SHIPPING.

Evening Star, Issue 11891, 20 May 1903, Page 6

SHIPPING.

HIGH WAXHk . T&aroa Head:. 9.31- ajn., 10.6 p.m. Port* Chalmers: 10.11 a.m., 10.46 p.m. Dnnedjn:. 10.56 a.<m., 1L36 p.m. * TELEGRAPHIC WEATHER REPORTS. The following weather reporta from New Zealand stations were received this morning:— Cape Maria Van Diemen.—Wind, N.W., light; ther., 59; passing showers; tide good, sea heavy irwell. 30.09; ther., 56; clouds; tide moderate. , Gisborne.—Wirl, S.W., light; bar., 30.06; ther., 49; Woe sky; tide moderate, sea smooth ™^ nga J mi *- Win <i, N.K, fight; bar., 30.07; ther., 53; bbae sky, clouds; tide moderate, bar smooth. breeze; bar., Vt , ; ther '' **»« sky, clouds. ri Nelson.—Calm; bar., 29.99; ther., 44; blue sky, clouds ; tide poor. Westport—Wind, N.E., light; bar., «J-98; ther., 61; overcast, rain; tide moderate, Bealey—Wind, S.W., light; bar., 30.01; ther., 43; overcast; river low. Lyttelton.—Wind, . N., light; bar., ther., 52; blue sky; tide moderate. Timaru.—Wind, N.E., breeze; bar., 29.96; ther., 45; blue sky, clouds; tide moderate, sea swell. Oamarn.—Wind, S.W., light; bar., 29.92; ther., 61; blue sky, clouds; tide moderate, sea smooth. Pore Chalmers.—Wind, S.W., light; bar., 29.91; ther., 51; overcast, passing mowers;' tide moderate, sea smooth. Dunedin.—Calm; bar., 29.88; ther.,so; ram; tide moderate. " , I Cl 7 de — bar., 29.91; ther., 48; blue sky, clouds; river steady . Queenstown.—Wind, N., light; bar' 29.94; ther., 40; clouds. Balclutha.—Calm; bar., 29.86; ther., 44; overcast, rain; river low. Nuggets.—Wind, W., light; bar., 30.02g ither., 49; overcast; tide moderate, sea smooth. Invercargai.— Calm; bar., 29.97; ther., 52; blue sky, clouds. Bhffi.—Wind, W., light; bar., 29.88; * ther v 50; overcast; tide moderate, sea smooth ARRIVED.—May 20. Monowai, s.s., 2,137 tons, MDonald, from Melbourne via the Bluff and Hobart. Passengers: Misses Minton, Elmore (2), Barron, Mesdames Bluett, Smith, Messrs Johnson, M'Lean, Outram, Minton, Harvey, Bluett,.« Watts, Hogg; and sixteen in the steerage. Corinna, s.s., 856.t0n5, Millman, from Oamaru. SAILED.—May 20. Port Sonachan, barque, 1,112 tons, Sainty, for Wellington. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Victoria, from Svdney via Wellington. May 23. " ■ Waikare, from Sydney via Auckland, May 24. Wakanui, from London via Northern ports, May 25. Medea, from Liverpool via Wellington, left January 20. Kildalton, from Glasgow via Wellington, left January 31. Julius Palm, from Glasgow, left Februuy 14. ' Rapallo, from New York via Australia and Northern ports, left March 19 (at Mel- _ bourne May 14). Louise Roth, from New York, left March 3L Europa, from Liverpool via Wellington, left April 4. Colbert, from Glasgow via Wellington, left April 10. Omba, from New York via Northern ports, left April 30. Northern Monarch, from Liverpool via ' Wellington, left May 1. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Corinna, for West Coast and Northern porta, May 21. Monowai, for Sydney via Wellington, May 21. Taxawera, for Auckland via way ports, May 23. Victoria, for Melbourne via way ports, May 24. • Waikare, for Sydney via Auckland, May 26. TLip Waitnate has made good progress il is charging her Dunedin cargo at the George street pier. Tlie dredge Timaru, from Timaru, arrived at l'nrt this forenoon, and was taken into the graving dock for cleaning, paintin'.', and overhaul. She left Timaru at d.SO p.m. yesterday. Mr 1.t.-slie Reynolds will advise the Hoki11k i JFarlmr Board re harbor improvements. (i'he Monowai, from Melbourne via the IMuif and Hobart, arrived at the cross wharf .it nine o'clock this morning. She . left Melbourne on the 13th inst., and sailed frnirl Hobart and the Bluff on the 15th and IStli respectively. Between Melbourne and Hobart she experienced fine weather, while across the Tasman Sea strong east--11 Iv winds and heavy head seas were met with. The Invercargill left for Port Chalmers ;it 7.15 this morning, whence she sailed this afternoon for Invercargill. The Corinna, from Oamaru, arrived at the Rattray street wharf at 8.30 a.m. today. The barque Port Sonachan sailed at 10.15 o'clock this morning for Wellington. East Cape reports that a British warship, bound north, passed there at 10.30 a.m. The Tarawera was floated out of the graving dock this forenoon, and berthed at the George street pier to complete her overhaul A "SCANDALOUS FARCE." One of the most wtt.hnai astir opponents of tht M~rg»n Combine since its inception is "The Lsokout Man" of 'Fairplay.' Scarce a week goea by but he hits on some new point of attack, ind not a number of the paper appears he has. something to say, and he genenJly says it" in the most straight-out Anglo-Saxon that he can command. In the March number he seizps upon a recent utterance of Mr Gerald Balfour, and proceeds to deal with it thus: No one can have failed to notice the euphemisms which have been employed by our public men in their attempts to cover up the part our Government have played in connection with the Morgan Combine. Speaking on the subject of the Combine at the Chamber of Shipping dinner in February last Mr Gerald Balfour described the effect of the transaction as being " not to transfer ships from the British flag, but to place some of our finest steamers under the financial control of an American corporation"—as if that were a feat to boast of. Now, I take it that when Mr Balfour buys a hat, if he alludes to the transaction at all in writing to his friends, he does not say that he has acquired the financial control of a hat, but simply that he has bought a hat Why should he not apply the same straight language to the Combine? Beyond all doubt the fleets of the Combine are now owned and controlled abroad; beyond all doubt they fly our flag; equally beyond all doubt what they are doing is against our law. __ He then quotes from the Merchant Shipping Act in respect of the qualification for owning British ships, showing that under it a ship shall not be deemed to be a British ship unless owned wholly by persons of the following description—namely, natural-born British subjects ; persons naturalised by. or in pursuance of an Act of Parbament of the United Kingdom, or by or in pursuance of an Act ar ordinance of the proper legislative authority in a British possession; persons made denizens by letters of denization; and bodies corporate established under and subject to the laws of some part of His Majesty's dominions, and having their prin:ipal: place of" business in those dominions. He adds: "No one can say that,the Mor§an Combine comes in under any of these efinitions";-and goes on: "The-whole business" is rotten to the core. The finance is rotten, and the registration is only pre- : served by evasion, and is therefore also .: rotten. Why Mr Gerald Balfour should '» . tare lent himself te sack a trick is a nrra-

