SHIPPING.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 3625, 22 August 1901, Page 2

SHIPPING.

£ORT OF TIMARU.

August 21—Aotea,. s.s., 6365 tons, Evans, from Oamaru.

SAILED. August 21—Hesperides, ship, for the United Kingdom. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Waipori, s.s., on Tuesday. Whakatane, s.s., on 4th. IN HARBOUR. Steamer —Aotea. Ship—Corolla.

The ship Hesperides was towed out yesterday morning, and had a fair wind behind her to start on her voyage Home. The s.s. Aotea arrived at 9 o'clock yesterday morning from Oamaru, with 500 casks of cement consigned to order. She will take 20,000 carcases of mutton and 7000 sacks of produce, and is expected to get away for Lyttelton on Friday night. The New Zealand Shipping Company, and the Tyser and Shaw, Savill Companies have arranged to despatch steamers from New Zealand to South African ports at intervals of about six weeks. The boats will be fitted with refrigerating chambers. The first boat to sail will be the Pakeha, which will leave the colony the first week in September. She will call at Fremantle, -_ Durban, Algoa Bay, and Cape Town. A number of shipmasters and others connected with shipping on the other side have lately been victimised in an impudent manner. The way employed has i- been to apply for «a flag Tor use at a fan-' eral service or for some festive occasion. A promise is given in each case that the * borrowed bunting will be safely returned. Neither the flag nor the borrower, in all instances, has since been seen or heard of, and have therefore been posted "missing." The Americans are now apparently about to try sea-going barges for coal-carrying as rivals to big steamships and sailing crafts, which now serve the trade. They are beginning {says the " Coal Merchant and Shipper") with the West India coal trade, and the innovation is looked upon with great interest in shipping circles, as the barges, if successful, will prove dangerous competitors. The sea-going tug Cuba, fresh from the shipyard at Bath, Me., and towing the new barges Cardenas and Matanzas, are to make the first voyage from Philadelphia to the West Indies. These have a cargo-carrying capacity of over-3000 tons. The expedition of the s.s. Cygnet in search of the abandoned schooner Jessie Niccol was crowned with success, and -the derelict was made fast to the breastwork at Lyttelton on Saturday. The schooner was floating upright, with her deck level with the water. Coils of rope, a boat, bedding, and effects were lying about the deck, snowing by their presence that the sea had not swept over her since she was abandoned. A couple of apertures appeared in her side, where, apparently planks had been forced out, but most of her injuries are below the water line. Her masts and rigging were intact. On Saturday afternoon a preliminary inquiry was held by the Collector of Customs into the accident.