SHIPPING.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2204, 30 May 1908, Page 2

SHIPPING.

ARRIVED. Friday, -May 29tli. Toroa, s.s., 174 tons, Peterson, from Napier. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Victoria, South, this morning. Waikaro, Auckland, to-morrow. Athonic, South, Juiio 1. Monowai, South, June 4. AVimmera, Auckland, Juno 1. Kaeo, Auckland, early. Mokoia, South, June 6. Seagull, Mangateto, early.

IMIOJEOTED DIOPARTURES Victoria, Auckland, to-day. Waikaro, South, to-morrow. Wimmcra, South, June 3. Monowai, Auckland, June 4. Mokoia,. Auckland, June 6.

The Huddart Parker Co.’s Victoria arrives trom South this morning and loaves later for Auckland and Sydney.' The tender leaves the wharf at G a.m. and 10 a.ui. The Union S.S. Co.’s Waikaro returns from Auckland to-morrow afternoon and sails South in tlio evenTlio Union S.S. Co.’s Squall left Auckland early yesterday morning. She calls at Tologa on her trip down nnd is due hero to-nlorrow. . The Union S.S. Co.’s Haupiri has » been further delayed at Auckland and will probably leave thero to-day. .Mosrs Richardson and Co.’s Toroa arrived from Napier yesterday afternoon with a quantity of general cargo. She returns to Napier this morning. . The .auxiliary sch<*>iier Avaiapu is expected to sail for Auckland to- • uight or to-morrow morning. „ Sho is at present loading manure for that port. Advices by the last English mail announce tlio salo of the Aberdeen liner Sophocles—an old Australasian trader —for the sum of £II,OOO, tho purchasers being an English firm. Tho Sophocles, which is at present lying in London, was formerly known as _tiio lonic, aiul is a steel passenger steamer of 4,673 tons gross, and of 2,937 tons net. She carries about 4,500 tons dead weight, and 6teams' 13 knots. The Sophocles was built in ISS3 by Harlaml and Wolff, of Belfast, and for nearly. twenty years r~- was engaged in. the Now Zealand- ■ London service, trading under the . Shaw-Savill Company's flag. In 1900 she. bade farewell to tho Dominion being replaced in 1903 by the modern lonic. • . The New Zealand Shipping Company’s Kaikouru had an interesting and unusual experience on hor last voyage from New Zealand to London. In the vicinity of Cape Horn she passed no fewer than forty icebergs, a many of wliich were of gigantic aize. Some of them were of surpassing beauty as they glistened jn the sunlight. Their fantastic lines suggested dreamland palaces and great cathedrals carved in ice. One huge berg split asunder beforo the eyes of tho beholders, and tho shock of its collapse was felt by the steamer, over a. mile away. The presence of so many icebergs in the track of the direct steamers was believed to. bo duo t 0 .an earthquake in the Antarctic regions. Sir James Mills, interviewed at Melbourne regarding the purchase of tlio - ship Dartmoor for tho training of cadets, stated that nothing-had ■ been decided yet in respect to tho Dartmoor. It was contemplated using hor as a training ship to trade . between Australia and New Zealand and portions of tho Pacific, as trade demanded. There was accommodation in hor for twenty-four lads to be trained for sea, who will bo able to qualify eventually as officers in tho Australian and New Zealand mercantile service. By the cadet service which the company propose t 0 institute, parents would be -able to oxer- . ciso authority over their sons who entered the service, ~ BY TELEGRAPH.

„, , AUCKLAND, May 29. bailed—Squall (8.30 a.m.) for Tologa Bay and Gisborne. Sailed—Warrimoo for Sydney. Arrived (6.45 p.m.) Haupiri from Gisborno via East Coast Bays e NAPIER, May 29. _ Sailed—Victoria for North and Sydor}'- Passengers for Gisborne': Misses Waterhouse, Hutchinson, Broughton, Puflett; Mrs DustinMessrs Cato, Taylor, Couston, Busbv, Hutchinson, Sinel, Gray, Rollinson, Lotterili, Reynolds, Jackman, Spencer, Herekore, Williams, Button Dustin, -Prydo and Baird. m WELLINGTON, May 29. To sail (8 p.m.) Warrimoo for Sydney.

. . T „ SYDNEY, May 29. Arrived—Moana and Waihora. ALBANY, May 29. Arrived—s.s. Cornwall from Loudon