SHIPPING.

Evening Star, Issue 12696, 27 December 1905, Page 6

SHIPPING.

HIGH WATER. TO-MOftROW. Taiaroa Head : 3.51 a,ru., 4.14 p.m. Fort Chalmers : 4.31 a.m., 4.54 p.m. Dunodin : 5.16 a_m., 5.39 p.m. ARRIVED.—-December 26. Mocraki, s.s., 2,714 tons, Worrall, from Melbourne via Hobart and the Bluff. Passengers : Misses Findlay, Miller, Michaclis, Stott, M'Cormick, Burgess, M'lnnes, Lawson, Gray (2), Peddie, Gill, Vcitch, Sidey, Agnew, GriSeti, Mesdames Anderson and two children, Laidlaw, Findlay (2), Stott, Bruce, Lindon, Nopemaire, GUI, Sidey, Messrs Nopemnire. Ingram, Laidlaw (2), Stott, Neville, Brace. Lindon, Gray, Seth Smith, Gill, Kilpatrick, Sidey, Laureate, Professor Jialdwin Spencer; twentvseven steerage. SAlLED.—December 27. Invercargil], s.s., 123 tons, Harming, for Invercargill. KXPECTED ARRIVALS. —Coastal. — Talone, from Auckland, December 29. —lntercolonial. Maiieno, from Sydney via Cook Strait, December 30. Mokoia, from Sydney via Auckland, December 31. Monowai, from Melbourne, January 3. Dilpussund, from Port Esperance, early. —Oversea, steam. — Star of Ireland, from New York, sailed October 5; arrived Auckland December 12. Banffshire, from Liverpool, sailed OcUWr 11. Whakatane, from Liverpool, sailed October 11; doe December 25. Somerset, front West of England porta, tailed November 11. Cape Corso, from New York, sailed November 14; due at Auckland January 16. Karamea, from West of England ports, due at Auckland December 12. Pakoha, from London, sailed November. Koipara, from London, sailed December 4; due January 20. Aoarima, from Calcutta, sailed December' 7. Ayrshire, from West of England ports, sailed December 11. Perthshire, from New York, sailed December 25. Papanui, from London, to sail February 5; duo March 26. Ardgowan, from New York, to sail January 15. Everton Grange, from New York, to sail February 10. —Oversea, sail-. Fort George, from Philadelphia, sailed August 21; arrived Lyttelton December 23.

Pitcairn Island,' from Liverpool, sailed September 12. Pharos, from Liverpool, sailed October 30. Cassius, from Liverpool, to sail Deoember. Dattaimie, from Liverpool, to sail February. The Poheru*, for the West Coast, December 28. PBOJECTED DEPARTURES. Zealandia, for Sydney via Auckland, December 26. Moeraki, iur Sydney via Cook Strait, December 28. Maheno, for Melbourne, December 31. In port noon to-day : —At Dunedin : Moeraki, Rimu, Invercargill (steam). At Port Chalmers : H.M.S. Prometheus, Rangatira, Matatua, Morayshire, Marere, Wakanui, Tarawera, Moura, Rakanoa, Koojiya, Pukaki, To Anau (steam), Onyx, Advance (sail). From 3,500 to 4,000 bales of wool have been shipped by the Rangatira during her stay at Port Chalmers. This is in addition to cargo from other ports. She will be despatched for London to-morrow an absolutely full ship. The Banffshire u .landing all her West of England cargo at Australian ports, and will not come on to New Zealand.

The following have been decided on ae the loading ports for the New Zealand Shipping Company's steamer Whakatane : Lyttelton, Dunedin, Picton, Waitara, Wanganui, Wellington, Napier, Gisborne, and Auckland. .Sire will sail finally from Auckland about the 20th January. The Talunc will be a day late in arriving here from Auckland. It is now arranged that she will both arrive and depart on Friday. The Moeraki is time-tabled to leave tie cross wharf for Sydney via Cook Strait at 4 pjn. to-morrow. The Poherua came up to Dunedin from Port Chalmers this afternoon, and is to sail for the West Coast about 2 p.m. tomorrow.

The Rimu is to remain here until the New Year holidays, when she will be commissioned for tie marine excursions of Januarv 1 and 2.

The Invercargill took in cargo at the Rattray street wharf to-day, and sailed for Invercargill about 5 p.m. Long . cargolens voyages presumably pay Uie Frenchman : instance the following extract :—-The French barque General de Ponis, which urived at Puf«et Sound in November in ballast from Hobart, has had a trip all around the world seeking. She loft this port last February in ballast for Newcastle, N.S.W., but, instead of taking a charter there, proceeded to Cape Town for orders, nn her arrival there being ordered to Ry<i*wy, and thence to Hobart, from which plate she found orders to proneed to Puget Sound. Her wanderings in ballast will probably end on the Sound, as there is a good opportunity for a wheat charter there.

The Aiarine Department has published the ' New Zealand Nautical Almanac and Tides-tables' for 1906. The work also contains information, with plans, about the principal ports of New Zealand, and all the latest information up to the present date about any changes on the New Zealand coast, or in the harbors, etc, which have been notified since the last edition was nub ished of the ' New Zealand Pilot' in 1901.

