SHIPPING.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2748, 1 March 1910, Page 4

SHIPPING.

ARRIVED.

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2S. Kumara, s.s. (6 a.m.), 6034 tons, Morton, from Lyttelton.

EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Wa kanui, Auckland, to-morrow Monowai, South, to-morrow. Mokoia, Auckland, to-morrow. i Victoria, South, March 5. Monowai, Auckland. March. 6.

PROJECTED DtrARTURES.

Kumara, Napier, to-day. Monowai, Auckland, to-morrow Mokoia, South, to-morrow. ■Victoria, Auckland, March 5. Monowai, South, March 6.

VESSELS IN PORT.

Coronation, ketch. Awanui, schooner. Kumara, s.s., in the bay. The Shaw, Savill and Albion Co.’s Kumara arrived early yesterday morning from Lyttelton, and is expected to get away this evening for Napier. She takes about 15,000 carcases of meat, 300 casks of tallow and pelts, and 200 bales of wool. The U.S.S. Co.’s Mokoia returns from Auckland to-morrow afternoon, and' proceeds South at the usual hour. Owing to being delayed in loading operations at Dunedin, the U.S.S. Co.’s Monowai did not get away until 4 p.m. yesterday, and she will consequently be late in arriving here. In the meantime the launch has been fixed for 7 p.m. to-morrow. The U.S.S. Co.’s Flora was delayed in Auckland, on account of a northeast- gale, and did not get away for Coast bays, Gisborne, and Napier until vest or da y morn in g. The Tyser liner Tomoana passed the bay -on Sunday, from Auckland to Napier, arriving at that port yesterday morning. The Tomoana is due at Gisborne- from South, in about; twelve days.

The New Zealand Shinping Co.’s Walcnnui is due from Auckland to-morrow.

The U.S.S. Co.’s Squall was due front Auckland and Tologa Bay yesterday evening. At 8 p.m. there had been no sign of her at- Tuahine, and late last evening she had not arrived. She should be in this morning, and is dtte to leave this evening for Auckland, via Marsden Point, taking a load of sheep for the latter place. The Tyser liner Niwaru, which arrived at London from Wellington on January 5, had a remarkable experience among the ice on the Homeward run. Tire captain reported as follows : —‘“'Latitude 57.50 iS., longitude 14, .16 W., to lat. 59.4 long. 138.41 W., passed twelve large icebergs, varying from 160 ft to 270 ft high._ and large quantities pack and loose ice. In latitude 59.15 S., longitude 137.12 W.. steamer ran into immense fields of pack ice of great density, extending in nil directions as far as the eye could reach from aloft. The ocean from a northeasterly to westerly direction was completely covered with ice, no clear space of water visible from the fore top, vessel having to run to the northward to clear the ice. Latitude 59.15 S., longitude 137.12 W., to latitude 55.4 S., longitude 123.50 W., passed numerous large icebergs varying from 100 ft to 400 ft high, and a' great quantity of loose ice.”

It is reported from London that the New Zealand Shipping Co., Ltd., have contracted with Messrs Anderson, Rodger and Co., Port Glasgow, for the construction of a steamer for the New Zealand coal trade.. She is to be 225 ft., by 33ft., by 16ft. Bin.-, and will carry about 1-500 tons deadweight. The P. and O. and Orient Companies will shortly be commencing their deviation to Tasmania, to take in fruit. The former company are sending the Malwa, Moldavia, Mongolia, Marmora, and Morea, which will! take between •them some 94,000 cases. The latter company are sending the Osterley, ■Otranto*, Orsova, -Otway, and Omrah, and will take about 64,000 cases, but, as the company point out, their space for the carriage of butter is so enormous that- -they can only take a limited quantity of fruit. According to advices from London 19 vessels were “posted missing at Lloyd’s” last year, the number of lives sacrificed being approximately 500. The losses included three Australian traders —the Waratah, from Sydney, hound to London, with 92 passengers and 151 officers and crew; the ship Clan Kacpherson, bound from Newcastle to the West Coast of South America ; and the ship Australian, bound fromMazat-]-;vn to Sydney.

BY TELEGRAPH. CAPE MARIA, Feb. 28. The Paparoa, from south-west, passed east at 1.30 p.m. AUCKLAND, Feb. 28. Arrived—Mokoia (4.45 p.m.) from Gisborne; Navua (4.45 p.m.) from Fiji. Sailed —Flora (6.15 a.m) for Gisborne via East Coast ports. NAPIER, Feb. 28. Arrived —Tomoana (7 p.m. yesterday) from Gisborne; Fanny (3.10 a.m.) from Gisborne; Tarawera (6 a.m.) from GisItA I*2lo ' PORT CHALMERS, Feb. 28. Arrived —Aotea (7 p.m. 27tb) from London. . nr , BLUFF, Feb. 28. Arrived —Moeraki (o a.m.) from Hobart with English mail. h SYDNEY. Feb. 28. A rrived— Pelotas from Wanganui.