The Log Book

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 564, 17 January 1929, Page 2

The Log Book

TOFUA RETURNING.—The local office of the Union. Company advises that the Island passenger steamer Tofua leaves Suva at four o’clock this afternoon for Auckland, where she is due next Monday. KAIMANAWA LEAVES WESTPORT. —The local office of the Union Company has been advised that the collier Kaimanawa left Westport at 1.30 a.m. today for Auckland, where she is due on Monday next. NIAGARA FOR SYDNEY. Due at Auckland on Monday, January 28, from Vancouver and way ports, the local office of the Union Company hopes to dispatch the R.M.S. Niagara front here at 10 o’clock the same evening for Sydney. HAURAKI FROM PACIFIC COAST.— The local office of the Union Company advises that the motor-ship Hauraki is due at Auckland on January 26 from the Pacific Coast, and, efter discharge h©re r proceeds to Wellington, Melbourne, Adelaide and Sydney to complete.

INDIAN OLA FROM ANTWERP.—The c New Zealand Shipping Company has re- j ceived advice that the steamer Indianola sailed lTonx Antwerp for Auckland and New Plymouth on January 8. The vessel is 4.603 tons gross and is owned by the Gulf Transport Company. She has visited Auckland twice, the last time in

February, 1928. WARSHIPS’ MOVEMENTS. T h e cruisers Dunedin and Diomede left for the Hauraki Gulf this morning to carry out manoeuvres and gunnery practice. They will be joined later by the sloop Veronica, which is to leave port on Thursday. The sloop Laburnum is to sail to-mor-row for a four days’ visit to Tauranga. From Tauranga she will proceed to the Hauraki Gulf to manoeuvre with the other warships. SURREY DUE MONDAY.—The local office of the New Zealand Shipping Company has been advised that the Federal steamer Surrey arrived at Tokomaru Bay at 6.15 p.m. yesterday from Gisborne and leaves on Saturday evening for Auckland. She is due here next Monday to complete loading and is scheduled to sail finally from this port on January 25 for New York, Halifax and London, via Panama. A. AND A. NEW YORK STEAMERS. —Advice received by the New Zealand Shipping Company states the following steamers are scheduled to leave New York for New Zealand under the auspices of the A. and A. Line: City of Norwich, on January 25; Kelung, on February 8. The Treworlas is en route from New. York to New Zealand, and is scheduled to reach Auckland about February 2. PORT HOBART TO LOAD.—The Farmers’ Co-operative Auctioneering Company has been advised that the C. and D. Line’s motor-ship Port Hobart leaves Launceston on January 23 for Auckland, where she is due on January 27 to commence loading for Home. From this port the vessel proceeds to New Plymouth, thence Wanganui and Wellington, to fill up, and sails finally from the lastmentioned port on February 13 for London, via Panama. CORNWALL REPORTS.—According to a radio message received by the local office of the New Zealand Shipping Company, the Federal steamer Cornwall is expected to arrive in the stream at Auckland at 8 a.m. to-morrow from Liverpool. The vessel will later berth at the Prince’s Wharf to unload the local portion of her cargo before proceeding to Wellington, Lyttelton, Port Chalmers and New Plymouth to complete. MAURETANIA MAKES ANOTHER RECORD. —As if in defiance of the threat of the new German liners now completing for the Norddeutscher Lloyd, the Mauretania has made still another record, states the “Syren and Shipping.” She completed her last voyage from New York to Plymouth in six minutes over five days, her fastest time, and her official nass^ e from New York to the Eddyfatone was 4 days 23 hours 10 minutes. This is the third record which this wonderful old Cunarder has set ud in the past three months. If she goes on like this—only recently she averaged 27.3 knots between Plymouth and Cherbourg—the German boats will have to do something really wonderful to beat FRENCH LINERS FOUNDER. —For the second time this year a French passenger steamer has unaccountably sunk ; while in dock, reports “Syren and Ship- j ping.” The first, some months ago, was , the Chargeurs Reunis liner Hoedic, which ; turned over and sank at Le Havre, and is ' now being salved by a British firm. The j latest is the Numidia, 1.254 tons gross, j belonging to the. Cie. Fraissinet, and j employed in the mail service between Marseilles and Corsica. She was berthed , in the Joliette Dock at Marseilles, and j in the early hours of the morning prior ; to her projected departure, she suddenly i developed a list to port, water began to pour in, and within an hour she was resting in deep mud at the bottom of the dock. An inquiry into the causes of the accident has been opened. The case of the Hoedic is generally admitted to have been accidental, but in this instance at Marseilles there are strong reasons for suspecting malicious action, for during the pasLfew weeks feeling on the waterside has been very bitter. The action of the shipowners in laying up their vessels in response to the- strike of seamen, and that of the Government in supplying naval crews to run certain ships, might easily have goaded some of the less responsible strikers into committing an act of sabotage. CORINTHIC FROM HOME. Due at Wellington this morning from London and Southampton, the White Star liner Corinthic is bringing the following passengers:—Saloon: Mr. and Mrs. J. Geddis, Mr. S. G. Raymond, K.C., and Mrs. Raymond, Mr. and Mrs. E. Barber, Mr. and Mrs. O. Hebb, Mr. and Mrs. A. Kingston, Miss M. Kingston, Mr. and Mrs. D. Ritchie, Mr. and Mrs. W. Tuck, Mr. G. Tuck, Mrs. N. Dempster, Misses B. Simpson, M. Andreazzi, J. Damant, J. Grandison, Z. Ryden; Messrs. F. Portal, J. Robertson, F. Turner, R. Carter, Lieut. Commander C. Branson, R.N., and Mrs. Branson, Masters C. and C. Branson, Mr. and Mrs. G. Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. AY. Alexander, Miss R., Master W. Alexander, Mrs. D. Atkinson, Master D. Atkinson, Mr. and Mrs. J. James, Mr. and Mrs. A. Kinghorn, Mr. K. Kinghorn, Mr. and Mrs. H. Robson, Mr. and Mrs. C. Scott; Misses M. Colegrove, C. Colegrove, L. Wilson, J. Roberts; Messrs. W i Kenrick, J. Marshall, Mr. and Mrs. G Cowie, Masters D. and A. and D. Cowie; Misses B. and J. Cowie, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Minty, Mr. W. Minty, Mr. and Mrs AV. Dixon, Misses M. and C. Dixon Mr and Mrs. E. Percival, Master H. Percival; Mrs. C. Wills, Mrs. A. Johnson, Mrs E. Jordan, Misses G. Bills, R and S Foster, E. and E. McLeod-Smith, Messrs’. J. Hadheld, D. McLean, Mr. and Airs • L. Bastings, Master D. Bastings, Mrs. a’. Grant. Aliss G. Bradfield, ATr. L. AllenFletcher, Airs. Al. Oxford, Alisses P and 1 oL and Mrs - c - Gruchy, and 20t> third-class. . Passengers for North will reach Auckland by tram on Friday morning. The vessel will unload a quantity of general V" Wellington and then come to Auckland to complete discharge. She •> S « expec '^ at Auckland about January f.k A. S. Paterson and Company, Lim- . lteq, are the local agents