RIMUTAKA DELAYED.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1879, 13 October 1913, Page 9

RIMUTAKA DELAYED.

Advico wa6 received in Wellington yesterday to the effect that the Rimutaka had been delayed at Hobart owinff to the bad weather. Slio is not expected to leave for Wellington until to-morrow afternoon, an-d will not. therefore, arrive liero until Saturday afternoon or Sunday mornto?. ROTOIIUA AT MONTE VIDEO. Tho local office of tho New Zealand Shipping Company has been advi6«d that tho Sotonia, which left Wellington for London on September 20, arrived at Monte Video on Thursday, October 9. NOTICE TO MARINERS. Last weslc's Gazctto contains tho followto notice to mariners The Napier Harbour Board have notified that tho roadstead buoy which is now used to Rhow the southern limit of tho auchorago will bo removed on November 1 next and will not bo replaced. Chart* etc., affected: Admiralty Charts :Nos. 2513 and 2525; "New Zealand Pilot, eighth edition, 3908, Chapter iv, pasb 132; "Now Zealand. Nautical Almanac, 1313, pago 2W. MESS-TABLE* GOSSIP. Mr. 0. he Grys h«9 -signed on tho Mareroa n£ fifth engineer. . Mr. B. Gandell, fourth engineer of tlio Mararoa, left that vessel at Wellington yesterday. , , . Mr. jr. Himainen, late of the pcow Arrah Na-Pogue. lias passed lila examination for a coastal roaster's certificate. Mr. H. Salmon, Into of the Atua, hag passed his examination for a chief engineer's certificate.

An expected arrival at Auoklond from Montreal, via, -way ports to-day, is the New Zealand Shipping Company s Waimate. The veesel is duo at Wellington about tho end of this week. Latest mail news from Homo states that on August 16, Messrs. Bmith's Bock Co., Ltd., South Bank-ou-Tecs, launched a steel screw steamer for Messrs. Howard Smith and Co., . Ltd., Melbourne, for tho Australian coasting trade, the dimensions being 180 ft. by 29ft. by 14ft. Sho will carry 750 tons. The engines aTe of tho triple expansion type, having cylinders 165, 27, 44 by 30in. stroke, and aro constructed by tho builders. Tho Morayshire, which arrived at Wellington from Liverpool. _ via way ports, early on Saturday morning, is expected to clear for Lyttelton and Dunedin on. Wednesday. Subsequently tho vessel proccofls to Queensland ports to load for Homo. Bound from Now York tho A. and A. Lino's chartered stcamor Mimiro leaves Sydney for Auckland on October 22. Sho is duo hero about October 31. Before tho HuddartrParkcr steamer Westjalia leaves for tho north this afternoon Eho will put out 190 tons of southern cargo. Having completed discharge of Homo cargo at Wellington, the Tyser liner Whakarua took in 97 casks of tallow, 71 bales of wool, and 2 bales of liair, and left for Australian port 6 on Saturday morning to load for Homo. As tho Patccna has been withdrawn from tho Wollington-Picton-Nelson rervico for licr annual overhaul, tho Mapourika will tako up tho running for a few weeks as from to-day. The latter vessel leaves Wellington for Picton at 12.45 p.m. Tho Norwegian barquo Dagmar has sailed from P.io de Janeiro for Wcstport. Sho is to load ooal thero for tho South Sea Islands.