SHIPPING

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2064, 31 March 1909, Page 4

SHIPPING

§ | SAILED. . TUESDAY, MARCH 30. / Pelotas, barquentine (9 a.m.), 251 "tons, Cozens, for Sydney, via Whafl’f, • ngaparoa. ” ' • EXPECTED ARRIVALS. •Mokoia, North, to-day. Waikare, South, to-day. Waikare, North, April 4. Wimmera, North, April 7. , , . Victoria, South, April 3. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Squall, Tologa and Auckland, to-day. Victoria, North, April 3. Waikare, North,, to-day. Mokoia, South, to-day. Waikare, South, April 4. VESSELS IN PORT. Alert, scow. Rangi, scow. Squall, s.s.

The U.S.jfe. Co..’s Waikare arrives from south this morning, and proceeds to Auckland. The Tuatea leaves the wharf at 6 a.m. and 9.30 a.m. The U.S.S. Co.‘s Mokoia, from Sydney and Auckland, arrives this afternoon and continues her voyage - south -during the evening. The Tuatea leaves the wharf, with outward passengers at 7 p.m. Tho barquentine Pelotas sailed yesterday for Whangaparoa to load logs for Sydney. Captain Cozens relinquishes command of the vessel upon arrival at Whangaparoa, and proceeds to Wellington. Captain Lane will be the new captain of the Pelotas. The U.S.S. Co.’s Tuatea wiil probably leavo for Waipiro on Thursday morning with a party of members of the ..Church of Christ, or Latter Day Saints, who aro proceeding to 'Waipiro to attend a Mormom conference. The U.S.S. Cods Flora has been delayed in Wellington on account of the •heavy rain. She was timed to leave for Napier at noon vesterday, and arrive to-morrow morning, leaving again the same day for coast ports and Auckland. Owing to the Easter holidays tho s.s. Waikare from south will pass through Gisborne on Thursday, April 15, instead of Wednesday. There will be no alteration in the boat going south the previous week. The s.s. Wimmera passes through Gisborne on Wednesday, April 7, according to her time-table. The berthage clues collected by the Lyttelton Harbor Board for the year ended December 31st, 1908, amounted to £2173 19s lid, tho chief contributors being:—Union Steamship Company £*1254 18s 3d, Kinsey, Barns and Company £321 19s 2d, Shaw, Savdl and Albion Company £240 17s lOd N- ' Zealand Shipping Company £2OO 2s 9d. The Wanganui Harbor Board have notified the Marine Department of the following alterations in the harbor lights in Wanganui Harbor —viz., The red light near the centre of the south internal wall to be shifted to the upstream encl of the said wall, to be in line with the white light on Putiki and the middle red light on the training wall. • . The Mary F. Scully, the largest oceangoing tugboat afloat, was launched successfully at Port Richmond (United States) recently, at the yard of the Staten Island Shipbuilding Company. She is built of steel, 180 ft long, 30ft beam, and 15ft draught. She will be capable of developing 1200 h.-p., and will .carry 500 tons of coal, _ having a Steaming radius of 5000 miles. She cost £26,000. A pleasing ceremony took place on the steamer Maheno at Melbourne recently, when Mr. Mr. Clarke, chief steward, was presented with a silver bracket and set of flower vases by the nrovidoring staff of the ship. Mr. Clarke is leaving the Union Company after fifteen years’ service to start m business in Sydney on his own account. As evidence of the workable nature of the Patea bar during spring tides the steamer Aorer© went inwards over the bar at 9 o’clock one morning last week, and left port on the same tide after being three hours at Patea. The vessel was drawing something like Bft 6in when she sailed for Wellington. It is expected that the dredging now be-incarried on at the Government ■ wharf at Nelson by the Railway Department will be completed by April 3rd, and ready for the berthing of ocean steamers. The big Home liners are shortly to call at that port to load mutton. The Riverina is believed to bo the fastest steamer in the Huddart-Parker fleet. She made the run from Sydney to Wellington in three days 13 hours recently, with one boiler idle for a considerable time. The U.S.S. Co.’s steamer Aparima is sv'o present unloading at Bombay, and 5s to leave there within a few' days for Calcutta to load for New Zealand. The U.S.S. Co.’s cargo steamer Kainpoi is shortly to load timber in New Zealand for Australia. BY TELEGRAPH, SYDNEY, March 30. Arrived —Maheno (5 a.m.), from Wellington. ~ , nn AUCKLAND, March 30. Sailed —Marama (11.55 p.m. on 29th) for Sydney; Maitai, for Wellington and Westport; Atua, for Sydney, via Islands; Daniel, barque, for Kaipara; Isabel, .schooner, for Friendly Islands; Mokoia (4.50 p.m.), for south. Passengers for Gisborne: —Misses Milner ana Holloway; Mesdames Holloway, doLautaur, Graham, Sinclair, and Howard; Messrs Veale, Barley, i ates, Bow,es, Woolf, Brash, Eure. Clarke, \Y allace, Mcfonie, Graham. Panned, Caibould, Howard, Verne. Old, Stanford,. Folks, . and Theatrical Company (20). NAPIER, March 30., Sailed —Waikare, for north. Passengers for Gisborne : —Misses Buchanan, ' Donnell, Bennett, Reynolds, McGredie, Morgan, McMillan; Mesdames iitzgerald. Barton, Reyno.cls, Gascm, Sheiratt, Donncr and maid, Murphy, Donner, Reynolds, Hardy, Coleman: Mos- : srs Atkinson, Williams, Carter, Woodall Barton, Bunb.y, Reynolds, Millphy, - Dormer, Griffin, 'Humphries, Longhurst, Hardy, Ellis, Call, Allen, Smithson,- Cope, Strang, and Captain Matthews,