SHIPPING.

Evening Star, Issue 14037, 19 April 1909, Page 6

SHIPPING.

♦ HIGH WATER. TO-MORBOW. Taiaroa Head : 2.34 a.m., 2.55 p.m. ;'ort Chalmers : 3.14 a.m., 3.35 p.m. Dunidin : 3.44 a.m., 4.5 p.m. THE SUN. _ Set to-day, 5.21 p.m.; rise to-rnorraw, 5.54 a.m. THE MOON. Set to-day, 5.21 p.m.; rise to-morrow, i.19 a.m. —Phases Daring April.— April 20 New moon 4.21 p.m. April 27 First quarter 8.6 p.m. ARRIVED.—ApriI 17. Invercargill, s.s., 123 tons, Gillies, from Invercargill. April 18. Kia Ora, 6.6., 6,800 tons, Chudley, from Liverpool via Northern ports. Maheno, t.s.s., 5,282 tons, Livingstone, from Sydney via Auckland. Passengers : Misses Beet, Lawrence, Wilkinson, Barkley, Culverwell, Mesdames Nugent, Culverwell, Messrs Nugent, EssenhaTdt (2), M'Gregor, Doughty, Wash, Lawrence, Crosbie, Stillwell (2), Wilberfa,ss, Barkley, Hopkins, Scales, Myers ; twentv-one steerage. April 19. Storm, s.s., 186 tons, Wood, from Wanganni. Magic, aux. scow, 58 tons, Woebling, fTom Tautuku. Whakarua, s.s., 6,440 tons, Felgate, from New York via Northern ports. SAILED.—ApriI 17. Manapouri, s.s., 2,060 tons. Dawson, for Rarotonga and Tahiti via Wellington. April 18. Warrimoo, s.s., 3,529 tons, Rolls, for Melbourne via Bluff and Hobart. April 19. Dalston, barque, 1,097 tons, Bie. for Newcastle. EXPECrED ARRIVALS. —Coastal.— Waikare, from Auckland, April 22. —lntercolonial. Moeraki, from Melbourne, April 20. Manuka, from Sydney via Cook Strait, April 24. Victoria, from Sydney via Auckland, April 25. —Oversea, Sail.— Hermes, barque, from Marseilles; sailed December 31; due at Dunedin end of April. Lakemba, barque, from Liverpool; sailed February 23. —Oversea, Steam.— Langton Grange, left Liverpool February 6; due in Dunedin April 25. Maori, sailed from London early in March for Dunedin and Lyttelton; due in Dunedin April 25. Kia Ora, left Liverpool February 20; due in Dunedin April 27. Waiwera, left London March 11 for Dunedin direct; due April 28. Wimbledon, left New York February 21: due in Dunedin May 18. Orari, sailed from London April 11 for Dunedin: due May 22. Nairnshire, left Liverpool March 6; due in Dunedin May 23. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Maheno, for Svdney via Auckland, April 20. Moeraki, for Sydney via Cook Strait, April 21. Waikare, for Auckland, April 23. Manuka, for Melbourne, April 25. In port at noon to day : —At Dunedin : Kia Ora, Maheno, Thyra, Koonya, Storm, Rakiura, Dorset (steam). Lady" Wokeley, Isabella De Frame, Waratah "(sail). At Port Chalmers : Talune, Pukaki, Tarawera, Moura- (steam). At the Heads : Whakarua. Moeraki, s.s., from Melbourne, arrived at the Bluff at half-past six this morning. She is due at Port to-morrow morning, and at Dunedin in the afternoon. While waiting at Port for the tide she will discharge sixty-five tons of bark for the Sawyers Bay tannery. Koonya, 6.5., sails to-morrow for the West Coast. Maheno, t.s.s., from Sydney via Auckland, arrived yesterday, having experienced fine weather throughout. Tomorrow she will sail from Dunedin for Sydney by the same route. After landing stores at Godley Head the Government steamer Hinem'oa will proceed to Akaroa. Timaru, and southwards. She will not call'at the outlying islands on this tour, but wil merelv make the tour of the coastal lights, returning to Wellington by the West Coast. Mr M'Gahey, late lightkeeper at FaTewell Spit, is a passenger, having been transferred to the Jack's Point lighthouse, Timaru. Commander Blunt, of the New Zealand drill ship Pioneer, writing from Sydney under date of April 10. has notified Cap*-ta-m G. G. Smith, Royal Naval Registrar, at Wellington, that the Pioneer will arrive at Auckland from Sydney during the first week in May. All naval reserviste who arc dne for drill from the Auckland district are to be readv for their drill, commencing on Monday," May 11. A report has been received by Mr G. Allport. secretary of the Marine Department, from the Collector of Customs at Christchurch concerning the exciting incident at Akaroa last Monday, when, it was reported, while the small steamer Cygnet was proceeding from the wharf to the Mararoa with 600 passengers on board, she began to roll in an alarming manneT. The report states that an is usual two Customs officers proceeded by the Mararoa to Akaroa to count the people as they boarded the Cvgnet, which acted as tendeT. The crowd rushed the Cytrnet. and her captain considered it advisable, tmdeT the circumstances, to take the people to the Mararoa. According to the report the Customs officers cautioned the master of the Cvimet that his vossel was overloaded. "it is believed that the trouble was occasioned bv the absence of a barrier on the wharf to regulate the passenger traffic. The department has the whole matter under consideration, and if a breach of the regulations has occurred action will be taken against the person responsible. Under the reciprocal treatv between ye\v Zealand and South Africa in regard to Customs duties, a decreased duty to the extent of 3 per cent, is pavable on certain New Zealand produce exported to ..outh Africa, a similar concession being allowed in regard to South African produce imported into the Dominion TV general exemption was formerly gazetted at 25 peT cent-, and a notice of' correction is now published. Mr James Thorn says that the conditions of work on the Wellington wharves are " absolutely deadly." After 8.30 o'clock in the ' morning, when hands are engaged, between 400\and 500 men sat about waiting for a chance to wota. As soon as a shipping company's agent comes there is a " beastlv rush." vnd the men flock round him in hundreds. Ten or twelve might be engaged, and all .he others display deep disappointment. Mr Thorn says that owing to the fact that one company will not engage men employed by another company, out of 1,800 men who attend only 1.4C0 are employed, and there are always practically 400' out of work. With proper organisation the work could be done by a.bont 1.000 men. A \ypical case on the Wellington wharves is that of a man who, during the past three weeks, has earned 255. 275, and 32s mostly by night work. He pays 16s a week rent, and has a wife and three children. TheTe are hundreds of other men on the wharves in much the same position. The Mashona is the third large steamer to load sleepers in Tasmania this yeair— King Robert for Snakim, Scottish Monarch for Whampoa, Mashone for the Yangtee River—besides the pile ship Ganges, recently despatched for Hull, and the'Glimt, row loading for Amsterdam. The Mafhona will load about 75,000 sleepers igainst the King Robert's 70.0T0, and the •ecord caTgo per Scottish Monarch" of J4,000. Further cargoes are booked, and the first is due for shipment in June-July m iaoblwr 75,000 sleepers. ,

