SHIPPING.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2294, 12 September 1908, Page 2

SHIPPING.

ARRIVED

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11

Famiv. s.s. (5 u.m.). *>•> tons, Nelson from Napier.

SAILED

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11

Fanny, s.s, (4 p.m.), 55 tons. Nelson, for Napier.

expected arrivals.

Monna, South, to-day

Monowni, Auckland, to-morrow. I,’akanoa, Napier, early. Waikare, South, September 16. Mokoia., Auckland. September 16. Waikare, Auckland, September 20. Victoria, South, September 19.

PROJECTED DEPARTURES.

Moan a, Auckland, to-day, Monowai, South, to-morrow. Waikare, Auckland, September 10 Mokoia, South, September 16. Waiknre, South, September 20. Victoria, Auckland, September 19.

Messrs Rich aide, on and Co.’s Fanny arrived from Napier yesterday morning and returned again in the afternoon. As well ns genera! cargo, which included transhipments ex s.s. Avondale, she brought a large number of posts and a motor-car. The U.S.S. Co.'s Moan a is expected to arrive from South this afternoon, and to sail for'Auckland in the evening." Present arrangements are that there will only he_ouo launch, leaving the wharf at 7 p.m. Tho U.S.S. Co.’s Monowai returns from Auckland to-morrow, afternoon and sails South again in the evening. Tho U.S.S. Co.’s Squall is due to leave Auckland to-day at. 2 o’clock for To'.oga Bay and Gisborne with a general cargo, and should arrive here on Monday. The U.S.S. Co.’s Haupiri is expected to leave Auckland for Coast ports and Gisborne on Monday. Tho Shaw, Savil! and Albion Co.’s K.M.S. lonic is due to leave Wellington on' Thursday, October Bth, for London. The New Zealand Shipping Company's R.M.tS. Ruapehu arrived at Plymouth on Tuesday from New Zea-. land, after a fast passage of 40 days. ' Both the schooner Awanui and tho auxiliary schooner Kaeo are due from Auckland shortly with timber cargoes. Captain Benton, having had a month’s holiday, has rejoined the U.S.S. Co.’s Squall at Auckland, and acting-master Ross has rejoined the s.s. Mokoia as chief officer. The s.s. Arahura’s propeller, lost at Picton, has been recovered, having been hauled from its resting place on the sea bottom by the Penguin. South Australian advices state that after awaiting loading engagements for seven months and a-half the ship Herald has secured a charter. Messrs .John Darling and Co. have engaged her to take a cargo of wheat from Adelaide to South Africa. The Herald, which is now tailing under the Norwegian flag, was formerly a British vessel, known as tho Hornby Castle. The schooner Ronga, which was capsized off Cape Campbell in March, 1906. and was subsequently towed to Wellington, has been converted into a steamer. The Ronga has completed a satisfactory tidal run, and will he placed in the. Wellington-Blenheim trade. She has been re-named the Wairau. The vessel has a cargo capacity of about a hundred tons. The Otterburn, under charter to the Union Company, left Picton on Saturday afternoon for Sydney with what is believed to be a record cargo of chaff from New Zealand. The vessel loaded in round figures, 29,000 sacks of chaff from Lyttelton, 10,000 sacks from Timarn, and 9SOO from Oamaru, and also 8000 sacks of barley from southern ports. The Otterburn discharged 600 tons of coal at Picton. and took a quantity of barley from that port to Sydney. A letter received by the Lyttelton Harbor Board lately contained an offer from a Mobile Coal Company, offering to supply Tennessee coal. The offer is interesting, chiefly on aocount of the low pr : ce quoted;—■ Into bunkers at 12s 6d per 20001 b; loading by barge for bunkers at 13, per 20001 b; export coal at 11s lOd per 20001 b. The cost of transport to New Zealand, however, destroys the possibility, of its competing in the market with local coals.