SHIPPING.

Evening Star, Issue 12866, 16 July 1906, Page 6

SHIPPING.

p, . f- HIGH WATER. XO-MORBOW. V Taiaroa Head : 11.36 a.m., 12.0 p.m. W Port Chalmers : 12.0 a.m., 0.40 p.m. f Dunedin : 0,45 a.m., 1.25 pan. ; TELEGRAPHIC WEATHER REPORTS •V v The following weather reports were re- / oeived from New Zealand stations this - morning : I , Cooe Maria Van Diemen.—Wind, S., breeze; bar., 29.32; tber., 50; passing - showers, squally; tide high, sea heavy. Auckland.—Wind, S.E., moderate; bar., 29.56; then, 48; rain; tide moderate. Gisborne.— Wind, S.E., light; bar., * 29.75; ther., 55; blue sky; tide good, sea : moderate. , Nacier.—Wind, S.E., moderate; bar., ~ 28.92; ther., 46; rain; sea smooth. Wanganui.—Wind, S.E., fresh; bar., 29.89: ther., 47; overcast, lightning. Wellington.—Wind, S.S.E., moderate gale; bar., 30.05; ther., 45; rain, overcast. - Nelson.—Wind, S.E., light; bar., . 50.03: ther., 43; blue sky. clouds; tide moderate. Westport.—Wind, S.E., breeze; bar., 30.01; ther., 41; blue sky, clouds; tide good, bar clear. Bcaley.—Wind, S.E., light; bar., 30.25; ther., 33; glooms • river low; frost. Lyttelton.—Calm; bar., 30.37 ; ther., 47; blue sky; tide high. Christchurch.—Wind, S.W., light; bar., 30.35; ther., 54; blue sky. clouds. Timaxu.—Wind, N.W., breeze; bar., - 30.32; ther., 40; bln© sky, deads; tide moderate, sea considerable. Camara.—Wind, W., light; bar., 30.28; ther., 54; blue sky; tide moderate, sea moderate. Pori Chalmers,—Wind. N.E., gale; bar., 30.25; ther., 44; blue sky, clouds; tide moderate, sea rough, Dunedin.—Wind. N.. fresh; bar., : 30.11; ther., 40; blue sky, deads; tide poor. Clyde.—Calm; bar., 50.47; ther., 42; blue skv. douds; river steady. Queenstown.—Calm; bar., 30.19; ther., 26; bine sky; hard frost. Baldutha.—Wind, E., light; bar., 30.53; ther., 54; bio© sky; river steady; bard frost. Nuggets.—Wind, N.E., fresh; bar., 30.22; ther., 45; blue sky; tide high, sea moderate. Invercargill—Calm; bar., 50.27; ther., W. Bluff.—Wind, N., light; bar., 50.13; ther., 36; blue sky; tide moderate, sea smooth; hard frost. ARRIVED.—JuIy 15. Waipori, s.s., 1,229 toms, Looey, from Newcastle via the Bluff. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. —Coastal.— Tarawera, from. Auckland, July 19, —lntercolonial. Warn moo, from Melbourne, July 18. Wimmera, from Sydney via Cook Strait, July 21. Victoria, from Sydney via Cook Strait, July 22. Sat am as, from Banbury, early. —Oversea, Steam.— Devon, from West of England ports, arrived Auckland July 11; due July 31. Wakanni, from Liverpool, sailed May 11; arrived at Auckland July 11. Tomoana, from New York, sailed May 25. Banffshire, from West of England ports, sailed May 26 Burgermeister Hachmann, from New York, sailed May 30. Cape Corso, from London, sailed June B 1 ; due July 23. Gowanbum, from New York, sailed fun© 15, Wilksden, from New York, sailed • June 15. i Aotea, from Liverpool, sailed June 19; doe August 6. Rangatira, from London, sailed Jane 30. Cam wall, from New York, sailed July 5. Waimate, from London, to sail August 4; doe September 23. Maori, from London, to sail August 31. Delphic, from Liverpool, to sail September 30. Whakalane, from London, to sail October 4. Waiwem, from London, to sail October 5L Pakeha, from London, to sail December SL —Oversea, Sail.— Brunei, from Liverpool, sailed May 4, Australian, from Liverpool, sailed June 10, Drammenseren, from Malden Island, due August. , Arthur, barque, from Malden Island, Bariy. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Warrimoo, for Sydney via Cook Strait, July 19. Tarawera, for Auckland, July 20. Wimmera, fear Melbourne, July 22.

