SHIPPING.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 16431, 27 January 1919, Page 9

SHIPPING.

POWT OF LYTTELTOtf. AKEIVAIrS. Saturday—January 23th. , Maori, 3.8. (6.50 a.m.), 3412 tons, Stringer, from Wellington. Union Steam Ship Company, agente. • Cygnet, s.s. '(4.50 p.m.), 124 tons, Hurray, Irom Akaroa. Stevenson,- Stewart and Co., agents. Wa-katu, 6.6. (9.20 p.m.), IjO tons, from Kaikoura. Kinsey and Co., I*td.,. agents. , Sunday—Jan-.t ■ rv 2©tV Rosamond, s-s. (8 a.n: tons, • Dinsmore, from Wellington. Ship Company, agents. I Ma,na, 6.8. ,(8.45 A.i" ,:'8 tons, McPherson.from Wellington. Nt /ieftland Refrigerating Company, agents. ~ Mararoa, e.s. (10.15 a.m.), 2598 tons, Irwin, from Wellington. Union Steam Ship Company,. agents. Wootton, e.s. (10.10 a.m.), 150 tons, Irarsen, from Wellington, A. Rhind and Co., a.gents. DEPARTURES. Saturday—JdruTv 03th. D-nquecne, s.s. (6 a.m.), I!>?s„tons, Mercier, {or Adelaide. L'cion Ste*n< 3hip Company, agents. . . Ma-ri, s.e. (8 p.m.), 5412 tons, Stringer, for Wellington. Uniou Steam Ship Company, agents. ■. ——— • - • ' EXPECTED ARRIVALS. . Wootton, Wollington, January 26th. Calm, Wellington., thia day. Suevic, Wellington, thb 'lay. Storm, Wanganuj, this dey. Maori, Wellington, January 28th. Cygnet, Akaroa, January 33th. ilaOri, Wellington, January 28th. ' Breeze, Timaru, January 2^th. Mararoa, Wellington, January sJ9th. Monowai, Wellington, January 29th. Maori, Wellington, Jarf&ary 30th. Cygnet, Kaikoura, January 30th. PROJECT DEPARTURES. Oropnki, Grey . P e \ this day. Wakatu, Krvrkr' ln E this day. Mararoa, WdLirs v jhia day. r y r shote Cadm, Wootton, Weenie, and thu Storm, Dunedin, x the fullest till J 1 ""' Breeze,. Pic-ton, January js»C George -; Cygnet, Kaikoura, January 2Sth. ,;f ' Mararoa. Wellington, January '29ib. Maori, Wellington, January 30tli. SmPPIKG NOTES. • The French ship Duquesne. which «rrrv«d a-t Lyttelton in December with a large cargo of general merchandise from San Francisco, waa towed into the stream early on Saturday morning, and will probably set sail today for Europe, via Australian porta. Captain Whyborn is now master of the Kaitacgata, relieving Captain • McLean, who is. on hpliday lc-ave. Mr C. Callis is to join the Mofina as purser in place of R. K. Duckworth. • • , The Blackball steamer. Ngaknta_ will load coal at Greymouth this week for discharge at Wellington and Lyttelton. Captain J. Stringer, formerly relieving as master on the Maori, is awaiting instructions in Wellington-. Th'e Orepuki is to bo despatched- from Lyttelton to-day with cargo for the West Coast, where she will load timber for thie port! Tbe Calm and Storm are expected in port to-day, both from Dunedin and Timaru. Theee vessels will load peneral cargo it Lyttelton and sail for. the North. Tho Breeze, which was originally duo Jjers today .irom the South, is not now expected to arrive at Lytteltott' until Wednesday. She loads here for .Picton and Wangamii, and will eail thenoe on Wednesday evening. The Kahika will dischurgo coal at Port Chalmers thia week from the West Coast, after which she will go into dock for survey i and overhaul. j The Patiki is due at Dunedin to-morrow to load general oargo for Timaru, Lyttelton, and Wellington. The Karamu should reach 'Dunedin to-day, coal-laden from Westport. The Kittawa is to load coal at West Coast porta thia week for BluS and Dunedin-. Mr W. J. Burns, oecond officer of the Kamo, has gone ashore. Mr J. D. R?ed has joined tho Kaituna as chief officer. Captain Muir has been appointed chief officer of the Tutinekai, and Mr Cother as third officer. Mr D. Mclntyre is chief engineer. Special rates are being paid to the men ranployed on the mine-sweeper Tntanekai. They will receive a 10 per oent. bonus on top of their wages, which are £1 over the mercantile rate. MIJTE-SWEEPIICG OK THE NEW ZEALAND COAST. The Tutanekai was taken off the Slip at Wellington on Thursday after having minor alterations made to suit her for mine-sweep-ing purposes. After taking aboard some gear •the veeeel will be ready for sea. Captein \Vhite-Par6ona, R.N.R., is in command, and it ia hoped that the ship trill get away from Wellington about the middle of this week. The steam whaler Huanui. which operates ■usually in the vicinity of Rusaell, arrived in Wcllinaton on frid&y, and is to assist the Tutanekai in tbe mine-sweeping operations. Th-s whaler is already fitted for th') work, and the two vessels will eweep about Farowell Spit for some weeks, and will then proceed to the vicinity of Xorth Cape. Detailed instructions given to chips tzsding on the New Zealand coest for the destruction of floating mines should they be sighted by a ship are published in the "Gaaetto." It is notified that « reward of £5, and in some cases £10, will be paid for destruction of a mine, and in cases wnei® the ship is unable to destroy a mine the direction » to locate it. exactly and report having sighted it. One of the cautions given is that a ship, from which an attempt ia being made to sink a mine by rifle fire should not approach nearer than 200 yards to the tnin-»- otherwise there mas be serious damage to the ship, for whichno compensation will be paid by fK* Government. THE MOERAKT. j A further postponement in the departure oi I the Moeraii from Wellington for Sydney was I fousd to be necessary, and she wss to have i

