SHIPPING.

Evening Star, Issue 11681, 13 February 1902, Page 6

SHIPPING.

HIGH WATER. TO-XOEBOW. Tniaroa H«ad: 6.18 &>m., 6.38 pjn. Port Chalmers: 6.58 a.nu, 7JB pan. Dunedin: 7.43 «un., 8.3 p,m. TELEGRAPHIC WEATHER REPORTS. The following weather report* from New Zealand stations were received this morning:— Cape Maria Van Diemen.—Wind, W., light; ther., 65; clouds; tide high, sea smooth. Auckland.—Wind, S.S.W., light; bar., 29.82; ther., 67; clouds; tide good. Gisborne.—Wind, W., light; bar., 29.83; ther., 63; clouds; tide good, sea smooth. Wangantri.—Wind, S.E., light; bar., 29.78; ther., 65; blue sky, clouds; tide moderate, bar smooth. Wellington.—Wind, N., light; bar., 29.72; ther.. 66; blue sky, elouds. Nelson,—Wind, S.E., light; bar.. 29.78; iter., 68; blue sky, clouds; tide nigh. Farewell Spit.—Cahn; bar., 29.75; ther., 65; clouds; tide good, sea smooth. Westport.—Wind. N.E., light; bar., 20.73; ther., 64; bine sky; tide moderate, bar smooth. Hokitika.—Wind light; bar., 29.76; fher., 58; bin© sky, clouds; tide good, bar smooth. Bealy.—Wind. N.W., fresh breexe; bar., 29,82; ther_, 56; bhie sky, clouds; river low. Lytteltoa—Wind light; bar., 29.68; ther., 66; blue sky; tide high. Timara.—Wind, * N.E., breeze; bar., 2a67; ther., 64; bhie sky; tide moderate, sea light, north-easterly. N.E., light; bar., 29.63; ther-, 57; blue sky; tide good, sea moderate. Port Chalmers.—Wind, N.E., breeze; bar., 29.55 ; ther., 60 ; blue sky ; tide good, sea heavy swell. Dunedih.—•Wind, N.E., breeze; bar., 29.60; ther.. 59; blue sky, clouds; tide good. H Clyde.—Cahn; bar., 29.38; ther., 75; blue skv, clouds; river falling. Queenstown.—Calm; bar., 29.60; ther., 67; blue sky, clouds. Balchitha.—Cahn; bar., 29.51; ther., 58; blue skv, clouds; river steady. Nuggets.—Wind, N., light; bar.. 29.56; ther., 59; blue sky, clouds; tide high, sea jpodernte. Tuvercargfll.—Calm; bar., 29.45; ther., 61; blue skv, cloud.-;. TihifT.— Wind, N.E.. light; bar.. 29.56; ther.. .50: blue sky, ckradt. : tide ordinary, se;i smooth. ARRlVED.—February 1?. T" Anau, s.s., 1.028 tons, Bcrnech. from Auckland via East Coast ports. Passengers : Misses Mackay. Steel, Smith, Rowlev. Lvon. Parsons, Wilson, Best, M'Kay. Maws-Mi. Land'dis (2), Bannatyne, Wil','uuas. Hewitt (2). M'Tntosh, Harty, Gre-L-fH-y, Morrctn, Ellis. Scott. Frost, Hume (?).' Mesdames Parsons, Ml>ean and two -hildri'ii. Duncan, Kmsella, Daw and child, String. M'Donald and two children, Beck, Rowson and bov, Captain Millman, Messrs Thane, Smith, Walkley, Rowley, Lear, Anthony, Pitherick, Crawford (2), Logan, Campbell, M'Kay, Trussing, Lynn, Lewis, Hodge, Harty, Beck, Foy, Mitchell, Sutherland, Seveeole, Caminer; awl twenty-five steerage, February 13. Corinna, s.a., 820 tons, MiTlman, from West Coast and Northern ports. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Whangape, from Calcutta, Singapore, Northern ports, and Bluff. February 14. Waikare, from Sydney via Oook Strait, February 15. Mararoa, from Sydney via East Coast, February 16. Invercargill, from Invercargill, February 16, Mokoia, from Melbourne via Hobart and the Bluff, February 19. Rakaia, from the North, February 20. Waiwera, from Northern ports, February 20. Moura, from Auckland via East Coast, February 20. Upolu, from Northern ports. February 22. Westralia, from Sydney via Cook Strait, February 22. Zealaudia, from Sydney via East Coast ports, February 23. Canterbury, ship, from Glasgow via Wellington, left Glasgow October 15. Wellington, ship, from Liverpool via Wellington, left Liverpool November 9. City of Pembroke, barque, from Glasgow, left December 4. Pakeha, s.*., from London, left January 4. Reigate, S.S-, from New York via Australian and Northern ports, left New York January 3. Germanicus, s-s., from New York via Australian and Northern ports, left New York December 6. Ruthwell. barque, from Glasgow via Wellington, left Glasgow December 7. Santa Chiara. Italian barque, from Marseilles, left January 17 Pass of Bahama, ship, from Glasgow via Wellington, left Glasgow January 19. Gladys, barque, from Liverpool via Wellincrton. left Liverpool, January 25. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Te Anau, for Auckland via East Coast ports, February 14. Corinna, for Northern ports and West Coast, February 16. Waikare, for Melbourne via Bluff and Hobart, February 16. Mararoa, for Sydney via East Coast, February 18. Invercargill, for Invercargill, February 18. Mokoia, for Sydney via Cook Strait, February 20. Moura, for Auckland via East Coast, February 2L West.-aiia, for Melbourne via the Bluff and Hobart, February 23. Upolu, for Northern porta, February 24. Zealandia, for Sydney via East Coast ports, February 25.

