SHIPPING.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 16411, 3 January 1919, Page 9

SHIPPING.

PORT OP LYTTELTON. arrivals. Thursday, January 2nd. Maori. s.s. (6.55 a.m.), 3-112 ions, Williams, from Wellington. Union Steum Ship Company, agents. . Tarawera, s.s. (8.45 a.m.), 2003 tons, Williamson, from Auckland. Union Steam Ship Company, agents. DEPARTURES. Thursday, January 2nd. Cygnet, e.e. (10.30 a.m.), 124 tons, Murray, for Peninsula Bays. Stevenson, Stewart and Co.. agents. . _ , Maori, s.s. (8.25 p.m.), 3412 tons, Williams, for Wellington. Union Steam Ship Company, agents. , Kamo, s.s. (3.15 p.m.), 1236 tons, Watson, for New Plymouth. Union Steam Ship Company, agents. WakatUj s.s. (8.30 p.m.), 150 tons, Wills, for Kaikoura. Kinaey and Co., Ltd., agents. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Cygnet, Peninsula Bays l , January 3rd. Mararoa, Wellington, January 3rd. Opihi, Wellington, January 4th. Maori, Wellington, January 4th. Orepuki, Greymouth, January sth. Wakatu, Wellington, January oth. Cygnet, Akaroe, January 7th. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. ~ Wootton, Wellington, this day. v Mararoa, Wellington, January 3rd. Breeze, Picton, this day. Calm, Dunedin, January 3rd. Woottou, Wellington, January 6th. Orator, Wellington, January 4th. Rosamond, Napier, January 4th. Cygnet, Akaroa, January 6th.

SHIPPING NOTES,

The French ehip Duquesne, which arrived at Lyttelton on December 7th, with a largo cargo of general merchandise from San Francisco, will load wool hero for the American port, and will sail in several weeks' time. The Cygnet left Lyttelton yesterday morning for Peninsula Bays. She will load wool at Pcraki for Lyttelton, and will return to _port to-day. John is expected to leave Gxeymouth to-morrow with a full cargo of timber for Lyttelton. Sho .is due here on Monday, and after disoharge will proceed to Oamaru. Mr Charles Madden, purser of the To Anau, has gone ashore., Mr R. MoNeilly has joined tho Ripple as second officer. Mr McLaren has rejoined the Ngatoro as second engineer. Mr Baker, second officer of the Ngakuta, has joined tho Ngatoro as second officer temporarily. The Blackball Coal Company's steamer Ngatoro was cspected to arrive at Napier yesterday to load sheep for discharge at Lyttelton. The Tarawera, which left Auckland on Monday nisrlit, readied this nort ystcday morning. She loads at Lyttelton for Timaru. The Breeze is expected to get away from Lyttelton to-day, taking general merchandise •to unload at Picton and Wanganui, from whence ohe will return here, en route for Timaru and Dunedin. The Rosamond's departure from LytteHon has been postponed until to-morrow, when alio will sail for Napier and Gisoorne direot, instead of via Timaru, aa originally intended. Tho Canterbury Shipping Company's steamar Calm leaves port to-day with general cargo for Timaru and Dunedia. and returns to Lyttelton on the *th instant. The coastal 6teamer Wootton is to be despatched from Lyttelton to-day," laden with j general merchandise for Wellington. ' j The Federal-Shire liner Dorset sailed a.t daybreak from Wellington for Egypt, via Colombo. Following is the list of passengers:—Miss Perkins, Mesdames Gore-Adeans, Rule, Velvin, McGilp, Hursthouoe, and two children, Nurse McMillan, Messrs Scott, Nelson. Tho Wellington office of the C. and D. Line advise that the Port Lyttelton, on route from London, is duo at Auckland oil the 9th icat. from Sydney. After putting out part cargo she will go to Wellington. News has been received by the Wellington offioe of the C. and D. Lino that the steamer Port Phillip, which was sunk in New York , harbour some months ago, is expected to be I refloated. It will be recalled that the Port Phillip was rum down by a collier. The Union Steam Ship Company, agents for the wooden steamer Ann otto Rolph, en route from San Francisco to have been advised that the vessel resumed her voyage from Honolulu on December 31st. The Annette Rolph is now not pec ted to reach Wellington; until the 10th inst. , . . Dalgety and Co. have received Mice by •mail that the barque Titonla left New York on November 7th for Wellington via Cape of Good Hope route. The vessel bee a full load of 2200 tons of general cargo for jveilington- only. After_ discharge she will load at Wellington for New York. The Government recently cabled to tfte Imperial authorities relative to the release of the dredge Kaione, built at Bome for Wanganui Harbour Board, and has recei e a reply as follows "Admiralty state tb&t dredge Kaione satisfactorily passed tnsi Clyde early in the month and taken or and transported to Plymouth. Up u> tn

