LATE SHIPPING.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 31, 13 March 1914, Page 10

LATE SHIPPING.

SAILED. FRIDAY,. MARCH 13. MANUKA (2.30 p.m.), 4505 tons, M'Leaa, for Melbourne, via southern ports and Hobart. Tho New Zealand Shipping Company's chartered steamer Cairnross, from Montreal, via Australian ports and Auckland, is due in Wellington to-day. The vessel will complete discharge at Lyttelton - and Dunedin, «nd will afterwards load at "VVanganui, Picton, and Wellington, taking final departure for London from Wellington. The New. Zealand Shipping Company's Waimate, which is under charteT to the Union Steam Ship Company, is due in Lyttelton from Vancouver about March 18. Following the. Banffshire; which is-due at' Wellington to-morrow, the Roscommon .will be the next vessel to load a.t Wellington for Boston and New York. This vessel is due there about the middle of next month. It .is announced that the May load will be taken by the steamer Norfolk. On completion of the discharge of -the Wellington consignments from London, the New Zealand Shipping,. Company's steamer Kaikoura will sail for Lyttelton. She will commence Homeward loading jat the latter '. port, and will fill up at Timaru, Napier, and Wellington, sailing finally from there for London on April 9. ' This morning the Union Company's steamer Manuka arrived from Sydney, vi» " Wellington, and leaves again to-day for Melbourne, via southern _ ports. and Hobart. The " scow Eunice was towed ' into the st>eam this morning, having completed the , discharge' of cargo. It; will be late to-morrow before repair* to the Kairaki will be completed: ' ' „ Th? smajl fishing ketch Fannie, which'arrived from jhe Chathams last w«ek, is expected to saifc again early next week. The repairs to her bulwarks and deck are nearing completion. ■ • . , . NEW ZEALAND SHIPPING COMPANY. . .The movements of the New Zealand ping Company's fleet are as follow: The Cairnross, from Montreal, i/ due -at - Lyttelton on March 17. ' The Kaikoura, from London, is expected to arrive in Lyttelton on- March 19. The Orari left Timaru last evening ~ior Wellington, and is expected to clear., that' port for London about March 16. The Suffolk, which is under charter to the New Zealand Shipping • Company, leaves JNapier to-morrow for Wellington. Thence she.will proceed to Nelson, Waitara, Lyttd- , ton, Tokomaru Bay, and return to Wellington, where she will complete her loading for, Londorf? sailing early in April. The Rakaia, which is now discharging in j Sydney from London, is to come across to ' New Zealand to load ■ for London and Hull. - She will ,be the pioneer steamer "in - ' the, >i monthly service wtiich is now being estab- | lished to the East, Coast ports of the United j Kingdom. ,. „- . Vl ; , It is announced that the steamer.Southern has been * chartered by the New Zealand Shipping Company to load" at St. John'.s,. New Brunswick, for Adelaide,' Melbourne, * Sydney, Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton, and Dunedin. . . THE. F. AND S. FLEET. ' r Says the Sydney "Shipping List":—lt - has transpired that the F. and S. fleet, one of the best known connecting links between, the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand, has six vessels under order, and in various stages of construction.. This is one more than has all along been commented upon, and from what ca.i be gathered the' extra vessel is toly/ of the combined passenger and cargo classTlike the Argyllshire, Wiltshire, and Shropshire. ' The name of the builders has not been mentioned yet, but it is understood that, she is being constructed in* an English yard. Tho latest information relative to the steamships Devon and Cornwall is to the e/nt -that both ought to be running about tnWmiddle of the year, and in Australian waters soon after. These vessels are of a special type, and although not particularly large, will be big cargo carriers. The speed of each will be about 15 knots. l