SHIPPING NOTES.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume II, Issue 594, 5 January 1916, Page 11

SHIPPING NOTES.

Advice received by the Sydney mail states that the liner Port Augusta, bound from New York to Australian ports, Duncdiu, Lyttelton, and Wellington, cleared Cape Town on December 23. The Indrapura, en route from London, left the Cape the previous day, and should arrive here during February. Mr C. C. Marshall has signed on the Arahura as purser in place of Mr R. T. Carlyon, who is about to go into camp with the infantry reinforcements. Mr Cornish, chief officer of the Hinemoa, having enlisted with the reinforcements, Captain Hall, late mast'-r of tV- wKiler Hananui, has been appointed chief officer. Mr Kerridge, third officer of the vessel, has also volunteered for the front. The steamer Wimmera, of the HuddartParker Line, arrived at Lyttclton yesterday from Melbourne and Hobart, via Wellington. Included in the vessel's cargo were transhipments ex steamers Maloja, Arabia, Loongana, and Nardoo, the following being the principal lines: —29 barrels oil, 72 chests tea, 65 bale} rubber goods, 93 bars iron, 5 cases eucalyptus oil, 13 bales paper, 8 cases essences, 1539 bags salt, 20 casks wine, 58 casks bottles, 201 bags barley, 157 ingots tin, 162 eases cocoa, 77 packages lamps, 10 barrels cream of tartar, 41 cases I'miepr. 5 cases tobacco, 1932 bags superphosphates, 451 cases dates, 5 octaves whisky. 125 cases whisky, 23 packages cycle parts, 25 cases blacking, 28 bundles mats, 17 rolls matting, 10 bags extract, 301 chests tea, 14 sacks lucerne seed, 250 bags oats, 100 steel angles, 120 bags rice, and sundries. The steamer Tongariro, which is running under charter to the Federal and Shire Line, arrived at Cape Town on New Year's Day from Liverpool. The vessel will visit Australian ports before coming on to New Zealand, being due at Lyttelton towards the end of next month. The line old Dundee ship Dudhope is now due at Sydney from Liverpool,-with a full cargo of general, which goes to show the shortage of steam tonnage throughout the world which has been caused by the war. Had the war not occurred the Dudhope would probably have been sold to foreigners, like the majority of the beautiful lines of British sailing vessels. Like hundreds of other sailing vessels now afloat, the Dudhope has visited Lyttelton, and is well known here. She arrived on November 25, 1899, in ballast from Cape Town, and'loa.ded grain for the United Kingdom on behalf of Messrs G. G. Stead, of Christchurch. The ship Kirkcudbrightshire, which arrived at Sydney on November 10 last alter a smart passage of 100 days, is one of the few remaining windjammers still sailing out of Glasgow, being owned by Messrs T. Law and Co., who own the famous Scotch Shire Line of sailers and also the steamers Berwick Law and Largo Law, which are well known at Lyttelton. The gallant old ship, which was built in 1884, has been a very smart sailer, and is still capable of making a smart passage, as the following will show: Since 1900 she has sailed from Buenos Ayres to Liverpool in 41 days; Buenos Ayres to Newcastle (N.S.W.) in 51 days; Newcastle to Portland (Oregon) in 59 days; Portland to the U.K. in 137 days; but her best passage was in 1893, when she completed the passage from Newcastle to IquiqUe in 28 days. The Kirkcudbrightshire is well known in Lyttclton, having arrived here on October 5, IXB9, from Melbourne, in ballast, and left again on October 28 with a cargo of grain for Loudon, loaded on behalf of the New Zealand Shipping Company, .Ltd. At that time the harbour was usually packed with sailing vessels, but the stately windjammer is no longer popular, having been superceded by the modern steam tramp, unfortunately.

NEW ZEALAND SHIPPING CO.'S LINE. The Rcmucra, for London, leaves Wellington nt daylight on Thursday. The Paparoa, from Liverpool, should leave Wellington this evening for Lyttelton. Tin! Century was to leave Gisuorne last evening for Napier and Wellington to complete loading for London. The Ruahine, from London, passed Cape Maria at 5 a.m. yesterday,' and is due in Auckland this morning. The Ashburton was to leave Melbourne yesterday for Sydney, thence to New Zealand to laid for London.