SHIPPING.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 16, 24 February 1914, Page 6

SHIPPING.

PHASES O^EMOON. FEBRUARY. Day. Hour. First quarter ... 3 10.3 p.m. Pull moon .. 11 §•* £•?• Last quarter .. 17 f.53 p.m. New moon .. 25 11.32 a.m.. MOON. Moon rises to-day 4.16 a.m.; sets 6.50 p.m. i: v', ■ •-. . TIDE.- .'■;• To-day, 3.30 a.m.; .3.53 p.m. , To-morrow, 4.14 a.m.; 4.35 p.m. SUN. Sun rises to-day, 5.35 a.m.; sets 6.52 p.m. ARRIVED. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23. MORNING LIGHT, schooner (8 £»., in stream), 92 tons,-Anderson, from Havelock. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24. WOOTTON (3.35' a.m.), 150 tons, Larsen, from Kaikoura. - i; '■ „' , au^^u v-WAHJNE (6.30 am.), 4435 tons. Aid well, from Wellington. Passengers: 211 saloon, rqORINNA 5 ' (7.45 a.m.), 1271 tons, Cameron,' from Tim'afu. . ~. . .SA%LED> ~;. ".: MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23. KOWHAI (4 p.m.), 792 tons, *W. W. Hender, for Gisborne! via Wellington and . f °WAKATU (6.30 ,F; Kearney, for Wellington. MAORI (#3O p.m..), . 3399 tons, W. :: Manning, for Wellington. Passengers: Misses .Weßtenra,. Fitzgerald, Yousg, Bond, . Cook,/Shand, Ward, Walker, ; . Allen, Goyen, ' Blackie, Elizabeth, Johnson, Mesdames Haydon, Fitzgerald* Elro, Young, Bond, Claxton, Hunt,' Byford, <3ook, Ongley, Potter, Robinson, Packmaii! Garnett; Kain, Chrystall, Westhead, Hill, Price, Scannell> Weßtenra, Tanner and .infant,. .Ting, Blackie, Shand, Chrystall, Howie, Hall, Johnson, Threckmell, Taylor, Dr M'Carthy, Rev. O'Neill, Lieutenant - Henderson, Rev. Wood, Professor '■''?■ Blunt, Rev. Russell, % Major Barne.tt, Messrs Henrys; Creaghy Steerison, Potter, Harris, Tilford, Ormerod, - Haydon, Fitzgerald, Elro, Daveyi Booth, Claxton, Hunt, Ongley, Potter, Packman, Garnett,. Kain, nWesthead, Ald- : worth? Hicks, Johnson, Jackson, Martin, Taylor, Low, Laird, Deeley, Kemp, Tisdalli Beattie, Cameron, Senior, Kain. : G. Harper, - Sand'allVL. Wilson, Eraser; 'Montgomery, 'Feather ston, Holloway, .. Hogben, ; Fullerton, Young, Patterson, Price, Scott, * Parker, Reid, Thompson, Holden, Ballinger, *-«arsie, Way, Black, Hannon, Ongley, Scurr, Wilson, Harrbp, Smith, Laughan, Maxwell, Taylor, Clayton* -Watson* Holland,' - Ross, Tavendeir, Booth, and 100 steerage. CYGNET .(midnight), 124 tons, A. Murray, for Kaikoura. • ■, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24. . ■*'•■' : v NGAKUTU (2.45 a.m.),, 2000 tons, Muir, for Wellington. . INTERCOLONIAL SERVICE^ < ,Moeral»i, left Melbourne* February 11, via Hobart and southern ports. Arrived- Lyttelton February' 19. Left same day for Sydney, , ■-. via Wellington. Due Sydney February 24. Ulimaroa left Sydney February 14 for. 'Wellington. -Arrived Wellington February 18. Arrived Lyttelton February 20. Left same -<lay for Melbourne, via'southern ports .andHobart. D«ie Melbourne - February 28. vWillcohra, left Sydney February 21, via ' Wellington. -. Due Lyttelton February 27. ; Leaver same day for Melbourne, via ports. ; Due Melbourne March 7. ' „, ' ■''* 1 Mauhganui, leaves- Melbourne February 25, via Hobart and southern ports. Due Lyttelnv ton-March' 5. Leaves same day for Wellington and Sydney. Due Sydney March 10. Warrimoo, left Melbourne February- 14. ~. Manuka' takes up running Dunedin. Due Lyttelton February 26. Leaves . same day '"'■•.«-for'Sydney,' via Wellington. Due Sydney ifc™* 3. _ t ~' am Riverina, leaves Dunedin February 24 for Sydney, via ports. Due Lyttelton February 25. Leaves -eame day for Sydney, via Wellington, .Napier,.,Gisborne, and Auckland. Due-rSydney' March. 6. - ■ -■ Victoria leaves Sydney February 25 for Auckland and northern ports. Due Lyttelton March 7. Leaves same day for Dunedin. _v '.,... '...-. 'FRISCO SERVICE. * ■'/ '''' Tahiti, due .Wellington- from San Francisco February 26. Leaves following day for SydV ney dfr*ct.". Due Sydney March 3. ? Aorangi,' leaves Sydney February 21. Due , Wellington- February 26. Leaves following day'for San Francisco. Due there March. •'""*" Moana, leaves San Francisco March 4 for Wellington* /and is due--there March- 26. Leaves for Sydney March 27. Due Sydney March 31. • VANCOUVER SERVICE. Marama arrived Auckland February 13 from Sydney. Left for Vancouver February 14. Due Vancouver March 3. Niagara : arrived Auckland from Vancouver, via Suva and Honolulu, March 9-. Sails March 10 for Sydney. Due Sydney March 14. Makura,"leaves- Sydney March 9 for Auck- - land, i Leaves Auckland March 14 for Vancouver. Due there March 31. OVERSEA SHIPPING. VESSELS DUE AT LYTTELTON. Steamer.' From. Left. Due. Rangatira London Jan. 8 Mch. 3 Kaikoura London Jan. 22 Mch. 19. Buteshire Liverpool Dec. 6 ' Mch. 25 Matattia Liverpool Jan. 7 McH. 4 Surrey Liverpool Nov. 28 Mch 13 Cairncross • Montreal: N0v,"28,. Feb. 28 '■> Jesseric Montreal Jan. 4 .. Mch. 25 : Irverkip- New York Dec. 31 Mch. 31 Henrik - • - Ibsen New York Jan. 20 - Apl. ,20 Athenic London • • Feb.- 5 Mch. 31 Hollington Montreal Jan. 28 Mch. 28 • Suffolk London" Jan. 8 Mch. 20 *• Opawa - London Feb. 14 Anl. 12 Star of . Victoria London Feb. 4 Apl. 12 Argenfeis -• 'New York • Dec. 12 Mch. 31 'Wcstmeath Liverpool Feb. 14 Apl. 27 Kia Ora Montreal Feb. 15 Apl. 28 Southport New York Feb. 9 . May 1 Waimate Vancouver Feb. lf> Mch. 9 ~ SAILING VESSEL. Andromeda, left New York January 20. •■•• BY TELEGRAPH. ? COASTAL. ' Preas Association. PORT CHALMERS, February 23. Sailed —H.M.S. Psyche (9 a.m.), for Oamaru. AUCKLAND, February 22. Arrived —Maheflo (11,25 p.m.), from Sydney. PORT AHURIRI, February 23. Arrived —Kairaki (7.45 a.m.), Rakanoa (6.30 a*m.), from Lyttefton. UNION COIVIPANY'S STEAMERS. This evening the ferry steamer Maori leaves for Wellington. The Kowhai sails for Wellington, Napier, and Gisborne to-day. At the latter port she loads sheep for Lyttelton. The Corinna leaves Timaru to-night for Lyttelton, and to-morrow sails for Wellington and usual ports. The Kaituna left Greymouth for Lyttelton; via Westport, .with ) a cargo of coal and timber. The Kittawa leaves Greymouth on Wednesday for Wellington and Lyttelton with a cargo of tim ber. To-day the Waihora leaves Auckland for Newcastle to, load for Lyttelton. Th< Rakanoa arrived at Napier to-day, and is tc load sheep for Lyttelton.