The Janet NieoTl was to leave Greymouth to-day far Southern ports. The Waikare is to leave Wellington today for Lyttelttm and Dunedin, and is due here on Satcrday. The Hawea was to leave Auckland to-day for Southern ports. Cable advices from Melbourne intimate that the Mokoia sailed from Hobart, the Bhrff, and Dunedin at 5 p.m. yesterday. She ia due here on Wednesday next. The Corinna, from Westport via Timaru and Oamaru, arrived at the Port at 5.30 this morning, and after discharging 200 ton* coal into the hulks she steamed up to Dunedin. She left Westport on the 9th Just., called at Timaru and Oamaru; left the latter port shortly before midnight yesterday, and arrived as above. At Thnwru sha was delayed by wet weather. At the Lyttelton Polke Court on Tuesday Gilbert Ramsay Chalmers, an apprentice on the N.Z.B. Company's Rakaia, was convicted of desertion from the vessel, and was sentenced to three weeks' imprisonment and ordered to be put on board when the steamer leaves. The brigantine Rotuma, which arrived at the Bluff on Tuesday from Port Stephens with hardwood timber, had an ordinary weather passage throughout. Captain Horatio M'Lay, the well-kncwn commodore of the Cunard Company's fleet, who recently commanded the Lucania, has retired from active service. Heavy rain at Timaru on Tuesday stopped the Upolu from discharging her cargo, and she did not get away until next day. She loaded 150 tons of produce for Northern ports. Owing to the projection of the new mole the Timaru Harbor now presents a very different appearance from what it used to do, when viewed from the south. Before the mole was commenced a big steamer lying at the end of the main wharf was .seen to be dose to the outer side of the harbor. Now the mole projects so far

thai a boat in that position seems to he a long way in from the sea. The Te Anau, from Auckland via East Coast ports, berthed .at the Jetty street wharf at 10.15 this morning. She left Auckland at 1 p.m. 'ant Saturday, called at Gisborne, Napier, Wellington, and Lyttelton; kft the latter port at 5 p.m. yesterday, and arrived as above, having experienced stsong N.E. and easterly winds and heavy sea.

ILLUMINATION OF NAVIGABLE WATERS. A Canadian patent has been granted- for a system designed to do away with die lighthouses, buoys, and the entire paraphernalia for night navigation between Montreal and Quebec and to substitute a submerged electric system, which, however, will apply to all inland navigable waters. The main idea is to sink an electric cable in the centre of the navigable channels, with power transmitted from a power-house at Montreal, and lines of colored lights .it or above the water level, each side of the channel, the lights on the side being of a different color from those on the other side, and supported by cork float*. The idea, if not exactly novel, is interesting, and wfd provide a method of lighting obscure channels which should greatly simplify pilotage.

