SHIPPING NOTES.

Press, Volume L, Issue 14972, 20 May 1914, Page 11

SHIPPING NOTES.

The Commonwealth and Dominion liner Mimiro, from Liverpool, arrived at Auckland yesterday. After putting out cargo-at the Northern port and at Wellington,, the vessel will come on to Lyttelton, being due hire about the end- of next week. i It is hoped to despatch the Federal and Shire liner Norfolk-from Lyttelton for Boston and New York, either to-morrow or on Thursday. , Loading- operations aot: having progressed so well as wae expected, the liner Nerehanae t departure for Wellington has now been fixed I for to-day. ■ ; - -. \' ' | The Whangape is to load coal at West- i port thie week for the Australian Admiralu: | From' San Francisco, via ports, the Lnion ; Company's R.M.S. Tahiti, is due at Wellington to-morrow. The vessel has nearly ICOO tons of cargo to discharge before continuing her voyage to Sydney, . ■ . ■ . _ The Komata, which hae been undergoing overhaul at' Wellington, ie to leave that port to-day for Westport. . , : ' Having . been delayed in Wellington,. the Union Company's training stesmer • Aparimais not , due at Lyttelton with cargo from Calcutta until ■ to-morrow. " , The Warrimoo' has also been delayed in I the North, and for thie reason will be a day late on her way South. ■ She will arrive here to-morrow morning,. leaving ! fox Dunedin .in the evening. • ■ The barque Andromeda, from New. York, arrived at Auckland qa Saturday last, after a passage of 122 days. She has a cargo of 90,000 cases of Vacuum 'oil fox discharge *t the Northern port. < The "New Zealand Herald" .describes th* voyage of the steamer Veturia, which arrived at Auckland on Friday night from l< ew York, as a record one, the vessel having occupied 60 days. The Veturi* left the Amerfdan port on the 16th March, and' waa not expected at Auckland until e*r!y sext, week. The previoce best paseam made, by » cargo eieaxer from New Yoik to Aeduasd wae that of the English Monarch, which txivtoA. at Auckland ie October, 190S, after » pwsage of 61 days. The Veturia his on be*ni 18WM0 casee of oil,' consigned to the foxur jiincipal New Zealand ports. About 60,000 cum will be discharged at Auckland, after which the vessel comes on to Wellington.- The Veturf* •; is a vessel of 5354 toes, and is tinder the j command' of Captain T. Brown. -She is owned by the Veturia Steamship Company, Ltd., of Glasgow. The Wakatu is due this evening from Kaikonra, and will lexve on her return trip to-lnorro-x nigh*. . ■ ■ ,

Mr H." HaTTOTtvr, late'of the Awahou, Iβ sow engineer of the Defender, in place "of Mr R. W. Huph. . . - ■ The Opouri is • due from Greymouth 'omorrow, and wil] leave on her rsturu next Satm-day.

Dischftrsinfr operations will probably be finished on the Joan Craig- by Friday. The vessel will then sail for Aaipara to load timber for Sydney. .

The cosetal fteamer John arrives from Timaru on Friday morning,, and leaves the same day for Wellington and WanganuL In connexion with the docking of H.ILA.S. Australia, the flagship of the Australian Navy, last week at Sydney, four'tuq-s were used, and with the assistance of her own eteam the big vessel was docked without the slightest .mishap. ■ , Under charter to the Federal and .Shire Ljne,, the -eteamer In\icrtay ;s at present loading at West of Eng-land ports for New Zealand, and is expected to leave Liverpool on Saturday next. ;

La*t year 714,778 tons of British steam shipping was sold to foreigners, the highest in'years.

More , of greater tonnage pass through, the" river and canal which unitee lukes Huron and Superior than through the Suez Canal. Almost .1.i.000 voasnie of nearly 31,000.000 tons parsed through these waters in 1912, compa-red with 5300 vessels of 20,500,000 Jens through the Suez" Canal'