In port noon to-day :—At Dunedin: Queen Helena, Waipori (steam), Catarina, Oliv© (sail). At Port Chalmere : Moana, T© Anau, Loyalty, Progress (steam), Speculant (sail).

iHmedin agents ha ve some little experience of the _ trouble of working the -ort of Wanganui, and that experience is not altogether a pleasant one. Some time ago there was talk of dredging the flais or something like that, but “blocks” still occur. When an agent or owner adventures his steamer into Wanganui, he can only st tight and hope that she will, in time, get out again. The last cane on record is that of the Ripple. She should have been on the berth here about the 19th, but will not be here until the 26th. On her last visit to Wanganui she was bar-bound from the 9th inst. till the 14th. Advice has been received by the Union Comoanv that the block in the West Coast rivers ended on Saturday afternoon. The Poherua and Pukaki got out of Greymouth and Westport respectively, and are now en voyage for this port. Both steamers will work lixnaru and Oamanx on the way here. The Waapori, from Newcastle via the Bluff, arrived yesterday. After discharging some 200 tons at the Bowen pier, she steamed up to Dunedin this morning. She is now discharging at Jetty street wharf. Word received *by Neill and Co. indicates that the Dalcaimie, which discharged at Dunedin recently, was to leave Wellington for Wallaroo to-day. She is presumably under charter to lift wheat for the United Kingdom or the Continent. A sailing vessel, name unstated, is now on the berth at Liverpool loading for Dunedin. She is to leave at the end of this month. The Australia left on June 10.

The four-masted barque Marion Fraser, 2,264 tons, has been chartered to load a general cargo at Liverpool and Glasgow for New Zealand ports. The Wellington ‘ Post ’ states that th© New Zealand and African Company, local agents for the Vancouver trader Pondo, state that the vessel will have to be fitted ■with a new propeller boas as a result of her recent mishap. It is expected that the repairs will take until the end of next week. It is stated that a firm of West Coast saw-nriHere have purchased the barquentine Jan for the timber trade. The little steamer Piako, which wont ashore on Tuesday morning at Fitzroy Bay, is reported to be likely to become a wrook. < A hole has been knocked in her hull, which is also strained. The engines will probably be saved. The Piako belongs to MrE. Seagar, of Wellington. Bullion to the value of £41,821 was forwarded from Auckland to Sydney by the Manuka on Monday last. This consisted of two boxes of gold valued* at £33,680, shipped by the Bank of New Zealand, and the same number of boxes valued at £7,141, shipped by th© Waihi Gold Mining Company. The Manuka also took 200 boxes for transhipment to Durban. Whilst engaged in gun firing practice on H.M.S. Challenger at Fremantle the other

day John Tnckey, a petty officer, met with a serious accident. 'A gun crew vras using a Morris tube for the purpose of finding range, and just as tih© gunner was in the act of firing Tuckey got in front of the tube, and was shot through the ear. . He was removed to the Fremantle Hospital, where on examination it was ascertained that the missile had cnhis head, and had lodged beneath the brain. Next morning an operation was performed. The skull was trephined, and a portion of the bullet was found cmbedded in the brain. It was removed, together with some fragments of bone! The rest of the bullet was found to have penetrated deeply into the brain, and was in such a position that its removal was impossible. The operation was successful. so far as it went, and the medical officers are hopeful, that the patient will survive.