tery. He has not shown, and he cannot T ■how, one single advantage arising to this I country in return for the sacrifice of our i flag for the benefit of a rival who never yet I conceded a point in our favor, but strains its own laws against our shipping. Considering the strong feeling that has grown up against this lop-sided alliance of our Board of Trade with certain notorious American railroads and trusts represented by the Combine, it is not surprising that the Government departments are thinking it desirable that all future standing contracts with shipowners, such as for the carriege of mails, etc., should contain clauses upholding the registration provisions of the Merchant Shipping Act in their integrity, in order to prevent a repetition of the scandalous farce' that has been carried through with the* Morgan Combine. Such precautions, if they were taken by the Government, would be equivalent to saying: 'We have done that which we ought not to have done, will prevent ourselves from doing it again.'" CERTIFICATE SUSPENDED. WELLINGTON, May 19.—The magisterial inquiry into the stranding of the steamer Mokau in the M*aawatu River was held to-day. The master attributes the mishap to having been misled by the Poxton light, which he sighted at midnight in fine weather. The Court found that Captain Craik had not been sufficiently careful in approaching the land, that his soundings were unreliable, and that he did not take precautions to ascertain whether they were correct or not. His certificate was suspended for six months. THE ZEALANDIA DETAINED. A portion of the original cargo ex s.s. Gracchus having been loaded to the Zealandia for delivery at Wellington and Auckland, the health authorities, under instructions from headquarters, have insisted on its discharge before the sailing of the Huddart, Parker liner. As this practically necessitates the removal and restowing of the whole of the outward loading, the departure of the Zealandia has been post' poned till to-morroW, at 9.30 a.m. The agents of the Zealandia us that no intimation of the action to be taken was given to them till late last evening, when it was impossible to acquaint intending passengers with the change in arrangements. Appeals to the authorities in Wellington to have the instructions modified so as to permit the sailing of the Zealandia were of no avail, Dr Valentine (the Acting Chief Health Officer) and his coadjutors proving inexorable. SHIPPING TTLEGRAMS. KAIPARA,' May 19.—Isabella Anderson, schooner, from Dunedin.—Clan Macleod, barque, for Sydney. LYTTELTON, May 19.—Rangatira, for. Timaru. TIMARU, May 19.—Aparima, from Port Chalmers.—Dredge Timaru, for Port Chalmers. BLUFF, May 20—7.30 a.m., Moeraki, for Melbourne. NEWCASTLE, May 20.—Jeseric, from Wellington.—Defiance, for Auckland. NORFOLK ISLAND, May 20.—The steamer Tambo passed a large quantity of pumice near Erromanga, Tanna. (Foz coutinuatiou see Late Shipping.)