SHIPPING.

Evening Star, Issue 11608, 19 June 1902, Page 6

SHIPPING.

HIGH WATER. ro-nomiow Taiaroa Head: 2 B a.m, f 2.28 p.m. Port Chalmers: 2.48 a.m., 3.8 p.m. Dunedin: 3.33 am., 3.53 p.m. TELEGRAPHIC WEATHER REPORTS The following weather reports from New Zealand stations were received this morning:— Gape Maria Van Diemen. —Wind, N., fresh; ther., 59; gloomy; tide good, sea moderate. Auckland. —Wind, E M light; bar. > 30.41 j ther 65; overcast; tide moderate. Gisborne.—Wind, N.W., light; bar., 30.45; ther., 41; clouds; sea smooth. Wanganui.—Wind, N-E-v fresh; bar., 30.30; ther., 55; overcast; tide good, bar smooth. Wellington.—Wind, Nt, gale; bar., 30,22; ther., 62; overcast, rain. Bealey.—Calm; bar., 30.13; ther., 53; overcast, rain; river low. Lyttelton.—Wind, N.E., light; bar., 29.93; ther., 52; clouds. Timaru.—Wind, N.W., breeze; bar., 29.93; ther., 40; clouds; tide moderate, sea smooth. Oiroaru.—Olm; bar., 29.90; ther.,4l; blue sky, clouds; tide moderate, sea moderate. Port Chalmers. —Calm; bar., 29.80; ther., 48; blue sky; tide moderate, sea smooth. Dunedin. —Wind, N.E., light; bar., 29.83; ther., 43; blue sky, clouds ; tide good. Clyde.—Calm; bar., 29.88; ther., 30; blue sky, clouds; river steady. Queenstown. —Wind, N., breeze; bar., 29.85 ; ther., 42; blue sky, clouds. Balclutha—Wind, N.,* light; bar., 29.81; ther., 47; blue sky, clouds; river low. Nuggets.—Wind, S.W., fresh; bar., 29.81; ther., 47; blue sky, clouds; tide high, sea smooth. Invercargill.—Calm; bar., 29.85; ther., 45; overcast. Bluff.—Wind, N.W., light; bar., 29.82; ther., 46; blue sky, clouds; tide moderate, sea moderate. SAILED. -June 18. Invercargill, s.s., 123 tons, M‘Gi!vray, for Invercargill. June 19. Janet Nicoll, s.s., 469 tons, Watson, for Northern ports. Wmimoo, 5.«., 1,897 tons, Phillips, for Svdney via Cook Strait. Passengers for iJyttc'U.ii: Miss Poppclwell, Mesdames lington—Mi ses Crawford, Korp, Mesdames Grier, Bull and child, Mee, Dicker and child' Paisley, Butler, Messra Kennedy, Fotheringhem, Grier. Rutherford, Mee For Sydney—Mr Eadden ; and fifteen steerage EXPECTED ARRIVALS Te Anau. Pom Auckland via East Coast porta, June 20. Monowai, from Sydney via Wellington, June 21. Waihora, from Sydney via Auckland, June 22. Westralia, from Melbourne via Bluff and Hobart, June 25 Pm of B&lmaha, ibip, from Glasgow via Wellington, left Glasgow January 19. Gladys, barque, from Liverpool via Wellington, left Liverpool January 25. Mamari, e.s., from London, left May 2. Duo Port Chalmers (first port) June 27. Kinfauna, barque, from Liverpool vie Wellington, left Liverpool March 3. Blenheim ehip, from Glasgow, left March 11 for Dunedin (first port) and Wellington. Bt. Fillane, e.s., from New York via Auckland, left New York April 9. Hsfls, firm New York via Fremantle, left New York April 9. Heethfleld, barque, from Liverpool vie Wellington, left Liverpool April 19. Suihx, barque, from Glasgow, left May Mary Joee, from Algoa Bay (for orders), left April 14. Rakaia, from London, left May 16. Waikato, from London, left June 3. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Te Anau, for Auckland via East Coast ports, June 20. Monowai, for Melbourne via Bluff and Hobart, June 22. Waihora, for Sydney via Auckland, June 23. Westralia, for Sydney via Wellington, June 26. The Tokomaru is taking in cargo for London at the George street pier. The Janet Nicoll took her departure this morning for Northern ports. The Taviuni left Auckland yesterday for Rarotonga. The Waikare left Auckland yesterday for Fiji. The Corinna leaves Oreymouth this afternoon for Westport, Timaru, Oamaru, and Dunedin. The Moura leaves Wellington to-morrow afternoon for the South, and is due here on Sunday. The Monowai was to