SHIPPING.

Evening Star, Issue 12101, 6 November 1908, Page 6

SHIPPING.

HIGH > WATER. ; TQ-MOitKpW. Taiaroa Head :.-:,'1.34 a.m., 1.55 p.m. Port Chalmers : 6,14' a.m., 2.35 p.m. Dunedin : 2.44 a.m., ■ 3.5 p.m. THE SUN. Set to-day, 7.1 p.m.; rise to-morrow, 4.42, a.m. . , - , THE , MOON. Set to-day, 3.55 a.m.: rise to-morrow, 5.40 p.m. —Phases During November.— November 8 ■ Full moon 7.28 p.m. November 16 Last quarter 11.11 a.m. November 24 New moon 9.23 a.m. ARRlVED.—November (j. Corinna, s.s., 1,271 tons, Cameron, from Northern ports via Timaru. SAlLED.—November 6. Tarawera, s.s., 2,003 tons, Bernech, for Auckland via way ports. Passengers : For Lyttelton—Misses' Williden, Taylor, Sutton (2), Mesdames Ainge, Miller, Messrs Ainge, Miller, Strange, Brenchley, Conn, Haggiit, Ritchie, Sise, Rogerson, Ross, Grange, Blackmann, Low, M’Kenzie, Templer, Taylor, Gray, Watson. For Wellington—Mrs Dobson and infant, Captain Arthur. For Gisborne—Miss Gust. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. —Coastal.— Monowai, from Auckland, November 12. —lntercolonial. Ulimaroa, from Sydney via Cook Strait, November 7. Victoria, from Sydney via Auckland, November 8. Warrimoo, from Melbourne, November 10. —Oversea, Sail.— Gladys, left Liverpool August 8. —Oversea, Steam. — Kazembe, left New York August 13. Surrey, left Liverpool August 22; due in Dunedin November 5. Clan Matheson, left New York July 22; due in Dunedin November 14. Maori, from West of England ports, sailed September 5; due in Dunedin November 15. Glendevon, left New York September 3: due in Dunedin November 26. Devon, left Liverpool September 19; due in Dunedin December 11. left New York September Star of England, sailed from New York September 28; due in Dunedin December !5. Papanui, left London October 3, for Dunedin direct. Doldorch, left New York October 15; due in Dunedin first week in January. Morayshire, left Liverpool October 17; due in Dunedin about January 7. Star of New Zealand, left London October 23. Aberlour, to leave New York November 4. Cornwall, to leave Liverpool November 14; due in Dunedin February 5. Fifeshire, to leave Liverpool December 12; due in Dunedin March 5. Mashona, to sail from New York December 16. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Ulimaroa, for Melbourne, November 8. Victoria, for Sydney via East Coast, November 10. Warrimoo, for Sydney via Cook Strait, November 11. In port noon to-day :—At Dunedin : Tarawera, Taieri, Corinna, Rakiura, Kotare (steam). At Port Chalmers : Opawa, Kia Ora, Maitai, Taluue, Hauroto, Te Anau, Moura (steam). There is very bad weather on the West Coast. The Kamona, Pukaki, and Koonya, inside the bar at Greymouth, are unable to get out, and the Mapourika, outside, is unable to get in. The Flora and the Rakanoa are outside at Westport, and the Kini and the Canopus are due there to-day. Corinna, s.s., arrived this morning from the North. She sails for New Plymouth and Onehunga via way ports on Sunday. It is reported that the Taieri will leave about Wednesday for Newcastle direct. The steamer Waiwera reached Sydney on Saturday, October 24, after a thirty days’ voyage from Puget Sound. She had an uneventful passage,. j*nd ■\-bronght a' consignment of lumber, pprt' of which is to be discharged at Newcastle. V'.> Kaiapoi, s.s., which arrived at Sydney yesterday morning from Melbourne with timber from New Zealand, after discharging will load at Newcastle for the Bluff, Dunedin, and Oamaru. Wanaka,' s.s., arrived last night at Lyttelton, and was to sail at eleven o’clock to-day for the Bluff to load for the North, completing loading at Oamaru and Timaru. The auxiliary scow Advance, which has been engaged in the Kaipara trade for some years past, has been sold to Australian owners, and will probably sail from Kaipara for Sydney at the end of the present week. The Advance is a wooden vessel of 48 tons register, and is fitted with a 30 horse-power oil engine. She was built at Kaipara in 1903 by Mr W. Brown (says the ,(_New Zealand Herald’), and is of the following dimensions Length, 74ft 9in ; breadth, 20ft 9m: and depth, 4ft. The Colonial Sugar Refining Company, Ltd., has disposed of the steamer Fiona to Messrs Collins and C 6.', of Brisbane, and the vessel is now at the northern capital. The Fiona is a twin-screw steamer of 817 tons, and Tyas built at Glasgow in 1883. Her principal dimensions are Length, 211 ft lin; breadth, 30ft 2in; depth, 15ft 4in. The price paid for the vessel is not disclosed, and it is thought that in future employment will be found for her in the trade between Brisbane and North Coast ports. It was stated in a cable this week that the Colonial Sugar Refining Company are replacthe Fiona by a much larger steamer, which, it is said, has been secured and is waiting the arrival of Captain Barnes, of the Fiona, at England t6 commence the voyage to Sydney. ’( BRITISH-BORN SEAMEN. A problem which comes regularly to the front, and as regularly recedes into the back ground, concerns the dearth, of Bri-tish-born seamen in the mercantile marine (says a Home paper). Some little time back a departmental committee of the Board of Trade reported in favor of grants to training-ships, in the hope of assisting the supply of British boy sailors. Northing, however, has been done, and, apparently, nothing is likely to be done. Meantime the statistics respecting the seamen in the mercantile marine seem hardly to suggest extreme, urgency, since they show a large preponderance'of Britishers, and a fractional decrease;* if anything, in the proportion of aliens. This, no doubt, is met by the allegation that the returns are misleading, in the sense that they do not disclose the real-weakness of the position,' and that the proportion of foreigners in many of the tramps which bring our food supplies •is alarmingly great. The risk which might ensue in the event of war is sometimes met by the retort that wo couM ky the ships up. Part of the difficulty is doubtless attributable to the fact that in these days the standard of comfort ashore is greater than that which obtains at sea. THE DIRECT STEAMERS. WELLINGTON, November 5. Athenic, for London. SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. AUCKLAND, November s.—Squall, from Gisborne.—l a.m.,; Monowai, from the South.—Maori and Orari, for the South. LYTTELTON, November s.—Wanaka, from Auckland.—Kazembe, for Dunedin. TIMARU, November's.—9.3o p.m., Corinna, for Dunedin. OAMARU, November 5. —9 p.m., Kotuku, from Port Chalmers. SUVA, November s.—Navua, from Auckland. BLUFF, November 6.—Paparoa, from Timaru. ;; . {For continuation see £ate Shipping.)