SHIPPING.

Evening Star, Issue 14054, 8 May 1909, Page 5

SHIPPING.

HIGH WATER. TO-MORROW, Taiaroa Head : 5.23 a.m., 5.42 p.m. Fort Chalmers : 6.3 a.m., 6.22 p.m. Dunedin: 6.33 a.m., 6.52 p.m. MONDAY. Taiaroa Head : 5.12 a.m., 6.35 p.m. Port Chalmers : 6.52 a.m., 7.13 p.m. Dunedin : 7.22 a.m., 7.43 p.m. THE SUN. ' Set to-day, 4.50 p.m.; rise to-morrow, 7.19 a.m. , * THE MOON. Set to-dav, 9.35 a.m.; rise to-morrow, 7.21 p.m. —Phases During May.— May 13 Laet quarter 9.15 a.m. May 20 New moon 1.12 a.m. May 27 First quarter 0.58 p.m. ARRIVED.—May 8. Storm, s.s., 186 tons. Wood, from Wanganui via Picton, Lyttelton, and Timaru. Moeraki, t.s.s., 4,392 tone, Livingstone, from Sydney via Cook Strait. Passengers ; Misses Wilson, Challie, Landels, TnrrelU Bell. Nurses Preudergast, Norman, Knowles. Wishart, Mesdames Mawson and child, Walton, Cutter, Messrs Millar, Mawson, Bailey, Bullock, Cuthbert. Mackay, Smith, "Lange, Glenister, Cutter. B'sire, Pyke, Samson, Stevens, Mawson. Dr Tnnes; twenty steerage. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. —Coastal.— Monowai, from Auckland, May 15. —lntarcoloni al. Wimmera, from Svdney via Auckland, May 9. Manuka, from Melbourne, May 11. Moana, from Sydney via Cook Strait, May 15. " —Oversea, Sail. — Lakemba, barque, from Liverpool; failed February 23. —Oversea, Steam.— Wimbledon, left New York February 21; due in Dunedin May 18. . Nairnshire, left Liverpool March 6; due in Dunedin May 23. Orari, sailed from London April 11 for Dnnedin ; due May 29. . Aparima, left Calcutta April 16; due in Dunedin towards end of May. Aotea, left London March 20; due in Dunedin second week in June. Morayshire, left Liverpool April 24; due in Dunedin July 12. . Bantu, to leave New York May 15; due m Dunedin July 19. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Moeraki, for Melbourne, May 9. Wimmera, for Sydney via Auckland, May 11. Manuka, for Svdnev via Cook Strait, May 12. Monowai, for Auckland, May 14. In port at noon to-day :—At Dunedin : Moeraki, Corinna, Rakiura, Dorset (steam). Lady Wolseley. Hermes, Warata hj (sail). At Port Chalmers : Tarawera, Maura (steam). The Lady Wolseley, which sails about Thursday of next week for Chili to load nitrates for a Home port, is the first ship to sail from Dnnedin for South America direct for some time.

Moeraki, t.s.s., arrived at 5.25 this morning from Sydney via Cook Strait. As has been already reported, the Mceraki had a rough passage, and showed signs U severe buffeting when she reached Wellington, but she arrived up to time nevertheless. She left Sydney at 5 p.m. last Saturday, and the same night a sea swept over the starboard quarter, smashing 12ft of railing and damaging 20ft of stanchions, and the butcher’s house was torn from its lashings and screwed round. On Sunday a sea stove in a port of one of the saloon cabins. ;pifl a considerable amount, of water got below. The damage was repaired at Wellington. The Moeraki sails from Dunedin to-morrow for Melbourne. A number of horses for Victoria were shipped to-day. Wimmera, s.s., arrives to-morrow morning from Sydney via Auckland. A Sydney message says that heavy weather in the Tasman Sea delayed the Wanaka and the, Kaitnna, but neither receiver! any damage.

