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Evening Star, Issue 12316, 4 October 1904, Page 6

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HIGH WATER VO-ItORBOW. Taiaroa Head : 10.31 a.m., 11.14 p.m. Port Chalmers; 11.11 a.m., 11.54 p.m. Dunedin: 11.55 a.m., 12.0 p.m. TELEGRAPHIC WEATHER REPORTS. The following weather reports from New Zealand stations were received this morning : " ' Cape Maria Van Diemen.—Wind, S.W., gale; bar., 29.95; thor., 55; blue sky; sea heavy. Auckland.—Wind, S.W., light; bar., 29.95; that., 57; blue sky, clouds. Gisborne.—Wind, S.W.; light; bar., 29.81; ther., 56; blue sky, clouds; tide good. Napier.—Wind, S.W., light; bar., 29.79; ther., 48; blue sky, clouds; sea smooth. ■' Wanganui.—Wind, W,, fresh breeze; bar., 29.85; ther., 55; blue sky; tide moderate, bar smooth. Wellington,— bar., 29.81; ther., 55: blue sky, clouds. Nelson.—Calm; bar., 29.78; ther., 58; blue sky; tide poor. Westport.—Wind, S.W., fresh breeze; bar., 29.73; ther., 53; blue sky, clouds; tide poor, bar swell Bealey.—Calm; bar., 29.86;, ther., 37 ; bine sky; river low; frost. Lyttelton.—Wind, S.W., light ;■? bar., 29.85; ther., 52; blue sky; tide high. Christchurch.—Wind, S.W., light; bar., 29.92; ther., 46; blue sky. Timarn.—Wind, S.W., fresh breeze; bar., 29.82; ther., 54; blue sky, clouds; tide moderate. Oamaru.—Wind, S.W., light; bar., 29.80; ther., 48; overcast, gloomy; sea heavy swell. Port Chalmers.—Wind. S.W., moderate gale; bar., 29.78; ther., 49; overcast; tide moderate, sea moderate swell. Dunedin.—Wind, S.W. gale of exceptional severity; bar., 29.71; ther., 44; overcast, gloomy, squally; tide poor. Clyde.—Wind, N., moderate gale; bar., 30.06; ther., 48; blue sky, clouds; river low. Queenstown. —Wind, S.W., breeze.; liar., 29.89; ther., 49; blue sky, clouds. Balclutha. —Wind, S.W., breeze; bar,, 29.77; ther., 46; overcast. Nuggets.—Wind, S.W., stormy; bar., 29,81; ther., 47; clouds, passing’showers; tide high, sea heavy. Invercargill.—Wind, S.W., fresh breeze; bar., 29.90; tber., 45; squally. Bluff.—Wind, S., fresh breeze; bar., 29.87; ther., 47; blue sky, clouds, squally; tide poor, sea moderate. ARRlVED.—October 4. , Rise Casey, s.s., 81 tons, MTKlvray, ■ from Invercargill and Stewart Island.' • Monowai, s.s., 2,136 tons, Worrall, from Melbourne via Hobart and the Bluff. Passengers; Miss Cave, Mrs Holmes, Messrs Matthews, Baillie, Chanoni, Caphtin Anderson; fourteen steerage. SAlLED.—October 4. Zealandia, s.s., 1,763 tons, Wyllie, for Sydney via Auckland. Passengers : For Lyttelton —Miss Aldred, Mrs Aldred, Mr Griffiths, For Wellington—Miss Abide Davies, Mesdames Pollard, Croucher, Messrs Metcalf, Cottingham, Rev. Father Burke. For Auckland—Miss Flannagan, Mesdames Cross, Yates and child, Foster, Messrs Cross, Foster. For Sydney—Mr Matthews; ten steerage. * EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Poherna, from the West Coast, October 5. Tarawera, from Auckland, October 6. Rakanoa, from Newcastle, October 7. Mokoia, from Sydney via Cook Strait. October 8. Mararoa, from Sydney via Auckland, October 9. Victoria, from Melbourne, October 52. Aotea, from West of England ports, due »t Auckland October 20. Maelgwyu, from Liverpool, arrived Wellington September 21. Audora, from New York, arrived Auckland September 21. Marie, from Philadelphia, sailed June 9. Burgemeister Hachmann, from New York, sailed August 4. from London, sailed August Rippingham Grange, from New York, sailed August 20. Oswestry Grange, from West of England ports, sailed August 23. Matatua, from' London, sailed August ,31. 0 Karamea, from London, left Cape Town, September 19. Waimate, from London, to sail September 30. __ Queen Helena, from New York, sailed September 4. Sir Henry, from Kaipara, sailed September 29. Pharsalia, from New York, to sail October 1. Suffolk, from West of England ports, to sail October 31. Kaipara, from London, to sail November 50. