LATE SHIPPING.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume II, Issue 364, 10 April 1915, Page 11

LATE SHIPPING.

. POET OF LYTTELTON. SAILED—THIS DAY'. ARATAIUJ, brigantine (3.20 p.m.), 1"2 tons, H; Williams, for Kaipara. Tlie C. & D. liner Muritai is expected to arrive at Lyttelton to-morrow from Wellington for Homeward loading. She will proceed to tlie Bluff- about Tuesday next for further loading-. tt . Mr A. Taylor, late officer of the Union Company's Komata, left for Home as fourth officer el the Karamea, which left Wellington on Thursday last. He intends joining the Navy;

A VALUABLE ORDER, News has come to hand that the East Asiatic Company has placed orders for the construction of ten more motor ships. It was about five years ago that the first deepsea vessel propelled by the motor engine, the Selandia, was launched to the order of the «ompanv, and her advent was watched with more than ordinary interest. The success ef the motor ship, however, was not fully realised until the pioneer ship of the company's Australian service, the Annam, visited the Commonwealth recently. On this vessel's outward and Homeward passages there had been considerable economy in foiling cost.: It is considered quite possible by an Australian .shipping journal . that a motor ship may be owned in Australia. Particulars of the 10 new vessels have not yet come to hand, but it is understood that they will be of similar design to the .Annam. Four ©f the fleet will be constructed at Glasgow and the remainder in Denmark. SALE OF THE SOUTHERN. It is reported from Home that the eteci ehelter-deek steamer Southern, 47C9 tons cross, built at Sunderland in 1912 by Messrs Z L Thompson and Sons, Ltd., and owned by the Century Shipping Company, Ltd. (Messrs Harris and Dixon, Ltd., managers), London, has been sold for about ASOVJOC» to Dutch buvers. The Southern visited Wellington Inst year with cargo from St. John (Canada). AUCKLAND HARBOUR WORKS.

Tlie chairman of the Auckland Harbour Board states that the demolition of the Auckland graving dock and the erection of tha launch landings are proceeding, all the labour, possible being utilised for these works. As intimated some time ago, the board is doing its best to keep its employees going, but owing to the completion'of some of the larger works it necessarily had to part with some of its hands. There are still, however, 1327 men engaged on all the works, irrespective of the departmental staffs. It is hoped that lifter the election the board will be able to put some further works in hand, and thus afford employment during the winter. The monev market is undoubtedly healthy, and plenty of money is available for legitimate NAIRNSHIRE AND MORAYSHIRE SOLD. Private advice has been received of the reported sale of two more Federal and Shire liners—the Morayshire and the Nairn„bire. It is understood that the vessels have passed into the Blue Star Line. Like the Buteshire and tlie Banffshire, which have also been sold the two ste:.mers are well-known in New Zealand having traded fairly regularly to these shores. The vessels arrived Home at the end of last year from Australian ports. The Nairnshire is a steel screw steamer of 5747 tons gross, and was built in 1899 by the Clydebank E. and S. B. Co., Ltd., Ulasgow. Her principal dimensions .we:— Length 4 20.5 ft, breadth 57.7 ft, depth 28.1 ft. The Jloravshire, a steel screw steamer of 5893 tons "gross, was built in 1898 by Messrs R. and W. Hawthorn, Leslie, and Co., Ltd., Newcastle. Her principal dimensions .ire:— Length 420 ft, breadth 54ft, depth 28.0 ft.