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The Waimarino arrived yesterday morning from Dunedin, and loaded general cargo for Picton, Wellington, and Auckland. She sailed last evening for Lyttelton to complete loading. The Opilfi is now due this morning from Oamaru to load for Wellington, Nelson and New Plymouth. She is to sail to-night for Lyttelton. Another arrival to-day should be the HohngJen from Dunedin to load for Wellington, Wanganui, New Plymouth and Waikato Heads, via Lyttelton. She is to sail to-night. The Storm should be here to-morrow from the south to load general cargo for Wellington, Picton, Wanganui and New Plymouth. On Friday the Totara is due from Dunedin to load for Wellington and New Plymouth via Lyttelton. The Port Whangarei should also be here on Friday from Dunedin. She is' to load for Wellington, Tauranga, Auckland and Whangarei, via Lyttelton. The Parera should reach Timaru on Saturday from Oamaru to load general cargo for Wellington, Nelson, Wanganui, New Plymouth and Waikato Heads, via Lyttelton. Tairoa To-morrow. The Shaw Savill steamer Tairoa should reach Timaru to-morrow night from Bluff, to load frozen meat and general cargo for the Homeland. She is expected to leave the following day for Wellington to continue her loading. Marama's Island Cruise. The Union Company advises that the Marama will leave Auckland on August 7 for Suva, Levuka, Apia, Vavau and Nukualofa, returning thence to Auckland. Motor Ship indien. The Danish motor ship Indien is scheduled to leave Los Angeles on September 6 for Papeete, Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton, Dunedin, Melbourne, and Sydney, under charter to the Union Company. Will Adams. Two Japanese warships were recently sent to England to attend the unveiling of a memorial to Will Adams, the founder of Japan’s sea power three centuries ago. The memorial is to take the form of a clock tower erected at his birthplace, Gillingham, Kent. Japan already has a monument to his memory which was set up at Itsumi, Kanagawa Prefecture, in 1905. A second memorial unveiled at Yokohama in 1910, by the then British Ambassador, the late Sir Claude MacDonald, was destroyed in the great earthquake of 1923. Adams’s first voyage to Japan was as pilot of a Dutch fleet in 1600. The voyage was a particularly stormy one, and of the entire fleet the only one to arrive was that commanded by Will Adams, who spent the rest of his life in Japan teaching the art of shipbuilding and navigation to the Japanese.