SHIPPING.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2633, 15 October 1909, Page 4

SHIPPING.

EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Victoria, South, to-morrow. Monowai, Auckland, October 1/. Moura, South, October 20. Waikare, coutli, October 23. Wimmera, Auckland, October 20. Moura, Auckland, October 24. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Victoria, Auckland, to-morrow. Waiapu, Coast ports, to-morrow. Monowai, South, October 17. Moura, Auckland, October 20. Wimmera, South, October 20. Waikare, Auckland October 23. Moura, South, October 24. VESSELS IN PORT. Waiapu, schooner. Through being delayed by Labor Day the Huddart Parker Co.’s Victoria does not arrive from South until tomorrow afternoon. She leaves during the evening for Auck.and and Sydney. The launch is timed to leave the \\ hart with outward passengers at 4 p.m. (meantime.) s The U.S.S. Co.’s Monowai returns from Auckland on Sunday and proceeds South during the evening. 0 The U.S.S. Co.’s Squall wide" probably leave Auckland with a- general cargo to-morrow for Tologja and Gishorne. , / . . The auxiliary sclioon« ; ' aiapu leaves to-night for Coast poffs. Cargo will oe taken up to 4 p.n yl _ , , The Melbourne Shipping Co. s Melbourne. wlr’ch /left Newcastle on Saturday last at "6/p.m. for Napier, will come oil" to Gisborne, and from here pioceeds to/Auckland. . , The Auxiliary schooner Ivaeo arrived in Auckland yesterday morning from GisJ<s£>rne and Coast ports. In a messn/cre to the “Times” Captain Skinner Reports: We left Gisborne at 1 p.in. on /'September 24, worked J ologa and lokomaru on 25th, sheltered at Tokomaru on 26th, and on 27th worked Vaipa.e, Anaura. and Waipiro. on 28th we worked Hicks Bav, and sheltered there ti.l Sundav. 2nd October, and partly worked Te Araroa same day; finished there on the 3rd; then went back to Hicks Bay, and sheltered till the 6th; on /.th worked Whangaparau; on the Bth worked Oreti Point: on the 9th worked llaukokore and Te Kaha; on the 10th worked Omaio and Little Avarua, on the 11th worked Pahaoa and Ivaipatatea. and left for Auckland the same da v at 4 30 p.m.. arriving there on Ihursday, the 14th, at 0.15 a.ra., with a full load of cargo and six passengers, the Kaeo commences loading for Coast ports and Gisborne on Monday and will probably get back here in ten days or a ■fortnight. A square flitch of ironbark. 90ft in ’engtii and two pieces of 70ft were landed by the Tawera, ex the Mokoia from Sydney yesterday. The timber is to be used by Mr O. Overton, the lengthy piece for the keel and the other pieces for the keelson of the vessel being built for the Gisborne Shcepfarmers’ Company. Owing to the great size of the wood it had to be laslied to tlie side of the Tawera and was thus brought to the wharf. Mr Overton intends shortly to lay down the keels ot the Harbor Board’s barges. New Zealand coastal pilots are a rare commodity, says a V ellington exchange, probab’y numbering about half a dozen. Last week their ranks were increased bv one. Captain Felix Black, formerly master of the Blackball Companv’s collier Pareora. passed Ins examination at Wellington for a certificate as coastal pilot. There is a strange mixture of nationalities among the crew of the Nor-wegian-owned (British-built) barque Clara, which arrived at Wellington recently from Liverpool. The crew com--nrises 9 Norwegians, 3 Russians. 2 Swedes, 2 Germans, and 1 Britisher. The Britisher told a Wellington “Times” reporter that the crew were a happy family, and the “nationality color" line” was not drawn. The majority of the men are scarcely out of their ’teens, and are of excellent physique. The monotony of a long voyage of 128 days was broken by sight of land on only one occasion—when passing south of Tasmania Only one vessel was see n —a full-rigged ship, west of the Cape of Good "Hope. No signs of the missing steamer Waratah were observed. Lights, which were probably a reflection of the Aurora Australis, were noticed about midnight on Saturday week witnessed in New Zealand. The barque’s weather-stained appearnace hears silent testimony of a long straggle with the elements. A tribute to the ability of New Zealand marine engineers was paid by an authority on the subject in conversation with a representative of the “Post”. He referred to the extensive overhaul that has been given the turbine liner Malieno. “We have engineers in Port Chalmers as capable as the best in Glasgow,” he said. The whole work of overhauling the Maheno’s turbines, involving minute and laborious examination of the vessel’s internal machinery, was carried out by local engineers, and in a manner which, if report be true, reflects great credit upon their capacity. The Mahe no is now steaming at sixteen knots, while just before the overhaul she was doing no more than thirteen. Captain Proctor, late chief mate of the. ba.rquentine Mary Isabel, has been appointed master of the barquentine St. Ivilda, which is at present loading hardwood at Hobart for New Plymouth. UY TELEGRAPH. [Tkr Press Association.! AUCKLAND, Oct. 14. Arrived 8 a.m., Monowai, from Gisborne ; schooner Ivaeo, from Gisborne; sailed, Hawaii, for Newcastle. WESTPORT, Oct. 14. Arrived, 9.50 p.m., Regulus from Gisborne.. SYDNEY, Oct. 14. Sailed, H.M.S. Pioneer, for Wellington. MELBOURNE, Oct. 14. Arrived, Brisbane, from New Zealand. Sailed, Moana, for the Bluff. HOBART, Oct. 14. Arrived, Rimutaka from London. NEWCASTLE, Oct. 14. Arrived, Bannockburn, from Dunedin.