INTERNATIONAL CO-OPERATION. ' On paper the proposed International Union of Shipowners appears to be making a certain amount of progress. In reality it hangs fire. Owners both, at Home and abroad are found willing to assent to the principle of international co-operation, but few of them are ready to make the sacri-; ficee whioh it requires. Scandinavian owners, for instance, when recently ap-: preached, took the line that they have already laid up a proportion of their tonnage far in excess of that kept off the market by British owners. The latter, they suggest-, should put their own house in. order. But the international difficulty is a small one compared with the domestic differences among British owners. Those of them who have modern boats are unable to see why they should lay them up to oblige those who are the possessors of older types, fit for the. scrap heap. No doubt opinion is pretty unanimous that the fewer new cargo steamers ordered just now the better it will be for everybody. But the individual shipowner, while holding that the giving out of orders by other people is most reprehensible, is firmly convinced that hi 6 own case demands complete liberty of action.—London ' Telegraph. TALUNE, FOR RAROTONGA. Manapouri, s,s., will not make the run to the Eastern Pacific this time. Her place will be taken by the Talnne, which is to leave Port this evening for Wellington. SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. AUCKLAND, April 17. Hampstead, for the Bluff.—April 18 : 8.45 a.m., Wimmera, from the South.-—Jessie Craig, barque, from Newcastle. LYTTELTON, April 18.—1 p.m., Wanaka, from Wellington.—Storm, for Port Chalmers.—9 a.m., Whakarua, for Port Chalmers. SYDNEY, April 18.—Yeddo, from Auckland.—3 p.m., yesterday, Manuka, for Wellington. NEWCASTLE, April 18.—Ennerdale, for Wellington. HOBART, April 18.—Mashona, from Dunedin. (For continuation see Late Shipping.)