SHIPPING.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 16434, 30 January 1919, Page 9

SHIPPING.

— »'■ I PORT OF LTTTELTON. ARRIVALS. Wednesday—January 29th. \ Mar area. s.s. (12.35 p.m.), 2598 tons, Irwin, from Wellington. Union Steam Ship Company, agents. Cygnet, s.s. (2.55 p.m.), 32-1 tons, Murray, from Akaroa. Stevenson, Stewart and Co., agents. DEPARTURE. Wednesday—January 29th. , Mararoß, 8.e., 2598 tons. Irwin, for Wellington. Union Steam Ship Company, "agents. EXPECTED ARRIVALS, C»Jirt, Wellington, this day. Storm, Wanganui, this day. f ,/Breeio, Timarti, this day. | T Tiono-wai, Wellington, this day. > «• Maori, Wellington, this day. Cygnet, Kaikoura, January 31st. Sucvic, Wellington, January 31at. Putiki, Timaru, January 31st. Mararoa, Wellington, January 31st. Cygnet, Akaroa, February Ist. Maori, Wellington, February Ist. Mararoa, Wellington, February 2nd. Maori, Wellington, February 4th. Cygnet, Akaroa, February 4th. Projected departures. Calm, .Dunedin, this day. Storm, Dunedin, this day. \Brecse, Picton this day. Cygnet Kaikoura, this day. Maori, Wellington, this day. Mararoa, Wellington, January 31st. ' Putiki, Wellington, January 31st. Maori,' Wellington, February Ist. Cygnet, Akaroa, February 3rd. Mararoa, Wellington, February 3rd. , Maori, Wellington, February 4 th. SHIPPING NOTES. Tie Monowai, having been delayed, ut Wellington by rain, did not leave that, porrt on Tuesday evening l as arranged. She was ex- . pec ted to leave last night v at midnight. Mr P. Johnston has replaced Mr C. Thompson as mate'of the Kahu. Mr S. It. Chandler btus joiued .the JOhn as chief engineer, and Mr R. Cornish, second engineer, has gone ashore. i The Kaxu is at present in Wellington discharging Oem&ru cargo. She will ,ffub9o- - quently proceed to New Plymouth, f ' Wet weather considerably interfered frith ? work on the Lyttelton waterfront yesterday. 1 The Union Company's steamer Tarawora was expected to leave Auckland yesterday for Lyttelton, via Wellington, with general cargo. Tho To Anau is expected at Gisborue today or to-morrow to load sheep for discharge at Lyttelton. From this port she will proceed to Wellington and Auckland. It was hoped to despatch the Poherua from Greymouth last evening for Lyttelton. The vessel has been bar-bound at'tho Wot Caist port for several days. i Tho -Duquesne 'is now reedy to take h?r departure from Lyttelton. She . htus been lying in the stream waiting for two members of her crew who absented themselves without leave. The vessel is tixne£ to sail at 6 a.m. to-day. The Cygnet was delayed at Peninsula bays, and did uot put in An' appearance at Lyttelton. until yesterday, « day later than usual. Her departure for Kaikoura has therefore 'been postponed until to-day. If the Putiki has not been delayed in Southern ports she should roach Lyttelton to-morrow. Sho will load here for Welling'ton. . , ■ ■ The steamer liivingstonia, under the auspices of the New Zealand Shipping Com- , : pany, has been fixed to load in New Zealand next month. The - loading Sports for tho vessel have not yet been fixed. The local office ot the Now Zealand and African Steamship Company has been advised that the liner Essex is to leave Sydney on Saturday next for N«w Zealand to load for Egypt.. She will leave tho Dominion for Port > Said, via Colombo, on tho 21st February. auxiliary schooner May Howard will probably bo despatched from Dunedin this ' W(ek for Auckland with a cargo of bar steel. ' Tlie vessel, which was purchased by a Duni edin firm in the early part of last year, mode several trips on the coast, and was then laid ' ' up at Dunedin. She has been lying idle at the Kitchener street wharf for some months. MAMMOTH SCHOONER. * Whaf' is described as the largest wooden t /"saflins 'ship over built on the United States . ~i; Pacific Coast, and probably one of the $ largest vessels of its kind in the world, the v John W. Wells, is e.t present on hdr way from %■ Puget Sound to Melbourne. Launched, at i - i the St. Helena shipyards, near San Francisco, a few months ago, the John W. Wells & _ is a five-masted schooner of nearly 2500 tons jfp . " grass register, carrying an enormous spread ??• of canvas, and possessing a carrying capacity of nearly 5000 tons deadweight She left Paget Sound cm November 18th for Melbourne direct, with 2,000,000 feet of redV"' wood lumber end 800 tone of general mer'A^chandisc. 'v. Owing to the present rate of freights U v. will not require many passages for the big carrier to pay for herself. As, under char- ' ter to the United States Government, she io •.i■ to carty away a fnll cargo of wool from amounting: to between 7500 acd 8000 toss, she will in all probability eAYn ■;? «0.000 on her first voyage. ' WAITANGI PURCHASED BY PATEA - • FARMERS. r Aa important addition fo the number of 7*m!s tiding between Wellington and Pa tea * which has besn purchased

m Auckland by the Patea Farmers' Co-opera-tive Freezing Company. The Waitangi ia a steel twin screw steamer of 171 tons, and was built in 18SD by the Grangmouth Dock Company at Greingmouth. She is l2oft Ion" wjth i beam of 20ft. She was formerly tie Banks Peninsula, when ah© was engaged in the Aiaroa trade. She was later purchased by T. A. Reynolds and Co., and went to Tasmania, and wes for several years engaged in trade in thoae waters until she was purchased by the Northern Steamehip Companv. She ha 9 lately been engaged by tho Kauri Timber Company as a tug for hauling rafte. The general opinion among Wellington shipping men, including' Captain Rodgers, of the Black tell Coal Company, who was for a few years master of the vessel, is that the Waitangi is a splendid sea boat, and capable of running in any weather. It is the intention of the owners to remove the passenger accommodation. The vessel will trade between Wellington and Patea, assisting the Waverley. THE RED FUNNEL FLEET. ADDITION OF TWO CARGO STEAMERS. (PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) DUNEDIN, January 29. The Union Steam Ship Company has purchased in Britain two cargo vessels of 8900 and 8800 tons deadweight respectively. They will be iwmed Waitemata and Wairuna, and it is expected that they will leave the United Kingdom about the end of February for the Pacific Coast to load for New Zealand and Australia. 'SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. (Received January 29th, 10.30 p.m.) LONDON, January 27. Arrived, Cluny. Castle, from Wellington. SAN FRANCISCO, January 26. Arrived, Kurow, from Wellington. AUCKLAND, January 29. Sailed, Koromiko (1.45 a.m.), for Sydney. The departwe of-the Niagara for Vancouver has blln postponed until noon To- . _ / .WELLINGTON, January 29. The Monowai is .to «vil about midniglit for Lyttelton and Port Chalmers; the Moana at noon to-morrow for San Francisco; and the Manuka at 3 p.m. to-morrow for Sydney. TELEGRAPH NOTICE BOAftD (Jan. 29). Arrived—^Wellington Maori (6.33. a.m.), from Lyttelton. Sailed—Wellington: Maori (7.50 p.m.), for Lvttelton; Timaru: , ifana, (7 p.m.), for Lyttelton.