The steamer Chiswick, which was recently in Sydney Harbor discharging a cargo of lumber,’is the holder of a union© record. She is only twenty-one months old, and made her first voyage to Japan loaded with gone and projectiles. This was during the Russo-Japanese War. Freeh from the buildens’ hands, she left London with the contraband cargo on board, and .Captain G." W. B. Woods steered a course round the north coast of Ireland, passing the Baltic fleet on the way. The Chiswick zig-zagged across the Atlantic, rounding Cape Horn. Then she proceeded across the Pacific to the Sasebo Dockyards, where her cargo was discharged. The Chiswick covered 19,137 miles without a stop, the steaming time being 93d 6h. This performance is a world’s record for a new vessel, and it was accomplished without a hitch. While in Japanese waters the vessel was taken up on a time charter, and for six months was engaged running coal for the Japanese Government. Twice she was fired at, and had to “ heave-to.” When the charter was worked out, the vessel was ordered to Puget Sound, where she loaded 3,000 000 ft of timber for Panama, subsequently carrying another cargo also measuring 5.000,000 ft from the Sounds to Panama. The timber was for building nirmoees in connection with the Panama Canal. The Tutanekad arrived at Auckland from Wellington and the Kermadecs on Saturday night, after an unsuccessful search for the missing scow Haeremai. The steamer met with west to south-west gales during tho search. While at the Kermadecs a resident stated that about the end of April he saw a largo fir© at sea. He first thought it might have been whalers trying oil, bot now considers that the flames were too high for that. THE ROSE CASEY. The local agents of the Rose Casey (Tapley and Go.) have received a wire from Mr C. B. Tapley, secretary of tho oouthland Steam Ship Company, as follows :—“ Hope to have the vessel afloat in the course of a few days. We do not expect that there will be any lengthy delay in taking up running again.” THE NEW YORK TRADE. Writing under date June 16, Messrs Arkell and Douglas, of New York, report as follows : The US. and A.S.S. Company have just closed the Craigyar, which vessel calls at the five Australian ports. The Willeaden. also loaded by this company, has just gone in the berth. She will call at Melbourne, Sydney, and New Zealand ports. The A. and A. Line have just despatched the Gowanbum for the four Australian ports, and have the Cornwall to follow. Iho Tvser Lino have no vessel on the berth at the moment. Freight rates remain practically as last quoted, nominally 52s 6d to 55s on general cargo to Australian ports. New Zealand rates, nominally, for genera.] cargo, 37s 6d. Such goods as white pine lumber, chairs, mouldings, carriage woodwork, naner, hardwood, resin, glucose, barbed wire, and plaster are being taken at concessions which have been advised. Wire nails, plain wire, slate, and close-weight poods are taken at the basis of 20s to 22s 6d weight. OUR LATEST SEA SCOUT. H.M.S. Attentive, just completed at the yards of Armstrong. Whitworth, and Co., at Newcastle-on-Tyne, is the latest tvoe of sea scout for the British Navy. She has a displacement of 2,940 tons and engines of 17,000 i.h.p., giving a speed of twenty-five knots per hour. ' Unlike the torpedo destroyers and other fast vessels built low forward, she is designed to keep dry in heavy weather, and to that end has high, almost swan, bows. The Attentive is in every wav a great improvement on all fast service vessels hitherto built, and will be easily recognised by her four funnels and the extra height of her bows. AN IMPORTANT UNDERTAKING. An_ interesting undertaking in shipbuilding engineering is in progress at prosent at the Alfred Graving Dock, -Williamstown, Melbourne. It is the lengthening of the steamer Peregrine by the inserikm in her amidships of a new section 40ft in length. A similar operation was performed some years ago on thoR.M.S. Rom©, on the Clyde, but this is probably the most pretentious bit of work of the kind ever attempted in Melbourne, if not in Australia. The Peregrine was taken into the dock on Friday, June 1. A cradle was made to bear tho forward portion when it was severed. It was so constructed that the forward part could not get out of level or out of line with the section on the blocks. An air drill was used to remove the rivets, and it did its work so well that by Saturday, June 9, everything was ready to make the severance. The way underneath was well greased, and hydraulic power was used to give the great mass, weighing 600 tons, a start. Lines were made fast to the capstans, and gangs of men were employed to turn these. For some hours the movement was only at the rate of an inch ner hour, but late on Saturday evening the forward portion began to move steadily forward, and in a few minutes it had traversed the necessary distance. Into the opened section a smoke room, a water-tight bulkhead, and a water-ballast tank will be inserted. The frame for these is already complete, and when nlaoed in position tho plates from the hull will be riveted back in their old nlace.

