SHIPPING.

Evening Star, Issue 11693, 26 September 1902, Page 6

SHIPPING.

HIGH WATER. to-morrow. , Tamroa Head: 10.21 sum., 11.4 p.m. Fort Chalmers: 11.1 aan., 11.4* p.m. Dun* - earn 11.46 am., 12.0 pjn. .TELEGRAPHIC WEATHER REPORTS. The following weather reports from New Zealand stations were received tins morning : Cape Maria Van Diemen.—Wind, W., fresh; ther., 55; squally; tide good, sea heavy. Auckland.—Wind, S.W., fresh ; bar., 29.88; ther., 53; clouds, passing showers; tide moderate. Gisborne.—Wind, W., light; bar., 29.72; ther., 46; blue sky, clouds; tide good, sea moderate. Wanganui—Wind, N.E., light; bar., 29.78; ther., 45; blue sky, clouds; tide low, bar smooth Wellington.—Wind, S.W., light; bar., 29.76; ther., 48; clouds, gloomy; tide poor. Nelson.—Wind, S., light; bar., 29.76; ther.47; blue sky, clouds; tide moderate., s Westport.—Wind, S-, light; bar., 29.76; tfcer., 52; blue sky. clouds; tide moderate, bar smooth. Beoley.—Wind, N.E., light; bar., 29.81; ther.. 35; overcast ; river low. Lyttelton.—Wind, S.W., fresh; bar., 29.78; ther., 48; gloomy, snow, rain; tide moderate. Timaru.—Wind, S., fresh; bar., 29.90; ther., 50; overcast, rain; tide moderate, Lor considerable. ■*. Oamaru.—Wind, S.W., light: bar., 29.68; ther., 41; overcast, passing showers; tide good, sea moderate swell. Port Chalmers.—Wind, S.W., fresh; bar., 29.88; ther., 45; clouds; tide moderate, sea smooth Dunedin.—Wind, S.W., strong; bar., 29.83 ; ther., 44; rain; tide moderate. Clyde.—Calm; bar.. 29.91; ther., 45; overcast; river steady. Queenstown. —Calm; bar., 29.94; ther., 38; snow. Baidu t ha.—Wind, S.E., fresh; bar., 29.88; ther., 43; overcast; river falling. Nuggets-—Wind, S.E., moderate gale; bar., 29.91; ther., 43 ; overcast; tide moderate, sea moderate. Invercargill.—Wind, S.W., moderate gale; bar., 30.00; ther., 40; overcast, passing showers, squally. _ B’nff. —Wind, S.E., fresh breeze; bar., 50.00; ther., 43; blue sky, clouds, passing showers, bail; tide moderate, sea heavy. ARRlVED.—September 25. Te Anau, s.s., 1,028 tons, Bemecb, from Auckland. Passengers; Mesdames Anderson, Rankin, Misses Haughton, Tobin (2), Palmer, Waterston, Stenson, Rawson, Messrs Robinson, Thornhill, C. S. Wood, B. Anderson, W. Dali, Rev. G. W. Harding, Captain Miles; and sixteen in the steerage. SAlLED.—September 25. Invercargill, s.s., 123 tons, Marks, for Invercargill. September 26. Te Anau, s.s., 1,028 tons, Bemech, for Auckland via way ports. Passengers: For Lyttelton—Misses Kettle, Richards, Mesdames Kettle, Hamilton, Messrs Wood, Cohen, Baker. For Wellington—Miss Appleton, Mrs Leary and child, Mr Prictor. For Auckland—Messrs M'Burney, Inder; and eight steerage. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Kent, from Lyttelton, September 27. Mokoia, from Sydney via Wellington, September 27. Oorinna, from Westport, September 28. Dunblane, from Edithbnrg via Bluff, early. Ganymede, from Surprise Island, early. Don. ship, from Liverpool via Wellington (at Wellington September 15), Waikato (left Cape Town August 27), from London, June 3. Samuel Plimsoll, from Glasgow, left Juno 17. Annesley. from Liverpool via Wellington, left July 12. Ripley, from New York via Australia and Auckland, left New "York July 16. •Akaroa, from Liverpool via Wellington, left July 24. Kumara, from London via Auckland and Northern porta, left London August 2. Nelson, from Glasgow, left August 2. Goodwin, from New York via Auckland, left