SHIPPING.

Evening Star, Issue 5588, 4 February 1881, Page 2

SHIPPING.

High Water. TO-MORROW— Taiaroa Heads: 0 .40 a.m., 7.10 p.m. J Port Chalmers; 7.20 a.m., 7.60 p.m. Dunedin: 8.11 am., 8.£5 p.m. * Fort Cbalwer*. ARRIVED— February 4. ’ Hawea, 8.0., 462 tons, Kennedy, from the Noth. Passengers: Mr and Mrs Hodgsen, Master Taylor, Messrs Taylor, T. Ellison, Clark, Tail, Frederick, Laing, Llewellyn, Smallbone, Sutton, Currie; and two in the steerage. SAILED -February 3. Talaroa, 8H9., 228 tons, M‘Gee, for Timaru. FEBRUARY 4. Ino, 8.8., 81 tons, Scoones, for Oamaru. The barque Mibel was shifted from the stream yes terdav and berthed alongside the railway pier. “Pouring oil on troubled waters " is an old phrase, and there are many authentic instances of the value of oil in preventing the waves breaking over a vessel at sea. Some experiments with oil on waves were made at Peterhead recently, and were so successful that tho proposil to lay oil on to the mouths of harbors by means of pipes was discussed os a not very remote project. According to the ‘ Dundee Advertiser’ bottles fllkd with oil wore sunk to tho bottom of the harbbr, in which the sea was breaking hoavic The oil was then released, and rising to the surface it exorcised an immediate and magical effect In smoothing the troubled waters. Instead of the waves breaking, the sea bco-jme quite smooth and glassy-looking, and there was softening down ef the waves, which, in pbictro'f being sharp-crested, were turned into long undulating seaa. The Hawea, from the North, arrived at 10.45 this morning. She left Lyttelton at 1115 a.m. on the 3rd, and Akaroa at 5.30 p.m. We thank her purser for report and exchanges. Telegnurs. Sydney, February 5. Ringarooma, for Auckland. Melbourne;, February 3.— Albion, from the Bluff.