The steamm- Clan Leslie. 3,937 inns, Captain Goodwin, arrived at Hopetoun, West Australia. nn April 24. to load jamh for New Zealand. The vc.'sel is to rail at Sydney en route to the Dominion. The Clan Leslie will afterwards load in New Zealand, under charter to Mr G. H. Scales, for London and Avonmonth. The Christchurch ‘ Press ” says that ; owing to a delav in the making of a new thrust shaft at Port Chalmers it is stated .. that the Mararoa will not he readv for sea until about the end of the month/ Mr_M‘Navn. purser of the ferry steamer Maori, left her on Thursday, and went to Wellington by the Warrimoo in the capacity of assistant purser, and is crossing to take the pimrership of the Oonah. /\lr Thompson, late purser of the Penguin, succeed? Mr M'Narn on the Maori. The recent claims of the Auckland people that they h?d set up a New Zealand record in handling twenty-one tons of cargo per hour each hatch w-ith the Marania was eclipsed at Wellington on Tuesday with the Waikare. The local men handled 920 ton? of cargo at the Waikare in seven working hours, averaging twentv-six per for each hcatch. In the case of the Waikare the cargo worked was small lots, comprising sugar, stone, and timber, while at Auckland '"the ■ oa.rgo handled on the was sacks of grain and cases. The Wellington men now hold t-he palm for smart cargo hand- ■ Hug—so a Wellington paper says/ FOR MELBOURNE. The following have booked by the Moeraki. sailing to-morrow for Melbourne i For the Bluff-—Mrs Cleghorn. Messrs Cleghorn. Ashton, Macdonald. For HobartMr Macgregor. For Melbourne—Misses M'Kenzis, Best. Bain. Biggs. Kilner, Gilchrist, Mesdames Macdonald and infant, Bain. Langlands, Robertson, Messrs J. Cable, Davis. De Angelis, Dr , Macdonald, Master Marsh. LARGEST FRUIT STEAMER. 8j From the shipbuilding yard of Messrs Ij-A. Stephen and Sons, at Linthouse, was launched on March 24 the s.s. Tortucuero, 5.000 tons, the largest vessel yet built for the exclusive pin-pose of fruit carrying. The steamer has been built to the order of Messrs Elders and Fvffcs (Limited), banana importers. She has an insulated space, fitted with J. ami E. Hall's coolair system, for over £O.OOO bunches of West Indian bananas, and an entirely new feature is the division of the fruit decks into four separate compartments. The object of this arrangement is to allow the various portions of the cargo stowed in these spaces to be discharged at different 1 ports without interfering in any way with the distribution and circulation of the air in the other decks. On her voyages from the West Indies, the Tortugnero, after landing bananas destined for England, | W ’U proceed with the remainder of her S T n° the leading ports of Germany, • Holland, and Scandinavia, A steady and increasing demand for West Indian bananas has given rise to the necessity of devising a plan by which the fruit shall be subjected to the minimum amount of handling; and in this respect the avoid- ™ transhipment is most important, . nould the experiment prove as successful as is confidently anticipated, other vessels of similar type will be laid oifthe stocks. , THE SECOND DREADNOUGHT. Press Association—By Telegraph— Copyright. t, i . . May ■ Palmers Shipbuilding Company, a’t Jarrow, wall build the second of the four Dreadnoughts.

A HUDDART-PARKER COLLIER. NEW DEPARTURE IN THE CARRYING TRADE. Private advices have been received stating that the Huddart-Parker Company e collier Moorabool k ■bringing’a load of coal to Wellington from Newcastle within a few davs. This consignment of . coal will probably be the foreruner of similar shipments, says the ‘ New Zealand Times.’ The arrival of a Hud-dart-Parker collier from Newcastle is quite a new departure, and is to be the beginning of a trade which has latelv been ai ranged. The Moorabool is a steel screw steamer of 2,996 tons gross and 1,947 net bhe was built in 1899 by the Blyth Shipino Company, Ltd., and .is classed IUO Al at Lloyd’s. Her principal dimenTll oo e /r Len S th 324.4 ft, beam 47ft, depth 22.4 ft. ’ THE DIRECT STEAMERS. , CNEU, May 7.—Mimiro, for Auckland. MELBOURNE, May 7.—Aotea, from Liverpool. i May 3.—Athenic, from Wellington (March 25). SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. AUCKLAND, May 7.—4 p.m., Enmr Wellington. for T —Wimmera, for P-" 1 - W “- J'Bi 7 - 9 30 p» - si °™. BLUFF, May 7—Novo, for Welliim"'^XT 1 J^ n v? ranCe ’ for Waitara. ° l~gL % 7 - 1 Vicionia, (For continuation see Late Shipping.)