SHIPPING.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2585, 20 August 1909, Page 4

SHIPPING.

ARRIVED; Weka, s.s. (7 a.m.), 53 tone, Peterson, from Napier. Waikonini, scow (7 p.m.), 60 'tons, White, from Mercury Bay. SAILED. THURSDAY, AUGUST IS. Weka, s.s. (5.30 p.m.), Peterson, for Napier. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Victoria, South, to-morrow. Ripple, South, early. Monowai, Auckland, August 22Tarawera, South, August 25. Wiinmera, Auckland. August 25. Waikare, South, August 26. Tarawera, Auckland, August 29. Wanaka, South, August 30. Waikare, Auckland, September 1. Monowai, South, September 1, Wimmera, South, September 4. Monowai, Auckland, September 5. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Victoria, Auckland, to-morrow. Monowai, South, August 22. Tarawera, Auckland, August 25. Wimmera. South. August 25 Waikare, Auckland, August 28. Tarawera, South, August 29. Monowai, Auckland, September 1. Waikare, South, September 1. Wimmera, Auckland, September 4. Monowai, South, September 5. VESSELS IN PORT. Waikonini, scow. Messrs Richardson and Co.’s Weka arrived from Napier westerday morning with a cargo of timber and general cargo. She returned to Napier in the evening, havng discharged her cargo. The scow Waikonini arrived hero last night from Whitianga and Mercury Bay, with a cargo of over 60.000 feet of timber for Messrs Evans, Nield and Co. The Waikonini left Mercury Bay at 8 o’clock on Monday night, and passed the East Cape at midnight on Tuesday, and has been beating down the coast since t-iic;n, having to contend with adverse winds. ~ , The XJ.S.S. Co.’s Squall is to arrive from Auckland and Tologa Bav this morning, and should get in about 8 o’clock. The U.S.S. Co.’s Flora was to have left Auckland for Coast ports, Gisborne, Napier, and Wellington at noon yesterday.

The Huddart-Parker Cods Victoria is the boat from South to-morrow morning. The Marine Department, says a Wellington paper, intends to do away with the unsatisfactory light at Jackson Head, which has given constant trouble ever since it was installed. During October or November, when weather conditions aro more favorable for the work, a gas light will be erected on top of the present beacon. The new light will be at an elevation of 55ft above the sea level ,and will be ou occulting light, showing all round for three seconds, alternating with three seconds’ darkness. The light will be a powerful one, equal to a second-class light. There will be two gas “holders,” 6ft in diameter .and 9ft 4in in length, which will contain sufficient gas for three months’ continuous burning. Two portable “holders” will be filled with Pintsch gas by the Railway Department, and every time the Hinemoa visits the Brothers lighthouse she will call at the Jackson Head, beacon to pump a new supply of gas into the reservoirs of the beacon. The full equipment is gt pyejsent jg "Wellington. awaiting the passing of winter.. An interesting ocean race from Wellington to London should take place between the Shaw-Savill liner Athenic and the Tyser liner Nerehana, both of which left on Thursday of last week within four hours for the same destination. Both have a good tum of speed. The Nerehana paced a "White Star liner—the Runic—for some hundred miles .along tho coast of Africa on her last trip from London to Melbourne. They parted olf Capetown, where the Runic had to call, wliile the Nerehana kept on to Melbourne. On the present occasion the Nerehana has an advantage in calling at only one place—Las Palmas —on the homeward run. From there she proceeds direct to London. The Athenic, on the other band, calls at Monte Video, Teneriffc, and Plymouth. The date of the arrival of both steamers at London will be awaited with interest. 1 The foundations of a. new office building for the Union Steam Ship Company are being put in >at Lyttelton. lor many years the company has occupied an old* building in Norwich Quay, but in deciding upon obtaining new offices at the port, the company chose a new site right on the water front- Tim Customs examining, shed at the foot of No. 2 wharf has been shifted a few yards to the north, and the new offices are being built where it stood. The building will be on of a size more in proportion with requirements tha.n the old one, which (states tho “Lyttelton Times”) was too roomy. Although the Union Company’s passenger steamers have been withdrawn from the West Coast trade, their cargo boats between Onehunga and the South ar.<, said to be doing a steady and increasing volume of business. This is seen by the very full cargo taken to Onehunga regularly every week.

BY TELEGRAPH. [Pick Press Association.! CAPE MARIA, August 19. Union Co.’s Kaitangata, from south, passed east at 11.15 a.m., bound for Auckland. AUCKLAND, August 19. Arrived—Monowai (9 a.m.) from Gisborne. NAPIER, August 19. Arrived—Moura (6 a.m.) from Gisborne. SYDNEY. August 19. Sailed—Saturnis for Westport. MELBOURNE, August 19. Sailed —Manuka (last night) for tho Bluff. Arrived: —Cornwall from Liverpool. ALBANY, August 19. Sailed—Bannockburn for New Zealand cn route from New York.