SHIPPING.

Evening Star, Issue 13032, 17 August 1908, Page 6

SHIPPING.

HIGH WATER. TO-MOBMW. Tarawa Head: 7.56 amu* aiß.p.m. Port Chalmers; 8.36 a.m.,8.58. p-m. Dunedin ; 9.6 a.au, 9.28 p jnu THE, SUN. Set to-day, 5.15 p-m.; rise to-morrow, 7.7 ajn, THE MOON? Set to-day, 9.59 a.m. —Phases During August.— August 19 Last quarter 8.56 a.m. August 27 New moon 10.29 a.m. TELEGRAPHIC WEATHER REPORTS. The .following weather reports were received from New Zealand stations this morning:— Cape Maria Van Diemen. —Wind, N-, fresh breeze : bar., 30.00; ther., 58; rain, misty; tide good, sea moderate. Auckland.—Wind, N.E., fresh breeze; bar., 30.13; ther., 58; overcast; tide good. Gisborne.—Wind, W., light; bar., 30.15; ther., 52; blue sky; tide good, sea smooth. Napier.—Wind, N.E., fresh breeze; bar., 30.08; ther., 52; bine sky, donds; sea smooth.

Wanganui.—W ind, N.N.W., fresh breeze; bar., 30.00; ther., 54; blue sky, cloads; tide moderate, bar smooth. N., light; bar., 29.99; ther., 52; overcast. Nelson.—Wind, S.W.,light; bar.,30.01; ther., 49; overcast, rain; tide good. —Wind, N., moderate gale; bar., 29.86; ther., 56; overcast, rain; tide moderate, bar considerable. Bealey.—Wind, N.W., light; bar., 29.92; ther., 40; overcast, rain; river low Lyttelton.—Wind, N.E., light;’ bar., 29.86; ther., 51; overcast; tide moderate. Christchurch.—Wind, N.E., light breeze; bar., 29.99; ther., 48; overcast Timaru.—Wind, N.W., light breeze; bar., 29.85; ther., 44; overcast; tide moderate, sea smooth. Camara.—Wind, W., light; bar., 29.85; tF’’ 44; gloomy; tide good, sea smooth. Port Chalmers.—Wind, N.E., slight breeze; bar., 29.78; ther., 42; glcomv; tide good, sea smooth. Dunedin.—Wind, N.E., light; bar., 29-83; ther., 49; cloudy; tide good. Clyde.—Calm; bar., 29.93; ther., 41; overcast, drizzling rain; -river steady. Queenstown.—Wind, N., light; bar., 29.69; tber., 43; rain. Balclntha.—Calm; bar., 29.77; ther., 35; blue sky, clouds; tide good, river low. Nuggets.—Calm; bar., 29.66; ther., 40; cloudy; tide moderate, sea smooth. Invercargill.—Calm; bar., 29.82; ther., 47; blue sky, clouds. Bluff.—Calm; bar.. 29.76; ther., 45; blue sky, clouds; tide moderate, sea smooth.