It is reported that Captain East, of the Tyser Line, who has been on a visit to England, is returning to New Zealand bv the Star of Australia.

The shin Fort George will probably put out about half her caifjo at Lyttelton, and the balance at Dunedin. After completing discharge here, the vessel will proceed in ballast to Newcastle, to load coal for Honolulu. At Honolulu she will load a cargo of sugar for Delaware Breakwater. It is expected she will be sent thence to either Philadelphia or New York. Captain J. Fullerton has with him Mr F. Mortimer as cluef officer, and Mr J. Johnson as second. Information has been received stating that the new Tyser Line steamer Indrabarah, under the command of Captain J. Firth, late of the Indralema, will leave Liverpool for New Zealand ports about February 2. The new steamer is described as a vary fine vessel, with everything, so far as cargo facilities are concerned, up to date. The new steamer Ruru, built by Messrs Lane and Sons.; of Whangaroa, for Messrs Richardson arid Co., Napier, averaged nine knots and a-half on her run from the Thames to Auckland, after having her engines fitted by Messrs Price and Co. The vessel is having the finishing work done at Auckland this week. The Auckland 1 Star' says it is the intention of the vessel's owners to employ her in the Wel-Hmrfon-Gishorne coastal trade and also in lightering frozen meat at Napier. The vessel has a carrying capacity of 120 tons, and ia under the command of Captain Peterson, formerly of the Kahn. Tho Southland ' Daily N«ws' relates an incident that created scone cariosity among visitors to tie port while tho Maheno was lying at the Bluff wharf on Monday. A valuable locket fell from a lady's neck into the water between the steamer and the piles. Determined not to lose the treasured ornament, the owner secured the services of the local diver, who descended in refrolation dress. He was not long in finding tho missing jewellery and restoring it to the grateful owner.

AMERICAN COMPETTTTON IN THE AUSTRALL\N TRADE.

Mr W. J. Grossley. of Oponshaw, Manchester, has written the following letter bo the London 'Times' on the question of American competition in the Australian trade :—" Are British manufacturers aware of the methods adopted by the American Steamship Combine to foster American trade at the expense of British trade ? A correspondent in Sydney writes (hat he is placing orders in America for Roods bocause the White Star Line rate from New York to Sydney, with transhipment at Liverpool, is from 15s to 20s per ton, according to the description of the goods, whilst in the same steamer British goods shipT>ed at Liverpool are charged a freight of 32s 6d to 42s 6d per ton. The same correspondent points out that he is bound to buy from America under these circumstances, as the difference in freight means a good profit for him. There can be no objection on the part of British manufacturer to (he White Star Line carrying goods an additional 3.000 miles from New York to Liverpool, en route to Anstralia, free of charge; but when, in addition, it offers a preference of 20s per ton, some explanation of its extraordinary policy seems necessary. British manufacturers have the remedy in their own hands. Thev can decline to ship their poods to Australia by the White Star Line unless the company will agree to carry them on equal terms with American goods. Fortunately, this can be done, as the White Star Line has not the monopoly of the carrying trade to Anstralia from the north of England." A NEW STEAMER. Press Asioaiatini—By Telegraph—Copyright. SYDNEY, December 27. The new steamer Kranfcen has arrived here. She is the first of a fleet of eight huge carriers built to the order of the North German Lloyd's Company for the Hamburg-Australian trade. NORWEGIAN BARQUE BRINGS BERIBERI. A Norwegian barque, the Ivar Aasen, of about 1,000 tons, came into the roadstead at Napier early on Christmas Night and signalled for a medical officer. Dr Moore, medical officer for the nort, went off to the vessel, when he found thai out of a crew of ten two men had died from the disease known as beri-beri—one man oigb<t da-ys 3450 aaad otv© f<nir cLa.ys asgo—while the remainder of the crew, with two exceptions, have been attacked by the disease. The Ivor Aasen, after taking a cargo of coal from Westport to the Marshall Islands, had snipped a cargo of copra tor Valparaiso, for which place she was bound when she had to pat in here, having left the Islands on the 14th inst. As it is impossible for the vessel to proceed on her voyage at present, the three worst cases were, with the approval of the District Health Officer, brought ashore yesterday and taken to fcbe Nanier Hoa-

pita! for treatment. It in understood that the latest medical opinion is to the effect that the disease is not directly infectious, nor is it peraomUy contagions, and it is treated in tbn ordinary -wards ot the Sydney hospitals without seclusion. SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. AUCKLAND, December 26.—Mofcoia, for the Sonth. KAIPARA, December 26.—Brisbane for Melbourne. HOKIANGA, December 26.—Zdate«r, barque, for Sydney. WELLINGTON, December 26.—9.50 p.m., Maheno, from Sydney. MELBOURNE, December 26.—Karitane, from Kaipara. SUVA, December 26.—Arrived, Aorangi and Bauroto.—Sailed : Aorangi. LONDON, Deoember 26.—Cassius, for Port Chalmers.—Star of Scotland, for Wellington. SYDNEY", December 27.—Orari, for Wellington.—6 a.m., Warrimoo, from Wellington. LAUNCESTON, December 27.—Helen, from Now Zealand. (For Continuation see Late Shipping.)