leave Wellington this afternoon, and is due at the Port on Saturday. She will sail on Sunday for Melbourne, and will not come up to town. The Collector of Customs has been notified by the Marine Department to advise masters of vessels sailing for Kaipara that a temporary outer buoy has been placed on Tory Shoal. News has been received of the loss of the American barque Iroquois near Macassar. The Iroquois, Captain Thompson, was laden with case-oil, and was bound for Hongkong, when, on the 11th March, she struck ou a reef and swung on to rocks about 150 miles from Macassar, and eventually became a total loss. All hands were saved The Invercargill sailed for the South yesterday. Captain A. Albers, of the HamburgAmerican steamer Deutschland, fell dead of heart failure in the chart house of the vessel, as she was approaching Cmhaven recently. He expired in the arms of his first. officer, who caught him as he fell. The long hours spent by Captain Albers on the bridge of the vessel, after the loss of her rudder at sea, probably hastened his collapse. As the senior officer of the Hriinburn-American Steam Packet Company, Captain A’bers expected to retire after a few more trips. The Emperor William has sent a telegram to the Ham-hurg-American Company, in which he expressed his sorrow at the loss of so excellent and cap ble an officer. “The steering of the rudderless Deutschland with her screws, on her homeward trip, was a master-stroke of seamanship, and an honor to his memory.” A COMPARISON. Some fimres published by ‘Engineering’ on the nbject of oil fuel in ships will be read with interest The practical figures of comparison between coal and oil fuel real sed in recent practice are that two tons weight of oil is equivalent to three tons weight of coal, and 36 cubic feet of oil is equivalent to 67 cubic feet of coal as usually stored in a ship’s bunkers—that is Ito say, if the change of fuel be effected, 'the range of action is increased by 50 per cent, upon the bunker weight allotted, and nearly 90 per cent, upon the bunker space allotted. Adopting the proportion of three tons coal as equal to two tons oil fuel, there will be found a gain in weight of, say, 1,000 tons in the freight of a first class Atlantic steamer, and a gain of nearly the whole of the bunker space; there would be a gain approaching 100,000 cubic feet of measurement made available for freight in such a vessel STEAM IN THE LUMBER TRADE. Prominent lumber men in the Pacific Coast shipping trade are beginning to recognise the fact that the days of the win :jammer are over, Sa ling ve sels that were the mainstay of the Pacific Coast trade for years are being now regarded as back numbers, and steamsh ps are the order of (he day. The latest additions to the Coast fleet are the steamers Lyra and Bhawmut. Both vessels will be used be-

tween San Francisco and Tacoma or off Coa?t ports, as the case may be. The Lyra is 3,516 tons net burden, while the Shawmut is a new vessel with a speed of fifteen knots. Her net tonnage, according to the United States registry, is 6,400 tons. Both vessels have special accommodation for lumber cargoes, and while they may not be used in this trade at all times, there will be no trouble at ali in closing the lumber cargo ports and sending the vessels off shore, either to Australia or the Orient, when so desired. GERMAN AND BRITISH SHIPPING. i In the course of an article in ‘The Times,’ a writer makes several interesting comparisons between the great Industrie? of Germany and Britain, Speaking of sblgping, bo says r —The carrying trade is eminently a British industry, and an industry which, on account of the construction, repairs, port trades, and labor it involves, is one of the most important