PORT OF LYTTELTON.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume IV, Issue 1161, 31 October 1917, Page 4

PORT OF LYTTELTON.

ARRIVED. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30. WOOTTOX (5.30 p.m.l, 150 tons, Larscn, from Wellington. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31. MARAROA (8.15 a.m.), 2598 tons, Cameron, from Wellington. SAILED. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30. CYGNET (6.5 p.m.), 124 tons, Murray, Tor Kaikoura. MONOWAI (7.50 p.m.i, 3433 tons, Drewette, for Wellington. WAKATU (S.lO p.m.i, 157 tons, Wills,'for Kaikoura.

NOTES. Reports received by a recent mail state that the Argentine steel single-deck steamer Pellegrini. SIM tons gross, built at Sunderland in 1903 liy Messrs Short Bros., Ltd., classed inn \1 and passed Lloyd's special; survey No. 1 in 1913, engines 15.25 and -1! ; by 27in stroke, carries about 1125 tons d.w. on 12rt loin draught, dimensions 193 ft Tin by ."Ift lin by lift 2 in—was sold for about! r/70,000. She was formerly owned by Shipping Investments, Ltd., London, who sol.l I her in July, 1911, for £12,(1(10. At the last meeting of the Suva (Fiji) Chamber of Commerce one of the speakers, | Mr T. Home, a hading draper, said the amount of pillaging that went on in Sydney was enormous. Last year it amounted to over 1100,000. The experience in Suva was) that cargoes transhipped at other ports than Sydney suffered nothing like the same' amount of pillaging, and if the place could I be avoided their insurance rates would go down.

VESSELS EXPECTED AT LYTTELTON. | Vessel. From. Approx. date. Calm Wellington Oct. 31 Breeze I' : . oil! Oct. 31 Tarawera Wellington Nov. 1 Monowai Wellington Nov. 1 Hirr.itangi Wellington Nov. 2 Mararoa Wellington Nov. 2 Monowai Wellington Nov. :i VESSELS TO SAIL FROM LYTTELTON. | Vessel. For. Approx. date. Mararoa Wellington Oct. .il Wootton Wellington Oct. 31 Calm BlulT Oct. 31 Wakatu Kr.ikoura Oct 31 Monowai Wellington Nov. 1 Tarawera Gisbome Nov. 1 Mararoa Wellington Nov. 2