MAIL NOTICES

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19840, 14 May 1927, Page 9

MAIL NOTICES

OUTGOING OVERSEAS MAILS. Mails for Great Britain, Ireland. Continent cf Europe. South and Central America, Panama, per Northumberland, from Wellington, close at Chief Post Office. Wanganui, at 5.30 a.m. on Monday, May 16. Mails for Great Britain. Ireland. Continent of Europe, North America. Rarotonga and Tahiti. per Tahiti, from Wellington, close at Chief Post Office, Wanganui, at 5.30 a.m. on May 24. Mail- for Australian States. South Africa and the East, per Ulimaroa. from Auckland, close at Chief Post Office, Wanganui, at 3.15 yn. (late fee 3.30 p.m.) on Thursday. May H. O. M. BREE. Chief Postmaster.

LOCAL AGENTS’ ADVICE. S’ca£ BrjTfc trom th Th° U Gale is due here to-day from the South Island and Wellington. to-day The Storm is expected at this port to-uay from the South.

Messrs S. Holm and Co. advise:— The Holmdale is due back at the end ne The W John is due at Wanganui on Wednesday from Lyttelton. i Messrs Johnston and Co. advise:— The Arapawa, from Onehunga, arrives today. Messrs J. H. Cock and Co. advise:— The Titoki left last night for Tarakohe. The Alexander arrives to-day from Greymouth and Westport. Messrs A. Hatrick and Co. advise: — The Kapiti returned to Wellington last night. I GENERAL NEWS. I The Mamari. which left London on Am 29.29. is due at Auckland on June 5 to OTtad I explosives. Her general merchandise will be discharged at Dunedin, Lyttelton and WeihngtoThe Athenic. which sailed, from Liverpool on April 23, will discharge in Australia and then come to New Zealand in ,July to loa for England. The Matakana is also to come to New Zealand from Australia in July to load for England. The lonic, with cargo from London, is to leave Southampton on May 20. She is due at Wellington on June 27 to d.sembark passengers. Afterwards she will unload at Lyttelton, Port Chalmers and Bluff. . . The Commonwealth and Dominion Line steamer Port Auckland is due to arrive at Auckland from New Plymouth on May 30 to load for London. Thence she is to go to 1 okomaru Bav. Gisborne and Wellington to nil up, sailing finally from the last named port on The steamer Antonio (5225 tons) is due to arrive at Auckland with case oil from Texas about May 31. The Antonio was built in 1913. and was formerly the Western, first known as the War Fijian. She is now owned by the New Egypt and Levant Shipping Co. Official .statistics which have lately been published in America confirm the generally accepted belief that the tramp is to a large, extent being replaced by the cargo liner. Ln this development the motor ship has played a prominent part, for practically the whole of the motor cargo tonnage built during the past four or five years has been represented by ships intended to maintain a regular service to schedule. There have been a few motor tramps constructed, but they can hardly have totalled more than 1 or 2 pel cent, of the PACIFIC MAIL SERVICES. Aorangi left Sydney May 5 for Auckland. Suva. Honolulu, and Vancouver; due Vancou'^Niajxara7 left Vancouver May 5 for Honolulu, Suva. Auckland and Sydney; due Auckland May 24. Tahiti leaves Sydney May 19 for Wellington and San Francisco; due Wellington May 23 and ’Frisco June 10. Makura leaves San Francisco May 18 tor W,'7.;-gton and Sydney; due Wellington June 6, Sydney June 11.

INTERCOLONIAL SERVICE. Ulimaroa left Sydney on May 13 for Auckland; due at Auckland on May 17. Marama left Auckland on May 13 for Sydney ; due at Sydney on May 17. Maunganui left Wellington on May 13 for Sydney ; due at Sydney on May 11. Moeraki left Melbourne on May 12 for Wellington direct; due at Wellington on May--18. VESSELS WITHIN WIRELESS RANGE. Auckland.—Tofua, Waipahi, Kawatiri, Papanui, Aorangi, Sussex, Hiseemoa, Raranga, Wairuna, West Ivan, Waiotapu, Ulimaroa. Chatham Islands.—Falstcrbu, Port Hardy. Wellington.—Maori, Wahine, Ngaio, Arahura, Tamahine, Queen Eleanor, Tahiti, Middlesex, Port Denison. Hertford, Northumberland. Kairanga, Karori, Somerset, Rotorua, Kaitangata, Tutanekai. Moeraki, Maunganui, Kauri. Hurunui, Cumberland. Awarua-Kaituna, Port Darwin, Crosskeys, Denham, Kaikorai, Karetu, Waikouaiti.

OVERSEAS VESSELS. INWARD BOUND. WAIOTAPU, left San Francisco April 24 for Auckland, Napier, Wellington, Melbourne, Sydney ; due Auckland May 20. SUSSEX, left Calcutta April 3, via Rangoon, Penang, Singapore, Samarang, Sourabaya and Townsville, for Auckland, Wellington Lyttelton, Dunedin ; due Auckland May 14. PERSIAN PRINCE, from Galveston, Texas, for Auckland, New Plymouth, Wanganui and Australia; due Auckland May 22. 1 PORT HARDY, left London April 8 for Auckland, Dunedin, New Plymouth ; due Auckland May 18. ROTORUA, from London, left Southampton April 8 for Wellington, Lyttelton, Bluff and Auckland ; due Wellington May 14. HUNTINGDON, left Liverpool April 17 for Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton, Port Chalmers, Bluff ; due Auckland May 24. CORINTHIC. from London, left Southampton April 23 for Wellington, Auckland; due Wellington May 31. CANADIAN PIONEER, left Halifax April 25 for Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton, Timaru, Dunedin ; due Auckland June 6. MAMARI, left London April 29 for Auckland. Dunedin, Lyttelton, Wellington; due Auckland June 5. CITY OF KHARTOUM, left New York April 58 for Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton, Timaru, Dunedin, Bluff; due Auckland June 2. FOYLE, left St. John April 29 for Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton, Dunedin, Melbourne, Sydney. REMUERA, from London, left Southampton May 6 for Auckland and Wellington; clue Auckland June 11. ANTONIO —Left Port Arthur, Texas, April 22, for Auckland. Napier, Wellington, New Plymouth, Australia; due Auckland May 24. MARYLAND—Left Cuba April 23 for Auckland and Australia; due Auckland May 28. WEST IVAN—Left Los Angeles April 23 for Auckland and Australia; due Auckland May 18.