived: H.M.S. Dunedin 8.25 a.m., H.M.S. Diomede 8.40 a.m., Canopus 2.50 a.m., Wingatui 11.25 a.m. from Wellington. Sailed: Poolta 1.40 a.m. for Portland; Marama 3.25 p.m. for Sydney. Wellington, November 22. Arrived: Canadian Challenger 4.45 a.m. from Auckland; Maheno 5 a.m., Maori 8 a.m., Parera 10.15 a.m. from Lyttelton; Kini 11.25 a.m. from Napier. Sailed: Karepo 12.30 p.m. for Westport; South Sea and launch Sea Hawk 12.45 p.m. for Chatham Islands; Wanganella 4.30 p.m. for Sydney; Maori 7.50 p.m. for Lyttelton. To sail: Parera 8.30 p.m. for Nelson. Lyttelton, November 22. Arrived: Totara 6.30 a.m. from Timaru; Wahine 6.45 a.m. from Wellington; Waimarino 7.5 a.m. from Timaru; Taupata 7.10 a.m. from Tarakohe; Dalcross 7.40 a.m. from Nauru Island; Abel Tasman 9.30 a.m. from Wellington; Storm 11.15 a.m. from Timaru; Raranga 11.50 a.m. from Wellington. Sailed: Port Whangarei 11.55 a.m. for Dunedin; Totara 2.50 p.m. for Wellington; Storm 5 p.m. for Wellington; Taupata 6 p.m. for Nelson; Waimarino 6.35 p.m. for Wellington; Wahine 8.20 p.m. for Wellington. To sail: Abel Tasman for Dunedin; Dalcross for Port Chalmers. Dunedin, November 22. Arrived: City of Delhi 7.30 a.m. from Lyttelton; Cornwall 8 a.m. from Lyttelton; Kalingo 4.25 p.m. from Lyttelton. Sailed: Ruahine 3.55 a.m. for Bluff; Holmdale 6 p.m. for Oamaru; Gale 6.30 p.m. for Timaru. Melbourne, November 22. Arrived: Kaimiro from Greymouth. London, November 21. Sailed: Mataroa from Balboa. Suva, November 22. Arrived—Aorangi from Vancouver.