SHIPPING.

Evening Star, Issue 14413, 8 July 1910, Page 6

SHIPPING.

HIGH WATER.

TO-UOBJIOW. Taiaroa Head: 4.28 ami., 4.56 p.tu. , Port Chalmers ; 5.8 ami., 5.36 p.nu Dimedixi ; 5.58 a.m., 6.5 p.ra. THE SUN. "Rise to-morrow, 7.53 a.m.; set, 4.51 pjn. THE MOON.' Set to-night, 5.48; rise to-morrow, 9.43 a.m. —Phases During July.— July 14 First quarter 7.54 p.m. July 22 Full moon 8.7 p.m. v July 29 Last quarter 9.5" p.m. ARRIVED.—JuIy 7. Tarawera, s.s., 2,003 tons, M'Lean, from Auckland and East Coast ports. Passengers : Misses Stanley (2), Dixon, Mesdames Bickerton. Brown and child, Messrs E. Archibald,’ W. Archibald, Fox, Piper, CondJiffe. Smith, Scholtz, M 'Kenzie, Liddle, Blakey ; seven steerage. SAILED.—JuIy 7. Koonya, s.s., 1,091 tons, Norton, for Oaraaru, Timaru, Lyttelton, Wellington, New 'Plymouth, Westport, and Greymouth. Invercargill, s.s., 221 tons, Gillies, for Invercargill,

July 8.

Tarawera, s.s., 2,003 tons, M’Lean, for Auckland via East Coast ports. Passengers : For Lyttelton—Mr CTeswoll. For 'Wellington—Messrs Douglas, M'Combe, Rutledge, Houghton. For Auckland — Mias Chamberlain, Mesda-Tiies Wilson, Watts, Joachim, Mr Wilton. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. —Coastal.— Hauroto, from Auckland, July 14-

—lntercolonial.

Moana, from Sydney via Cook Strait, ' 9Monowai. from Auckland. July 10 firings Sydney passengers transhipped from Maheno at Auckland). IHimaroa, from Melbourne, July 12.

—Oversea, Sail. —

County of Inverness, barque, loft Liverpool March 15 for Wellington and Dunedin ; at Wellington June 25.

—Oversea, Steam.— Indradovi, left Liverpool April 16 via Northern ports; at Auckland _ Nairnshire, left Liverpool April 30 via Australia and Northern ports; at Adelaide Juno 23, Sydney Juno 28, Auckland July 6; due Dunedin about July 25.

Indrani, left New York May 4 via Melbourne, Launceston, and Northern ports ; at Melbourne July 4; duo about August 7.

Rakaia, left Montreal May 21 via Austral i<. and Northern ports; duo about August 12. PROJECTED DEPARTURES.

Monowai, for Melbourne, July 11. Navna, for Auckland, July 12 (Sydney passengers tranship at Auckland to Manono). Ulimaroa, for Sydney via Cook Strait, July 13. Hauroto. for Auckland, July 15.

lu port at noon to-day At Dunedin : Tarawera, Dorset (steam), Boesuct, Joseph Sims (eail). At Port Chalmers. Navua, Rakiura,, dredges Progress. 222, and Priestraan (steam), Marjory Gln, Jessie Niecol (anil). The Hinemoa was to leave Wellington this morning on her periodical southern lighthouse trip, ami should reach Dunedin about Monday evening. She will call at the Bluff, and is expected to leave there for tho West Coast on or about tho 19th inst, Lightkeepers’ agents are advised accordingly. Wavrimoo, s.s.. which had a rough trip on her last voyage from Wellington to Sydney, is undergoing repairs, a cable states. A new crank shaft is being fitted, and she will not leave -Sydney till Monday. She is due at Wellington on Friday, will sail the same evening for Lyttelton, arrive here on Sunday, and sail for Melbourne via the Bluff and Hobart on Monday (a day late). Tarawera., s.s., arrived at four o’clock yesterday afternoon from Auckland and East Coast ports, and railed again this afternoon on the return trip. Taviuni, s.s., is to leave Westport tomorrow for Dunedin via Timaru. She is due here about Wednesday. Wiinakn, r.6-, leaves Auckland next Thursday for Oamaru, and sho is to load at that port about the 18th, at the Bluff <ni the 19th, and at Timaru on tho 21st for Napier, Gisborne, and Auckland. Rakanoa, s.s., did not get away from the Bluff last night ns intended. Sho is due to-morrow morning, and may possibly sail late Unit night for Picton and Nelson.