ARRIVED.—August 15. Maitai, s.s., 3,393 tons, Hatchings, from Sydney via Cook Strait. Passengers : Intercolonial—Mr Helmore; five steerage. Coastal—Misses M'Callum, Shand, Waters, and Siedeberg, Messrs Lake, Butler, Renter, Burrows, thirty-four members BeattyMTntosh Company, Captain M’CaJlum; nine steerage. August 16. Victoria, s.s., 2,969 tons, Entwistle, from Sydney via Auckland. Passengers : Mesdames Pyke, Cutter, Misses Scoble, Campbell, L. Collie, Izard (2). Messrs Saxby, Pyke, Bowness, Simon, Graham, Breyner, Wearn, Hartman, Davis; eight steerage. ~ Kotare, s.s., 79 tons. Woebling, from Oamaru. Invercargill, s.s., 125 tons, Gillies, form Southern ports. Wairnna, s.s., 5,947 tons, Robinson, from Newcastle via Lyttelton. August 17. Magic, anx. scow, 58 tons, M'Lellan, from Tautuku. SAlLED.—August 16. Maitai, s.s., 5,393 tons, Hutchings, for Melbourne via the Bluff and Hobart. Passengers : For the Bluff—Messrs Bush, King. For Hobart—Messrs Tilly, Verne, Myers. For Melbourne—Messrs Tilly, Sherlaw. ’ Waipori, s.s., 1,919 tons, Tate, for West Coast. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. —Coastal.— Monowai, from Auckland, August 20. —lntercolonial. Talune, from Melbourne, August 19. Warrimoo, from Sydney via Welling, ton, August 22. Moana, from Sydney via Auckland, August 23. —Oversea, 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 September 8. Oswestry Grange, left Liverpool Jane 27; due about September 11. Cevic, left London June 20; due September 13. Indralema, left New York July 4; due September 22. Hawke’s Bay, left Liverpool July 15; due September 22. Briez Hnel, 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. Victoria, for Sydney via Auckland, August 18.

Moeraki, for Sydney via Cook Strait, August 19. Monowai, for Auckland, August 2L Warrimoo, for Melbourne, August 23.

Victoria, s.s., from Sydney via East Coast ports, arrived yesterday morning. Sydney was left on August 5, Auckland being reached on Sunday. She sailed again on Tuesday, and called at the usual porta, fine weather being experienced throughout. The Victoria sails to-morrow from Port after the arrival of the 2.30 train.

Waipon, s.s., sailed yesterday for West Coast ports. The White Star Hner Cevic, which arrived at Melbourne on the 6th inst., hound from Liverpool for New Zealand and Australian ports, was laden with 10,000 tons of cargo, and was drawing 26ft 9in of water. Whereupon, states the ‘Argus,’ it was recognised that there would be a difficulty in getting her up the river until this excessive draught was reduced. As the vessel travelled over 11,000 miles without stopping at any port to replenish bankers, she consumed a large quantity of fuel, otherwise her draught upon arrival would, no doubt, have been 3ft or 4ft greater than it was. Like all the vessels of the White Star Line, the Cevic is equipped with twin-screws, and she is on her first visit to Australasia. Her iength is 500 ft, about 25ft longer than the longest steamer that has ever been taken up the river. Her voyage occupied forty-six days, and was made in fine weather throughout. The Cevic was built fourteen years ago, and carries no passengers. She is a remarkably handsome-looking ship, and steams at the rate of 14 knots an hour when required. Captain C. E. Starck, who has charge, was formerly in Melbourne fifteen years ago as an officer of the old Blue Anchor linor Bungaree. The Cevic is due hero about the middle of next month.

Maifai, s.s., arrived at five o’clock on Saturday afternoon from Sydney via Cook Strait. She loft Sydney on the Bth, and had strong head winds and heavy seas to contend with until passing Farewell Spit,

