SHIPPING.

Evening Star, Issue 11511, 30 March 1901, Page 6

SHIPPING.

A'M -v:;- V- •■■i.V ' ,»a , ■ . *??, TELEGRAPHIC WEATHER REPORT®? 5 The following weatoer ■reports from New Zealand stations'were received this - morn-' ing:— . ■ Auckland.—Wind,-calm-y bar. 30.20, tfyer. 64; overcast; tide good. , . . ' 'Gisborne. —Wind, .bar. 30:23,". tiler. 59; blue sky, clouds, * • • ’ New Plymouth,—Wind, E-, light; bar. 30.29, ther. 63 ; blue .sky, clouds ; -tide rate. ' > Wanganui.—Wind, N.E., light; bar.. 30.00, ther. 60; cloudy; tide low. ... ■ Wellington.—Wind, light; bar. 30.19, ther. 62; blue sky, clouds. Nelson.—Wind, calm; bar. 30.20, toer--60; Hue toy, clouds • tide moderate. Westport.—Wind, 3A, light; bar.- 30:20,, ther. 58; clouds; tide moderate. Lyttelton.—Wind, calm; bar..30.13,-ther. 60 ; blue sky; tide moderate. Timam.—Wind, JL, breeze; bar. 30.17,. ther. 54; gloomy; tide moderate. —Wind, calm; bar. 30.19, ther. 55 ; Moods-; tide moderate. Port Chalmers, Wind, N.E., breeze;; bar. 30:08, ther--66; blue sky; tide rate. Dunedin,—Wind, N.E., fresh breeze;, bar., 30.13, ther. 58: blue sky; tide good, Clyde.—Wind, calm; bar. 30.00, toer. 60; blue sty. Queenstown. Wind, light; bar, 30.11, ther. 49; blue sky, Moods. Invercargill.—Wind, calm; bar. 3013, ther. 52; blue toy. BhrfL—Wind, NIL, light; bar,.3010, ’ ther. 64 ; bluotoy.

HIGH WATER. TO-MDEHOW, Tarearoa/Head: 0.50 a.m., o.4tep.ni. Port Chalmers- 1.10 axn.,. 1.25 p.m, Dunedin: 1.55 a.m.,.2.10 p.m. ARRIVED/—March 30. Enterprise, schooner, 84 tons, Running, from Kaipara. ■ Kumara, s.s., 4,026 tons, Scotland, from London via Northern ports. Janet Nicoll, s.s., 496 tons, Watson, from Grcymouth. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Waihora, from Sydney via Cook Strait, March 31. Mararoa, from Sydney via East Coast, March 3L Invercargill, from Invercargill, March 31. Rangatira, from Northern, ports. April .2. . Monowai, from Melbourne via Hobart and the Bluff, April 3. Corinna. from West Coast via Northern ports, April 3. Wakanui. from London via Northern ports, April 4. Mourn, from Auckland via East Coast, April 4. Talnnc, from Sydney via Cook Strait, April 6. Fdingamite, from Sydney via East Coast ports, April 7. Gladys left Glasgow December 24. Dunblane, barque, left Hongkong January 10. Lizzie Bell left Glasgow February 2. Everland, barqnentine, left Sydney February 20. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Whangape, for Northern ports, April 1. Janet Nicoll, for Greymonth and Northern ports, April 1. Waihora, for Melbourne via the Bluff and Hobart, April 1. Knmara, for Northern ports, April 1. Invercargill, for Invercargill, April 2. Mararoa, for Sydney via East Coast, April 2. Monowai, for Sydney via Cook Strait, April 3. Corinna, for Westport and Northern porta, April 4. Ringarooma, for Westport, Auckland, and Apia. April 4. Moura, for Auckland via East Coast, April 6. Talnne, for Melbourne via Bluff and Hobart, April 8. Elingamite. for Sydney via East Coast ports, April 9. Tarawera, for Sydney via Cook Strait, April 1L The Railway Department is approaching the Lyttelton Harbor Board to provide further wharfage accommodation for steamers at Lyttelton, and the matter has been referred to the Harbor Improvement Committee. Messrs Morgan, Cable, and Co. have forged a new shaft for the Haupiri. It has been sent to Wellington to be fitted in time for the vessel’s regular running. Copies of the new signal code, which is to be used this year in conjunction with the existing code, and exclusively from January 1 next, have been received from the Admiralty by the Collector of Customs at the ports in the colony, and may, it is understood, be purchased at £1 2s 6d. So great is the amount of grain now being sent to Lyttelton for shipment that the shed accommodation is much too small, and the Harbor Board have been compelled to stack a quantity on the ground outside their stores. Two of the steamers engaged in the Northcote (Auckland) ferry service went aground just after leaving the jetty to the westward of Queen street wharf last Saturday afternoon. One of the steamers stuck fast, and the other then went alongside of her and took her passengers on board, but also met with a similar mishap. The tide was exceptionally low at the time, but it is considered that if the proper amount of dredging work required was done at this spot there would be plenty of water for the ferry steamers, which are of very light draught. The matter *will probably be reported at°the next meeting of tbe Harbor Board, and the report will be acompanied by a photograph, showing the stranded steamers. The Shaw, Savill and Albion Company’s ship Canterbury is making a long passage from Wellington to Lyttelton. She is now nineteen days out, and was last sighted by the schooner Huia,. off Stephens Island, on, March 16. _ The Whangape brought about 40,700 ft of ' timber and 12,700 sleepers from Hobart.' ShS is to sail for Lyttelton at 2 p.m. on Monday. An idea of the bnsy condition of the timber export trade at the" Kaipara is gathered from Captain Running, of the schooner Enterprise, who states that when he left the Northern port there were' thir-teen-sailing -vessels in the river loaded- or to he loaded, for various ports, while others were expected, in addition to three or four steamers.

