PORT OF BLUFF

Southland Times, Issue 25361, 13 August 1935, Page 2

PORT OF BLUFF

ARRIVED. Sunday. August 11. Storm s.s. (Captain Williams) 750 tons from Wellington at 11.50 p.m. Monday, August 12. Waitaki s.s. (Captain A. H. Howie) 2212 tons from Melbourne at 1 p.m. SAILED. Monday, August 12. Waitaki s.s. (Captain A. H. Howie) 2212 tons for Dunedin at 6 p.m. Storm s.s. (Captain Williams) 750 tons for Dunedin at 8 p.m. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Waimarino. Dunedin, August 15. Canadian Challenger, Melbourne, August 15. Waikouaiti, Lyttelton. August 17. Waitaki, Wellington, August 18. Wainui, Wellington, August 18. Port Fairy. Dunedin. August 21. Walpiata, Dunedin, August 22. Wairangi. Auckland. August 23. Karetu. Sydney, August 24. Rangltane, Wellington, August 26. Fordsdale, Dunedin, September 4. Narbada, Dunedin. September 20. Noiisement, Seychelles Islands, September Zealandic. Dunedin. October 1. Canadian Cruiser, Montreal, October 23. Marama, Melbourne, November 11. Rotorua, Dunedin, November 21. Hauraki. Dunedin. December 7. Dorset. Dunedin. December 24. Mataroa. Wellington. February 7. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Waimarino. Dunedin, August 15. Canadian Challenger, Dunedin. August 16. Waikouaiti, Sydney, August 17.

