SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 5 July 1901, Page 4

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

An interesting plan is being laid before the Canadian Government for the closing of the entrance to Port Hood Harbor, Cape Breton Island. This is the principal harbor on the southern side of the Gulf of St. Lawrence and, in fact, the only one of service in a long stretch of very rugged Coast; but the harbor is made merely by the lee of an island, and is nothing but a strait. With one end closed it would become a great refuge for vessels, and would be available for the shipment of coal from extensive collieries now being developed in opposition to those of the Dominion Coal Company.

Advices received from the Cook Group, dated May 22nd, state that tho schooner Maungaroa, which, left Auckland on March 25th for Earatonga, with a full cargo for the Cook Islands Trading Company, has not since been heard of, being sixty clays out. The schooner made the record trip for a saiier last year, Auckland to Earatonga, doing the passage in nine and a-half days. That some serious disaster lias happened to the schooner there can be little doubt. The vessel was in charge of Captain Theodore B. Nagle, a sou of Captain W. J. Nagle, wharfinger for the Union Steamship Company at Earatonga. The cargo was insured, but there is no insurance on the vessel.