SHIPPING.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16268, 19 July 1918, Page 9

SHIPPING.

PORT OF LYTTELTON. ARRIVED— July 18. Maori (7.40 a.m.), from Wellington. SAILED—JuIy 18. Oanopos (11.10 a.m.), for Wcstport. Kittawa (2.35 p.m.), for Westport. Maori (8 lJ.mOi f° r Wellington. (M 0 P.m.). for Wellington. TELEGRAPH NOTICE BOARD. July 18 th' Arrived—Kaikoura, Cygnet (8 lington, Mararoa (7.40 a-m.), Owputa U S, Himitangi (4.20 p.m.), Wootton (5.30 p.m.), all from Lyttelton. _ .. Sailed—Kaikoura, Cygnet (150 P •»•>. Timaru, Storm (4.45 p.m.); Wellington, Corinns (6.10 p.m.), Mararoa (7.50 p.m.), oil for Lyttelton. / ___ SHIPPING NOTES.

The Wakatu is expected here tomorrow evening from Kaikoura, for which port she wiUklve again on Sunday at nudnight.iho timed to sail last evening from here this evening frS wellS- She sails for Wellington (Jorinna. was timed to le«vo_ Welling--i-gt evening at 4 o'clock for Lyttelton. She is due here early this morning to load for Nelson and New Plymouth, and sails toTn rbe Vr Waitomo, with, cargo from Calcutta, via Auckland and Wellington, haa been delayed at the last-named port, and will now E at noon on Sunday, be ng due here on Monday. She will P">bably remarn here Tuesday before proceeding South. The Kittawa, which was delayed here for half a day longer than expected, sailed yesterday about midday with general cargo lor has been held up at Greymouth fox several days owing to - the bar being ui> workable. She to-day £4s£t. was for Auckland, m ports. Mr D. Bradley hes signed on as third officer, relieving Mr W. Kelsey, who ha Mr g purser of the Mararoa, has «>nf on holiday leave, and ha place has g£n Sen by Mr W. T. Eyie, late purser to leave Wellington to-day for Lytteltoa, en . J" Waitangi, Kaingaroa, and Owenga (Chatham

w j lar7ea Monday presented a I busier scene than at any time . d Y I ?fL !! past three months, shipping having a , scaroo commodity during that penod. Four vessels we» berthed at the wharf., and three of them were discharging and loading Captain R. J? Hamilton, who is supemsine the fitting out of the Otago Iron EoUinS Mrilfl Company's steamer Stella a.t Auck an-1, expects to have the vessel ready for the end of the month, when she will coil for "Dunedin with a load of scrap iron. He will have command of the steamer. .. , . While the Hinemoa is malcing tlie trip round the Cook Strait lighthouses the following changes among li?htbeepers w "! t ° made: —Probationary-keeper Dowdall will go to the Brothers to replace Temporary-keeper Roy Mitchell, comfs ashore; Probation-ary-keeper Crocker goes to Farewell Spit, Temporary-keeper Davidson goes to Cape irailiser, and Temporary-keeper J. Keano oomes ashore to enter camp. „ - „ . A few days ego Cantaiu E. J. Harvey, ot • Roxburgh street, "Wellington, master of the ■ coastal steamer Queen of thp South, ®® le " • brated the 71st anniversary of his birthday. Captain Harvey has a remarkable record ot . !58 years at sea. He firet arrived m £ea- , land in the full-rigged ship England, from , London, in 1870, and has been engaged m • the New Zealand coastal trade ever siicean unbroken service of 48 years. ■ Captain Harvey has been in command of the of the South for 27 years, having also hal charge of the steamer Himitengi for a couple of years. In 1866 he was a member of .the crew of the famous tea clipper shin Taiping. when she won a great race from China, -with the new see son'f tes. to Xx>ndon. r our clip* per ships left Foochow at the same time, and after a rassagfe of 99 days, three out of the four ship* arrived at London on the - same tide, but the Taiping was. four hours .. ahead of the others. The who® crew of the j winning ship received a month's extra pay > . as a bonus.

j INTERESTING- VESSEL MISSING. • Tire French schooner La. Curiense. which left Sydnev on the 19th April, and returned to port two days later, and irohs-quentlv _ resumed her vovage ajrsin on tho 12th Slay for Papeete (Tahiti), has not reached her destination (reports "Sydney Shipping Lis* of July IOtW. The La Curiense should have made the trip in 13 or 20 days. No tidinss of the vessel, however, have com© ,to h«n*l since she kit Sydney, ami consequently rt is feared that she has Wn 'ost. Before th? war the La Curio-use was fitted out by voluntary subscriptions by me Geographical o_icietv of Paris for a scientific expedition m the' Pacific. She arrived in on October 15th, 1916,"• hut the expedition was abandoned owing to the tvat. Ihe \ess6l j was eventually sold iu Sydcsyi , ™

again fitted out as a cargo carrier, and tinder charge of Captain frisson left Sydney with a general cargo for Papeete.