Waitaki, Melbourne, August 19. Wainui, Dunedin, August 19. Walpiata, Dunedin, August 22. Karetu, Dunedin, August 24. Port Fairy, Tltnaru, August 24. Wairangl. Port Chalmers, August 27. Rangltane. —, August 28. Fordsdale. —, September —. Narbada. Newcastle. September 20. Nollsement. —. October —. Zealandic, Timaru, October 1. Canadian Cruiser, Dunedin, October 24. Marama. Dunedin, November 11. Rotorua, —, November —. Hauraki, Melbourne, December 8. Dorset, —, December —. Mataroa, February — GENERAL NOTES. The Canterbury Shipping Company’s coaster Storm, which arrived from Wellington a few minutes before midnight on Sunday, yesterday, discharged 220 tons of cargo and after loading 200 tons for the north sailed at 8 p.m. for Dunedin. The Union Company’s intercolonial steamer Waitaki reached BlufE from Melbourne at 1 p.m. yesterday. She discharged Australian mails and cargo and after loading a quantity of general cargo sailed in the early evening for Dunedin. The schooner ■ Britannia sailed for Stewart Island at 11.30 a.m. yesterday. The motor vessel Aurora arrived on Sunday afternoon from West Coast Sounds witli cased fish. , x Messrs H. L. Tapley and Co., advise that the Canadian Challenger left Melbourne for Bluff on Saturday afternoon and is due on the 15th. She will sail for Dunedin the following day. The Union Company’s Waikouaiti leaves Lyttelton on Thursday afternoon for Bluff direct. She is due here on Saturday morning and sails the same day for Sydney and Newcastle. ... . The Waimarino was to leave Wellington at 8 p.m. yesterday for Bluff via Lyttelton and Dunedin. She is due here on Thursday and sails the same day for Dunedin. The Walpiata leaves Auckland on Friday afternoon for Wellington, Lyttelton, Dunedin and Bluff. She is due here about the 22nd and sails the same day for Dunedin. The Wainui leaves Wellington on Friday the 16th for Bluff direct where she is due on Sunday. She sails the following day for Dunedin. Oamaru. Timaru, Lyttelton, Wellington, Napier and Gisborne. The vessel also takes cargo for Waikato Heads and New Plymouth. The Waitaki is scheduled to leave Wellington on Friday for Bluff where she is due on Sunday. She sails the following day for Melbourne. The Union Company’s Karetu leaves Sydney about August 19 for Bluff. She is due here about the 24th and sails the same day for Dunedin. . . En route from Victoria, tile C.-A. liner Niagara cleared Honolulu on August 7 for Suva and Auckland, where she is due on August 19. The Director-General of the Post Office, Mr G. McNamara, has received the following message a few days ago from Mr J. A. Perano, whaler and telephonist. Whekenui. Tory Channel:—"7.3s p.m. Large tree with roots and branches protruding drifting in Cook Strait about three miles east from Tory Channel heads. Drifting north and south with tide. Considered to be a danger to navigation." The Union Company has received cabled advice that its new motor ship Karu, now en route to New Zealand on her maiden voyage, cleared Safaga on August 6 for Wellington via Fremantle. The vessel loaded phosphates at Safaga and is due at Wellington about September 15. Cabled advice has been received by the Blue Star Line that its motor ship New Zealand Star,' en route from London to Auckland and Port Chalmers, cleared Balboa at 6 p.m. on August 7. She is due at Auckland on August 26. PERSONAL. Mr D. C. Champion has joined the Hauraki as third officer, relieving Mr T. Stevenson. who is proceeding to Sydney’ on holidays. ' . „ Mr J. N. Collins, late third, officer ot the Kiwitea. is on holiday leave in Sydney. LIFE AT SEA. It is possible, in fact probable, to stay lor quite protracted periods in a large hotel, without knowing any more about one's fellow guests than one cares to know. It is one of the big advantages of shipboard life, and at the same time (let us whisper) one of its disadvantages, that whole collections of people, who would under other circumstances remain strangers, do impinge their presence upon our social consciousness, and we upon theirs. Maybe the old ocean itself is responsible for tiiis curiosity of social ethics ,for there is an indefinable magic in the ocean’s presence, and sea breezes do chant the most unconventional melodies upon occasion! It is. in any case, a definite human instinct to be sociable. When we are ashore, with the telephone at our elbow, and a car at our door, this instinct is satisfied—shall we say more than satisfied?— within the circle of our especial friends and acquaintances. To be cut off, practically, from this circle, as we are, of course, as soon as we mount a gangplank, is to bring old father social instinct into sharp focus—and is there any real reason why we should not react to this. Whatever the cause there is no doubt as to effect. Give the plainest of people a few days at sea. and they will know more about each other than during the most imposing array of P.S.A’s. (Pleasant Saturday Afternoons) at tiie tennis club-—• The Treasure Book of Pleasure Cruising, by Gilbert Rumbold. WITHIN WIRELESS RANGE. The following vessels were expected to be within range of the undermentioned wireless stations yesterday:— Auckland: Aelybryn, Binta. Brisbane Maru, Canadian Victor, City of Glasgow, Daicairn, Doric Star, Kalingo. Oakbank, Port Fairy, Sagona. Waipahi, Wairuna, Willesden. , Wellington: Canadian Highlander, H.M.S. Diomede. H.M.S. Dunedin. H.M.S. Leith. Maori, Marama, Matai. Matakana, Maunganui New Zealand Star, Ngakuta. Niagara. Port Huon. Port Whangarei, Rangatira, Rangitiki, Shintoku Maru, Tamahine, H.M.S. WeiAwarua: Abel Tasman. Balaklava, Benholm. Buccinum. Canadian Challenger. Hauraki, Karepo. Karetu, Makura, Omana, Strathaird. Waikouaiti, Waitaki, Wanganella. Chatham Islands: South Sea. PACIFIC COAST SERVICE. VESSELS DELAYED. (Per United Press Association.) Auckland, August 12. Advice has been received by Messrs Henderson and Macfarlane Ltd. that the American steamer Golden State, which was to have cleared Los Angeles on August 1 with cargo from Pacific Coast ports for Nevz Zealand, is delayed by the Canadian waterfront labour trouble and her sailing for New Zealand is now indefinite. She has already loaded at British Columbia ports, but she is unable to complete her loading at other ports. The advice also states that the steamer Golden Cloud, which is scheduled to leave Los Angeles for New Zealand on September 1, will only bring cargo from Pacific Coast ports of the United States of America. She will not load at Canadian ports, owing to the continuation of the waterfront trouble in Canada. No American cargo vessels have reached New Zealand from Pacific Coast ports since the steamer Golden Bear arrived at Auckland from Los Angeles on June 28. The steamer Golden Coast was to have followed the Golden Bear and was to have left Los Angeles for Auckland on July 1. On account of the trouble she did not load and her sailing for New Zealand was conceited. TELEGRAPHED REPORTS. COASTAL AND OVERSEAS. (Per United Press Association.) Auckland, August 12. Arrived: Tamaroa 3.15 a.m. from New Plymouth; Waipiata 7 a.m. from Wellington; Ruahine 9.45 p.m. from Wellington; Trojan Star 1.40 p.m. from Wellington. Sailed: Canopus 7 p.m. for Westport; Port Waikato 7 p.m. for Wellington. Wellington, August 12. Arrived: Kanna 10 p.m. (Sunday) from Greymouth; Kaimiro 6.20 a.m. from Westport; Wairangi 6.20 a.m. from London; Waimarino 7.15 a.m., Canadian Highlander 5.20 p.m. from Auckland. Sailed: Port Whangarei 7.5 p.m. for Auckland; Rangatira 7.50 p.m. for Lyttelton. To sail: Waimarino 9 p.m. for Lyttelton. Lyttelton, August 12. Sailed: Benholm 2.15 p.m. for Dunedin; Foxton 3 p.m. for Foxton; Orepuki 3.40 p.m. for Wellington; Maori 8.5 p.m. for Wellington; Hauraki 9.30 p.m. for Dunedin. Dunedin, August 12. Arrived: Holmdate 9.15 a.m. from Wellington. To sail: Holmdate midnight for Oamaru. Sydney, August 12. Arrived: Mariposa, 8.20 a.m. from Auckland. Melbourne, August 12. Sailed: Canadian Challenger for Bluff.

Suva, August 12. Arrived: H.M.S. Diomede from Auckland.