THE SUEZ CANAL. INCREASED DRAUGHT ALLOWANCE. An exchange saysf—Though international, the-Sucz Canal is in the fullest sense a portion of the PriUsh .Empire. That it is an artery "of the iiiOnt|,vU.'u consequence is evident from the use made of it by British shipping. The shipping which passed through, the channel in 1912 was owned as tinder:— British vessels 3335, tonnage 12,847,621; German vessels 698,, tonnage 3,025,415; Dutch vessels 343, tonnage 1,240,264; Austro-Hungarian vessels 221, tonnage 798,822.- When tfie Sues Canal was originally mode, for a great part of its 100 miles, it «iad. a depth of" (Sight metres, or 26 English feet'. At various, periods it has been deepened until it reached its present depth ■ of 32ft. Operations' are now in progress ';■ '"■' with > view to making; it uniformly 39ft : i <#eep,'ttt low tide*at Suez.' With an added ■■» 7ft the range of traffic will be very consider-' -, «Wy expanded, though the* Canal Company is i-' 'by no means. persuaded, that the needs; of :"* the not 'very distant future will be met even " Vy : this improvement. A vessel measuring

■■';. • ~.. ':.. -;/■„£• .-,.. • -iv " ■;*."■■ ■ ■•'■ •46ft wide may', safely pass, another, of the same dimensions, even in the narrowest part of the canal (146 ft). In the early days vessels could- pass only at a few cross places, or fcaret, w?tfr> a e v oU«lctiVe : length of less than a mile," hut paeisng is now possible anywhere. . -. „ " .

On < Monday, January ,5, ; the .Suez Canal Company announced that the maximum draught authorised in the canal had been increased by Ift, making it 29ft. The previous increase' was made on'''January 1, 190.8, when ..the draught was, increased to 28ft. Out of about 5000 vessels using the canal during ;tbe 'first'•• nine■'»months of las't ! year, only 29 drew the maximum draujfht of 28ft. A HUGE TURBINE. A turbine steamer of 20,000 tons gross register, built at Stettin for the Hamburg-America Line's service through the Panama Canal, and fitted to carry about 2000 passengers and 10,000- tons of cargo, was launched at the- end of December, 1913, and named the Gfossadmiral von Tirplltz. * Her minimum speed, is to be 19.knots, and until the canal is opened she will run between and South America. RECORD WHEAT CARGOES. On February 7 Messrs James Bell and Co. cleared the.big tramp steamer Anglo-Egyp-tian, 7375 tons register, from Sydney, with 111,666 bags of wheat for the United Kingdom, or Continent. , This is the*, biggest cargo of wheat that, so far, has left the Commonwealth this season, and will take a lot to beat it. It is valued roughly at £65,000. It is rather remarkable that this firm- also despatched the big vfour-masted barque Lawhill from < Melbourne ' for "the XJhanhel with' 56,008 bags of wheat, which is the biggest cargo by a sailing vessel this season. The same firm also cleared the four-masted barque Alcides, froiri' Port Adelaide, for Callao, with 50,855 bagsfoff wheat, which-is the record cargo from Australia to South America.