New York August 15. Lady Elizabeth, from Liverpool via Wellington, left August 24. Indradevi, from London via Australia and Auckland, left September 9. Rangatira, from London, left September o. County of Inverness, from Glasgow, left September 12. ■ PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Mokoia, for Melbourne via Bluff and Hobart, September 28. Corinna, for Northern ports, September 29. Tahme, for Sydney via Auckland, September 30. The latest shipping files to Isanti show that the following ships are loading at the ports mentioned lor Dunedin. —Invercargill, at Liverpool (via Wellington); Auckland, at Glasgow ; and Taranaki, at London. The Kent, a steamer of the Federal Steam Navigation Company, and ex-troopship, is , expected to reach Port from Lytelton tomorrow. The Union Steam Ship Company advise that the mishap to the Tarawera has turned out to be nothing worse than the bending of an eccentric rod. This was put to rights, and she made port last evening. The Aparima is getting on well with the discharging of her Dunedin cargo. She sails for the Bluff on Sunday forenoon. The Titania steamed up to Dunedin this morning, and berthed at the cross wharf. Tie Invercargill sailed again for the South last evening. COLLIERS AT WESTPORT. A Westport message states that the steamer Selsdon is loaded, awaiting an improvement of the weather to sail for Hongkong.—The Mercedes, from Hongkong, is in the roadstead. She made the voyage from Thursday Island at the rate of thirteen knots.—The Firth of Dornoch, to load for .Sydney, is sheltering at Farewell Spit. A STORMY PASSAGE. A contemporary publishes the following extract from a letter written in London by Mr Tom Bowling, jnn., an apprentice on board the ship Invercargill, during her protracted voyage from Oamaru Home;- “ From Oamaru to the Horn we were only fifty-four days instead of twenty, bat that •was a minor detail compared to the weather we met. We bad three tremendous gales a tornado, and as we rounded the Horn we lost onr poor second mate overboard. He was washed clean off the deck when the decks filled with water, and we never saw him again- It was impossible to try to get him, as it was blowing a gale, and no boat could have lived in the sea that was running at the lime, so wo had to let the poor fellow go. From the Horn to the Line our passage was quite the average, but from the Line Home it was awful. Wh drifted the whole way; in fact, we did not make one good day’s run.” LYTTELTON HARBOR. The chairman of the Lyttelton Harbor Board at a meeting of the Board held yesterday made a strong speech to combat the disparaging remarks made in Parliament in regard to Lyttelton Harbor. He said that the depth of water was now greater than ever it was, and the dredging work this year exceeded the work of last year (up to August) by 18,860 tons. The statement made by members of the House of Representatives that the Rotomahana recently, with 1 863 tons gross, could not get out of Lyttelton was totally without foundation. The Board were fully alive to the necessity of keeping wharfage requirements in advance of thore of shipping, and had determined to deal • with the whole harbor question in a thoroughly representative and progressive spirit. Members of the Board had a long discussion later on as to the appointment of an engineer. The opinion was expressed such an officer should be appointed, •alary has not yet been decided upon,

