DEPARTURES.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXVI, Issue 17569, 13 May 1919, Page 4

DEPARTURES.

MONDAY, MAY 12

Seaorita, bqte., 8.40 a.m. for Sydney Man*. 5.15 p.m., for Wellington.

O.VERSEA CARGO STEAMERS

Awwa (3.5.A.), London April 1, to city ports; due Lyttelton May 12. / Carpentaria, April 2, to Lytteit-mj due about May 13. Devon, from Egypt, April sth, to Wellington: due May 15. Pakeha, leaves London April 12, due Wellington May 27. Paparoa, from London, April 1, to H.Z. ; due about May 12. Port Pirie, from London, end March, to Auckland, Napier, Wellington, via Australia. • . » -i ~ +„ Aimutaka, from London, April 4, to New Zealand. Tofua-, England, April 18, to Lyttelton or Port Chalmers; due about June 2. Western Comet (Luck«nbach), loaded New York, March, for Auckland, Lyttelton, Dunedin, Australia.

SAILERS.

San Francisco to Wellington:— Commerce (Vac. Oil), left Juarch 1, duo May; Samar, left March 10, due May.

The barquentine Senorita, with ji cargo of white pine, got away for Sydney at 8.40 a.m. yesterday. Tho Tainui, which left Picton at 1.0 pSm. yesterday, is expected on this morning's tide.. The JnvercargiH is due at Welhngv ton to-day from Lyttelton, and sails for this port to-morrow. Further news pf the wreck of the schooner Awanui shows that she anchored at Alofa on January 7th. The tables parted during a hurricane, which swept the vessel over the reef. The crew, realising the danger, left t:.<i Vessel when the cable parted, and -got ashore with considerable diffl-

culty. According to advice received by the Australian Shipping Board, a new .White' Star liner, the Vedic, has been launched and placed o;n tho loodiag liertli for Austra4i». | The Vedic, a ste^l twin-screw refrigerating vessel of 9060

tons gross and 5600 tons net, was conKtrlvcted for the Oceanic S.N. Company (■('White Star /Line) by Harlnnd and Wolff, Ltd., Belfast. She has three decks, and is' 460 ft. long by 58ft. m beam.* Her engines, which were provided by thu builders of the vessel, consist of four steam' turbines geared on to tw<> screw shafts. The communication with regard to the vessel received by th« Shipping Board indicates that sne will leftve England this month with troops for Australia. The Vedic, although a large steamer, is several thousand tons .smawller than the Ceramic #f the same line.