SHIPPING.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2721, 28 January 1910, Page 4

SHIPPING.

EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Weka. Napier, to-day. Waimea. Napier, to-day. 7*lora, South, to-day. Mokoia. South, tc-morrow. tvaramea. South, to-morrow. Tarawora, Auckland, Jan. 30. Monowai. South, Fob. 2. Mokoia, Auckland, Feb._ 2. Victoria, South, Feb. 5. Monowai, Auckland, Feb. 6. Wan aka, South, February 12. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Weka, Napier, to-day. Flora, Auckland, to-day. Mokoia. .Auckland, to-morrow. Tarawera, South, Jan. 30.. [Monowai, Auckland, Feb. 2. Mokoia, South, Feb. 2. •' Victoria, Auckland. Feb. 5. Monowai, South, Feb. 6. Wauaka, Auckland, February 12. Messrs Richardson and Co.’s Weka is due from Napier this morning, and will return later. The TJ.S.S. Cods Flora left Napier yesterday evening, and is due here this morning. She leaves later for Coast ports and Auckland. The C.S.S/ Cods Maheno left Sydn?;r on Wednesday last, and should arrive in Auckland on Sunday. She r' lediip-' her passengers to the Mokoia. v 1 1 ieh comes South, arriving here next YVlnesday, and the Maheno returns luck, taking the Mokoia’s Sydney passengers. The Shaw, Savill and Albion Cods Kuramon is to arrive from Napier this m •■ruing, for Home loading. The U.S'.S. Cods Mokoia is to arrive f"am Smith to-morrow morning, leaving Leer tor Auckland. The Tuatea goes ore at the usual time. a The C.S.'.S. Cods Tarawera returns from Auckland on Sunday afternoon art leaves later for South. The Tuatea will tender with outward passenger* at the usual time. The C.S.S. Cods Wan aka is expected ■to. load at Bluff on February 7, Oamaru February 8, Timam February 9. a _d should arrive at Gisborne about February 12. The Nelson Shipping and Foundry ’Cods Waimea was to leave Napier last evening. " and should arrive here about 7 o’clock this morning. H.M.S. Challenger sailed from Wellington yesterday for Auckland. . The C.S.S. Cods Moana is to withdraw from the Vancouver service to tabs .uio the intercolonial running on March 2nd from Melbourne. The Marian re-verts to the Vancouver service, withdrawing from the intercolonial run31hug on February 26th. She will sail •on March 14th from Sydney for Vancouver. Messrs Fleming and Ferguson, the Glasgow shipbuilders, who are building tiie New Plymouth dredge Paritut::’ expect the dredge to leave the (jd/de about the end pf next month, ami she should arrive in New Zealand about the end of May. The .Australian Mail Line steamer Katanga sailed from San Francisco on the 14th inst.. for Auckland and. Aus•fcr.iua. via Apia. She is due at Auckland about February 12th. The C.S.S. Cods steamer Kotuku, which has been engaged in the -Wei-" i i. t ; gton-Oneliunga via ports cargo ser:vi:? for some time past, is to re-enter t! r- West Coast coal trade. It was with a big flourish of trumpets that "Wellington entered upon the project of constructing a- dock which would make it for ever the best ecpiipjped shipping port in tbe Dominion (says the New Zealand “Shipping Gajtcbte”). The year 1910 was to have seen the work completed, and the dock ready to receive the biggest ocean-go-ing vessel in southern waters. At the rate of progress of the last year or two, however, the contract will not Pc completed for at least another ten y -ars. It has suddenly dawned upon the Harbor Board that a huge mistake ih.is been made. There is something radically wrong somewhere. What that something is, 'flie Harbor Board ■knows, and the public has every right to know. Is it a fact, as is currently reported, that it is impossible to comply with the specifications as adopted? fd“it true that the monies of the Board are being used in conducting experiments of a more or less hazardous cha-r-cter? If it is, tbe public should be acquainted with the fact- . There is too (much of the Star Chamber business •about tbe Wellington Harbor Board, too great a disposition to take things for granted, and too little supervision over works of magnitude. The dpek experiment will be an expensive thing before it- is finished. The contractors are certainly not to blame for the •bungling delay. But who is?

BY TEI.EGnAI'II. AUCKLAND, Jan. 27. _ 'Arrived —Star of New Zealand (5 a.in.), from Sydney : Squall (10.30 a.m.) . fi;otn Gisborne; Tarawera (2 p.m.), ft’Jrozii Gisborne. NAPIER, Jan. 27. Arrived —Fanhy (0 p.m. v ester day), from Gisborne; Swanley (6.30 a.m.), from' Gisborne. . % To Sail—Weka and Flora (o p.m.), ftfor Gisborne. WELLINGTON, Jan. 27. A Bailed— Indraghiri (5.55 P.m. yestardav). for Brisbane; H.M.S. •Challengers r (6.10 a.m.). for Auckland. 0 ■ WESTPORT, Jan. 27. ft Arrived —Regulus (4.40 a.m), from ■.’.Gisborne- -MELBOURNE, Jan. 27. ftft : Sailed— Tottenham, for Westport.