when the weather improved, and remained fine till her arrival at Dunedin. The Maitai sailed from Port Chalmers yesterday afternoon for Melbourne. Magic, aux. scow, arrived at Dunedin this morning from Tantuku, timber laden; She left Tantuku on Friday afternoon at l ar t oc^oc k> and had a strong bead wind all the way. It ia expected that she will get away by Wednesday on the/return tnp. Kaitmm, as., is due at Lyttelton today. She will go to Westport after discharging, and load for Dunedin, and on amval here will withdraw for survey. Moeraki, s.s., is due from Port Chalmers to-morrow, and will go into commission again on Wednesday, leaving for Sydney via Cook Strait. Dorset, s.s., will sail on Thursday for Riverton and Invercargill. Wairuna, s.s., arrived at Port ChalP 1 ?® 5 yesterday from Newcastle via Lyttelton. She will probably come no to town to-morrow, and after discharging will return to Newcastle. Wartemata, s.s., which is due at Auckland to-night, will dock there after discharge, and then proceed to Newcastle to load for Wellington and Southern ports, Kotare, s.s., soils for the South tomorrow evening. Talune, s.s., is expected to arrive from Melbourne via the Bluff and Hobart tomorrow or Wednesday. She will proceed as far as Wellington, and then return to Dunedin, to take up the Auckland service again. Renfield, barque, is to sail to-morrow morning for Newcastle, where she will load coal. Invercargill, s.s., sails to-morrow for Southern ports. Koonya. s.s., is due on Wednesday from the West Coast via the Bluff. The British Board of Trade have issued a circular in connection with the standard of efficiency required in the examination for extra masters’ certificates after July l, 1908. The circular states that the candidates must be capable of sending and reading semaphore signals at the rate of five words per minute and Morse flashing or flag-waving at six words per minute. The candidate must obtain a degree of accuracy of at least 90 per cent, in reading. The semaphore test will be a prose message of thirty -words, and the Morse test will be a special message, followed by a prose message of thirty words. Until a short time ago British ships were not allowed to trade between the United States and the Philippine Islands. According to a despatch received by the Governor-General from the Secretary of State for the Colonies (Lord Crewe), the prohibition has now been withdrawn. The despatch states that a communication has been received from the British Ambassador in Washington reporting that a Bill had been passed by Congress permitting foreign vessels to engage in trade between the United States and the Philippines. There exists also a similar prohibition against trading between Hawaii and the United States. This is one of the principal reasons why the Sydney to Vancouver steamers do not call at San Francisco. The Governor-General’s despatch states that a Bill has been introduced into Congress to permit this trade also. The second Bill had not been passed at the time of the British Ambassador’s report. Mr Lewis Nixon, the well-known American shipbuilder, told an interviewer that

in the development of the gas engine the United States was far ahead of the foreigner in every particular. Wonderful .achievements with kerosene engines were, he admitted, recorded in European newspapers, but on looking into the matter he found that the line of development followed was exactly that which had been tried in America and abandoned. Mr Nixon believes in the practicability of the gas-driven battleship. Some time ago. he designed one propelled by triple screws with twelve cylinders, 30in by 30in, on each shaft. The horse-power was 50,000. A second set of four-cylinder motors of 80-100 h.p. is almost completed for the Admiralty by Messrs Vosper and Co., Ltd., Portsmouth. These motors are to nse oil, with a flash point of 230deg to 300deg Fahr., and, judging bv the satisfactory _ running of the first set, all the difficulties that were naturally to he expected have been overcome. The second set is for an Admiralty barge, which is also being constructed by Messrs Vosper, NEW TYPE OF GAS OR OIL ENGINE. A correspondent writing to a Homo paper gives some particulars of an invention of Mr Henning, which is said to lessen greatly the cost of propulsion, and also to less space than the old type of oil engine. “ The construction is quite now, and _ can be applied to gas, oil, or petrol engines, while by comparison with some of the existing types of engine great advantages are shown. Thus? a 200 horse-power gas engine will weigh about three tons, as against forty tons for the old type, with a proportionate saving in space occupied, while the cost per h.p. is £4 as against £6. The engine is reversible, and whereas the revolutions of the old type are about 160 per minute, those .of the new run to over 1,000 I am informed that a torpedo boat for the German Navy has been furnished with the new engine by a German shipbuilding company, which has acquired the Russian and German patents.” THE DIRECT STEAMERS. AUCKLAND, August 16.—2 a.m., Marere, from London via Sydney. SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. AUCKLAND, August 15.—Komata, from Westport.—Monowai and Pnkaki, for the South.—Glacier, Panther, and Relief, for Sydney.—Rutherglen and Magdaia, for Newcastle.—August 16: Yankton and Ajax, for Sydney. OAMARU, August 16.—3.15 p.m., Waipori, from Port Chalmers. BLUFF, August 15.—Fifeshire, for Lyttelton.—August 16 : 11.15 a.m., Tokomaru, from Wellington. SYDNEY, August 15.—Whangape, Daniel, and Empreza, from New Zealand. —2.30 p.m., Warrimoo, for Wellington. °

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