THE ATLANTIC “ BLUE RIBAND.”

The launching of the new liner Lusitania- built for the Cunard Companv by Messrs Brown and Co., of Clydebank, marks the highest point yet reached in the building of gigantic ships. Fifty yeans ago th© Great Eastern—or the Leviathan, as it was first called—seemed a sort of giant freak in shipbuilding. She had a length of 691 ft, and it took from November, 1857, till the end of January, 1858, to get her from the stocks into th© water. Yesterday (writes our London correspondent under date June 9) the now Lusitania into the Clyde in less than three minutes from the tune the dog shores were knocked away. And she is 790 ft long (78ft longer than the Kaiser Wilhelm II.), has a moulded breadth of 88ft, and her launching weight was over 16,000 tens. By the time she is ready for sea this “ marine monster ” will weigh nearly 30,000 torn, and will have a gross tonnage of 32,500 tens. Her turbine engines are designed to give her a speed of twentyfive knots per hour, and to enable her to do this they will require 68,000 horsepower, as against the 38,000 which drives the Kaiser Wilhelm 11. twenty-three knots and a-half ner hour. What makes the Lusitania different from all other vessels is her machinery. She will have four Parsons turbines driving four shafts and four propellers. The two shafts nearest th© centre of the vessel will be driven by low pressure. The four turbines will be placed side by side, the great breadth of the vessel rendering this possible. The two inner shafts will carry, in addition to the low-pressure turbines, two reversing turbines, to b© used onlv in stopping and manoeuvring. The ahm will cost, all told, nearly a million and a-half pounds ere she is read'" for sea, and it is estimated that when wages, victualling, coal supplies, and

other expenses are added, the cost of riming tb© vessel from Liverpool to New York and back will be fully £20,000. When the captain of the Lusitania paces his bridge his eyes will be 110 ft above the keel-line of his vessel. Through each of the_ tour moiierter funnels which will omit their smoke 154 ft above the keel it would be possible to run two trains abreast. A thousand tons of ooal per day will be consumed by the Lusitania, whose chain cables are the largest cast for any ship. Each link is 22in long, 3}in in diameter at the smallest part, and weighs 1601b. At a tension of 370 tons—the full power of the testing machine—the links remained unbroken. The Lusitania has nine decks, including the hold, and will carry a crew of 800. Her passenger-carrying capacity will be about 2,350 in all classes, and the space allowed per head is nearly 50 per cent, above that in preceding Atlantic liners. . Yet another proof of the extraordinary size and luxury of tho new vessel is contained in the fact that the Lusitania will be lit with 4,500 electric lights. Everything on the ship will, indeed, be on the magnificent scale, and at least a year must elans© ere she is ready for her maiden voyage. Her sister ship, the Mauritania,' is now in course of construction at Walls-end-on-Tvne. With the advent of these ships on the high seas. Great Britain will be able one© more to claim to hold the “blue riband of the Atlantic,” which was wrenched from our liners by the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grcsse and retained by the Koopriz Wilhelm and the Deutschland, and had seemed to be in Germany’s safe keeping for'a decade when the Fatherland sent forth the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grease, with her record soeed of twenty-three knots and a-half, and her gross tonnage of 20,000. These figures are badly beaten, indeed, by those aopertaining to the Lusitania and her sister shin, but no doubt Germany will not be long before she tries to go “on© better.” SHIPPING TELEGRAMS!” AUCKLAND, July 15.—11.45 a-m,. Victoria, from Sydney.—Zcalandia, froni tho South.—Tutanekai, from Wellington and the Kermadecs.—Whangape, for Sydney.—Marere, for Napier.—Henley, for Melbourne, PICTON, July 14.—8 p.m., Wairnno, for Sydney. LYTTELTON. .Tnlv 15. —9.50 p.m., Return ah ana, from Wellington, with the San Francisco mail. SYDNEY. July 14.—2.10 p.m., Wimmera, for Wellington. BRISBANE, July 14.—Miowera, from Vancouver. MELBOURNE, Julv 15.—Mary Moore, from Kaipara.—Moeraki, from the Bluff. (For continuation see Late Shipping.)