present vessel has not been used for dredging, and Admiralty will bs prepared to forego retention, provided that the Wall ganui Harbour Board relieve Admiralty of cost of transport of Kaione 'to New Zealand." Asked oq to tho full significance of the message, Mr A. G. Bjgnell, chairman of the Board, stated that it meant that they would now get early delivery of the Kaione, and that they would get her &t the original contract price (£33,000). Fire in plant No. 2 of the Burpes3 Aeroplane Company, of Marblehead, Mass., on November 7th, destroyed u, storehouse containing 40 yachts. Tho fire was-caused by an explosion in the paint shop of the Burgess Company. Perhaps the most famous yacht lost was the Sumatra, which was one of the successful Americast defenders against the German Bonder class boats in their last race in American waters before the outbreak of the war. Another of the racing yachts burned was the Little Rhody, well known in iiorth American waters. Insurance officials estimated tho total loss at £60,000. CONGESTION OF CARGO. The fact that a large amount of shjpping tonnage will be required in New Zealand in the near future was emphasised by an Auckland shipping authority on Tuesday. He said that, roughly speaking, there must be accumulated an amount of cargo sufficient to employ nine months of the pre-war tonnage, while more wa3 piling up all the time that tho shipping remained bolow normal requirements, The tonnage prior to the war was only about equal to carrying all the hade under normal conditions, so that a, considerable increase would be necessary if the accumulation of stock was to be overtaken. DUNEDIN SHIPPING RETURNS. (S?JCCIAL TO "THX PMSS.") DUNEDIN, January 2. The number of shipping arrivals at the port of Dunedin, together with the amount of goods imported and exported, wag considerably affected by the outbreak of hestilities, and showed a marked decrease each year the war continued. The total tonnage of arrivals, including oversea, intercolonial, and coastal shipping, in 1913 was 988,195. In 1914, the year tho war commenced, it was 978,302, a decrease of 9893 tons. The following year, when a large number of vessels were requisitioned for war purposes, the arrivals dropped to 835,789 tons, a decrease of 142,513't0n5. In 1916 the arrivals fell off to 819,030 tons, another big decrease, and in 1917 they were down to 596,979. For the twelve months from January Ist to December 31st last year the total tonnage was 396,208, so that it will be seen that tho year just passed was the worst since tho war commenced, and shows a decrease of over 582,000 tons as compared with tho returns of 1914. SINKING OF THE PORT HUNTER. The Wellington office of the Commonwealth and Dominion Lino has reoeived news by mail of tho sinking of the liner Port Hunter, in American waters, on November 2nd. The vessel was proceeding from Boston for St. Nazaire, France, when she was run down by the tug Covington and was badly d"mag£d. She was beached at Hedgefence, Vineyard Shoal, Nantucket. Salvasjo operations have been commenced by the United States Navy, but, ea the vessel has been badly damaged, it is doubtful whether she can be saved, Tho Port Hunter, which put into Wellington about Christmas, 1917, for bunkering while bound from Sydney to London, is a vessel of 4062 tons gross. AN OVERDUE VESSEL. (press association tkligbax.) WELLINGTON, January 2. Th ere js still no sign of tho schooner Georgette. The schooner Georgette left San Francisco on October 18th for Wellington. Sho was sighted off Wellington Heads on December 14th, in fine weather, but she was later blown off. by a strong westerly gale. Nothing has been seen of tho vessel since, despite the fact that several favourable winds have prevailed.

NO SIGN OF AJRYAX'S MISSING BOAT. (press association telegram.) WELLINGTON, January 2. A ■wireless message received from th© Cbaihaans this morning states that there is no trace of the Ary<m'a inieeing boat. Consequently the Hinemoa will leave for the Chatham 3 at 9 o'clock to Eearch for it. SHIPPING TELEGBAMS. SUVA, January 2. Sailed, Taluae, for Auckland. TELEGRAPH NOTICE BOARD (Jan. Sad). Wellington—Arrived (5.30 a_m.), l£araroa, from Lyttelton. Sailed—Maroroa (4.40 p.m.), for Lyttelton.