LATE SHIPPING.

Evening Star, Issue 14119, 23 July 1909, Page 4

LATE SHIPPING.

The A. and A. steamer Bantu, from New York for Australian and Now Zealand porte, arrived at Melbourne lae* Wcdnesd-iy week.

-VI mapouri, s.s., from Papeete and the Cook islands, is due at Wellington next Wednesday and the Rakanoa the following week. The Rakanoa is returning in ballast- after coaling the French warship* at Tahiti. It is reported that the steamer Auchendale, 3,952 tone, luis been chartered to load case oil at New York for New Zealand ports. A LONG TOW. TUG CHAMPION'S TASK. AUCKLAND, JULY 23. The tug Champion, which arrived from Sydney with a crew of sixteen men, has been required to shia &ix extra men for the return voyage t% comply with the New Zealand shipping laws. [The Champion is a powerful steel tug of 307 ton* gro«-6 and 135 ft in length, owned by W. and S. Brown, of Svdnev. She has come to Auckland to tow tile disabled tship Leicester Oastio to Sydney for repairs. The Leicester C'su-lle," being a vessel of 2,0C9 tons j.,iosf=. arid the diitanea to Sydney from Auckland beinjr 1,281 miles, it will be readily seen that the task of the Champion in one of great difficulty. The dangers of such a tow are. numerous, and cannot be provided against beforehand. The Champion, however, is well equipped for such work. She has towed vessels from Suva to Sydney, from Melbo unie to Sydney, was one of the steamers in search of the Perthshire when that liner broke down, and made a cruise to the south of New Zeihnd in search of the derelict Port Stephen*. Tlie Leicester Cnetle was drummed while on the way to Newcastle from Monte Video.] SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. LYTTELTON, July 23.-9.25 a.m., Pateona, from Wellington (connected with the second express). WELLINGTON, July 23.—8.15 a.m., Walkure, from New York via Bunbury. • AUCKLAND. July 23. 10a.m., Mo'orabool and Kaitang-iUi, from Newcastle. NEWCASTLE, July 23.—Brisbane, for Lyttelton.