SHIPPING.

Evening Star, Issue 13102, 7 November 1908, Page 5

SHIPPING.

HIGH WATER. .; tO-MOBROW. .Taiaroa Head : 2.15 a.m., 2.36 p.m. vprt Chalmers : 2.55 a.m., 3.16 p.m. Duacdm ; 3.25 a.m., 3.46 p.m. ' MONDAY. Head : 2.57 a.m., 5.18 p.m. Port Chalmers : 3.37 a.m., 3.58 p.m. Dunedin -. 4.7 a.m., 4.28 p.m. THE SUN. . to-day, 7.2 p.m.; rise to-morrow, 4,40 a.m. THE MOON. Set to-day, 4.22 a.m. ; rise to-morrow, 6.31 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 7. Kazembe, s.s., 2,935 tons, Anderson, from New York via Australian and Northern ports. SAlLED.—November 7. Kotare, s.s., 79 tons, Treurn, for Invercargill. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. —Coastal.— from Auckland, November —lntercolonial. Victoria, from Sydney via Auckland, November 8. Warrimoo, from Melbourne, November Ift —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; duo in Dunedin November 14. Maori, from West of England ports, sailed September 5; due in Dunedin November 15. Glendevon, left New York September •' : 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 15. 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 Now York November 4. Cornwall, to leave Liverpool November Id: 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. Yirtoria, s.s., arrives to-morrow from Sydney via Auckland. The weather on the West Coast has moderated, and the Mapourika, Flora, and Canopus were able to get into Westport to-day. The Bucknall liner Kazembe, from New YorK via Australian and Northern ports, this rao,riin S> and having only 400 tons of cargo to discharge, she was c.\pected to sail this afternoon for Syd-

The Wellington ferry steamer Countess nns been sold to a Napier trawling com-p.-ny, the price being, it is reported, £3.400.

The steamer Y’eddo, which left San i’rancisco on September 23 for Auckland r,nd Sydney, has one of the biggest cargoes yet brought to this part of the world from San Francisco. It comprises a million feet of timber and 2,SCO tons of general merchandise.

Flora, s.s.,_ is expected to leave Wellington on Wednesday in the East Coast bays, Napier, and Gisborne service, in place of the Haupiri. ho great has been the demand for third class accommodation for outward bound New Zealand passengers that the Shaw, •Savill and Albion Company's steamers Arawa and Taiuni (sailing from London respectively on October 15 and November 12) were both fully booked early in September. The s.s. Mamari, to sail from London on December 2, which is due in Auckland on January 16, has been put on as an extra passenger steamer, as was done with the Karamca earlier in the season. Dredge 222 is to start work again on Tuesday in'the Victoria channel. . Fhe four big steamship companies—the "'haw, Savill and Albion Company, tie New Zealand Shipping Company, the New Zealand and African Company, and the Tyser Company—have agreed to assist the flax industry by continuing the present low rates of 45s per ton for the transport of hemp to England till the end of March. This low rate was "recently extended till December 31 (says the ‘New Zealand Times’), but a further concession has now been made by extending the period over the first three months of next year. The usual summer rate for is about 55s per ton. From the 16th inst. tow will be carried at the reduced rate of 60s per ton. HOW A LOG IS KEPT. How many landsmen know how a log book is written up? It seems just as complicated as double-entry bookkeeping when one does not know (says an exchange). but after a little careful attention and study it’s as easy to keep a log book as to eat hot gingerbread. There is a list of letters arranged, and they look as so much Greek to the uninitiated. The letter b, for instance, stands for blue sky, whether there bo clear or hazy atmosphere. c indicates cloudy or detached opening clouds, d denotes drizzling rain, a small f fog, a capital F thick "log, g gloomy dark weather, hj hail, 1 lightning, and m misty or hazy so as to interfere with the view. The letter o represents overcast, or when the whole sky j s covered with an impenetrable cloud Passing showers are noted by the letter p, and q indicates the weather to be squally. Continuous rain is indicated b . v an r ’ snow by an s, and thunder by at. An ugly, threatening appearance in the weather calls for the letter u and visibility of distant objects, whether the sky bo cloudy or not, is represented by the letter v. A small w is wet dew. A full point or dot under any letter denotes an extraordinary degree. As an example of how the letters are used, take q p d I t. This reads very hard squalls and showers or drizzle acompanied by lightning with very heavy thunder. Numerals denote the force of the wind. CERTIFICATES SUSPENDED. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. SIDNEY, November 6. The Court suspended the certificate of Captain Nichol, master of the wrecked barque Fifeshire, for twelve months, and that of Rowe, the chief officer, for six months. SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. WELLINGTON, November 6.—Maheno, for Sydney.—7 p.m., Victoria, for Lyttelton and Dunedin, with 150 passengers. LYTTELTON, November 6.—Ulimaroa, for Hobart and Melbourne via Southern ports. Passengers for Dunedin,: Misses Neil and Leslie, Mesdames Neil, Leslie, Robert and two children, Messrs De Beer, Goss, Kiver, Olliver, Taylor, Roberts, _ Steeds, and Coull. For Melbourne Miss Appleton, Messrs Hmchins, Bartram, and Lane. SYDNEY, November 6.—Westralia, from Auckland. —Eunice, from Havelock. The Eunice lost her foremast during heavy ■veather in the Tasman Sea.