SHIPPING.

Evening Star, Issue 14225, 26 November 1909, Page 6

SHIPPING.

HIGH WATER. , TO-MOKHOW. Taiaroa Head ; 2.6 a.m., 2.29 p.m. Port Chalmers : 2.46 a.m., 3.9 p.m. Dunedin : 3.16 a.m., 3.39 p.m. ■ THE SUN. Rko to-morrow, 4.21 a.m.; sot, 7.30 p.m. THE MOON.'. Rise to-morrow, 7.7 p.m.; eel, 4.1 a.m. —Phases During November. — November 27 Full moon 8.22 p.m. SAlLED.—November 26. Tarawera, e.e., 2,003 ton*, Robertson, for Auckland Ana East Coast ports. Passengers: For Lyttelton—Mr G. 11. Manning. For Wellington—Mies Ada Vaughan. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. —Coastal.— Monowai, from Auckland, December 2. —lntercolonial. Ulimaroa, from Sydney via Cook Strait, November 27. Waikare, from Auckland, November 28 (Sydney passengers tranship from Maheno). —Oversea, Sail.— John Lockett, barque, from Liverpool; sailed September 14. —Oversea, Steam.— Sussex, left Liverpool September 18 via Melbourne. Sydney, and New Zealand ports; at Albany November 7, Sydney November 14; duo in Dunedin December 5. Indradevi, loft New York September 12; at Albany November 6, Melbourne November 12; due in Dunedin about December 6. Matatua, left London Novemjbor 7 for Dunedin direct about December 21. Karumea, left Liverpool via Adelaide, Auckland, Wellington, and Lyttelton October 30; due about January 8. Falls of Nilh, left New York October 2 via Melbourne, Sydney, and Northern ports ; due about December 26. Nairnshire, left Liverpool October 16 via Melbourne, Sydney, and Northern ports: due about Docember-26. _Mqrayshire, left Liverpool November I > via Sydney and Northern ports; duo about January 24. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Ulimaroa, lor Melbourne, November 28. Waikare, for Auckland, November 30 {Sydney passengers tranship to Maheno). Warrimoo, for Sydney via Cook Strait, December .1. Monowai, for Auckland, December 3. _ I, n port at noon to-day :—At Dunedin : Kaipara, Tarawera. Eakiura, Dorset (steam). Mary Isabel (sail). At Fort t hairnets : Delphic. Mokoia, Warrimoo, Maitai, Mount, Wairmia. Rakanoa. Timarn dredge, (steam), Magic (saill. I hero is no passenger boat from Melbourne next week on account of the firo oil the Warrimco. The Waipori, which is bringing Australian cargo in place of the Warrimoo, loaves ILijart to-morrow for I I n nr ■‘l llo at Dunedin about the following Saturday, Ulimaroa. t.s.s.. from Sydney via Cook Xrait, is due at Port to-morrow morning, and at Dunedin with the afternoon’s tide. .1 urakina, s.s., leaves Napier to-morrow afternoon for Port Chalmers for Homeward loading. Delphic, t.s.s,, came out of dock to-day and berthed at the George street nier to Jake in frozen produce, and to replenish her hunker supplies. Timaru dredge, at present under periodical overhaul at Port Chalmers, came out ot dock yesterday and berthed at the Mieorlogs. where she is to have new top and bottom tumblers fitted, also a top tumbler shaft and main driving wheel. Ihe work, which is well under wav, will O'-cupy about another ten davs.

Kaipara. s.s., sails next week forTimani and Lyttelton with the remainder of her Home cargo.

The blocks in the old dock were to-day being rearranged for the Kamona, winch a naves hero on Sunday, and will undergo annual overhaul and docking. 0 Koinata, s.s.. from the West Coast via Lyttelton, is due at Port Chalmers this evening, and after discharging about 200 tons of real into J. Mill and Co.'s hulks she comes up to Dunedin.

I la. Rritieh-India steamer, has been fixed to leave Calcutta on December 7 for New Zealand ports. Norwegian owners have ordered the building in England of two cargo steamers for the ore trade, which will be'tho largest boats as yet belonging to the Norwegian mercantile marine—namely, of about tO.TCO tons deadweight capacity. The orders emanate from Messrs A. F. Klavenees and Company, of Lvsaker, and V. A. Cron, of Sandefjord. Dnteshire, s.s. ..the next Federal-HoulfW-Shire Jmer to leave Liverpool, sails on December 11 for Sydney. Auckland. Welhngton, Lyttelton, Dunedin, and the Jslnff.

