SHIPPING.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2326, 20 October 1908, Page 4

SHIPPING.

ARRIVED.

MONDAY, OCTOBER 19tli

Squall, sis. (6 a.m.), 369 tons, Benton/from Auckland and Tologa,

SAILED.

MONDAY, OCTOBER 19 th

Pelotas, barquentine (11 a,m.), 251 tons, Cozens, for - Whangaroa .and Sydney.

EXPECTED ARRIVALS.

South, to-day. Monowai; South, October 21. 'Westralia, Auckland, October 21.' Awanui, Auckland, early. Torgauten, Greymouth, early, ltipple, South, early.

PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Haupiri, Coast and Auckland, today. ' Squall, Auckland, to-day. _ • Monowai, Auckland, October 21. Westralia, South, October 21.

VESSELS IN PORT.

Zingara, auxiliary scow Haere, scow. Squall, s.s.

The barquenbine Pelotas sailed yesterday for Whangaroa to load timber for Sydney. . The U.S.'S. Cods Squall arrived from -Auckland yesterday morning, and came alongside the wharf shortly after noon. Owing to unfavorable conditions she did not discharge ' her Tologa Bay cargo, and will do so on her return trip. She brought a large quantity ot timber and general cargo for this port. The Squall leaves tins afternoon for Tologa Bay and Auckland. The U.S.S. Co.’s 'Wan-aka- is due here from South about Friday, and afterwards proceeds to Auckland. The Canterbury Shipping Co.’s Ripple is due about Friday from Grey mouth with a shipment of timber for Messrs Peacock© and Co.

The auxiliary schoner Kaeo is due to leave Auckland on Saturday for Gisborne, via Coast ports, with a general cargo. The ketch Coronation is loading timber at Whitianga, and is duo at an early date. " Both the Zingara ond the Haere are completed discharging, and will probably sail to-day or to-morrow. The U.S.S. Co.’s Haupiri is due from South this morning, and leaves late for Coast ports and Auckland. •Messrs Evans' Nield and Co. received, word yesterday that the schooner Awanui leaves Tologa to-day for Gisborne.

It has been suggested as a remote possibility that the missing barque Loch Lomond, which is now so seriously overdue at Lyttelton from Newcastle, lias been blown by the protracted westerly weather, which has prevailed for some time past in the vicinity of New Zealand, far away to the eastward (says the “Sydney Commercial News”). As an example of what is possible the case of the wellknown ship Beacon Rock, although hardly analogous; as she was in ballast, lias been cited. It will be remembered that the Beacon Rock left Adelaide about- eight years ago for a New Zealand port to' take the loading berth, and ran into very adverse weather -conditions. Nothing was heard of her for months, when she" suddenly turned up at Valparaiso, on tlie- West Coast of South America. .Lhe captain then stated, that the vessel hacl been practically blown across tue Southern Ocean, and although many attempts were made to make her loading port, they were frustrated by the conditions experienced. The Beacon Rock immediately returned to "the Dominion, hut when she arrived her cancelling date had passed, and she missed the charter.

Comparisons drawn between tlie speed of H.M.S. Indomitable and the giant Cunarders Lusitania and Mauretania have resulted in the Cunard Company issuing the following statement: “We may say that'the best speed claimed on behalf of the Indomitable is 26.4 knots -for- some period of her passage, whereas it i s on record and beyond question that the Mauretania steamed a distance of ov°, r miles at an average speed of 27.36'kn0t5,-and, as a matter of fact, covered more than 1200 miles at an average speed of over 26 knots. BY TELEGRAPH. AUCKLAND, Oct. 19. Arnved-Westralia (6.30 p.m.), on l«th, from Sydney; 'Victoria (7.30 Gis ; borne 1 Star of Scotland (6.30 a.m.), from Sydney; Surlcy, P-in. on 18th), from Liverpool. bailed (*5.30 p.m.), for Sydney. v ’ GAPE MA RIA, Oct. -19. V aatemata, irom the east, passed west- at 6.45 a.m. . NAPIER, Oct, 19. C Arrived lalune (6 a.m.) from Gisborne. To sail—Haupiri (8 p.m.), for Gisborne. . . , BLUFF, Oct. 19. Arrived—Ulimaroa (9.4 a.m.), from Hobart, with an English mail.