SHIPPING.

Evening Star, Issue 11776, 5 January 1903, Page 6

SHIPPING.

HIGH WATER. To-mntxow. <*ii?' a * aroa : 7.U a.m., 7.32 p.m. Port Chalmers; 7.51 a.m., 8.12 pjn, Dunedin: Ba6 a.m., 8.57 p.m. TELEGRAPHIC WEATHER REPORTS. The following weather report* from New Zealand stations were received this morning : Cape Maria Van Diemen.—Wind. N., light; ther., 65; overcast; tide good, sea heavy. Auckland.—Wind, W., light; bar., 29.69; ther., 69; clouds; tide moderate. Gisborne.—Wind, N., light; bar., 29.52; ther., 62; blue sky, clouds; tide good, sea smooth. Wanganui—Wind. W-, breeze; bar., 29.59; ther., 63; blue sky, clouds; tide high, bar lumpy. Wellington.—Wind, N.W., fresh; bar., 29-4P; ther., 62; blue sky, clouds. Nelson.—Wind, S.W., light; bar., 29.40; ther., 62; blue sky, clouds; tide moderate. Westport.—Wind, N.E., breeze; bar., 29.53; ther., 59; overcast, gloomy; tide moderate, bar smooth. Bealey.—Wind, S.W., light; bar., 29.45; ther., 53; overcast; river low. Lyttelton.—Wind, N.E.. fresh; bar., 29.23; ther., 64; clouds; tide high. Timarn.—Wind, S., breeze; bar., 29.23; ther., 63: blue sky, clouds; tide moderate, sea moderate. Oamaru.—Wind, N.E., light; bar., 29.25; ther., 59; blue sky, clouds; tide good, sea smooth. > Port Chalmers.—Wind, S.E., light; bar., 29.16? ther., 56; clouds; tide moderate, sea smooth. Dunedin.—Wind N.E., breeze; bar., 29.13; ther., 57; overcast, gloomy, passing showers; tide good. Clyde.—Wind, N.W., moderate gale; bar., 29.01; ther., 65; bine sky, clouds; river falling. r Queenstown.—Calm; bar., 29.27; ther., o4: ram. Calm; bar., 29.09; ther 55: overcast; river falling. Nugcts.—Wind, N., fresh; bar., 29.08; ther., 55; overcast, passing showers; tide moderate, sea calm. ™^J ercar g isI ~ Wind - K., breeze; bar., 29.08; thor., 55; blue sky, clouds. . Bluff.—Wind, N.W., moderate gale; bar.,. 29.11; ther., 54; overcast; tide moderate, sea rough. ARRlVED.—January 4. Whangape, s.s., 1,901 tons, Adams, from Newcastle via Northern ports. Mararoa, s.s., 1,581 tons. Smith, from Sydney via Auckland. Passengers: Mesdames Stewart, Fanant, Mulholland, Dean and family (4), Raymond, Batten, Crawshaw and three children, Misses Goodacre, Chayne, MXennan (5), Taylor, Donaldson (3), Scales, Donaldson, Low, Piper, Langemar, Messrs Farrant, Brace, Dickison. Pridham, M'Causland, Fitch, Fisher, Dean, Raymond, Gascoigne, Drew, Forester (2), Phillips, Bailey, Manyatt, De Castro (2). Morrison, Wright, Perry, Batten, M'Gregor, Leppitt, Howarth, Warren, Brodrick, Torrance, Scott, Cogan, Davev, Arlidge. Price, Rnsscll, Key, Piper, Scales, Rudd, Donaldson, Cunningham, Darling, Van Hencdelmn; and twenty-five in. the steerage. SAlLED.—January 3. Pnkaki, s.s., 917 tons. Stringer, for Westport. January 4. Victoria, S-S., 1,870 tons, Waller, for Melbourne, Passengers: For the Bluff—Mr Godfrey. For Hobart—Mesdames Panton, Simpson, Mr Panton. For Melbourne— Misses Ross, Jacobsen, Dumbrcll, Stewart « Dawson, Mesdames Malhone, Gordon and child, Stewart Dawson, Messrs Mulholland, Stewart Dawson, Hansford. Pilciier, Rev! Roks ; end eight in the steerage.

EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Warrimoo, from Melbourne via way ports Jan nary 6. 1 ’ Waihora, from Auckland, January 8, Moeraki, from Melbourne via wav ports Janaary 13. “ 1 * Monowai, from Sydnev via Wellincton. •lannary 17. b ' Lady Elizabeth, from Liverpool via Welliitgton (at Wellington December 18). Auckland, from Glasgow, left September Indraghlfi, from New York via Australian and Northern ports (at Wellington January Invercargill, from Liverpool via Wcllincfon, left October 27. 6 Gracchus, from New York via Auckland and way ports (at Lyttelton January 1). u ' c ‘ une ! from New York, left November Rakaia, from London, left November 30. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Mararoa, for Sydney via Auckland, January 6, Warrimoo, for Sydnev via Wellington, January 7. ‘ ° ’ Janet Nicoll, for Westport via usual wav ports, January 7. Tawna^ 101 '}’ f ° r ■ C^nc^ ' ria way ports, Janua^ e ’ll for ‘ Vleli)Ollrnc via way ports, Upolu, for Northern ports, January 12. Jannmy 3 !?' f ° r Sj ’ dnej ' ria -Auckland,

