SHIPPING NOTES.

Press, Volume L, Issue 14978, 27 May 1914, Page 11

SHIPPING NOTES.

The New' Zealand Shipping Company s liner Kaikoura, which arrived, at London from Wellington.on Saturday, last, is to leave tho Home port "for Auckland on July. 4th.. Captain Makepeace, of the New Zealand Shipping Company's liner Kaipara, Bao'sent a wireless : message • stating, that tho. vessel will ■ probably reach Dunedin' this afternoon. She took her departure from London on April 12th with, cargo for Dunedin, Lyttelton, and Bluff. ..''''

Bound from London to Australian . porta, the New Zealand Shipping-Company's liner Hurunui passed Capo' of Good Hope' on Friday -last.' Running under enga-remeat -to the • New Zealand Shipping .Company, the geared turhine stc-amcr is reported as having arrived at Tcneriffa on the 21st instant. She- left Wellington for- London on April 3rd. The New Zealand Shipping Company's new etenmer Hororata has .just., completed her official speed trials, and, according to a private- cable. received by the New Zealand Shirmiusr Company, the; ve««el maintained' a sneed of .15"' knots per'hour. The" Hororata is the lnrgest vessel yet bni't at Dumbarton, being 510 feet in lerig'i.. '61 fty-t' in .breadth, and 42 feet 6 inches "in depth.*. SJie has. boen fist'd to load at Home next month for Australian porta. • The. Rimutaka,' with cargo'from Liverpool, 13 due at.Wellington to-day from Gisborne. Arrival will probably •bo made ,at Lyttelton on Friday or Saturday.

The C- and D. liner Mnritai is due at Wellington to-day from Wanganui roadstead for Homeward loading. The , vessel's next loading port is Bluff, where she "3 due on Monday next. Lyttelton has been fixed as her final port, and; after filling up here, the vessel will leave for London on June 7t-h. ;

Tha Commonwealth and Dominion liner Star of Australia has been fixed -to leavo New York on Juno 14th for Melbourne, Sydney, and New Zealand ports.

An expected arrival et Lyttelton on Friday next is the Commonwealth and Dominion liner Mimiro fxoai Wellington,, with cargo from LivexpooL Tho vessel,- which is commanded'by Captain S. C. Cottell, late chief officer of the Makarini, is to complete discharge at Dunedin, and will subsequently load at Australian ports Th* O. and D, chartered steamer Henrik Ibsen "aft Wellington for Lyttelton oaarly yesterday afternoon, and is duo - here, this morning. The vessel left New York on January 23rd.

Es rcuto from Liverpool io New Zealand ports, the Federal and Shire Line* chartered steamer. Northern is due at Sydney about Juno jllth. Advice has bean received to the effect thai the Clan .MaclaVen, which left Wellington for the Continent on April 2nd, has passed Ushant en her way to Dunkirk. The Ennerdalo 13 to proceed to a Tasmanian port this week "from. Port Pixie, to load timber for New Zealand. . j Due- at Wellington frc-m Sydney early this morning, the Dnion Company's intercolonial steamer Maunganui has on board 36 saloon and 66 steerage passengers, and &43 tons of cargo. After transhipping to the. Maitai, which passes through Lyttelton tj-morrow on her way north, uw Muungauui will leave on her return to Sidney on Friday.

Running 1 undvr engagement to the Union Company, tbe steamer Svcrre, ivhich'viaited Lyttelton some months ago, is" due at Auckland to-day from Pug.-t sound, with a cargo of l,;i00,000 feet of timber, pari of which will be discharged at Sydney. Mr P. H. King has signed on the Mapourika as second officer.'