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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1608, 27 November 1912, Page 9

WARHIMOO ARRIVES AT 4 P.M. :I .A ;wireless.. message received from the 'Warrimoo stated that the veesel was expected to arrive at Wellington from Syd-. nsy direst at 4 p.m. to-day. She will berth at. the Queen's Wharf, No.' 6, to land passengers and-discharge cargo. . . MOKOIA DELAYED. On account of yesterday's heavy rain, it was found impossible to handle cargo on the Wellington wharves. In consequence of this the departure of the Mokoia for Lyttelton and Duncdin lias been postponed until 3 p.m. to-day. The Mokoia will take Ly-ttelton cargo only. The Corinna will take Dunedin cargo. She sails for the south to-day. lONIO LEAVES HOBART. Cable- advice received by the-local agents for the Shaw, Savill and Albion Company stated that H.M.S, lonic left Hobart for Wellington at 10.30 a.m.. yesterday. She is due in port on Saturday afternoon. The liner's departure for London has been postponed frop December 23 to December 27. It was originally- intended to get her clear of thia port before Christmas, but heavy shipments of dairy .produce from the nort'a have prevented this. RIPPLE SAILS TO-DAY. Messrs. Johnston and Co., advise that on account of yesterda v's bad weather the Ripple's departure from Wellington ror Napier and Gisborno has been postponed until 3 p.m. t-o-d-ay. MESS-TABLE GOSSIP. Mr. J. Sales, chief engineer of the Victoria, who has been ashore on holiday leave, rejoined the vessel at Sydney this trip. Mr. Hayman joined the Victoria as wireless operator at Sydney tliis trip, in place of Mr. Sandell, who lias joined the FederalShire steamer Durham as chief operator. Mr. T. Anderson, relieved Mr. H. Burt as chief engineer of the Hararoa at Wellington yesterday. Mr. L. Robertson, chief officer of the Koonya, has come ashore, his place having been taken by Mr. 0. Frost. • Mr. T. W. King lias joined the Moltoia as second engineer. Mr. F. A. Clark, late of the Kurow, has i'oined the Komata as -second officer, vice Ir. G. Graham. Karamea, s.s., of the Shaw, Savill fleet, will proceed to southern ports from Napier, to continue Home loading. The vessel is to make Wellington her final port, and is scheduled to sail for London just before Christmas. Her wool cargo should reach Home in, time for the ITaroh sales. The Shaw-SaviH steamer Kia Ora. cleared Wellington for London at 6.20 a.m. yesterday. The Union Oomany received advice yesterday statin? that the Pateena had touched Pig Island whilst she was bound from Picton to Nelson on Monday niglit. The Pateena was scheduled to leave Picton for Wellington at 3 a.m. to-day. She should arrive in port about 7 a.m. It is understood that, the Collector of Cußtoms at. Wellington will hold an inauiry into the circumstaiicca surrounding the mishap this morning at 9.30. After December 16 the Northern Company's Rarawa will leave Onelmnga for New Plymouth on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Sha will leave New Plymouth on the return trip on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, The trips from Onehunga on December 25 and January 1 and from. New Plymouth on December 26 and January 2 will be abandoned. The Now Zealand Shipping Company's Rotorua is now taking in Homo cargo at Napier. •By wireless the TJnion Company's Tofua advised that she was expected to arrive at Auckland from the South Sea Islands at 8 a.m. to-day. After a passage of 70 days the American schooner M." Turner arrived ftt. Auckland, timber laden, from Puget Sound, on Monday. Wellington Heads reported that a large steamer passed cost at 9.25 p.iu. yesterday. This will probably he the Shaw-Savill' steamer Karamea, bound from Nelson to Nivpier. The Marine Department have been advised that a dangerous rock, with five fathoms of water over it, exists five miles and a quarter north-west of Waitara. The Union Company's Pukaki is due here from south on Sunday. She sails for New Plymouth and the West Coast on Monday afternoon. An expccted arrival at Dtvnedin from London direst on December 12 is the ShawSavill steamer Mauiari. • The N.D.Ii. liu-e-r Goettingen left Brisbane a couple of weeks 1 anro with the largest cargo of wool yc-t taken from that port by nny single vessel. Her cargo comprised 12,0-18 bale<3 wool. 74 bnlr<; of 3203 wet hides, 73 bales of dry hides. S6OO loose dry hicks, 60 casks of tallow, and 1194 bags of ore. and was consigned to Naples, Antwerp, Bremen, and Hamburg. The local agents for the ' Messo geries Maritime Company lvivo besn advised that the company has discontinued its South American-Atlantic. cervices. The company will no longer dispatch vessels to Senegal. Brazil, or the liiver Plate. A new and indenend-snt. company has been formed which i* called the South ■ Atlantic Company. This .company will carry .on the service. After discharging her wrgo of Newcastle coal-nt Wellington, the TJnion Company's collier Whangape returns to - ;tho. -. New South Wales coal nort to .load for. Port Ch-xlnwß. filvs will stilneaueiilly be »ur> jreyed at Port Oh&lmota.

The RaJtanoa is expected to leave' Fiji about November 30 for Auckland. She is loading a carijo of raw sugar at the group for the Colonial Sugar Company's Chelsea works. The Government training ship Amokura was at Port Underwood on Monday. Slio will cruise about that vicinity • for a day or two, proceeding thence to Port Chalmers, and arriving there in time t-o clear the southern port for the outlying islands of New Zealand on Saturday. The Government steamer Hincmoa was expected to be at Cape Brett to-day. Tho Haupiri will be. dispatched, from Wellington for I'ict-on and Qneliunga today. Stephen Island reported that the Kurow, en route from Newcastle to Napier, passed there early yesterday morning. Arahura, s.s., left Westport for Nelson, Ploton, and Wellington at 9 a.m..yesterday. She should make port about 9 p.m. to-day. Tho Union steamer Kini is due at Wellington from Napier on Friday for survey and overhaul.