OVERSEA VESSELS FOE WELLINGTON.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11637, 15 August 1905, Page 4

OVERSEA VESSELS FOE WELLINGTON.

'• ' -, " STEAMEBS. laipar», left London, June 6, via Cape- ' town and Dunedin. . H«T«Mkani Grange, left New York, June - 28, via Australia and Auckland; due ttiout September 16. . Breiz Huel, left New York, June 14, via . , Australia and Auckland ; due about September 2. Mamari, left Lotftdn, July 7, via Lyttelton. " - v '" B*ar of Scotland, left London, June 24, -via Australia and Auckland; due •about August"26". ißdraderiy loft New. York, July 12, via 'Australia' and Auckland; due aboiit September 28. Star.- of New Zealand, left London, July 112, via Australia and Auckland; due " about 'September 20.

■.The Putiki got away last night for Wnutport, where she will load for Foxton. This* morning' the Alexander arrived from Nelson with % part cargo, consisting of "general .merchandise and about 480 black birch posts. The veseel returns to Nelson to-night.. .Last- evening the Muritai left Onehunga aadi is* due • here tonight or to-morrow morning. ■ -She -leav.es on the return jouru&j, north to-morrow night. '-To-morrow morning the .Storm bird is dae-from Wellington, and the Oreti is •xpected* from Westport on Thursday. The' Shaw* Savill steamer Athenic arrived at Wellington this morning from London; via Capetown and Hobart. ' The New Zealand and African Steamship Company's steamer Essex arrived at Auckland' this morning from Liverpool, ■ria Sydney. The Essex is due at Wellington about Monday next. A Press Association message from Inre*scarffill reports that the s.rc. Riniu, which had been on the half-tide training wall at Inrercargill for tho better part of last week, iras floated off on Saturday's forenoon tide, and she sailed for Dunedin. Attempts to tow her off had failed. "News from England (ssys the Times) i-tates "that the New Zealand Shipping Company has ordered a new steamer for the 'New Zealand trade, to be built by Messrs William Denny and Sons, of Dumbarton.- It is not stated whether the vessel, is for tho cargo or the passenger trade. '.During the past month the Greymouth bar^is reported to have been in a good condition, with an average depth of 22 feet. The channel is straight, and everything ■ favourable to navigation. •It is reported from So^nth Africa that the depth of water in the inner harbour of Durban (Natal) is from 26ft to 27ft and tKis.is constantly being improved. Over eight and three-quarter , million tone of spoil were removed, by .dredges during the 1 year Stone quayage is under construction, with' a depth alongside of 30ft at low water. The be dof the harbour is soft sand. Nine thousand five hundred and sixty feet of wharfage is open and anofclicr 10,00dft is contemplated. ■> Tfte new ' steamer Franklyn, 4182 tons, hssbcon chartered to load a cargo of case oil, 'at' New. York for New Zealand ports. "'According to ft Liverpool exchange, the MeTscy Dock and Harbour Board purpose spending about twelve millions sterling at the north end of the Liverpool dock estate, It -is therefore certain that a gigantic scheme for dock extension north of the Hornby is in contemplation, and it is to be hoped -.that the authorities will niat-a the extension a railway dock, with propeit facilities for railway work. Such a scheme woiild cave the shipowners money, relieve, the congestion of traffic, and be a boon. all round.