SHIPPING.

Evening Star, Issue 14002, 8 March 1909, Page 6

SHIPPING.

HIGH WATER.

TO-MOBROW. Taiaroa Head: 4.23 ajn., 4.38 p.m. {fort Chalmers : 5.3 .-win., 5.48 p.m. Dunj edin : 5.33 a.m., 5.48 p,m. j THE SUN. Set to-day, 6.40 pjn.; Tise to-morrow, 5.59 a;m. THE MOON. Set to-day, 6.21 a.m.; rise to-morrow, 7.43 p.m. ! —Phases During March.— i March 15 Last quarter 2.12 p.m. i March 22 Now moan 7.41 a.m. ; March 29 First quarter 4.19 a.m. I • j ARRIVED.—March 7. : Mokoia, s.s., 3,502 tons, Smith, from . Sydney via Auckland. Passengers : Misses ■ Duff, Turton, Scott, Dormer, Clark, Waterhouse, NicbaUe, Odell, Asber, Sang- ' eter, Mesdames Rabbidge and boy, Willi ings and two children, Vesper, Mackenzie, ! Smith, Swaneon, Stone, Johnston, Elliott i and infant, Schroedo.r, Captain Rolls, Messrs Ranson, Turton, Paton, Young, Beighton, 8011, Cleal, Willings, Horn, Scott, Smith, Goss, Young, Pryde, John- ; ston, Greenbarn, Woodward, Grant, Wil- ■ Hams, Stone, Masters Mackenzie, Stone, Odell; eight steerage. Rakuira, s.s., 81 tons, Trcnrn, from Northern ports. luvercaTgill, s.s., 123 tons, Gillies, from Southern ports. March 8. Pukaki, K.S., 1,444 tons, Tate, from Westport direct. I SAILED.—March 7. : Maheno, t*s.s., 5.282 tons, Neville, for Melbourne via Bluff and Hobaat. Passengers : For tbe P.hrff—Miss Steel, Mr Maclean. For Hobart—Mr Ashbolt. Kor Melbourne : Misses Tarnbull (2). Schcrck, K.napman, Watson, ■ Callender. M'ElvogtKj, Dc Lautour, Buff. Snrith, Waterhouse, Thorpe, Finmore |2), Turton (2), Webb, Mesdames Mann ami four children and nurse, Tnrobull, Scherek, Taylor, Wise, Meek, Smith ■atul two children. .Schroder, Wells, Underwood, Gascoignc. Messrs J. S. Horsfall, Maim, Adam*. Perry. C. A. Mac Don aid and party. Turnhull. Scherek. Dobbev, Taylor, Wise, Do Lautour. Wells, Attrill. Bannister, Heydon, Cleal, Turton, Gunnerson, Orr. Docket, Scotland.,. Hunt, Underwood, Gascoigne, Dr A. J. Wilson, Dr N. Wilson. Fifcsbire, s.s., 8,500 tons, Crcmer, for Northern ports. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. —Coastal.— Waikare, from Auckland, March 11. —lntercolonial.— TaJune, from Melbourne, March 9. Warrimoo. from Sydney via Cook Strait, March 15. Wimmera, from Sydney via Auckland, March 14. - -Oversea, Sail.— Lady Wolseley, barque, sailed from Liverpool November 17. Lakemba, barque, from Liverpool; sailed February 23. —Oversea, Steam.— Delphic, left Liverpool December 51; due in Dunedin about March 20. Mashona, sailed from New York December 16; due in Dunedin March 19. Drayton Grange, sailed from LiverI pool January 9; due in Dunedin March 28. Rutherglen. sailed from New York January 6. Rakaia, left London February 4 for Dunedin ; due March 29. Kia Ora, left Liverpool February 20. Opawa, to sail from London April 4; due Dunedin May 22. Maori, 6ails from London early in March for Dunedin and Lyttelton; due in Dunedin April 25. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Mokoia, for Sydney via Auckland, March 9. Riverina, for Sydney via Cook Strait, March 10. Waikaxe, for Auckland, March 12. Warrimoo, for Melbourne, March 14. In port at noon to-day :—At Dunedin : Mokoia, Pukaki, Invercargfll, Rakiitra, Dorset (steam), Waratah (sail). At Port Chalmers : Atua, Warruna. Waipori, Tarawera, Moirra (steam). Magic (sail). Pukaki, s.s_, arrived at noon to-day from Westport direct. She sails for West Coast ports via Oa-maTU and Timaru on Thursday.

Kaitangata. s.s.. will load at Newcastle about the end of the month for the Bluff and Dtmedin. She sailed from Greymouth this morning with a cargo of timber for Adelaide and Svdney.

