HOMEWARD BOUND.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11042, 3 September 1903, Page 4

HOMEWARD BOUND.

Finsbury, from Wellington* for New York, Bth" March. Wakanui, from Port Chalmers, 29th May. Hermoine, ship, from Napier, 31st May. Cornwall, from Wellington (for South Africa), 30th June. Nairnshire, from Bluff, sth July, via Las Palmns. Pakeha. from Lyttelton, 15th inst. " , Concordia, barque, from Auckland, 3rd August. Indralema, -from Lytteltou, 6th August, via Laß'Palmns.' ' Rimutaka. from Wellington, 6tli August, via Monte Video. " ■ Emily Reed, from Lyttelton, Blh August, for Durban. Julius Palm, from Bluff, Bth August, foi Durban. . , • Tokomani. from Wellington.'-Bth August. Mimiro, left. Lyttelton, 27th. August, via Las Palmas. Corinthic, from Wellington 27th August. Tnrakinai from Wellington, lgt October. R-aknia, 'eft Lyttclion. 2]flt August, foi Liverpool, via- Monte Video.

The Rimu, from Dunedin. via Oamaru, it expected to sail from t.ho letter nort foi Wanganui to-night, and is due here on Saturday morning-, sailing again in the evening for Woetport. The Iluia, Stonnbird, and Orcti havf been weather bound at Wellington, but n\ are expected to sail for this port to-ni^ht Thf Aotea sailed from Grrvmouth lasl night with a cargo of coal for Messrs Ilors ley and Co. , The ■\YniYorloy, whirii waft unable to sal liwt nio-ht- owiurr to the hfi-vy state of the li:ir. k-ft for Wellington, Nelson, and Wesl Coast port'j on this morning's tide.

Mr J. L. Stevenson, the local agent, lias received advice that the Tyser line fl.fi. Star of New Zealand left the Bluff for line port at 11 o'clock this morning, and will therefore arrive in. the roadstrnd on Saturday morning. The vessel will ship equal to 6000 carcases of muttou, 217 ea&ks of tallow and pelts, and 300 bales o£ wool from this port fnr the. London markets. Home mails via Brindisi, which left Melbourne on the 29th July, arrived in London on the afternoon of the 30th August, one day early. The Atlantic Shipmng Trust announced • on July 8 that their profits for the first • half-year of 1903 amounted to £ 150,000. ■ This is all the Trust have to pay dividends . on X* 12. 000,000 of common stock, •£12,000,(100 of preferred stock, and •£]O,nO(UK3O of bonds. It is .a- mere ba«ntcijle., and on tho announecnoi)t tho quotn1 ' tloiis of tho preferred stock fell .. throe points to 20.73. Conjmou stock sold at 5. It ia said that both tho.Ccdric and tho > Celtic are tr> los? the. distinction of* bo ing the largest &lr!ps in tho world. TU,o Hani-. b'.irg-Americanlinc is reported, to be going lh build a new steamer that will ellipse •either of llitse., boats for eize. speed, and 1 ..iraproveinonts. This new Jir.cr is .!.-> be 700 ft lbnp-. 77fl beam, and 50ft drpth, .iwhioh "will 'make her tonnage something . like 25,000. "