OVERSEA CARGO STEAMERS.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXVI, Issue 17583, 29 May 1919, Page 4

OVERSEA CARGO STEAMERS.

{Jifcy of Dunkirk, New York to city ports; <iuo Auckland Juiitr 7. Devon, ttgypt, via Australia, to Lytteiton; due o uue 1. Aloanu, 'I'risco io Wellington; due M»yiJß. iMagara, Vancouver to Auckland; due May ay. _ . Opaw.i, left London Jlay 15 lor New Zealand ports, via Australia. Pakeha, London Apia 12; due Wellington Aluy 30. Jfort iiowen, leit Glasgow May 2<i for Now Zealand. j Port Chalmers, Now York to Auek-, hurl; due June 17; Wellington. Port Lyttelton, leaves London shortly ior iVortii flsiand, via Australia. Port Nicholson, loading at New York ; ior Auckland, Wellington. Port Pirie, London, viji Sydney to .Auckland; due Juiy 18; Napier \Vel--liugton. Kimutaka, London to Wellington; duo May 21. Ruahine, left Plymouth May 19th for > Wellington; due July 8. I Ruapehu, leaves Plymouth May ior Auckland; due July 10. I Tofua, England April 18, to Port Chat-; mcrs; due May 28. ... Waimana, United Kingdom May 10, to Auckland; due Juno 2ti. Waitoino, left Calcutta May 16 for N.Z. ports. Western Comet, X'-w York; due Auckland May 28; Melbourne. SAILERS. Newcastle to. Wellington: Rona, early. Vancouver to Wellington: Laura, due July. San Francisco to Auckland: Antiope, due end of June; Philippine, clue June; Northern Chief, due end of June. San Francisco to Napier: Rnupo, due July. San Francisco to Dnnedin: Forester, due June; Lily, due July. San Francisco to Wanganui: Esther, due about June 15th.

Up to the time of going to press this !noming no signals had been received from the Inga, which was due to arrive ia port on Tuesday from Sydney. Doubt less the strong south-easterly gale prevailing in the Straits has prevented the vessel^} appearance on time. On the weather moderating yesterday afternoon, the kcow Maroro and the barque White Pine, with cargoes of white pine for Sydney and Adelaide respectively, left port for their destinations. The tug Togo towed^the vessels nit, tlio M.'troro leaving at 7.5, and the White Pine at 9.35.

The liner Kia Ora, 8000 tons, from I<\ttt'!ton, arrived at New Plymouth on Tuesday afternoon and berthed yesterday morning. The vessel loads frozen moat, tallow, etc., ab the Taranaki port, and proceeds thence to Wanganui, arriving at this port about Monday. At Wanganisi the Kia Orn will lift a large consignment consisting of some 40,000 carcases of mutton, about 1000 bales of wool, and 800 casks of tallow. The S.S. and A. liner Raranga is at present loadin 72,500 freight car. cases of frown meat at Napier. The lonic sails from Wellington at noon to-morrow for London, via Panama.

Tho tropsftip Pakeha is due to arrive nt Wellington to-morrow from London. The X.M.S. Niagara, from Vancouver via ports, is due a tAuckland to- j [lay. The Paparoa at Wellington yesterday commenced the discharge of 1500 tons »f coal shipped at Newport News (Virginia). On Saturday the vessel sans for Auckland, the one port of loading, clearing for the Cnited Kingdom on June 19th. An expected arrival at Lyttelton on Sunday is the N.Z. and African Com.pany's Devon, from Egypt, via Sydney and Newcastle. The last hours of her journey from London to Wellington, via the Panama Canal, having been prolonged by a stroni? southerly gale, the N.Z. Shipping "Company's troopship Rimutaka reached port at 7 o'clock on Tuesday evening. After discharging 4000 tons of American coal, the Rim-utaka will he loaded for London at Wbakatnne, Tokomaru Bay, Gisborne and Wellington. It is reported in regard to the striking of the Westmoreland when leaving BlTiff Harbour, that a heavy swell camp up when the Btenmer was on her way out, and that the harbour lights wereobscured.