SHIPPING.

Evening Star, Issue 12927, 25 September 1906, Page 6

SHIPPING.

HIGH WATER. ■ TO-MORROW. Taia»oa.' Head : . 8.9 a.m., 8.45 p.m. Port Chalmers: 8.49 a.m., 9.25 pjn. Dimedin: 9.34 a.m., 10.10 p.m.

ARRlVED.—September 24. Kittawa, s.s., 1,247 tons, Brophy, from Oamaru.

September 25. Warrimoo, sjs., 2,076 tons, Macbeth, from Melbourne, Hobart, and the Bluff. Passengers : Miss BaileV, Mesdames Vmeent and boy, Campbell, Carrick, child, and infant, Perkins, Messrs Rbgan, Nicolson, Turner, Gillies, J. A. X. Riedle, Vincent, and Arthur; twenty steerage. Poberna, Ootkhtl Invercacgill, s>'s., 123 tons, Marks, from Oamaru. SAlLED.—September 24. Aparima, s.s., 3,684 tons, Stott, for Wellington. September 25. Bnrgermeister Hachmann, s.s., 2,804 tens, Aim, for Newcastle. Manuka, s.s., 2,783 tons, Phillips, for Lyttelton. Mokoia, s.s., 2,714 tons, Smith, for Sydney via East Coast ports. Passengers : For Lyttelton—Misses M'Donald, Bailey, Shannon, Mesdames Benson and child. Freads, Mackerg, Bailey. Messrs Benson, Ferguson, Bond, Cox, Resteil, Seehof, Robinson, and Bailey. For Wellington—- ■ Misses Blathwayt (2), M'lboy, Mesdames Thomson, Jeffreys and infant, Manning, Milne and boy, Messrs Thomson, Manuring, Milne, 0 Connor, Adams, and Bush. Fox Napier—Misses Neal, Close, Mrs FinJayson and infant, Mr Caffro. For Gisboxne—Miss Beal, Mrs Todd, Mr Todd. 'For Auckkmd—Misses Barty, Burnside, Mesdames Barty, Davev. Turnbull, Messrs F % W. Mitchell, M'Arier, and Muir; fijifty-seven steerage. Rio Loge, aux. brigantine, 241 tons, Spenco, for Kaipara. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. —Coastal.— Tarawnra. from Auckland, September 87. —lntercolonial. Warrimoo, from Melbourne, September 25. Whnmera, from Sydney via Cook Strait, September 29. Zealandia, from Sydney via Auckland, September 30. Moeraki, from Melbourne. October 2. Hippolas, from Clarence River, eaxry. Eos, from Clarence River, early. —Oversea, Steam.—

Walfesden, from New York, sailed July 7; left Sydney September 19. Courtfield, from New York, sailed August 5.

Wimbledon, from New York, sailed September 7.

Aynwric, from New York, sailed August

Rippingham Grange, from Middlesborough and Glasgow, sailed August 11. Suffolk, from Liverpool, sailed August 18.

Star of New Zealand, from Liverpool, sailed August 18. Cornwall, from New York via Australian ports; due October 7. Somerset, from West of England ports; due October 9.

Maori, from London, sailed September 5; due October 25. Como, from New York via Australian and New Zealand ports, sailed September D.

Dorset, from Liverpool, sailed September 14.

Delphic, from Liverpool, sailed September 13; due Auckland November 18. . Whakatane, from London, to sail October 4.

Orari, from Liverpool, to sail October 13; doe at Auckland December 2. Drayton Grange, from Liverpool, to saU October 13.

Waiwera, from London, to sail October 51;; due December 17. Everton Grange, from Liverpool, to sail November 10.

Pakeha, from London, to sail December 02~

Wakanui, from London, to sail December 4.

Essex, from Liverpool, to sail December 6.

—Oversea, Sail.— Brunei, from Liverpool, sailed May 4; axrived Wellington September 13. Australia, from Liverpool, sailed June ao.

Apolda, from Liverpool, sailed .September 10.

Arthur, barque, from Surprise Island, •«iy.

PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Manuka (from Lyttelton), for Sydney via Cook Strait, September 28. Tarawera, for Auckland, September 28. Wimmera, for Melbourne, September 30. Zealandia, for Sydney via Auckland. October 2.

In port noon to-day :—At Dunedin : Borgermeister Hachmann, Warrimoo, Rimu, Invercargill (steam), Rio Logo (sail). At Port Chalmers : Manuka, Mokab, Pateena, Tahme, Kifctawa (steam). In the channel: Poherna (steam). The Calcutta steamer Aparima left the , George street pier yesterday afternoon for ; Wellington. Her Lyttelton call has been abandoned. Rxim Weflington she goes on Ito Auckland, leaving the latter port on 1 October 2 for Calcutta, for which port she 'is taking about 200 horses. The barque DrammenaesDen, -which had anchored in Carey's Bay on account of ■the high sea at the Heads, was towed I down by the Plneky this afternoon, and i proceeded on her voyage. I The Kittawa is dne at Port Chalmers flris evening from Oamarn. She will lay wp for a fortnight for her periodical overhaul.

The Port Stephens will leave on Thursday for Newcastle via Oamaru. The Union Company advise that the (British India Company's steamer Umballa, from Calcutta, is due at Lyttelton during file first week in October. From Lyttelton she will proceed to the Bluff. The New Zealand Shipping Company's new sieamer Orari will probably be ready for sea much earlier than was anticipated. She was to leaye London on December 4, •but, _ according to the latest time-table, she is to sail from Liverpool on October •13 for Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton,. and Dunedin.

" GtuMnHHung," or the smuggling of arms, is a highly lucrative trade for -vessels Ti they can get rid of their risky cargoes safety. A good deal of this illicit traffic has been going on lately up the Baltic; so much so that the Russian Ambassador at London has addressed a note to the Board of Trade, stating that, as Wie ordinary Customs vigilance is no longer sufficient to check the clandestine nnpoxtatkra of arms and explosives into Russian territory, the co-operation of the Rossian navy is to" be invoked, with the view to its suppression. This simply means that every vessel engaged in the 'Bailie trade is liable to be stopped and searched by Russian warships, and w3l be arrested in the event of arms or ammunition being found on board in any quantity. In the latter event any vessel so caught is. likely to fare very badly. The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamer Wahnate, from London, arrived off the Heads at 9 a.m. yesterday, and steamed into port, anchoring in Koputai Bay, and after the crew bad been inspected by Dr Bodge (Health Officer) she was admitted to pratique, and cleared in by Mr Bau anett (Customs surveyor). The Waimarte on the present voyage is in command of Captain E. T Smith, R.N.R., who brings with him the following officeis:—'Mr A. Bissett Smitk (chief), Mr M. Paramor (second), Mr D. Gordon Staples (third), and Mr J. C. Harper (fourth); midshipman,' R. Wright; surgeon, Dr Clark Webster; and chief engineer, Mr F. W. Wales. The Waimate brings 5,400 tons cargo for Dunedin and Lyttelton, loaded at, Glasgow, Liverpool, and London- Herdraught is 17ft 4in forward and 21ft lb aft.. She will steam up to Dunedin on this evening's tide. She has on

board five horses, four sheep, and two dogs, all of which, have arrived in excellent condition- The Waimate left London at noon on August 4, but was delayed in the English Channel by foggy weather; after clearing the Channel she had fine weather and light N.W. "winds up to the Equator, whieh was crossed on August 18 in longitude 9deg 30min W.; the S.E, trade was moderate, and the meridian of Greenwich was crossed on August 22; the vessel rounded the ■Cape of Good Hope on the morning of the 29th, and thence experienced a series, of S.W. gales and heavy eeas until reaching longitude lOOdeg E., when moderate winds set in, with fine weather; she passed the meridian of Cape Leeuwin on September 15, in latitude 48deg 30mm &, and the island of Tasmania on the 20th, in latitude 50deg S.; fine weather continued, and her first landfall (S.W. Cape) was ps«sed at 6 p-m. on the 23rd, and arrived as above. No-ice or -wreckage wa6 seen, and no casualties occurred.

