SHIPPING.

Evening Star, Issue 13031, 15 August 1908, Page 5

SHIPPING.

HIGH WATER. ■ TO-MORROW. Taiaroa. Head: 6.7 a.m., 6.29 p.m. Port Chalmers: 6.47 a.m., 7.9 p.m. Dnnedin : 7.17 a.m., 7.39 p.m. ItONDAT. Taiaroa Head: 7.1 a.m., 7.24 p.m. Port Chalmers : 7.41 a.m., 8.4 p.m. Dunedin : 8.11 a.m., 8.34 p.m. THE SUN. Set to-day, 5.12 p.m.; rise tomorrow, 7.10 a.m. THE MOON. .. J??? to-day, 9.10 a.m.; rise to-morrow, 10.23 p.m. —Phases During August.— August 19 Last quarter 856 a.m. August 27 New moon 10.29 a.m. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. —Coastal.— Monowai, from Auckland, August 20. —lntercolonial.— Victoria, from Sydney via Auckland, August 16. Talune, from Melbourne, August 19. —Ovreea, Sail.—

Marjory Glen, left Liverpool May 9. Gladys, left Liverpool July 25. —Oversea, Steam.— Janeta, left New York May 29: due August 11. Norfolk, due August 20. Aotea, due August 28. Jeanara. left New York June 16; due wptember 8. Oswestry Grange, left Liverpool June 27; due about September 11. Cevic, left London June 20; clue Sep tember 13. Indralema, left New York Julv 4; due September 22. Hawkes Bay. left Liverpool Julv 15: due September 22. __ Briez Huel, left New York July 1; due September 24. Clan Matheson, left New York July 22. Star of Scotland, to leave New York August 15; due October 30. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Maitai, for Melbourne, August 16. Victoria, for Svdnev v i;v Auckland, August 18. Moeraki, for Sydney via C-ook Strait, August 19. Monowai, for Auckland, August 21. Maitai, s.s., is expected to arrive about five or six o'clock this evening from Sydney via Cook Strait. She sails to-morrow for Melbourne from Port Chalmers. Norfolk, s.s., from West of England ports, is due here on Tuesday or Wednesday. She has 1.200 tons of cargo to discharge, and will remain here for about ten days. Waipori, s.s., is to sail to-morrow for the West Coast via way ports. v Wairuna, s.s., is due* at Port Chalmers to-morrow, and at Dunedin on Tuesday. After discharging she goes to Newcastle to load for Southern ports. Fifeshire, s.s.. was to leave the Bluff to-day for Lyttelton. She then goes to Waitara and Wellington, sailing from the Dominion on August 29. During the stay of the American Fleet at Honolulu a visit was paid to Pearl Harbor for the improvement and fortification of which the United States Government has authorised the expenditure of over a million pounds. The port will probably become a very important coaling depot. The improvements to the harbor include the opening up of a thoroughly safe entrance. The harbor itself is some twenty or thirty square miles in extent, and" two-thirds of this area has an average depth of from 30ft to 50ft. Kotare, g.s., sailed yesterday for Oamaru and Timani. Victoria, s.s, is due to-morrow morning hom Sydney via East Coast port?. All efforts to float the barque Polly, timber laden for Australian ports, which grounded below the railway wharf at Wliangarei a week ago, have failed. The case is now regarded as hopeless, as the vessel is lying on her side with 7ft of water in the holds. Her back is apparently broken. Oswestry Grange, s.s., on her way out from England, is due here about the middle of next month. The Rippingham Grange is due a month later. Kaitangata, s.s., leaves Sydney to-night for Newcastle, and proceeds thence to Hobart, Bluff, Dunedin, Lyttelton, and Wellincton,

Talune, s.s., due from Melbourne on the 19th, goes on to Wellineton, returns to Dunedin direct, and then takes up the Moana's run as far as Auckland, and tranships to the Mokoia, returning to Dunedin via usual ports.

Jeanara, s.s., of the A. and A. Line, bringing cargo from New York, is expected to reach Dunedin about the end of the month.

As is usual at this time of the year the smaller harbors in Cook Strait have been frequently unworkable. Owing to the West-port Coal Company's collier Retrulus and the Canterbury Steamship Company's steamer Storm being stuck in the Wanganui River, shinning was blocked for two days. The small steamer Tainui was stuck on the mud at Havelock for forty-eight hours. It is urged that the local authorities of the smaller ports should take more definite action to keep the channels clec-vr.

