PORT OF BLUFF.

Southland Times, Issue 22486, 22 January 1935, Page 2

PORT OF BLUFF.

SAILED. —Monday, January 21.— Waikouaiti s.s. (Captain J. G. Watson) 3926 tons for Dunedin at 3.30 p.m. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Maheno, Wellington, to-morrow. Opawa, Port Chalmers, January 24. Breeze, Wellington, January 28. H.M.S. Leith, Dunedin, January 29. Narbada. Dunedin, January 30. Waikouaiti, Oamaru, January 31. Waipiata, Dunedin. January 31. Waltakl, Hobart, ■ February 4. Pennyworth, Lyttelton; February 14. Imperial Star, Timaru. February 14. Canadian Scottish. Dunedin, February 15.' Anglo-Canadian, Lyttelton. February 16. ' Port Hobart. New Plymouth. February 20. Canadian Challenger, Dunedin. March 20. Port Fairy, Dunedin, April —. Indlen, Dunedin, May 9. Canadian Scottish, Dunedin, June 13

PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Maheno, Melbourne, to-morrow. Opawa, New Plymouth, January 26. Breeze, Dunedin, January 28. Narbada, Sydney, January 31. Walpiata. Dunedin, February 1. Waikouaiti, Sydney, February 1. H.M.S. Leith, West Coast Sounds, February 4. Waltakl, Dunedin. February 4. Pennyworth, New York. February 15. Canadian Scottish, New York, February 16. Imperial Star, Port Chalmers, February 17. Anglo-Canadian, Port Chalmers, February 17. Fort Hobart. —, February 23. Canadian Challenger, New York, March 21. Port Fairy. —. April —. Indlen. Melbourne, May 10. Canadian Scottish. New York, June 14. GENERAL NOTES. The Tamatea returned from her weekend run to Stewart Island yesterday, berthing at 11.25 a.m. She sailed for the island again at 3.5 p.m. with passengers and cargo and is due back at Bluff this morning. The Union Company's intercolonial cargo steamer Waikouaiti. which arrived from Sydney on Sunday morning, yesterday discharged Australian cargo and on completion sailed for Dunedin. The Breeze is now due on the 28th from Wellington. She sails the same day for Dunedin. „ ' The Scales Line ship Anglo-Canadian arrives at Bluff from Lyttelton on February 16. She sails for Port Chalmers the following day. On March 2 the ship clears Wellington for a Continental destination. The Walpiata sails from Auckland on Thursday afternoon for Napier,. Wellington, Lyttelton, Dunedin and Bluff. She arrives on January 31 and sails the following day for Dunedin. The Narbada at Wellington was expected to sail for Lyttelton at 4 p.m. yesterday. She is due on January 30 and sails the next day for Sydney. : . The Maheno was expected to sad from Wellington at 10 p.m. yesterday for Bluff direct where she is due. on Wednesday morning. • She sails -at- 4.30 p.m. for Melbourne via Milford Sound. The Waikouaiti is- expected to return to Bluff about the 31st to load for Sydney. She sails the-following day for Sydney direct.

The Shaw. Savill and Albion steamer Kumara is to leave London for New Zealand in ballast on January 26 to load for Great Britain. The vessel will come to New Zealand via the Cape of Good Hope and Sydney. -The Royal Mail liner Makura was scheduled to leave San Francisco a few days ago for Papeete, Rarotonga, Wellington and Sydney. The vessel is due at Wellington on February 4. The Shaw, Savill and Albion liner Mataroa, which left Lyttelton for London on January 5 has reported that she has experienced splendid weather since leaving' and all on board are well. She called at Pitcairn Island a week ago. The Farmers’ Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Auckland, has received advice that the Commonwealth and Dominion Line steamer Port Hunter, from Glasgow, cleared Liverpool On January 5 for Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton, Dunedin and New Plymouth. She is due at Auckland about February 14. The Union Company's steamer Kanna has sailed from Auckland for Walpole Island, via Noumea, to load guano. On her return she will discharge this cargo at Lyttelton, at Timaru, and at either Dunedin or Bluff. Under charter to the Canadian National Steamships the steamer Pennyworth is due at Wanganui from Canada, via Australia on January 28. After loading at Wanganui. Lyttelton and Bluff, the vessel will leave Bluff about February 15 for New York, Boston and Halifax. The New Zealand Shipping Company's liner Rotorua arrived at Suva a week ago en route from London to Wellington. The vessel is scheduled to reach Wellington tomorrow io disembark passengers. Her general merchandise cargo will be unloaded at Port Chalmers, Lyttelton, Timaru and Nelson.

