SHIPPING NEWS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2811, 29 January 1908, Page 66

SHIPPING NEWS.

MOVEMENTS OF OVERSEA STEAMERS.

The Whakatane, from Wellington^ arrived at, Mont© "Video on 21et met. - The Maiatua,-, for London, sailed front Wellington on 22n<3 inst. - ' The Surrey- sailed .from London fofi Auckland on January 2L , The Indr&mayo sailed from Aucklana for London- on 21st Inst. •■«•'" o * The Ruapehu sailed from Capetown <MI 21§t for Wellington. • - The Fifeehlr6j for Avonmouth, - sailed from Wellington on 25th. Ths In-Jwdcma, from Ne# Yort, Arrived! at Melbourne on 25th' inst. The lonic, from Wellington, for London 1 , on January 3, left Monte .yidea»,ott Z3»<|> -, inst.' . . - " , "." ■ ; * : "" - TO ARRIVE.^ AT AVeXUHB. Indralema, left New ' York December 3. Lord Sefton and New Orleans, left New Tort December 10. Tokomaru, left London December 17. Oawestry^ Grange and Marere, left London December 20.; Itakaj& left'lionddh -January 11. - Star of Englandy leftTNew^ork January. 14* Surreyr leffi London January 21.'" "/ .' .' „ ' „.' ' '/-"'.* :•-'-*' .AT .WELtIN&TON."", -- ' '" l^erehana,*^leftVJ^'>SOnJ_D"eee"mT)ei; 3. - 4 .Cbrinthio, left London "December SJ2; -dv* January/.2 9. ' -Ruapejra, T left". London De- " • oembe'r" 30 ; dtte- February' 14. ;- ItaKaia,' lefC Londoa';.January^ 14.-'". Star,- of Scotland; saifed "^Tanuiry 'l7, -A"ra-wa,_left 'Plymouth -January 11. - , t ;\ A - % . "Karaniea, sailed- January ,17. " AT POMrWTALMEBS.' Thofpe Grange, .due January 30. AbeiV". lour, left New- York January 2. - - T0 DEPART.. f • - nou-wnujNOTON. • . ■• ■ - Thorp.c Grw.nge r February. 22. IK*' OFBOM BITJEP. ' •— " Delphic,' about jFebruary 3. . >.- SHAW, aAVILL, AND ALBION OOM> - PANT'S NEW; STEAMER. The National Mortgage and Agency Com' pany,. local agents for- -the '-Shaw.' Savill, - - and Albion Company, ~*has '-received ' information to - the effect that the company is building a passenger steamer to replace the Gtothio. *"- The new steamer is to leave -Home on. her maiden voyage about November 12. The contract has-been placed with Messrs Workman, Clark; and , Co., shipbuilders, of -.Belfast,- and the new steamer will be slightly -larger _ and an -improve-, merit upon, the company's e.s.' Ar&wa, and will be '477 ft lorn?,- with 61ft beam, ;and ft loaded' "draught of^ 2Mt ' 9im -She bet engined "for a' speed -of ,13 -knots, and will 'have "^fcwjn-wsrewe. ■ Jt^has- been decided t<> "'nßine^he^'TeßSel ,"^«nui,"-ahd iheSvrill bey fitted- with comfortable^ accommodation for; -•firrtyA-eetoorfd^aria^ third ' class wJMtßsengerstbeJ^Bulatedfoß! 'ihe.oa^riage <?f iro*eir.3neat,* and- 1 the <*fter- " hoi<is^wiH^be' for- general- cargo. ' „ Efer meatcar ryrajr'-xsapaoii^S^ill'iJe about the. same" i.a'ithat'of'the Arawai^lrat _she will be able to-ca^ry»iiiore/gepeiK|-t)arKo than the latter veeseir In order a comparison.- be- ._ . tween /the capacities of ,bqth> -veesels; if inay.-bV stated; that. the Arawa can- stew, away 87,000 "carcases of mutton, in her- freezing: chambers,' and then have "space enoug-h left lo "accommodate 10,000 -bales of wool below her hatches. Her dimensions are;. - Length, 460 ft; -breadth, 60ft; depth, 31ft.

Shipownerß on "the west coast are experienoinj? considerable difficulty .in -* getting crews for=their venels. and the scow Hawk has been detained at Onehung* for «eyer«! days on thie<; account. The full-ooxnplement. however, w«a on the 20tbr,- but not' before one of the, number had to be paid - the exceptionally i high rate of £8 a month. ' for his. services.'