MOERAKI DUE TO-DAY.

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2518, 20 July 1915, Page 8

MOERAKI DUE TO-DAY.

Having left Sydney at 3 p.m. on Saturday. the Union Company's Moeiraki is due at Wellington this afternoon. She has 54 saloon and. 72 steerage passengers on board for New Zealand, as well as 750 tons of cargo for Wellington.

BOUND FOR SAN FEANOISOO. Bound for San Francisco, via my ports, the Maitai left Sydney for WelVugton at 1 p.m. on Saturday She . should arrive here to-morrow, and will continued her journey to the Californian port, via Rarotonga and Papeete, at 5 p.m. on Thursday. The Maitai has 18 pa«engere on board for New. Zealand ports.

• j HESSTABLE GOSSIP. Captain. Chas. Lambert, who retired from tli© "Union Company's service some time ago, has taken charge-of the ■ ATapourika pro tera- Captain Holmes, who vras. ap,(pointed to command the vessel, has been compelled to remain ashore at Wellington on taccount of ill-health. ' Mr. A. Jl'Lcllan, chief officer of the Arahuro, hae come ashore for instructions. Mr. J. G. M'Donald has signed on the Arahura as third engineer. . . . Mr. Rule, who has been relieving in the passenger department of the Union Company office at Wellington, has joined the Maorlv a-3 purser. Mr. G Greenland, assistant pUTser of the Maori, has come a6hore at Wellington.^ Mr. A. 9. Smith has joined the Maori as wireless operator in. place of Mr. S. Brown, who hog joined the Paloona in a similar capacity. Mr. W. H; Jude, \rreless operator on Lhe latter vessel, has come ashore in- order to join the New Zcalaaid Iteinforcements. .

Mr. A. H. Robertson hag joined the Maori as third engineer.

Mr. D. Dalgleish, manager of tho Westport branch of tlio Union Steam Ship Co., is at present <in inmate of a private hospital in Wellington, suffering from henxt trouble. Ho is being relieved at Westport by Mr. Pearson, manager of the New Plymouth office.

It is reported that the A. <uid A. Line's chartered steamer Batsford left New' York on July 10 for Auckland.

An expected arrival at Auckland from East Coast lighthouses last evening was the Government steamer Hinomoa. After visiting Eauraki Gulf lights and buoys, the vessel will proceed north and oontinue her visit of : inspection.

Aftor having been considerably delayed at tho Oha.tti.ain Islands by bad weather, the Himltongi at 1.30 p.m. on Sunday. She will not visit ,Lyttelton this trip, her first port of call being Oamaru. A call will afterwards be made at Timaru, and tho vessel will them probably come to Wellington.

The departure of the Wootton from' Wellington for Nydia, Bay has been postponed till 101 a.m. to-day. The Defender, whioh 1b duo'here from Hokitika on Friday, will bo dispatched on the return trip the same day. i

With, a load of superphosphates and carbide -the Kamona wa6 due at Lyttelton yesterday from Melbourne and ' Edithburg. Aftor landing a, part cargo tlio vessel coxncg to Wellington to oomiplete discharge. From Port Ohalmers the chartered steamer La Blanco, will proceed to the Bluff, Lyttelton, Waitara, Wanganui, and Wellington. ' Hometrcird ..loading will be completed at the last-montioned pprt, and departure taken for Home-about July 31. At Friday's meeting of the Wanganui Harbour Board the Ohristchurch Meat Company applied for permission to erect a light wharf at their, proposed new works on the foreshore at Gouvilie, asking that the board's engineer be allowed to prepare plana for same, a'nd superintend its erection It was resolved that the request be acceded to, under certain conditions

The Somerset mil leave Wellington for southern ports on Thursday, and the o,pawa on Hrdday. Both vessels are at present, discharging Liverpool oargo here. ' Latest advices received by . the local agents for and D. Lrnc state that, the Indrapura is to leavo Napier at noon to-day for Wellington. She is due here vn Thursday Aorndng. Overhaul to the collier Kamo is not expected to bo completed at Wellington till about tho end of this week.

The New. Zealand Shipping Company's Tongariro is due at Wellington from tho Bluff to-morrow: She will fill up here and sail for Home on Saturday next.

The Shaw-Savill liner Waiwera is exTic'eted to leave Auckland for London at daybreak to-mtarow. After having, been laid up in tho .stream at, Wellington for several months,- the steamer Huia, is to be irecommissioned for tho Wellington-Wauganui. trade. She will' leave here to-morrpw in place of the Stormbird, which vessel will undergo overhaul at this port. The barque Manurewa is at present bound from the Clarence River -to Port Chalmers with a load of ironbark timber and piles for tho New Zealand Government Railway Department