The Tyser liter Mimiro, which arrived at Auckland from London and Australia on Wednesday last, had a very rough paasage across the Southern Ocean, meeting with one of the worst gales in the experience of Captain Lidstone and the officers of the steamer. For twenty-seven hours the powerful steamer was tiove-to in the gale, during which she labored and pitched violently, and vast quantities of water broke on board. The Mimiro. however, proved herself a splendid sea-boat, and came through the severe ordeal without damage. Leaving Sydney on Friday week, the steamer met with fine weather until approaching the New Zealand coast on Tuesday, when she fell in with a heavy easterly gale and.high sea, which prolonged her passage by nearly twelve hours. THE WILLESDEN. The steamer Willesden, under charter to the United States and Australian SJS. Company, from New York via way ports, arrived at Sydney on her maiden visit on Saturday morning, the 15th September. The Willesden left New York on July 7, and after an uneventful trip made a call at Albany on the Ist inst. to replenish her coal bunkers, thence proceeding direct to Melbourne, where a large quantity of general merchandise was discharged. From Sydney the vessel will come on to New Zealand ports with the balance of her cargo. The Willesden is a new steamship of the tramp class, having been built only last year by Armstrong, Whitworth, and Company, Limited, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, for the Britain S-S. Company, Limited, of London. She is a steel screw steamer of 4,881 tons gross, and is 400 ft in length, with a beam of 52ft. THE BARQUE MARY L. GUSHING. A private cable message has been received at Newcastle reporting the wreck of the American barque Mary L. Cushing at Mexico. The Mary L. Cushing was in Sydney in May last, and she left there for Newcastle and loaded with a full cargo of coal for Mazatlan, on the west coast of Mexico, clearing from Newcastle on June 27. The vesssel reached her destination after a passage of fifty-two days. It is understood that she had discharged her coal cargo when a heavy gale set in, during which she was driven ashore and become a total wreck. The Mary L. Cushing was a vessel of 1,570 tons, belonging to San Francisco. She was a wooden barque, and was built at Newburyport in 1883, her dimensions being :—Length, 220 ft 7in; beam, 40ft 4in: and depth, 25ft 7in. THE DEARTH OF OFFICERS. According to the Mercantile Marine Service Association, there are many qualified officers who are at present engaged, not in ploughing the seas at all, but in more or less subordinate capacities ashore. They like home comforts so well that the inducements which are offered them to follow the profession for which they have fitted themselves do not sufficiently appeal to them. We may not, as a nation, be losing our love of the sea, but we are getting a little more fond of ease, and perhaps also a little more businesslike. Thus ships' officers are asking whether, after all, the inconveniences of a sailor's life are sufficiently remunerated by the light of shore pay and shore comfort. Perhaps the worst feature is the dearth of junior officers. According to the Mercantile Marine Service Association, several vessels have had to sail from Liverpool of late without any jncdor officers at all, whilst in other cases owners have had to increase substantially the wages they have offered in order to attract a good class of men. Of course, if the supply of junior officers continues to diminish, it means in the end that shipowners will nave to face a very serious position, since men of tie higher grades will gradually become more and morescaroe. As events are at present tending, it looks as though the occupation of shipmaster or ship's officer will eventually be remunerated to a degree far in excess of anything like ruling rates. It is not surprising, in tie circumstances, that shipowners are giving attention to the training of British youths. The old poficyof leaving the supply of officers and men to provide itself is cleanly out of date,—Home exchange. THE CORNWALL. The Federal finer Cornwall, miming under the auspiees of the American and Australian fine, arrived at Sydney on the 15fli inst. from New York via Cape Town and Melbourne, Captain George T. Deith, who has charge of the vessel, reports that oDe exceptionally severe storm was encountered during the trip across from the Cape. It happened m Ist. 43deg S. and lon. 100 deg E., being probably tie same disturbance which necessitated the Tyser liner Mimiro being " hove to " for twenty-seven hours. The seas were very dangerous, and although large volumes of water swept her decks the Cornwall passed uninjured through the engagement. Fine weather prevailed on the run round from Melbourne. After discharging the Sydney portion of her cargo the Cornwall will come on to New Zealand.

(For continuation see Late Shipping.)