SHIPPING.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2742, 22 February 1910, Page 4

SHIPPING.

ARRIVED

MONDAY, FEBRUARY £l. Squall, s.s. (2 p.m.), 369 tons, Benton, from Auckland and Tologa Bay.

SAILED. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21. Tuatea, s.s. (10 a.m.), 60 tons, HawIces, for Ralcarae. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Marere, South, to-day. T’arawera, South, to-morrow. Victoria, Auckland, to-morrow, Mokoia, South, Feb. 26. Tarawera, Auckland, Feb. 27. Monowai, South, March 2. Mokoia, Auckland, March 2.

PROJECTED DEPARTURES

Squall, Marsden Point, to-day. T’arawera, Auckland, to-morrow. Victoria, South, to-morrow. Mokoia, Auckland, Feb. 26. Tarawera, South, Feb. 27. Monowai, Auckland, March 2. Mokoia, South, March 2. VESSELS IN PORT. Orete, a.s. Squall, s.s. The U.S.S. Co.’s Squall arrived at 2 ( p.m. yesterday from Auckland via Tologa Bay. She sailed at 5 p.m. on the 19th, passed East Cape at 10.30 p.m. on the 20th, arriving at Tologa at 4.30 a.m. on the 21st ; discharged cargo and proceeded to Gisborne. While in Auckland the. Squall was docked and overhauled. Fine weather was experienced during the passage. She brought the following cargo:—46 sacks bottles, 40 boxes dried fruits, 1220 bags suger. 23 crates biscuits, 20 bags cement, 12S cases benzine, 13 bales paper, 10 coils rope, 6 packages saddlery, 56 cases tinned fish, 38 chests tea, 1809 pieces timber, 90 bags salt, 40 cases horse shoes, 12 cases apples, 60 cases acids, 6 cases matches, 15 casks vinegar, 20 cases soaps, .18 cases spirits, 10 cases tinned fruits, 21 cases com flour, 315 cases kerosene, 15 kegs soda, 122 sacks coke, G aaces tobacco, 60 coils wire, 33 packages furniture, 10 sacks peanuts, 24 rolls linoleum, 40 bags 501 b flour. 20 cases ale, 136 sacks coal, 20 bags rice, 40 hags lOOlbs flour, 13 cases syrups, 14 bales kapok, 238 sacks oats, 6 bales wool, quantity sundries, also transhipment cargo ex Kumara and Buteshire from Home ports. The Squall leaves to-day for Marsden Point, with a full load of sheep. The U.S.S. Co.’s Tarawera arrives from South to-morrow morning, leaving for Auckland as usual. The New Zealand Shipping Co.’s Wiha'katanc took the following .shipments from this port:—Per Messrs Bennett and Sherratt, 1035 hales of wool. 26 pockets of wool; per Bank of New Zealand, 294 bales of wool, 75 pockets wool, 21 bales skins, 27 casks tallow: per New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Co., 684 bales wool. 3 dumps skins; per Bank of New South Wales, 29 bales wool: per Messrs Williams and Kettle, 74 bales wool; total. 2137 bales wool. 101 pockets wool, 3 dumps skins, and 27 casks tallow. The New Zealand Shipping Co. s Wakanui is due from Auckland. about lab March to load for the April-Mav Home sales. She will be the company s last beat this season. The U.S.S. Co.’s Tuatea left for Pakarae early yesterday morning, but when she reached Tuahine she returned on account of a southerly swell. *Sh<? got away again at 10 p.m., and should return this morning with a cargo of The auxiliary, schooner Orete has commenced loading for the Coast, end will probably be ready to sail in a day Or two. ~ . n y ■ The Shaw, Savill and Albion to. s Mamari completed loading last e ycmng, and was to sail early this morning tor The Huddart-Patker Co.’s Victoria arrives from Sydney and Auckland tomorrow afternoon, leaving during the evening for South. A stirring and tragic voyage was experienced by the iron barque Loudon HJL which recently arrived from Dm>j ITL from Vancouver, having left tor port of departure 200 days previous)-•. 'When the vessel was off Cape Horn a Y-tnig seaman named Thomas Benson, native of Maryport, fell | r °in aloft mho the sea and was drowned. (Jit the Horn a huge sea struck the vessel, carrying away the Wheel-box and sweeping overboard: a Dutoli sailor named Frank Aylmer, who was drowned The chief officer—Mr. McLean, - i A.r bn?th—was thrown heavily to the deck, and had his leg broken. Subsequently the vessel fell in with one ot the New Zealand Shipping Company a voxels, and tne doctor of the flop found it necessary to amputate the mate’s leg above the knee. The invalid yus out ashore and ta'ken to the hospital at Monte Video, reached three days later. The doctor of the liner warmly praised the conduct of Jaijfps Roberts, the steward of the Loudon Hill, wlio kept the made’s leg packed in a bag of oatmeal, and thus prevented mortification during the 20 odd days that elapsed before proper medical treatment was available.

BY TELEGRAPH. AUCKLAND, Feb. 21. Arrived —May Howard (3 p.m.) from Norfolk Island. Sailed —Wimmera (5.35 p.m.) for Svclnev. " ‘ NAPIER. Feb. 21. Arrived —Monowai (6 a.m.) from Gis_ Virymc STUFF, Feb. 21. Arrived—Ulimaroa <12.10 p.m.) from Hobart, witb an English mail. SYDNFY. Feb. 21. Arrived — fYO+b). Sailed' —H.M.S. Powerful for Auckland. Admiral Poore is aboard.