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The Victoria sailed yesterday for Melbourne via way ports. 'The Mararoa arrived yesterday from Svdncjy via Auckland and way ports. The Whangape arrived vesterdav from Newcastle via Lyttelton with coals! A notice to consignees by the ship Taranaki, from London, appears in our advertising columns. All claims against the ship Akaroa must bo made by Wednesday, 7tli imrt. Mr Hooper has been appointed second officer of the Monowai, Mr Etheridge taking , us place on the Tarawera. ° ■IJTL^ mdred >T and v - nino Pwsengers left London on November 22 bv the S&w. >Na\lll and Albion Company's new steamer Connthic for Capetown, Hobart,' and New - he Corinthic’s passenger accommodation for the Home trip from New Zealand has already nearly all been engaged. Hie Connthic is due at Wellington to-mor-Says the ‘Sydney Shipping List’ nf December 27: It is extremely improbable that at any previous period of Australia’s busincss conncetion with tho prolific State of the Golden West—California— has a fleet of ships been listed for the carriage of grain and lumber from their Northern Pacific ifrts to the ports on this, the far South lacific. Oar ban Francisco correspondent ?° n) eaU attention to tlio fact that at the tune of writing fXnvmber 25) a fleet of forty-five ships, of all sizes and rigs, varying from the 600-ton' Amen can schooner to the 2,700-ton Br fisher Ditton, was actually under charter a despatch to Australia. pie Pukaki left the George street pier on batorday evenmg for the West Coast. VALDES OF SAILING SHIPS. In a circular just published (says ‘Fair, play of November 13) it is stated that "very few sailing ships have been sold lately, and we should say that the values of sailing ships have, fallen 20 to 25 per cent during the past twelve months," This statement is generally believed to be incap. rect, except in perhaps one or two special cases. In the following instances it wfiJbe seen that the depreciation in sailing-ship values during' the past twelve months has not bean great. In November last year the iron ship MacCallum More (now tne Anemone), 1,669 tons register, built at Port Glasgow in 1873, was sold for £7,000, or £4 3s lOd per ton net register; in March this year the iron barque Hellas, 1,567 tons register, built at Aberdeen in 1874, with new decks in 1901, was sold for £5,750, or £3 13s 4d per ton—but it should be added that the buyer refused a profit of £250; the iron ship British General, 1,650 tons re- 1 ister, built at Liverpool in 1874, and rhkhJiadjußt.beem-specaaUy^urvoyEd,-waß

said in August last for £7,400, or £4 9s 8d per ton register. A year ago the iron barque H. Hackfield (now the Australia), 1,249 tons register, built at Dublin in 1865, and with new decks in 1886, was sold for £3,500, or £2 16s per ton; two months ago the iron ship Poonah, 1,165 tons register, built at Sunderland in 1867, new decks in 1883, was sold for £3,750, or £3 4s 4d 1 per ton. ' In July last the iron barque Tri- i ton, 688 tons, built at Sunderland in 1878, I was sold with No. 5 survey passed for 1 £3,400, or £4 15s 4d per ton. • A much smaller vessel than the Triton has just been sold for only £3OO less than that ship fetched. BRITISH AND FOREIGN CONSULS. It is in connection with shipping that much of a Consul’s work arises, and as British vessels may be found in every port in every navigable river of the world it might be expected that we would have many more Consuls than other nations. But ‘Syren and Shipping’ points out that this is not the case. American Consular officers and agents in this country may be numbered by the hundred, whereas in the United States there may be but one British officer in a State whose commerce represents millions of dollars annually. Germany thinks eighty-five Consular officers in the British Isles are not enough, so is steadily increasing the number, while the British Government maintain only fortyseven throughout the whole German Confederation. And, in addition, the United States and Germany have, of course, scores of Consular representatives in our great selfgoverning colonies, in India, and in all Crown colonies and dependencies. THE U.S.S. CO. AS DISTRIBUTORS. MrP. W. Jackson, manager at Sydney for the Union Steam Ship Company, in the course of his speech at the recent banquet on the new steamer Moeraki, quoted a few figures to show what an immense amount of money was distributed in connection with the company whom he represents. In Sydney alone for the last twelve months the expenditure had amounted to £250,000, and that had to go on, despite the heavy failing off caused by the Federal Tariff and the drought. Comparing this year with last year, there had been a decrease of 40,000 tons m freights. Of the £250,000 to which he referred, about £IOO,OOO had been spent m coal and £24,000 had gone to pay wharf laborers. Seamen’s wages paid in Sydney BS’OOO ; repairs, £10,000; stores, £ol,C00; sundries (including advertising and management), £12,000; while the moneypaid for goods transhipped in Sydney (including freight, lighterage, and caking) amounted to £22,000. Tue company’s total consumption of coal for last year was tons, while in overhauling alone £IOO,OOO had been expended, nine-tenths of that sum representing wages. Some idea of the company’s growth might be gathered from the fact that in 1877 the fleet comprised eleven steamers, with a tonnage of 5,500; to-day there are fifty-seven vessels, with a capacity of 92,600't0n5. The Moeraki is the company’s hundredth steamer. TO-MORROW’S STEAMERS. The Whangape will sail to-morrow for Sydney via Oamaru and Timarn. The Warrimoo is expected to arrive from Melbourne via Hobart and the Bluff tonjorrow morning.

THE DIRECT STEAMERS. The Wakanui arrived at Monte Video on the 2nd inst. SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. _ AUCKLAND, January 4.—Sealda, from Calcutta.—January 5; 'Monra, from Sydney. WELLINGTON. January 3.—Monowai, from Lyttelton.—January 4; Knraara, from Gisborne.—Waikato, for Waitara. LYTTELTON, January s,—Moana, scow, from Manning River. TLMARU, January 3.—Rimu, from Dunedin.

SYDNEY, January s.—Star of New Zealand, for Auckland.—Waikarc, for Wellington.

BRISBANE, January s.—Aorangi, from Vancouver.

MELBOURNE, January 3.—Moeraki, from the Bluff.

BLUFF, January s,—Victoria, from Dun-e^n-—County of Ayr, barque, passed north, from Adelaide.

(For continuation see Late Shipping.)