SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 4 May 1901, Page 4

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

The great wave which struck the Mapourika when outside the Heads on Sunday evening, might have been expected (says the New Zealand Times) from the accounts given by several commanders of the tremendous sea running in the Strait on Sunday. According to one or two local- scientists the heavy seas are possibly an effect of a tidal wave on the Coast of South America.

Two large passenger and cargo steamers, building at Belfast for the Shaw, Savill and Albion Company’s London and New Zealand trade, are expected to be delivered this year. They are each 500 feet long, and of about 10,000 tons register. The names are to be the Thenic and Corinthic. In conjunction with the other steamers of the line, they will call at the Cape and Hobart en route for London.

The master of the Theodora, which arrived in Sydney the other day from Lauwig, reported on the 31st January, when the ship was in 6deg. W. longitude, they met with a storm of dust. The vessel’s decks and sails were thickly coated with a thick dust, and during the worst of the storm it became so thick in the air that it created gloom approaching almost to darkness.

The Admiralty’s chartered transport Penarth arrived at Westport rather unexpectedly from Hong Kong yesterday. The steamer was not expected till Sunday next. The Penarth had an uneventful passage of 28 days from Hong Kong, and arrived free of sickness. During her absence the steamer had distributed coal at various Chinese ports, and for 31 days she was lying idle. The Penarth again loads for Hong Kong,