Evidence is not kicking to show that the training received by the boys on the Amoknra has proved of much value to the lads who have transferred to the mercantile marine on completion of their training term. Connnander Hooper, of the Amokara, has received word that a lad named J. Hannan (of Orepuki, Southland), who completed his training on the Amokara in September last, is now a quarter-master on the Federal-Houlder-Shire liner Rippingham Grange, now ootward-boimd from Home to Australia. Hatman is only seventeen years of age, and when he left the Amokura he joined the Rippingham Grange as an ordinary seaman.

The cargo steamer Hampstead, 3.457 tons, is reported to have been chartered at Sydney to load phosphates at Christmas Island for New Zealand. Advices of the same date also state that the barqtientine Jap has been fixed to load a cargo of coal for Wartgsnui, and the Handa Isle was to load coke at Sydney for Auckland. It is reported that an agreement has been entered into by direct steamship companies carrying on the trade from New York to Australasia, by which the rate on cargo has been increased bv 10s a ton for all vessels sailing after- the 7th February. The report, which is made by Messrs Strong and Trowbridge, adds :—" The White Star line have not joined in this agreement, so are quoting about 5 per cent, raider the direct rates. What action they will -take in the future is a little uncertain. The rates by direct steamers for the present sailings" are :—For Melbourne and Sydney, 25k per ton: for Ftcmarrtle, Adelaide, and Brisbane, 27s 6d per ton; for New Zealand ports, 30s per ton.

Wa-naka, s.s., passed through Grsborne yesterday, and is due in Auckland late this evening. She is expected to sail for Napier and Southern ports on Wednesday. IndTadcvi, s.s., from New York, hits 600 tons of cargo for Dnnedin. She is due about the 16th. She left New York on December 20. and dirring the first part of the voyage the weather was extremelv cold, the thermometer registering as low ;i-s 12deg. Melbourne \va« re.-whed on Febmary 13, and after discharging «nyo the Irwtradevi sailed on the 25th for Auckland, arriving there last Wednesdav. Fifeshire. s-s./sailed yesterday from Port CbalmcTs to complete her Homeward lotding at Waitara and other N'orthern port*. Mokoia, *.*., from Sydney via East Coast port*, arrived vesterdav mornin" She loft Sydney on Wednesday, February 24, and met with strong head" winds and heavy seas on the voyage to Auckland, wbere-srhe arrived last Mondav, and thereafter smooth seas and fine'weather till amval at Dnnedin. To-morrow afternoon Bhe leaves on the return trip. " MERE FLOATING COFFINS." The 1908 fishing Reason on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland has been the most disastrous in modern times, some fifteen vessels having been feet, with over 300 men on board. Last year nine of the French fleet vanished, with 237 persons. The cause of these tragedies is the failure of the owners of the French fishing vessels to maintain them in seaworthy contrition, they being in many cases mere floating coffins. The whole question of the methods surrounding this French fishery on the Newfoundland Banks is one tha't calls for drastic reform.

A FAMOUS CLTDESIDE YACHTING SKIPPER. The death has occurred at Marblehead, Maes., United States, of Captain John Barr, a famous yachting skipper of the old school. Born nearly seventy' years ago at Gonrock, John Barr in early life assited hie father, who was a boathirer and fisherman, and he was over thirty years of age before he became actively connected with yachting. As a young man, however, he was one of the finest open-boat sailors on the Clyde, and he was also an excellent builder of small craft. In 1887, when a Clyde syndicate built the Thistle to challenge for the America Cup, Barr was appointed skipper. The disappointment caused by the Thistle's performances gave Tise to ungenerous rumors, and the captain took them eo much to heart that on receiving a tempting offer to race in American waters he determined to settle down in the States. About .twelve years ago Captain Barr revisited England in command of the Herreshoff-'designod 20-rater Niagara, which has sailed with conspicuous success. The deceased skipper was the oldest brother ami tutor of Captain Charles Barr, skipper of the Columbia and Reliance, which defeated the Shamrocks in their American Cup races. THE DIRECT STEAMERS. AUCKLAND, March 6.-6 p.m., Otaki, for London via Monte Video and Rio. Passengers : Mts Thomas Mackenzie and Mrs Mark Cohen. SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. AUCKLAND, March 7.—Komata, from Westport.—l.3o p.m.. Victoria, from the South.—-Squall, for Gisborne. HOKIA.NGA HEADS, March 7. Amelia Sims, from the South. WELLINGTON, March 7.—Hippolas, barque, from Clarence River. SYDNEY, March 6—3.50 p.m.. WaTrimoo, for Wellington.—March 7 : Aldebaran, from Auckland.