The, Tvser steamer .Star of Australia, which amoved at London on the 4th insti from Australian ports, is expected to leave Now York on December 20 for Melbourne, Sydney, arid New Zealand ports. Last Fridays Government ‘Gazette’ the following “ Tidal-stream nbser\ations in Conk Strait.—Commander fi- A. Edwin, R.N., Into Director of the -Now Zealand Meterorological Office, reports that at 10 a.m. on September 4 1900, when steaming alongside the cable hnov in tho_ New Zealand Government s.s. Futanrkai, the flood stream was found to he running at knots per hour bv patent log Tills was two hours and a nalt after high water at Wellington. The rate j.-; somewhat in excess of that <dveh »n the Admiralty charts and in the ‘New Zealand Pilot.”’ Captain Richard J. Rick ford,lately master of the CritCh-1 ndia Company’s Waipi;ra, died in St. George Cottago’Hcspital, Kogarah. from the effects of an overdose of a narcotic. Deceased had suffered from insomnia, for which certain tabloids had been prescribed. On throe occasions he C, f T° , of tl,e tabloids. and on ‘each night he slept well. On November 15 he emptied the box of all the tabloids but ono. it no took iho whole eighty-four. 11.M.5. CHALLENGER AT PORT NEXT MONTH.

TI.M.S. Challenger is to visit Port Chalmers from the 11th to the 17th of next month, and she will be followed by tho I mneer. which will bo, here for the annual regatta on Boxing Day. BARQUE HIPPOLAS INQUIRY. WELLINGTON, November 26. An inquiry concerning the wreck of the barque Hippolas commenced to-day. Captain Morris, after narrating the circumstances leading up to the vessel's striking Walker s Rock, said it was not possible to beach the vessel on account of the gale. He did not consider that Captain Stewart had any right to take away the Hippolas. -Ml that was asked for in the signals was assistance. Ho knew Cook Strait well. He had seen the Jackson Head beacon on previous occasions, and fully expected to see it this time, as he had no reason to suppose that the light was out. Tho course ho steered was, he considered, a safe course. W'hat made him strike the rock was the current taking him out of his course. TAVIUNI LEAVES TO-MORROW. Taviuni, ? . f ., leaves Westport tomorrow for Port Chalmers direct in tow of the tug Terawhiti. If favored with good weather she will probably do tho vovage in between three and four days. ATHENIC'S PASSENGERS. The Shaw-Savill steamer Athenic, which arrived at Hobart yesterday on route to New Zealand from London, was to leave for Wellington at six o'clock this morning. Eighteen passengers landed at Hobart, and 677 are proceeding to New Zealand. James Potier, ship's printer, died from appendicitis on September 24.

BALTIC STEAMERS TO AUSTRALIA. The * Shipping Gazette ’ of October 7 states, on the strength of a Hamburg report, that the German-Australlan Steamship Company and the Swedish-South African Line have come to an arrangement to bring tho competition between the two lines to an end. A two years’ contract, coming into force in December, has been concluded, under which monthly sailings of tho two companies’ steamers alternately will take place between Sweden and Australia; and it is hoped that freight rates will be shortly restored to a profitable level. Tho ‘ Shipping Gazette ’ states that, as tho Swedish line was not able to maintain a monthly sendee with its own steamers, it would have had to raise fresh Capital if the arrangement had not been, reached. VETERAN SAILING SHIPS. The age of some of tho venerable sailing ships still plying in the Baltic Sea is surprising—some of them have, in fact, been knocking about for more than a century. It is only a few days ago that tho arrival of ono of these patriarchs at a German Baltic port was recorded. It was tho Dutch galcasso Do tre Sostrc (Three Sisters). This craft was built in tho year 1767. at a yard at Harscns (Jutland), and traded for many years in the Mediterranean. She is generally considered to bo tho oldest ship now in existence, but this must bo a mistake if the statement is to bo accepted that the sailing ship Constance, of 27 tons capacity, and still in active employment, is nearly a half century older, she having been built in 1723. Six sailers, it is said, arc still in existence which were built in the eighteenth century, and just recently a yacht named the Thora Johanne went ashore and was wrecked on Moen Island in the Baltic (Danish) at the respectable age of 102. Most of these veterans limit their activities to the Baltic, but some of them (the larger ones) occasionally venture into the North .Sea. OVERSEA STEAMERS. S\DXKY. November 25.—Indradevi, for New Zealand. SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. KAIPARA, November 24.—Isabella-De Frame, from Dunedin. AUCKLAND, November2s.—Monowui, from Dunedin.—Flora, for Wclington. WELLINGTON. November 25.—5.40 J).m., Ulimaroa, for Southern ports, Hooart, and Melbourne. Passengers : Eor Dunedin—Mieses Spiers, Tewslev, Gogen, Sunderland. Mesdames Palmer.” Riddell' Morrieon, Messrs W. T. Glasgow. Mair, A. R. Grant, J. B. Palmer, Sunderland. Lmto, Loughnan. Adams, Morrison. For Bluff—-Mr Gruar. LI TTELTON, November 25.—Kamona. for Timaru.—Koromiko, for Westport. A KARO A, November 25.—5.30 p.m., H.M.S. Pioneer, for the West Coast Sounds. MELBOURNE, November 25.—Melbourne, from Kaipara.