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Pukaki, for Westport, October 5. Monowai, for Sydnly via Cook Strait. October 6. Tarawera, for Auckland, October 7. .Mokoia, for Melbourne, October 9. Victoria, for Sydney via Cook Strait, October 15. La Bella, for New Plymouth, early. In port noon to-day :—At Dunedin ; Monowai, Rose Casey ’ (steam), La Bella (sail). At Port Chalmers : Warrimoo, Moora, Zealandia, Pukaki (steam) . The Poherua was due at Timaru at noon to-day, but it was then uncertain whether she would require to call at Oamaru en route for Port Chalmers. Her arrival at Port Chalmers may, however, be looked for to-morrow. The Pukaki, having taken in a supply of bunker coal, was swung this forenoon lor the adjustment of her compasses, and sails This evening with the hulk Elinor Verdon in tow for Wellington. - The Invercargill took on board transhipments ex Surrey at the Bowen pier vestnrday. evening,’and came up to Dunedin this morning to put out timber for the vriiarf extension and to load for Invercargill. She sans this evening. Messrs Keith Ramsay advise that the Rimu, which arrived at the Blnff yesterday, is loading dredging plant at that port for Greymonth. The Rose Casey, from Invercargill and Stewart Island, arrived this morning, and worked cargo to-day at the Rattray street wharf. The harbor-master at Westport reports 'to the Harbor Board that the latest soundings on the bar were very good. He suggests that the river in the vicinity of the flagstaff should be dredged for SOOffc, as the water is very scant at neap bides, and a steamer could go out with a foil load if she meets neap tides. The Swedish barque Diana, 681 tons, is. to bring a cargo df hardwood from Banbury, West Australia, to Wellington and Dunedin. Mr 11. A. M‘Gregor, until recently Inspector of Machinery at Wellington, and who is now touring Scotland, was on beard the Union Company’s new turbine steamer Loongana when she underwent her official trial trip on Loch Tyne. Writing to hia son in Wellington, Mr M‘Gregor • gives an interesting account of the vessel and the trial trip, at which there were about 300 guests. Mr M (Gregor states that he tried the vessel right aft when • she was doing eighteen or nineteen knots, and could only feel the slightest vibration, and _4oft from her stem he * could have imagined he was on a rock. On no other part of the boat but right aft could lie feel any vibration or hear any sound of engines. Mr M‘Gregor also went ' below, and found that at top speed the firemen never were called upon to exert themselves, and had scarcely anything on their fires. * The Marine Department has been in- . formed, that on the night of September 28 the 'master of the Ngtmgnrn passed an upturned boat, painted black, about thirty feet keel, nine miles west by south of Sinclair Head. ’ The Monowai, from Melbourne, arrived alongside the tongue wharf early this morning. . She left the company’s wharf, JfaUworaa, on the 27th. n&* and eageri-

enced strong S:W. winds, with high seas, throughout the. passage. She proceeds to Port Chalmers about 11 a.m. to-mor-row, and sails for Sydney via Cook Strait after the arrival of the 2.50 p.m. train from Dunedin. The Nelson Harbor Board have appointed Captain H. Collins harbor-master and pilot. Bullion valued at £11,600 was Shipped on the Moana for' Sydney by the ( Waihi Gold Mining Company at Auckland yesterday. THEFEERY SERVICE. The. Union Steam Ship Company advise that the Rotomahana will be withdrawn from the Wellington-Lyttelton service for a few days this week.' On her arrival at Lyttelton on Thursday she will go into clock there,, and will resume running on Saturday. ■ . ■ 0 The Monowai, leaving here for Sydney to-morrow, will await the arrival of the express at Lyttelton on Thursday, in order to make the usual Thursday evening trip between Lyttelton and Wellington. There will be no steamer from Lyttelton to Wellington on Friday, and only one steamer—the Mararoa—will make the trip from Wellington to Lyttelton on that day. THE F.H.S. STEAMERS. Messrs Turnbull, Martin, local agents for the Federal-Houlder-Shire steamers, advise as follows : The Banffshire, from Sydney, is dne at Port Chalmers for African and West of England loading on Monday morning, and then proceeds to Timarn,* Lyttelton, and Wellington, in that order, taking her final departure from Wellington about the 20th inst. She is the October contract steamer. The Mimiro, with inward West of England cargo, is doe at Port Chalmers about the middle of the present month. The Rippingham Grange left New York for New Zealand ports direct on September 24. She is due at Auckland about November 22, and may be expected here during the first week in December. She is to discharge at Dunedin wharf. THE DIRECT STEAMERS. The Paparoa left the Cape on Saturday for Wellington. SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. AUCKLAND, October 3.—5.45 p.m., Moana, for Sydney. WELLINGTON, October 3.—Tongariro, for Lyttelton.—Rotomahana, for Lyttelton. OAMARU. October 3.—-9 p.m., Gorinna, from Dunedin. • BLUFF, October s.—Surrey, from Timam.—-Rimu, from Lyttelton.—Waikare, for Hobart.