SHIPPING.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 16451, 19 February 1919, Page 10

SHIPPING.

| PORT- OF LYTI'ELTON. 1 ARRIVALS. \ - Tuesday, February 18 th. ■ I Maori, ».«. (6.50 a.m.), 0412 tons, Stringer, ' from Wellington. Union, Steam Ship Co., | #gents. [ . Mana, 8.8.(7.50 p.m.), 138 tons, McPherson, rom Wangamu. , N.Z., Refrigerating Co., J> ,gcnti. . . "j». ' ' DJSPATtTURES. L, 1 Tueaday, February 18th. | Cygnet, m;- (10.30 a.m.), 121 tons, Murray, for Ak&roa. Stevenson, Stewart and Co., ' ajents. Suevic, 8.4. (5.46 p.m.), .12,"251 tons, English, for Wellington, Shaw, Savill ancl C 0.,. agonte. t • ' JBoden Powell, " b.B. (6 p.m.), 17-1 tons,. Jack- \ soil, for "Wellington. Kinsey and Co., Ltd., Agents. » , . Maori, «.». (8.15 p.m.), 3413 tons, Stringer, for Wellington.. Union Steam Ship- Oom!pany, agents. SHIPPING- NOTES. Gable id vice hae been, received in Christchurch 1 that the barque Clevedon arrived at ; Melbourne on Sunday last.' She left New York in June last' and put into Cape Town for repairs, and left that port on 28th. She carries a considerable quantity of cargo for, transhipment, to New Zealand ports.- j \ ■ The collier Kokiri will take in a load'of coal th>3 week at Uroy mouth for discharge at Lyttelton., The. :vesscl ,is expected here about' tho end of this week. ■ The cargo steamer Te Anau. has .been /fC fixed to -leave' Auckland to-day for Lyttelton. 'I . lvrom this port fiho will proceed to Timaru, «nd from-thence-to Oamara'and Bluff. 1 The steamer Stella is to be despatched 2 . from Wellington to-day . for. the Chatham ■'», Islands. V The East Coast passenger steamer Mono- ' t wai ehould amve>. here on Friday. She ia. •i : coming from Auckland, via- Napier nnd Wel- ? \ lington, and sails Friday evening for DunV* I «diij'. .. ■ • ~, i; Th<> collier Melbourne,: -which is discliarg|i t ing Newcastle coal ttelton, did not sail - 'lust «vening-aa anticipated. Her discharge ii is expected to be completed to-day, in which | cuso sho -will Mil for .Greymduth and thence f K to Melbourne. ' * ~ , , |'V The Lyttelton Harbour Board's dredge E Canterbury- left port at G. 20 p.m. last event in? for Timarn, where she will be occupied " <'M in dredging operations. !The four-masted American schooner Irene, under Captain Carloon,. ehould arrive at Lyttelton about .the middle of nextmonth. The vessel is coming' from San Francisco ■ , direct.. ..She'left'the' American port'on Janu- ■ mv Bth.' has been received'by the Umon Steam Ship Company that the Makura reached Vancouver from Sydney, via Auckland and the usual P° rt ß on Thursday. I The Verdun ia at present loading porliou of her cargo ot 01,000 bales of wool atPort Chalmers. This is said to be one of the largest shipments to have left the Dominion, even in.pie-war.»Umoß, and, coming as it has, in the middle of the wool season, Dunedm should be consideied fortunate in havingjier. stores so thoroughly cleared. The -•will leave about the-end of this week "HuJl,'via Panama. , . . _ #( . • News received by the "Sydney Sliippui;, recently states .hat Jlr WiUiani . -' Brown McQueen, of Gourok, died at sea ou ' November 7th from Spanish mfluensa, which 1 !he bad contracted on the voyage. According ! to advices received tho deceased, when be V became ill, remained on duty, and-hoped to filtnka h\a sickness off, laut lid diod very 5 Buddenlv fromheart failure. Mr McQueen was -well -known -in-the Now Zealand and Australian -coast ftade,-where ho spent *bout in twentv Years of hJft life. For seven years he 7j W aa'-i»Vth'o eraploXaent of the Union Steam d Ship Co., asd '-white in their service ho ob- ® Vtained leave; proofed to the United Kingdom, and got his Vster s ticket. After •W r ;returning to AuatraliV-he jomed the Ade- ' ■ inVta SS. Co.. land later on the A.lj.b.-\-V Co war broke out he returned V i -to Ensiaad again,.and Iftter on joined tho. v » Aberdeen-Line; and it was only about six<teen months «go that he was at Sydiw » ; Uti ■■ second officer of-the big -Aberdeen liner Eun--pidos.. From tlm -'-veesel he joined of ilxw 'the big: I .liners rajuun» across- tlie Atlanuc, 'liibU and in this'trade met his denth. ' Mr S'. McDowall, of the forrv steamer W H ':Miori,'- who' died at his residence in "Vvelf linetoix .on Monday at the age of. . T»rs, is -the second cl.ief engineer m the BiiVj" TTclonV Stoam'; Ship - Company's service who has died Mr-McDowall came to INew. Ziilaidiaboui thirty years ago,- and ihad served with the Union Company most Pif that time. From tho .position of second engineer on tho Rotorua he transferred t" i th« Rosamond, and thenco to the Penguin ' second. Ho was for some time in TasBSBI \nwuiijn' waters as chief engineer on the Manftwatu, after which he was on the Kia > ywo From, tho Eotokino Mr McDowall •'Wn.TaTna. as chief, and about-a wear *fter- tb« Maori came to Wellington HBSO.? Jb® toot chaigo of her enpinc-room. Anchief engineeriin the Union^ .Company's 'zmeeriao, Mr . G-. Falls,- of. the Nayua, ijeb. Mondar<i jr Mr'Falla-joined' the Union

Steam Ship Company in 1903. and had 6inca been in sovera; oi the company's vessels, being promoted- chirf engin&er in. 1916, and subsequently joining tho JCavua aa chief. He was thirty-sis years of age. SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. WELLINGTON, February 1S ; Arrived—Tropic (1 p.m.), from New York. Sailed—Mararoa (7.50 p.m.), for Lyttolton. AUCKLAND, February 18. Arrived—Mako (L p.m.), from East Coast ports and baj's; K;:uri <3.15 p.m.), from Sydney. Sailed—Mouowai (1 p.m.), for South.