OVERSEA CARGO STEAMERS.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXVI, Issue 17554, 25 April 1919, Page 4

OVERSEA CARGO STEAMERS.

Bhamo, from Glasgow to Auckland, dv© Aprii 24; Wellington April 28 Carpentaria, April 2, to Lyttelton; due aboUit May 13. Corinthic, London to Lyttelton, due 'Sevon', from Egypt, April 5, to N. 2. lonic, from London, due Auckland Saiko«"-A» fMm Pwt Said' due Wcl" lington April 17. Kanri, from Melbourne, via Auckland; due Wellington about April 12. Km Ora, left London March 2< t to ,Lytt*lton;dueaboutMayß. - -Tflaheno, from Avonmouth, Marcli Jl, to Auckland; due April 20, • Northumberland, to Wellington, due_ about, May 9. , Pafceha, leaves Ix>ndon AprJ 12, due May 27. * Paloona, from 'Frisco to Wellington, Tdue about April 24. " Paparoa, from I^oridon, April 1, to *N.Z.; due about May 12. ■ Port Pirie, froffl London, end March, 'to Auckland, Napier, Wellington, via Australia. Raranga, from London to^ Wellington, due April 28. , . j ■ Eemnera, from London to Auckland, 'due April 29; Wellington, aouth. ; Rinlutaka, from London^ April 4, to •New Zealand. Tainui, left Ldndon March 18. to .Wellington, due about April 28.

' The Storm, from Wellington and the south was expected to arrive ia nort ■at an early hour this morning. The ■"vessol loads Southern cargo at this port. The Arapan'a should arrive from One- « 'liunga on this evening's tide. .» The bivtctuentine Wliite Pine ; from "Sydney ria New Plymouth, arrived in *port at 5.10 p.m. yesterday. According to a wireless the PaJoona. Mill arrive at Wellington from' San j l'Vancisco to-morrow. Over twenty yeats ago a lad of 14 years, aatned Jim Wilson, the son ci Mr. and Mrs. William Wilson, then resident at Balehitha, but whose home is, now at Bute's, <>n the thinedinPort Chalmers line, went to work on the "Wyndham Farmer" newspaper. The boy,, however, had a passion for seafaring life ; and when an opportunity presented itself for his longing in that respect to be gratified, ho was permit- *» t-ed to give up the printing trade, and sailed away a* ship's boy on the threemasted Ship Klrkioch for Great Britain. The Jad has made good during the two decades that have since elapsed, s:nd for several years has possessed a. master's certificate. Advice was received the other day oy his parents (who have not met their eldest son sinlo he first went down to the sea in * ship) that Captain James Wilson had . sailed from Glasgoh' on March 15, in command of s.s. Bhamo, of the P. Henderson and Co. Line, a»d expected to reach Auckland first port of call, on April &4. The Bhamo has 900 returning soldiers aboard, and a full shipment <'.• general merchandise. Among the soldiers on the ship is Lieutenant H. "Wilson, (an Anzac brother of the skipper), who has been through heavy fighting on GaHipoli and in Egypt and France, coming through it all withotit receiving a scratch, and has won the distinction of the Military Cross and other hokwrs.