At Thursday's meeting of the Lyttelton Harbor Board a counmmication was received from the Bluff Harbor Board asking if there were any possibility of obtaining a lease of the Manchester dredge. A reply will be sent to the effect that there is no prospect of the dredge being available for at least two years. In noting the alterations and repairs to the Bingarooma, the fact of the vessel being supplied with the electric light was inadvertently . omitted from the report. This is a-decided improvement, and its advantages in a iropi,cal climate cannot be over-estimated. When the White' Star liner Runic left the Dunn street pier, Hobart, on the 22nd inst. ;she was drawing 30ft sin aft and 30ft 2hi f forward, Icing the deepest-draught vessel ! that has yet left an Australasian port. Capi tain Kempson, formerly of the lonic, and : now commander of the Runic, expressed bis ; entire satisfaction-at the facilities offered at the port. At this week’s meeting of the Lyttelton Harbor Board it was decided to purchase more ferrets to assist in keeping the "grain stores in port free of rats. Some discussion took place as to whether ferrets weremore ■serviceable than cats or dogs in grain stores. Mr Buddo mentioned the fact that in the case of a line of 1,000 sacks of wheat-Which had been in store for over tea monihsinot a single’sack required stitching, apd the total loss m weight was only 301b, and this good result was attributed to the presence of ferrets in the store. >, 1 .

SUNDAY "WORK AT LYTTELTON. .Reports and correspondence which had passed between the secretary and the harbormaster as to the working of the Union Company's steamer Monra oh Sunday last when she was engaged in taking on board Fitz- . Gerald s arcus were laid before the Lyttelton Harbor Board yesterday. —The ChairWBBppjlJed Jiad .bee^ttonc