left port on Saturday a-ftertioon. Hex passenger list is as follows:—Saloon: Misses McCullough, Spragron (3). Greenwood, Smith, Levetiaton, Hay, Gray, Brodie. Buchanan, Tucker. Crowley, Julius, Peel, 'Dexter, Connor, Salmon, Black, Delatour, Morris, Moore, Fuller, Ward. Hayward, Peters, McMurtry, Harwar'!, Ktringftr, Levi, Taylor, Gower, Boddam, Steele, F<iram, Mesdaaes Porter, Cooper, Smyth, Wilkes, Uennett, Brown, GnUiam and child. Cann, White-Parsons, Henrya antl infant. Adajas. Brittain, Machen, Murchall, Enwrighi, Morris and two children, Hammer. Fraser, Stanley and infant, Kar.e, E-cid, Williamson, Muir. Ent-icott, St-oyel and child, Hitching?, Knowlcs ana child, Collins, Jlossrs Montgomery, Bowee, Foote. August, Buckley, Co'aim:, Larkin, Newby, "vTooreSeld, Brunton, Taylor, Acheeon, Captain Ingiis, Vaughan, Smith, Last, Blaie, Roberts, Hayes, Thomas, Doirooy. Hay, Porter. Burton, Murray, King, Captain Austin, Fitzgerald, Bowden, Connor, Oral, Kcsaell, Moor", Coulter, Rev. Greenwood, Cargill, Reeves, Wcob, Smith, Brown-all, King, Brook, Cooper, Woodward, Sub-Lieut. Tothill, Wild, Captain Lambert, Hungerford, Donoghue. BOYCOTT OF BUENOS AYRES. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) j (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) NEW YORK, January 3-V Tho Buenos Ayres correspondent of the "Now York Herald" says it is reported that the British Naval Attache may order British ships to leave the port without cargo. Shippers told the correspondent that this was the beginning of a,a Allied boycott against the pert of .Buenos Ayres unless the strike i 3 speedily settled. (Received January 26th, 5.5 p.m.' NEW YORK, January 23. a Despatches from Buenos Ayres eay that. 26 vessels have left the harbour because the strike ha 3 not been settled. SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. MELBOURNE, January Do. Arrived, Perth and Kauri, from New Zea- . land; Tofua, . Wellington. SYDNEY, January 26. Arrived, Rakanoa. from Auckland. AUCKLAND, January 25. Arrived, R.M.S. Niagura (4.30" a.m.), from Sydney. Sailed, Monowai (il p.m.), for Napier. Jawuary 2R. Arrived, Te Anau (12.15 a.ni.), hwn Tim«ru; Mananoa (8.15 a.m.), from Wellington, via Gisborne. * WELLINGTON, January 23. Sailed, Moeraki (10.15 p.m.), for 'Sydney.