The cable steamer Recorder is to leave Auckland for Norfolk Island to-day to repair a break in the Auckland-Norfolk Island cable, about 40 miles from the island. The vessel completed replenishing her bunkers at Auckland on Tuesday last. The Blue Star Line’s new motor-ship Imperial Star, which left Belfast in ballast for Auckland on January 3, sailed from Willemstad on January 16, according to cable advice. The ship should reach Auckland on February 4 on her maiden trip to commence her Homeward loading. The Blue Star Line have received advice by cable stating that the Sultan Star, which sailed from Auckland for London on December 29 has arrived at Balboa. A BACKWATER. A river, . <s Whose clear; cool depths Harbour swift, darting fish, And on whose brink, Waist-high, golden and purple iris grow And reeds whisper and shiver together. In sheltered sunflecked pools on either bank Frail water-lilies float, like stars ■■ .~ — i Fallen from grace k" . In-Heaven. ,' Or here, mayhap, a willow, Sunlight slanting through the .'quivering ‘-leaVefe'-'";• ■■ Leaning, Narcissus-like, above the water. 1 And over all a clear, high dome of blue Flecked o’er with lazy clouds, endlessly drifting. - ' A breeze comes dancing up the river, Stirs all the leaves and makes the nishes quiver. Sets all in motion. . . . and then dies away. —M. A. Smith in the ‘‘Blue Peter.” SOMEWHERE IN THE TROPICS. "Anchor clear, sir.” ■ The engines are run on to half speed, and we swing round to seaward. It is good to feel the throb.' Two dr three darkskinned men in their canoes wave their paddles, and the little wooden pier soon fades into the background. The noisy, cheerful natives in their gay cottons, become specks of colour and then disappear. The white men, to-night, mopping their brows as they enter the club, will be cheerful enough, too but for all the moonlight and the palms, the bougainvillea, and the cannas, they know that they are exiles, and the chief satisfaction of each homeward mail as it goes is that it brings nearer the all-important one. We are up to the lighthouse now, and the ship lifts and curtsies to the open sea. A beautiful night it is. Behind the dazzling white lighthouse on the green headland, palms sway like plumed courtiers towards a queen, the sky overhead a hazy blue, and the sea a deeper blue flecked with white. But scarce a mile away there is a reef just below the surface, and upon the reef is a wreck. Though she has been there several years she looks almost sound from here with her foremast and funnel in place. A heavy list to port, it’s true, yet so has many an honest freighter. There she lies, a sad symbolism headed for home, but stranded. —M.F. WITHIN WIRELESS RANGE. The followlngavessels are expected to be within range of the undermentioned 'wireless stations to-day:—' Auckland: Aorangi, Benholm, Canadian Britisher, Canadian Conqueror, Coptic, Golden Cloud, Kanna, Marama, Matal, Monowai, Northumberland, Rotorua, Walpiata, Waitaki, Waikawa, Yarraville. Wellington: H.M.A.S. Australia, H.M.S. Leith, Maheno, Mariposa, Mataroa, Monterey, Narbada, Ngakuta, Niagara, Port Alma, Port Chalmers, Rangatira, Rangitane, Rangitata. Rangitiki, Tamahine, Wahine. . , Awarua: Bear of Oakland, Indien, Jacob Ruppert, Makura, Waikouaiti. - Chatham Islands: South Sea.

TELEGRAPHED REPORTS. V COASTAL AND OVERSEAS. (United Press Assn. —Telegraph Copyright.) Auckland, January 21. Arrived: Waipiata 6.25 a.m. from Wellington; Mamari 6.45 a.m. from Napier; Abel Tasman 10.30 a.m. from Wellington; Monowai 1.45 p.m. from Sydney. Sailed: Aorangi 5.30 p.m. for Sydney; Monowai 7.40 p.m. for northern cruise. Wellington, January 21. Arrived: Manganui, 7.25 a.m. from Sydney; Port Whangarei, 9.25 a.m.,.from Auckland; Fairburn, 3.25 p.m., from Little Wanganui. .. ■ f; Sailed: Tamahine, 2.50 p.m., for Picton; Kini, 3.10 p.m., for Timaru; Port Chalmers, 5 p.m., for London; Narbada, 5.40 p.m., for Lyttelton; Holmdale, 5.5 Q p.m. for Dunedin; Echo, 5 p.m., for Blenheim; Storm, 6 p.m., for Dunedin; Koutunui, 6.10 p.m., for Napier; Kiwitea, 6.50 p.m., for Westport; Arahura, 7.35 p.m., for Nelson; Rangatira, 7.45 p.m., for Lyttelton; Opihi, 8.30 p.m., for Nelson. . ■'■

Lyttelton, January 21. Sailed: Kapiti 1.50 p.m. for Wellington; Patera 3.5 p.m. for Wellington; Awahou 4.35 p.m. for Wellington; H.M.A.S. Australia 7.40 p.m. for Bay of Islands; H.M.S. Leith 8.20 p.m. for Dunedin; Wahine.B.ss pan. for Wellington, To sail: Breeze for Wellington. - Brisbane, January 21. Sailed:— for New Zealand.

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