HIGGINSON AND MACSHANE.

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2451, 3 May 1915, Page 8

HIGGINSON AND MACSHANE.

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and cany on as ship brokers, freight contractors, etc. Messrs. J. J. Craig. D. P. Stewart (managing), and 0. O. H. Gihbonß are the first directors. The-Omana is now on her maiden ■ voyago from London to West Australia. Messrs. Burns, Fhilp and Co.. local agents for the Nippon Yusen Koisha, advase us that, on account of tie large additional amount of cargo offering from Japan, the company is dispatching on. extra boat this month. This is the Totomi Maru, which is due at Sydney on May 20, and time-tabled to leave there on the return journey on June 7. The monthly timetable boats will, of course, bo dispatched as usual. To-day the TJnion steamer Kaituna i« expected to leave Picton for Auckland. Subsequently the vessel will proceed on to Newcastle. A projected departure from Lyttelton for Kaikoura, and Wellington last evening woa the Waketu. On arrival here the coastal trader will lay up indefinitely. The departure of the Atua from Auckland for Fiji. Tonga, and Samoa las been postponed till 2 p.m. to-day. The Union Company's Waitemata, 17111011 made port from San Francisco, via. Auckland last evening, will land 2800 ton# of cargo at the Queen's WhaTf. No. 1 south, before proceeding on to Sydney.. On Wednesday morning next the Union 6teamer Oorinna will arrive o,t Wellington from New Plymoutli. She will leave on tho return trip tho same evening. Having completed loading at Wellington on Saturday evening, tho Shaw-fianli liner Pakoha, cleared this port for London at 7 a.m. yesterday. Sho is duo at iher. destination about Juno 12. The coal shipments last week? for the port of Westport were as follow: —Westport Coal Co., 13,570 tons 3 owt.; coke. 5 tons 7 cwt. WestportrtStockton Co., 3,060 tons 10 curt. , Tho Peninsula trader Cygnet was placed on the Patent Slip at 'Lyttelton on Friday, _ in order to have her hull cleaned and * pointed preparatory to taking up the new winter time-table to Kaikoura end Wellington. Tho John Anderson is still in the shipwright's hands undergoing extensive structural repairs. There is a probability of the latter vessel undertaking the work of a trawler shortly. Tho four-masted schooner Cecilia- Sudden. 545 tons, is reported to have sailed from Port Huon, Tasmania, with a cargo of timber for Dunedin. The little ketch Kcroru arrived in the stream at Auckland late' on Thursday night, from Niue (Cook Islands), after a very rough trip. She brought mails, pasFengers. and 95 tons of copra, and a quantity of fungus. The Kcroru will sail again for Niuc ahout Saturday, May 9. The small whaling steamer Hananui II arrived at Auckland shortly after noon on Friday from Russell, where 6he lias .been laid up since December. The vessel has gono to Auckland for survey and overhaul, and will leave in ahout three weeks' timo for the north in radiness for the Qanunence.JgO&flQlto ■ v