County of lnverm.66, barque, was towed out. into'tho stream at Wellington on Wednesday morning, ami with the first favorable breeze will sail for Dunedin with the remainder of her cargo from Liverpool. Earl of Carrick. s.s., lias bom chartered by the Vacuum Oil Company to load case oil at New York for the four principal New Zealand ports. Tho Earl of Carrick is a steed screw steamer, built in 1905 by Ruesell and Co. at Port Glasgow, and owned by Marshall and Dobbie. Her tonnage is 3,959 gross and 2,550 not. Her principal dimensions are: Length, 545 ft; breadth, 49ft; and depth, 17ft. Another smart trip has been completed by the sohoner Ysabel (Captain W. Ross), which arrived at Auckland on Sunday morning from the Friendly Islands. The round trip from Auckland to the Islands and back woe accomplished in thirty-three days. Tho old record for this voyage was thirty-nine days, which the Ysabel established on her last passage to the Islands. IN UNKNOWN WATERS. “ Now that you are safely back,” said a visitor to the” Wakefield on that vessel’s return from the search for tho Waratah, •‘there is no harm in telling you that we have often wondered whether it would bo necessary to send a search steamer to look for you.' 1 " Let mo £gll you,” replied one af the officers, “that the thought often occurred to us.” This was, indeed, quite true. The Wakefield’s cruise, besides being very unpleasant, was full of danger, and with a little less luck the vessel would have left her bones in those inhospitable seas. Lightly loaded, sho encountered a succession of furious gales and mountainous seas that lasted almost continuously for nearly four months, until tho c?ew longed for shore. Sho covered 18,000 miles'from port to port, ami had experiences which her commander hopes may never be repeated. The firet of the Wakefield’s three narrow escapes was of! the strange-looking Twelve Apostles Islands, which the vessel approached in a gale and a fog on March 13. Gales and foga often go together in those bleak regions, and the Wakefield steamed north ami south as she came near the islands, •waiting for the fog to lift. Allowance was made for the current, but, as subsequent events proved, the drift was greater than was thought to be the case. A few minutes after a turn the fog suddenly Hfted. and the watchers on the Wakefield raw the smallest of tho islands about a mile astern. The land must have been much closer when they turned, and just what would have happened had the turn been delayed a couple of minutes they did not care to think of. The second happened when approaching Hoard Island, a sheer-rifling rock 270 miles south of Kerguelen. As the vessel was steaming up to »t in a gale, a break was seen right under her bow, and .she sheered off from the sunken reef just in time. A wreck in a howling gale in thee© latitudes would have been a tragedy indeed. The third escape occurred ojf Kerguelen in a gale, it being a question for some time whether tho lightly loaded vessel could weather a reef. Though no trace was seen of the Waratah, the cruise was not altogether fruitless. for Lieutenant Seymour, flte naval officer on boa,id, mad® some valuable enrvevn of the uncharted witers about tho klanda of the Southern Ocean.

LIGHTING THE WESTRALIAN

COAST.

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright,

PERTH, July 8. (Recei vod July 8, at 9.35 a.m.) The Government are about to spend £50,000 on the erection of a lighthouse on tho ziortVi-’westeam ocxvsfc.

RIVAL STEAMSHIP COMPANIES

REARS OF A RATE WAR.

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright,

LONDON, July 7,

The North German Lloyd Company announce that in the case of a working agreement not being arrived, at between the Orientt and Peninsular Companies in October they will cut the first class fares from Southampton to the Commonwealth to £6O, and the second clars fares to £32, plus 10 per centum. The company claim that since the English companies are running superior steamers the Germans ought to bo. allowed to charge less. The Orient and Peninsular Companies Continental rates for mail steamers should be the same. A rate war is feared. SHIPPING TELEGRAMS.

AUCKLAND, July Hauroto and Squall, from Gisborne.—Flora, for Wellington via ports. WELLINGTON, July 7.—'7.50 p.m., Mokoia, from Port Chalmers. —5.50 p.m., Moana, for Southern ports, Hobart, and Melbourne. Passengers for Dunedin : Miss Bray, Mesdames "Taylor, Vakkiro and child, Messrs Taylor, Vaklare. LYTTELTON', July 7.—Holmdale, for Kohukohu. —Ripple, for Wanganui.—Maitai, for Sydney via Wellington.—Kara mea, for Oaraaru. —Kurow, for Westport. (For continuation see Late Shipping.)