SHIPPING.

Evening Star, Issue 12868, 18 July 1906, Page 6

SHIPPING.

HIGH WATER. TO-MORHOW. Taaaroa Head: 1.3 a.m., L 27 pjn. 'Port Chalmers: 1.43 a.m., 2.7 pjn. Dunedin: 2L28 a.m., p,m, TELEGRAPHIC WEATHER REPORTS ; The following weather reports were received from New Zealand stations this morning : Cape Maria. Van Dicmen.—Wind, S.W., breeze; bar., 29.80; ther., 57; gloomy; tide high, eea moderate westerly swell. _ Auckland.—Wind, S.S.E., light; bar., 29.78; ther., 58; blue sky, cloudy; tide moderate. Gisborne,—Wind, N.E., fresh breeze; bar., 29.85; ther., 58; rain; eea smooth. Napier.—Wind, N.E., light; bar., 29.93; ther., 52; overcast; tide good, sea heavy. WangannL—Wind, K, light; bar., 29.85; ther., 56; blue eky, cloudy; tide low, bar smooth. WeHington.-—Wind, S.S.W., light; bar., 30.01; ther., 54; clouds. Nj*«ofl.— Wind, S.W., light; bar., 30.01; ther., 53 ; clouds; tide moderate. Westport.—Wind, S.E., light; bar.. 29.90; ther., 50; overcast; tide good, bar sKghi swelL Bealey.—Wind, N.W., light breeze; bar., 30.14; ther., 31 r drizzly; river low. Lyttelton.—Wind, N.E., moderate; bar., 30.15; ther., 50; overcast, drizzly; tide high. Christcburch.—Wind, N.E., light; bar., J50.15; ther., 46; radn. ■ Timaru.—Wind, N.W., light; bar., 150.12; ther., 44; overcast, drizzly; sea ' light. Oamaru.-—Calm; bar., 30.03; ther., 45; overcast; tide good, sea heavy. Port Chalmers.—Wind. N.N.E., moderate gale; bar., 30.07; ther., 47; gloomy; tide poor, sea breaking Dunedin.—Wind, N., light; bar., 89.96; ther., 43; overcast, gloomy; tide moderate. Clyde.—Calm; bar., 30.28; ther., 45; Woe sky, cloudy; river steady. Queenstown.-—Calm; bar., 30.03; ther., 30; blue 6ky; sharp frost. _ Balclutha.— Wind, N.W., fight; bar., 30.33: ther., 37 ; blue sky : river steady ; hard frost. Nuggets.—Wind, N.. light; bar., 30.05; ther., 50; clouds; tide high, sea heavy. 31 • blue sky, cloudy. Bluff.—Calm; bar., 29.98; ther., 34; blueeky; tide moderate, sea smooth. ARRIVED.-January 18. Invercargill, s.s., 123 tons, Marks, from Invercargill. SAILED.—.JuIy 17. Loyalty, steam trawler, 68 tons, Anglian, for the Bluff. July 18. Queen Helena, s.s., 2,755 tons, Curric, for Newcastle. Invercargill, s.s.. 123 tons, Marks, for InvercargflL EXPECTED ARRIVALS. —Coastal.— Taxawera, from Auckland, July 21. —lntercolonial. Wimmera, from. Sydnev via Cook Strait, Jury 21. " * Victoria, from Sydney via Cook Strait, Jury 22. MoerakL from Melbourne, July 24. Satunius, from Banbury, early. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Warrhnoo, for Sydnev via Cook Strait, Jury 19. Tarawera, for Auckland. July 20. Wimmera, for Melbourne, July 22. Moeraki, for Sydney via Cook Strait, Jury 26. In .port noon to-day :—At Dunedin : Queen Heiena, Warrimoo, InvercargiH (steam). Catarina, Olive (sail). At Port Chalmers: Moora, Te Aran, Progress (steam), Specufaint (sail). The steam trawler LoyaJtv sailed yesterday for the Bluff.