Mamari, s.s., now at Wellington, is expected to sail from Lyttelton on the 27th of this month, arriving at Port Chalmers on Friday, the 28th. She sails from hero for Timaru on the 29th, then on to Lvttelton and Wellington, which she leaves for Home on September 10.

What will be the largest vessel sailing under the Belgian flag was launched by Messrs Harland and Wolff at Belfast oh the 27th June for the Red Star Line. She is over 620 ft long, by 70ft beam, and 50ft deep. Her tonnage will be about 18.000, and displacement about 30000 tons. She has been named the Lapland, and is designed to carry a large quantity of cargo and a large number of passengers—first, second, and third class—for all of whom accommodation on the most approved principles will be provided: in fact.- the new vessel in every respect will renresont the highest excellence of the shipbuilder's art. She has nine decks and ten water-ti?ht bulkheads, also a centreline bulkhead in the carco holds and 'tween decks. There are six carsro holds, and the bunkers are arranged so'-that the vessel can be completed coaled from either side. The cargo derricks are of the tubular type, and the other appliances for working ship and cargo are also of the latest pattern. The first class saloon will seat 320. The total number of parsen--,'ers and crew provided for will be nearlv 3.000. J

It is stated that Italy is taking the lead in building- sea-going steamships with hnlls made of concrete. The material was first used in 1855, when a small boat was exhibited at the Paris Exhibition by a Frenchman named Lambot, but it was not until 1896 that the matter was taken up again, and then an Italian named Gabellini constructed several concrete vessel? of about 120 tons, some of which are still in use on Italian rivers. Some years later the Italian Government ordered an experimental boat built of concrete, and as the result of tests several other similar vessels of about- 120 tons have been built for the Italian Government. The frames and lonsntudinal beams are made of concrete reinforced with round bars of iron, and the skip consists of a single or double layer of concrete stiffened with wire Dotting, and made perfectly smooth and watertight by an external cost of pure lament. The boats cost almost nothing for maintenance, are fireproof, and cost ibont half as much as iron vessels of the same capacity. An Italian engineer

Signar dAdda, has also submitted proposals to the Italian Government for the use of conorete armor/ on warships, and a series of trials to testHhe resisting power of reinforced concrete is to be made. A discovery which promises to revolutionise the building and decorating trades and to be of vast importance to the shipping industry has recently been made. It is a liquid, the principle of which (after tests extending over many months) has been pronounced by leading engineers to be an old Roman secret which has been lost to the world for 700 years. When painted with this liquid the dampest room becomes absolutely dry, and freshly plastered walls in new houses, after treatment by it, may at once be papered without damage to the paper. No ironwork painted with it can rust, and it completely prevents "weening" of the inner skins of iron ships which cause so much damage to carro. When applied to the bottom plates of ships it not only prevents i oxidation, but .allows no marine growth, barnacles, or other parasites to attach themselves. It consequently preserves a glass-like surface, which the dircoverer confidently asserts will add several knots to the speed of Atlantic liners and warships. THE HAWEAT The Koromiko, which left Newcastle on Thursday. Las been instructed to deviate between Lord Howe Tsland and the mainland and to the northward of Lord Howe Tsland. She will then go on to Auckland, keeping a look-out if the Hawea has not then been found. The Wimmera, which arrived at Sydney yesterday afternoon, passed Lord Howe Island on Thursday morning, but saw nothing of the missing steamer. CAPTAIN AND OFFICER SUSPENDED. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. SYDNEY, August 14. The certificates of Captain Murchie and Air Mills (second officer), of the Mareeba, have been suspended for twelve months. SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. AUCKLAND, August 14.—Culgoa, U.S. store ship, for Brisbane. KAIPARA, August 14.—Kaiapoi, for Melbourne. JVVELLINGTOiV. August 14.—6.45 p.m., Ulimaroa, for Svdnev. LYTTELTON, Aiipust 14.—Kini and Petone, from Greymonth.—Rinple, for Oamaru, Timaru, Napier, and Gisborne. BLUFF, August 14.—Tndradovi, for Wellington. NEWCASTLE, August 14.—Yeddo. for Auckland. SUVA, August 14.—The steamer Suva arrived to-day, three days overdue. She had been delayed by the storm.

(For eoDtinuation see Late Shipping.)