it settled whether be shonld be a consulting or a resident engineer.'

BRITISH GOODS IN SOUTH AFRICA. The delegates of the British Trade Committee—Messrs Morgan, Jenkins, and Whitbam—have made it clear in Cape Town that the only reason why British goods are not supreme in South Africa is the high freight charged. Asked why American and German goods seemed to have such an advantage over British-manufactured goods in Cape Colony, Mr Morgan said ; It is not because the British goods are inferior. You may be sure of that. On freight alone the British manufacturer pays from 6s to 10s more per ton on the journey from London to Cape Town than the American has to pay from New York, though the distance in the latter case is greater.- German manufacturers are able to send their goods to South Africa at cheaper rates mainly because their vessels are outside the “ring,” and their freights are consequently very much lower. English-made goods are thus actually imported through German houses in many cases, instead of being bought direct from the British firm through their agent in Cape Town. It would be far cheaper for merchants to charter their own vessels, and the saving effected would be quite 10s per ton. SHIPPING CATTLE. The manner in which cattle were treated when being transferred from the railway trucks to a steamer in connection with a recent shipment to Australia was brought up at a meeting of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals at Wellington the otherf'day. The inspector, whose attention was drawn to the matter by a citizen, visited the Glasgow wharf and inspected the loading of the beasts. In his report he ®^y s: —“How long they had been kept short of food and water while in the trucks before reaching the wharf I have not ascertained, bnt some of the animals were terribly knocked about and seemed nearly mad.” The report further states; 11 The men had great difficulty in getting the animals up the gangways, and had to goad them with sticks and twist their tails. When they reached the deck they knocked themselves about- terribly. Some of them fell down, others were dung on the deck with ropes.” The report concludes with the opinion that the practice of shipping cattle should be discontinued, and characterises it as barbarous. The inspector was instructed to watch the next shipment, and take witnesses with him with a view of taking legal proceedings if crusty is detected. Numerous complaints have been received at various times from residents of Foxton and Wanganui, with regard to the manner in which cattle are shipped at those places. THE SARANAC AND MONT PELEE. A private letter received in Auckland from Captain Porter, of the American ba. que Saranac, stated that the vessel had arrived safely at New York, after a long passage from' Auckland. She was detained off Cape Horn for twenty-two days by- heavy easterly gales, Captain Porter describing it as the worst weather he had ever experienced off that noted promontory. In the North Atlantic the north-east trade had changed to south-west, on account of the eruption at Mont Pelec. The barque was passing Martinique, about 100 j mijes to the north-east, at the time of the eruption, and flames and burning lava could be seen plainly from the vessel. The black smoke from the eruption on the second day obscured the. whole skv, so that neither sun nor moon nor stars could be seen for a week. The Saranac lay becalmed in a heavy cross sea, which caused her to roll heavily, the seas going over one rail and out of the other rail. Sometimes the vessel would shake and tremble so violently that those on board thought she had touched the bottom. Tons of ashes and small pieces of pumice fell on the deck and the air was so full of sulphur that it was difficult to breathe. Captain Porter states that there was no freights to anv part of the world offering, and the vessel “is laid up until freights improve. There has never been such a stagnation in the freight market in the United States as at the present time and no sailing vessel has been chartered at New iork for New Zealand for some months past. THE CONCORDIA. AUCKLAND. September 25. The stranded barque Concordia still remains uninjured on Kaipara Beach, though her position is somewhat altered. It is considered possible, under favorable conditions, to get the vessel off. At the inquest on Harris, the seaman who died after landing, a verdict of ” Death from exposure” was returned, no blame beam attachable to anyone. a A RUSSIAN SERVICE. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright ST. PETERSBURG, September 25Russian subsidised steamships, fitted with refrigerators, open a weekly service between Helsingfors (Finland) and Newcastle (England) in November, carrying batter and prodoes. 1 THE DIRECT STEAMERS. The s.s. Rakaia, from Wellington (Au-reri; 30), arrived at Monte Video on the 23rd.' The Star of Australia, from London via Sydney, arrived at Auckland at 8.30 Yesterday morning. SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. AUCKLAND. September 25.—Mour.i, for Wellington. KAIPARA HEADS, September 25. River Hunter, barquentdne, from Newcastle WELLINGTON, September 25,-Taka-puna, from New Plymouth, with the ' San Eranc’sco mail.—Elingamite, from Lyttelton. —Mokoia, for Melbourne via the South and Hobart. Passengers for Dunedin: Miss Hay, Mesdames Day and infant, Farquharson, Palethorpe, Mr Farquharson, Master Keyling.—Elingamite, for Napier.—Athenic for Lyttelton. ’ LYTTELTON, September 25.—Papaxoa from Timaru. ’ SYDNEY, September 25.—Monowai, from n eJmgton,—Zealandia, for Auckland land. LYTTELTON, September 26, —Waihora from Dunedin. *

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