The Oamaru dredge Progress was floated into the graving dock this morning for cleaning and painting. _ Shipping movements at Dnnedin to-day included the departure of the Queen Helena for Newcastle about noon. The Invorcargul arrived from the South at 4-55 a-m., and left for Inrorcargin shorfly after mid-day. The Japanese evidently know how to make a steamdbip company pay. The half-yearly report of the directors of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha to March 31 last shows that the gross profits of the company for the half-year amounted to £383,176, out of which there had been paid : Depreciation of the company's fleet and property, £80,314; insurance fund, £33,775: ships' structural repaa" fund, £46,639, making a total of £160,728, and leaving a balance of £327,598, including £105,150 brought forward from the last tccoaat. The directors now proposed that £11,122 should be added to the reserve Fund, raising if to £232,080, and that £7,135 be allowed as directors' and aaklitora* fees; also that £6,000 be allowed for the managing directors, and £40,000 for the employees, as bonus on account of the transport business. From the remainder the directors recommend a dividend at the rate of 10 T>er cent., together with 5 per cent, as special dividend, tiros making 15 per cent, per annum, which wiß absorb £165,000. The balance, £98,340, wffl be carried forward to the next account. A stiff westerly gale was blowing in Sydney last night, and the wjeathar was bstterry cold. Snow baa fallen on the hagh lands. The Rose Casey was inspected on Monday by a diver, who found a jagged rent, t.2Bm krog and 3iai wide in the centre, just under the donkey pump. The cruisers Encounter and Pioneer were engaged, in grin practice and prize-firing in Hanraki Gulf last week. The bay at Watwera has been marked out as a firing ground on the New Zealand station.

Mr Gray, the chief engineer of the Orient liner OpMr, was retained by the Admsraitv with his E±aff when the steamer conveyed the Duke of York to the colonies. Mr Frank Buflen remarks that the Ophir, in Mr_ Gray's charge, steamed 60,000 miles without five minutes' delay for repairs, while the cruisers accompanying her broke down on an average once every twenty-four hours.

The King has been invited to open the new deep-sea dock which has just been completed at Cardiff, at a cost of £2,500,000. The work, which m regarded as among the greatest of its kind in the , world, has occupied seven years, and about 1,500 workmen have been employed upon it. Its total area is thirty-four acres. It is nearly half a mile in length, by ljOOOfi in width, and it has been made antirelv on land reclaamed from the sea. The dentin, of the dock is fifty feet, and ifc will accommodate the largest vessels afloat. THE AOTEA WRECK [Special to thk Stab.] GHSBORNE, July 18. 1 The news of the wreck of the schooner Aotea, with the Toss of ail hands, has created a painful sensation locally, •where ' Contain and Mrs Nicholas and the vcsset& crew were bo well known. Captain ."Nicholas has been in the Gisborne-Anck-land trade for fully a quarter of a centary, and was a most "onolar skipper, as -well as a very careful navigator. He hod been favored with shigtdar good fortune in the schooner Awantri, which ho ijaailed in and oat of Gisborae for so many 'yeans, and it was a stroke of ffl-Tnek that on has first trip in his new craft he should come to grief. The Aotea, it be remembered, was on the beach at Waipiro in February last, remaanhig there ■for several weeks, and it was in conseqnenoe of this stranding that Captain 'Nicholas took over the command from Captain Brown at Auckland a fortnight , ago. Mrs Nicholas fretraently sailed with