of these isles, apart altogether from its effect upon the navy and its value as an “ occult ” but potent source of national income. It is therefore satisfactory to ascertain that, in sp te of increasing German competition in the Atlantic and Par Eastern trades, in spite also of the fact that Germany now has the largest individual steamship companies and owns a few of the fastest vessels, no appreciable inroad has been made upon British shipping as a whole Germany has been particularly active in mercantile naval construction these la f five years; yet during that time she has increased her gross tonnage by but 490,000 tons, whereas the British merchant fleet has grown by 918,000 tons. Besides, our gross tonnage is 14,064,000, or five time' as much as Germany’s; and the proportion of freight ves els amongst our fleet is much larger than amongst Germ;my’s, which has mostly added "fast” tonnage—by the way, a valuable adjunct to her navy. Shipping of U.K. and Germany Compared. Number of Vessels. Years U.K. Germany. 1896 20,796 ... 3,592 1897 20.501 ... 3,678 1838 20,404 ... 3,693 1899 20,196 ... 3,713 1900 19,982 ... 3,759 Gross Tonnage of Vessels. Years. U.K. Germany 1896 13,146,999 ... 1,969,238 1837 13,159,560 ... 2,059.948 :838 13,380,630 ... 2,189,508 1839 13,746,216 ... 2,317,536 1900 14,064,152 ... 2,459,389 In five years the British tonnage increased 7 per cent., whilst the German tounage increased 25 per cent. SUPPOSED LOSS OP THE DECIMA. AUCKLAND, June 19.—1t was supposed recently that wreckage reported to be found on the beach in the far North was from the timber-laden barque King Oscar 11., but later news has pretty well establi hed the fact that the timber washed up was not from that craft. A Press Hokianga correspondent now advises that the flotsam on the beach must have been in the water a considerable time, as it is barnacled, and could not have come from the King Oscar IT., that vessel being of comparatively recent departure from Kaipara There is now, however, reason to fear that the wreckage found may be from the barque Decima, 793 tons, owned by Mr J. Bang, of G’asgow, which left Kaipara on December 12 of last ye.ir with 528.500 ft kauri flitches, loaded by the Kauri Timber Company, for London, and has not yet been heard of, though 188 days ont. The ve-s----■el may possibly have met with a minor mishap, but the fact that she is nearly seven months out points to total loss at sea with all hands. FIRE AND STORM. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, June 18. The Fannie Ken 1 , bound from Newcastle to San Franc sco. took fire, and was abandoned in latitude 26deg, longitude 169deg. All hard-* were landed on Kuai Island The barquentine Trinidad, from Auckland, has taken refuge at Barbadoes. She lost her foretopmast, the head of the maintopm: st, and her sails. TO-MORROW’S STEAMERS. The Te Anau was to have left Lyttelton this afternoon for the South, and i? therefore expected to be at the cross wharf by 9 a.m. to-morrow. SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. AUCKLAND, June 18.—Ngapubi, for New Plymouth.—Waikare, for Fiji.—Taviuni. for Eastern Pacific. WELLINGTON, June 18.—Monowai, from Syd icy.—Rotomahana, for Lyttelton. Te Anau, for Lyttelton and Dunedin. Passengers for Dunedin; Misses Malone, Eady, ’Alien, Weber (2), Hemsley, Mcsdames Grey, Allen (2), Mesers Porter, Rigg, Malone, Jacobson, Haywood, Davis, Loveridgc, Duff, Warrington, Allen, Fail. —Papanui, for Lyttelton. LYTTELTON, June 18.—Romford, for Durban via Newcastle; and Zealandia, for Wellington. BLUFF, June 18.—Hawea, from Northern ports. The Hawea sighted the barqnentine S'lvercloud fifteen miles N.W. of Cape Runaway on Sunday. (For continuation see Late Shipping.)