•without -the authority of thq Harbor Board, whkhhad refused permission’ for the work £k*o dope on Sunday. -/ The frnestion'wasi Wto wai ;resp6usiblef —/Mr .Kayo saitf he wduld like to have tlib blatter setttoUas to •who bad control of the working of the port, whether ,}twas ,%_Harb6c r ßoa?d .or the Railway "explamedthat the workwasreally done by the Buddo said,he. thought toe Board had poy-er to makeby.wws preventing the Railway Department any -work bh the, wharves on Sunday. .Lyttelton .said that shunt-, ing'Weht-on nearly all dayt Sunday gettiDoready for Monday. Thefollowing resolution was ultnnatoly carried; “ That the Government he written to in reference to the increase of Sunday work being done in .Lyttelton recently, against which this Board desires to enter its protest. That the attention of the Government be drawn to its i letter of July 4 last, ih wMch it expresses tbe wish that Sunday labor should be discontinued as far as possible, and the Board’s reply thereto, m which it was pointed out that the power of preventing labor on Stmday, or at any other time, rested entirely with, the Railway Department, which at present worked the wharves;' and, furtner, that the 15 oar d. desires to know by whose authority permission was given to work the Monra on Sunday.” BARQUE ACACIA IN TROUBLE. Late Tasmanian files to hand state that the barque Acacia, well known in New Zealand ports, while proceeding to sea from Queensclrff, on the 15th inst., experienced some difficulty in weighing anchor, and drifted into a dangerous position on a lee shore in the Lonsdale bight. She hoisted a signal indicating that she wanted steam assistance, and the new pilot steamer Victoria, which was in the’ vicinity, showed her usefulness in a case of emergency by towing the barque to an offing, canting her head to sta, Jhus enabling Captain Stenhouse to set canvas and proceed through the Heads, there being a very strong easterly wind blowing at the time. PENSIONS TO SEAMEN. In 1887 the late Mr T. H. Ismay, of the celebrated White Star line, one of whose ships, the Medic, is at present in port, founded a Liverpool seamen’s pension fund with a gift of £20,000. It has grown since then by various donations up to a grand total of £33,600, and the income is now, inchtding subscriptions, sufficient to pension 75 deserving old seafarers at £2O per annum. The number of applicants reached 945, and of these 193 have benefited. About 400 eligible candidates survive with their names on the books, masters and mates as a rule, with an average age of seventy, andof these '265 arc married. Messrs Ismay, Imray, and Go., on the anniversary of Mr Ismay’s death, donated £5,000 to this praiseworthy fund, gracefully pointing out in the covering letter to Captain J. Price, R.N.R., president of the Mercantile Marine Service Association, who manage the fund, that this sum is a. contribution in memory of Mr T. H. Ismay on the part of their “■firm, of which he was the guiding spirit for more than thirty years.”

DERELICTS. Considerable attention has of late years been given to the salving of derelict ships. In some instances there has takon place the acquisition of second-hand vessels of iron cr steel, which arc actually running to Australia and elsewhere in the very trades suen ships hitherto monopolised. Messrs Green’s onetime splendid sailer the Superb, of 1,451 tons, built in London thirty-four years ago, affords an example. Under the Norwegian flag she was picked up dismasted and derelict by the British ship Senator, homeward hound from the Pacific, a little to the westward of the Azores. The mate and five men of tho British sailer volunteered to attempt salvage by Liking the derelict to Gibraltar. Supplied with previsions, spars, sails, a.nd navigating instruments, they bade farewell to the Senator, and after an eventful passage of forty-eight days brought tho Superb safely to an anchor at the destined haven. The Courts have just awarded the salvors £2,130 for sendees rendered, together with £4lO in satisfaction uf expenses incurred. Still more recently, also under the Norwegian flag, tho old Persian Empire, often seen in Sydney, but at the time of, the casualty the Cinco, of Grimstad, was abandoned when five clays out from Barn' for Table Bay. A British steamer, the Pharos, attempted to tow the derelict to Falmouth, but without avail. Shortly afterwards she was seen to founder by the crew of another vessel in the vicinity. THE REVIVAL OF SAILING SHIPS. How many times' has the near extinction of the sailing ship been prophesied, and the prophecy has been backed by statistics she wing a. steadily decreasing annual tonnage? Now, curiously enough,, within the lasi year or two. there has been a remarkable increase in the building of sailing ships. T&e ‘ Shipowners’ Gazette,’ in a lengthy considi.atoon of the causes of this wholly unexecuted revival, traces it to the coal question. Invate monopoly of natural resources-i as r.ot yet gone so far as to make a wind ring possible, and the notable increase in the on tout of sailin'- ships last year is the resile of coal-ring prices and the prospect of tacir maintenance. The air as- a motive power may he erratic, but it at least is avu’uble without payment of heavy toll to manor,’ilisrs for itsnfe. .