FOG SIGNALS. A report on the Trinity House for signal experiments conducted last summer has just been issued, and from this it seems that the question is a much more complex one than is generally supposed. The object of tha inquiry was to test the various sirens and reed horns at present in use on various parts of the coast to endeavor to ascertain which are the most effective for the purpose. There is much contradiction in opinion.among shipmasters as to the relative efficieuc" of sirens and reed horns as coast fog-signals, some claiming that the latter are superior to the former, while othe-s hold an entirely different view. The experiments took place at St. Catherine's point, in tlie Isle of Wight, where there is a firsfcliss siren, sounded by means of compresses air, the compressing power being suppliel by the steam engines which drive the dynamos for tho electric light. It was therefore possible to snpply stored air for sounding other instruments, and accordingly various forms of sound producers were set at. St. Catherine's to be tested against tun. service siren there and against each other. The result of the comparisons is unfavorable to the reed horn, which has been so highly spoken of for its efficiency on Belfast Lougii. (n the language of the report it proved to be so inferior that all observers agreed.it was quite out of competition with them. In these trials, we are told, the siren has proved to be tho most effective sound producer for fog-signal purpose, throughout the arc to be guarded, and under all the conditions of wind and weather experienced.

MORE LIGHTS NEEDED. The present inadeqnate lighting of the Victorian coast in the vicinity of the islands lying a few miles to the westward of Wilson Promontory has been a snbject of deep concern to shipmasters for some years past, and the accident, to tho Port Patrick emphasises the necessity for more effective illuminations. In an article on the subject, published in the 'Argus' last November, it was stated that the hope was earnestly entertained in shipping circles thut a re-cently-presented and numerously-signed petition from master mariners, praying for the erection of an additional lighthouse among the islands, would receive a favorable answer. It was pointed out that, whilst accidents were comparatively rare, vessels navigating the vicinity ot the islands in thick weather had had narrow escapes at times from serious misadventure, owing to the want of an extra light. These islands extend over an are.i of about ten miles to the west and west-south-west of the Promontory. Vessels approaching thai headland from the westward find that the light upon it is almost entirely obscured by the intervening islands, acid only comes into view when these danger spots have been actually passed. Over the long stretch (137 mile?) from Cape Otway to the Promontory <i vessel is liable in bad weather to get out of her course, and in such circumstances her movements as she approaches tie Promontory have to be regulated with the utmost caution lest she run upon one of these lurking impediments. Again, a vessel proceeding from Cape Schanck to the Promontory (seventy-seven miles) is likewise liable to deviate from her course when the conditions are unfavorable, and is subject to the same perils. The spot generally favored by shipmasters for an extra light is on Citadel Island. This is the outlying island of what is known as the Glennie Group, which lie about ten miles to the westward of the Promontory. Almost parallel with Citadel Island, but three or four miles nearer to the Promontory, Cleft Island, where tie Port Patrick was abandoned, is situate. \t is not at all unlikely that had there been a Hcht on Citadel Island the vessel named would have escaped misadventure. Such a light would have warned her master of the dangerous locality which he was navigating, and probably have induced him to give the place a wider berth and ensure greater sea room for the movements of bis vessel. It is not sought to entirely attribute this mishap, howevenr, to the want of an additional Tight, but as, when the vessel was abandoned, the Anser Group completely hid the Promontory light from her, the value of an extra beacon on one of tie islands could not be over-estimated even in her case.

TO-MORROWS STEAMERS. The Te Anan, for Auckland via East Coast ports, sails from the town wharf at 3 t>.m. to-morrow. The Whangape, which left the Blxrff this afternoon, should berth at the cross wharf about nine o'clock to-morrow morning. SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. AUCKLAND, February 12.—Hanroto, for Fiji and Tonga*—Taviuni, for Wellington. ONEHUNGA, February 12.—Rotoiii, for New Plymouth and Wellington. ' WELLINGTON, February 12.—Rotomabana, for Lyttelton. Passengers: Misses Grace, Donovan, Watson, Holmes, Brooke, M'Khiley, Chapman, Harvey, Stowell, Abbott, Cook, Smith, Mesdames Sewell, Jeffcoat, Grace, Daniell, Smith arid three children, Brings, James, Gilmer, Fanning, Brown, Dunlop, Turner and child, Mackergil] and family, Campbell and child, Cook, Johnston and two children, Archbishop Redwood, Dr Grace, Messrs Millar, Sewell, Brown, Gilmer, Floyd, Turner, Mannsell, Chisholm, Blackmore, HeDry, Morrison, HartgHL Evans, Crouther, MTfelley, Corrie, Moore, Daniel, Elliott, Wood, Master M'Elay ; and thirteen steerage. LYTTELTON, Febroary 12.—Ruapehn, for the BhrfF.—Eßngamite, for Wellington. INVERCARGTLL, February 12.—Iuvercargili. from Dunedin. SYDNEY, Febrnary 12.—Westralia, from Dunedin, Lyttelton, and Wellington.

(For continuation see Late Shipping.)