her husband, and generally one or two °/_™* family- There are eeven or eight children left orphans bv the -casualty The Aotea wan owned by Captains Skinner, Nicholas, and others. It was of: about ninety tons, fitted with auxiliary engines, and, like other vessels of the Skinner fleet, was a. very serviceable vessel. When the Aotea was last seen on Monday afternoon she was anchored. Near by her was a email steamer with a yellow funnel, which had disappeared this morning, and has presumably steamed away and found shelter roand East Cape. The identity of this steamer is not clear. Sho was believed by the Waipiro people to be one of Richardson and Co.'6 steamers, from Napier. The latest report from Waipiro is that the echooncr is high and dry. bottom upwards, in a creek. It is not thought that the hull will break up. The bodies of some of the crew are expected to be found inside. One of the crow of the schooner was Taneley, a promising lad. whose parente reside here. He was studying navigation under Captain Nicholas, and had transferred from the Awoiuii to the Aotea with the latter. A NEW EAST COAST HARBOR. The report of Mr Napier on the Waikokopu Harbor has just been made. It is possible, be states, that an excellent harbor could be constructed capable of admitting 12,000-ton vessels, at a cost of £IOO,OOO. The harbor, the engineer states, would be a better one than anv on the East. Coast from Auckland to Wellington. The denth of water would be about 35ft at the entrance and 53ft inside, with 23ft to 24ft at the jetty, with good shelter and ample turning room. For £43,000 the harbor could be part completed for a smaller class of vessels. A railway twenty- four miles in length would have to be constructed to connect Wairoa with the harbor. Once the scheme is adopted freezing works will be established at Waikokopu, for the port would serve a large pastoral district. THE WEATHER ON THE COAST. The present eonth-eost gale is disorganising shipping arrangements on the East Coast to some extent. After being barbound on the West Coast for some time the Pohenia had to take shelter under Long Island. She reached Timaru at 5 p.m. yesterday, and left at two o'clock this morning for Oamaru. . She arrived there at eight o'clock, but at time of going to press it was uncertain whether she would be able to work the port owing to the heavy sea running in the roadstead. Should she pass Oatmaru without working it she may be here this evening or to-morrow morning. In the Auckland service the arrival of the Tarawora has been thrown back from Thursday to Saturday. She lay off Napier all yesterday but, as it was found impossible to tender her, she naescd on this morning. She should reach Wellington this evening. THE TRAINING SHIP PORT JACKSON. 111-hick seems to have followed the fine barque Port Jackson—one of the best-known of the Australian traders—ever since she was selected as the pioneer training ship under the new scheme of the Marine Society. Two or three weeks before her sailing date from London for Sydney, and after the Warspite cadets had taken up their quarters on the vessel, the popular commander, Captain Cutler, passed away, and Captain Ward was appointed in his place. It is now reported that upon leaving West India Docks on May 21 same of her plates were damaged, and the vessel was delayed in consequence. The injuries necessitated the discharge of 200 or 250 tons of cargo, and the Port Jackson was taken in tow for Greenlithe. The damage was repaired afloat, and once more the training ship resumed her voyage. A cable message received reoentbr. however, stated that when in the Downs the Port Jackson was in collision with the German steamer Weyrgos, resulting in her starboard bow being seriously damaged. The Port Jackson was towed into Dover for repairs, and by last advices was still in port there. THE MANCHESTER CANAL. That the Manchester Ship Canal is making considerable progress is evidenced by the traffic returns, which every month during the present year have shown substantial increases (says an English paper). Thai the canal wfll, in comise of time, prove an even more serious competitor to the port of Liverpool is shown by the now services which have been established at Cottonopolis during the past twelve months or so, and much of Liverpool's timber trade is following the banana trade in going to Manchester. All that Manchester wants at present- is for Lancashire ootton-spini>er6 to get their cotton direct instead of through Liverpool. If that were done it would make a vast difference to the canal receipts, and efforts are being made to secure that consummation. Meanwhile the Manchester Ship Canal traffic receipts are most encouraging. The approximate return for April amounted to £37,184, compared with £33,108 in April last year. The total for the present year ra> to the end of April amounted to £143,492, compared with £126,978 in the corresponding period last year—<ai increase of £16,514. SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. FLUFF, July 17.—Paparca, from Lytteiton. SUVA, July 17.—Arrived, Taviuni.— Sailed. Maheno. SYDNEY, July 17.—Briez Huel, from Dunedin.—6 p.m., Ventura, from Auckland. The Ventura encountered northwest gales and rough seas. (For continuation see Late Shipping.)