ENTERPRISE, FROM KAIPARA. The schooner Enterprise, from Kaipara, • vith 62,966 ft timber, was berthed at the Rattray street wharf this morning., Captain Running reports leaving the Northern port on the 16th hast., .and meeting with moderate weather and northerly winds until the 20th, when a strong southerly gale sprang up, the vessel at the time being a little to the southward of Cape Campbell. The wind moderated next day, - and she was off Akaroa at 8 p.m. on Saturday last, and Oamaru on Monday. A furious southerly gale was experienced off the latter port, and the’ vessel’s progress was considerably delayed. Eventually the wind decreased in force, and variable winds subsequently prevailed to making the Heads at noon yesterday. She sailed across the bar and brought up at the Port for the. night, coming to town as above. The Enterprise has been absent seven weeks on the trip from Dunedin to Timani; Wanganui, and Kaipara. She returns by the same route when the timber cargo is discharged. THE STRATHGRYFE. A meeting was held yesterday afternoon to consider what steps should be taken in connection with the disposal of the damaged cargo by the ship Strathgryfe. There were present Messrs G. E. Sise (representing Messrs Bates, Sise, and Co., agents in Burn edm for the ship), Mr G. L. Denniston (Lloyd’s agent for Otago), representatives of the Underwriters’ Association and Lloyd’s surveyors, Captain M’Ritcliie, and Mr J F Guthrie (woolexpert, for Messrs Dalgety ami Co.). It was decided that the damaged wool, amounting to about 2,000 bales, should be offered for sale by auction next Thursday in Dunedin. Messrs Dalgety and Co. will sell 1,200 bales and Messrs Wright, Stephenson, and Co. 800. It was also decided that the should be sold on trucks by Dal gety and Co. as it comes to Dunedin, TO-MORROW’S STEAMERS. The Mararpa, from Sydney via East Coast ports, is leaving -Lyttelton at six to-night, and is due at the. tongue wharf shortly after noon "to-morrow. She returns by the same route at 5 p.m. on Tuesday. The Waihom, from, Sydney via Wellington and Lyttelton, is leaving’’ the latter port this evening (time uncertain), and is' expected to berth at the cross-wharf-about 2 p.m. to-morrow., ‘. She .sails at .2 '.’bn Monday for Melbourne via ' the Bluff and Hobart. " ■' * ' ■■ The Invercargill, from Invercargill via Cromarty, Colac, and: SteWart island is due in Dunedin tb-morow morning. She sails on Tuesday for-Invercargill, and gets back on the following Friday, to run harbor excursions during the Easter holidays. , THE DIRECT, .STEAMERS. The Shaw, Savill and Albion Company’s s.s. Kumara. from t London . via Northern ports, was berthed alongside the George

'stieebpierat morping. .Particulars Jof her-voyage -from London to Wellington have already,been! published. After' land-. ;ing.4,opo tons of cargo at the latter port she vent to Picton. where frozen, mutton was rfuppMi; sailed on the 19th inst. for Lyttelton. Had fine weather to the Kaikouras, thence a. S.Wi .gale 1 to arrival at Lyttelton at 8 p.m. on'the 20th; discharged 2,000 tons of cargo; ‘sailed at 7.30 p.m. on tijp 27th; called at Timarn, whereL wool, tallow, and frozen 'mutton were taßßi aboard; left at 10.45 P.m: bn'the 1 29th'inst.• for Port Chalmers, and'arrived as above? The Kumara ships about 5,000 carcasses, 1,200 : bales of wool, aUd tallow, etc., and sails on Monday for Northern ports. ■ Her final port is Wellington, oh April 11. The Rangatira, from Northern ports, is due at the Port on Monday morning. Advices have been received that the Shire finer Fifeshire. from Lyttelton (7th Febru-ary),-arrived in London on the 26th inst..; all well. . . . , ; The Shire steamer Morayshire left London for the cokmies via South Africa on the 28 th inst. SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. AUCKLAND, March 29.—Karamea, from Gisborne.—Taviuni, from Westport.—Rimu, from Port Chalmers. KAIPARA HEADS, March 28.—Steam trawler Doto, from her trawling expedition in the north. NAPIER, March 29.—Star of Australia, from Lyttelton. WELLINGTON, March 29. Rotoma* hana, for Lyttelton. Passengers: Misses Davis, Treleaven, Stephen, Taylor, Austin, Brodrick, Jeffs, Ryan, Bicknell, Alexander (2), Jameson, Kidley, Wiggins. Grimes, Ward, Barnard, Cane, Barnett, iHeywood, Ross, Stewart, Mesdames Cane, Ingram, Watson, Edwards, Brodrick. Tregear ’ and child, Smith, Barnard, Sadlers, Minnns, Boulton, Moorehouse, Holliday, James, Kelly, Bluett, Hon. Mr Stevens, Captain Willis, Lieutenant Robinson, Messrs Ryan, Hardy, Heywood, Father Ginaty, Edgar, Lowe, Thompson, Dixon, Jenkins, O’Brien, M’Dougall, Hewitson, Munro, Hardy. Robertson, Tregear, Fox, Bluett, Mace/Galloway, Tiplers, Wylie, Ashcraft, Lothian (2), Gripe, Simpson, Barnard, Sira, Grant, Pine, Sadler, Sergeants M'Donald and Barv ; and twenty steerage.—Mararoa, for Lyttelton and Dunedin. Passengers : blisses Beale, Orange, Wiggins, Evans, Campbell, Bolt, Hislop, Fuller, Looney, Keill, Stevenson, Lake, Brown, Lambert, Beck, Mesdames Hislop, Shepherd, Boulton. Matthews and two children, Campbell, Ross, Goldsmith, Armstrong, Colonel Francis, Major Smith, Captain Paterson, Mesrs Logan, Joynt, Beale, Tyler, Smith, Thompson, Graham, Blackmorc, M’Vicar, Harris, Hockley,' Murgatroycl, Monck, Andrews, Boult, Feldwick, Evans, Williamson, Keech, Robertson.Guilder son, Cameron. Armstrong; and twentyfive steerage.—Waihora, for Melbourne via the South and Hobart. Passengers : Misses Bvirnip, Jobbings. Buchanan, Jones, Barnett, Mesdames Tellwood, iHunter. Jones. Cowan, O’Brien, Matthews and two children, Bluett, Captain Ewan, Messrs Taplin, Munro, Bluett, Ranfurly, Mitchell, Browu, Hunter; and fourteen steerage.—Whakataue, for Lyttelton. SYDNEY, March 29.—St. Mary, from the Bluff. BRISBANE, March 29.—Aorangi, foVancouver. - FREMANTLE, March 29.—Otarama, for Durban. LONDON, March 29.—Fifeshire and Macduff, from New Zealand. SYDNEY, March 30.—Northern Chief, from Auckland.—Vision, from Mercury Bay. —Waikare. from New Zealand. Gulf of Taranto, yesterday, for Wellington. MELBOURNE, March 30. Aldebaran, from Thames. AUCKLAND, March 50.—Moura. for the South. Passengers: Mrs Abercrombie, Messrs Abercrombie, Jones, Cotton, Paton.

(For continuation see Late Shipping.)