SHIPPING.

Evening Star, Issue 14512, 2 November 1910, Page 5

SHIPPING.

HIGH WATER. To-Moanow. Taiaroa Heads: 3.11 a.m., 3.31 p.m. Port Chalmers : 3.51 a.m., 4.11 p.m. Dunedin : 4.21 a.m., 4.41 p.m. THE SUN'. Rise to-morrow, 4.48 a.m.; set, 6.56 p.m. THE MOON. Sot to-day, 6.58 p.m. j rise to-morrow, 4.59 a.m. —Phases During November. — November 2 New moon 1.26 p.m. November 10 First quarter 4.59 p.m. November 17 Full moon 11.55 a.m. November 24 Last quarter 5.43 a.m. ARRlVED.—November 1. H.M.S. Pioneer, third class cruiser, 1,150 tons, Commander Blunt, from Timiru. November 2. Tokomaru, s.s., 6,238 tons, Macfie, from Montreal via Melbourne, Sydney, Auckland, Wellington, and Lyttelton. SAlLED.—November 1. Invercargill, s.s., 224 tons, Gillies, for Invercargill. November 2. Moeraki, s.s., 4,392 tons, Rolls, for Sydley via Cook Strait. Passengers : For tyttelton—Misa Watson, Mesdames Crane, Liow, Jackson and infant, M‘Donald and child, Messrs North, Crane, Mouldey, Hoggard, Cameron* Low, A. E. G. Rhodes, Jackson. For Wellington—Misses Small (2), Walker, Murdoch, Shaw, Mesdames Harvey, two children, and maid, Williamson and two children, Small, Neill, Mnnro, Fraser, Begg, Matthewson and two children, Shaw, Tcschmaker, Chute, Messrs Fogarty, Nelson, Bower, Small. Watson, Monro. For Sydney— Two Sisters of Mercy, Mrs Fish and two children, Mr Columb, Rev. J. Ferguson. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. —Coastal.— Hanroto, from Auckland, November 3. —lntercolonial. Manuka, from Sydney via Cook Strait, vovember 5. Westralia, from Sydney via Auckland, November 6. Moana, from. Melbourne, November 8. —Oversea, Sail.— Glenahee, Norwegian barque, sailed from Liverpol July 7; at Wellington October 19. Ariel, Norwegian barque, to sail from Liverpool about September 17. —Oversea, Steam.— Earl of Garrick, left New York August 1 vat Northern ports; at Auckland October 30. Morayshire, left Liverpool August 20 via Hobart mid Northen ports; at Auckland October 21, Wellington October 30; due about November 9. Niwaru, left New York August 26 via Australia and Northern ports; at Melbourne October 14; due about November

Delphic, left Liverpool September 8 via Australia and Northern porta; duo about November 20. Vermont, left New York August 23 via Northern ports; due about November 21. Afghanistan, left London October 8 for Dunedin direct; due about November 27. TorkiEtan, left Montreal September 13 via Australia and Northern ports; due sarly in December. Strathleven, left New York September 14 via Australia and Northern ports; due ibout December 11. Drayton Grange, left Liverpool September 17 via Northern porte; due about December 12. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Hauroto, for Auckland, November 4. Manuka, for Melbourne, November 6. Westralia, for Sydney via Auckland, November 8. Moana, for Sydney via Cook Strait, November 9.

In port at noon to-day At Dunedin : H.M.S. Pioneer, Tokomaru, Moeraki, Komata, Dorset (steam), Bell Flower (sail). At Port Chalmers: Maitai, Mokoia, Kaikoura, Wakanui, Kia Ora, _Te Anau, Moura, Flora, Paparoa, Otaki, Progress, Bakiura (steam). Komata, s.s., sails to-morrow for the West Coast via ports. She will make a call at Nelson, and the Corinna will not call at that port next trip. A Westport wire says that the German barque Martha Bockhahn sailed to-day for Yap (Caroline Islands) via Sydney with a cargo of coal. H.M.S. Pioneer arrived from Tiraaru at 4 p.m. yesterday, and berthed at the Rattray street wharf. To-day she was busy coaling from the Komata. Hauroto, s.s., from Auckland, was to leave Lyttelton at three o’clock this afternoon, and is expected at Dunedin about eight o’clock to-morrow morning. Helen, barque, 279 tons, has been chartered to load hardwood at Port Esperance for New Zealand. Tokomaru, Shaw-Savill steamer, under charter to the New Zealand Shipping Company, arrived at 11.30 to-day from Montreal via Australia and Northern ports. She has not much cargo for Dunedin. After discharge she will lay-up at Port if there is room. Kaikonra, s.s., leaves the lay-up berth at Port Chalmers to-morrow to start Homeward loading at Timarn. Maitai, s.s., came out of dock to-day. Her bunker supplies, from 1,600 to 1,800 tons, will arrive here from Westport by the Rakanoa on Friday or Saturday. Durham, s.s., to sail on November 12, will be the next Federal-Houlder-Shire steamer to leave Liverpool for New Zealand. She is due at Dunedin about January 30. Rotorua, New Zealand Shipping Company’s new steamer, has left Home on her maiden voyage, a cable advises. She is due at Wellington about December 12. Morayshire, s.s., from Liverpool, is expected to leave Wellington to-morrow for Lyttelton, Dunedin, and Bluff with remainder of cargo. The vessel will afterwards go to Townsville (North Queensland) to load ait principal Australian ports, and will proceed via Suez to London. Koromiko, s.s., is due here about Friday from Newcastle direct. Portion of her coal is for the hulks at Port. The ‘Gazette’ of October 29 states that recent soundings taken of! the entrance to Hokianga River show that the north channel is apparently shifting further to the northward, and is maintaining 17ft at low water. The south channel was found to be clearing out again, and is showing 13ft 6in. That a great modern steamship does not at first develop her powers to the full is evidenced by the Cunarder Mauretania. She took up her station in the LiverpoolNew York trade in the late autumn of 1007, and in September, 1909, beating all previous records, she stablisbed the record for westward runs of 4d 10b Blmin. That she was still possessed of latent powers was shown on her trip to New York which she completed on September 22. She then accomplished the run across in 4d lOh 41min. SOLD TO FOREIGNERS.

The feature of the shipping sales during the past few months has been the number of British sailing ships which have been sold to foreigners, principally Norwegians, says ‘ FaSrpiay. > Since July 1 no less than twenty-three of our Bailing ■.hips, aggregating 37,710 tons register, lave been disposed <>i in this way, of which fourteen, of 21,820 t tons register, were acquired by Norwegians for about £40,800. The prices obtained have in many instances been record low ones, in most cases about 30 per cent, less than could have been obtained a year ago. Some of the vessels have been laying-up lor about two years waiting for an improvement in the freight market, but as prospects were not improving, and values were receding, the owners have at last decided to * accept the prices now offering, misertble as they are. So many sailing ships . iave been sold recently that at the present time there are less than twenty sailers ii port in this country and on tne Coninent for sale, so that prices are exjected to become firmer.

' A FLEET OF TRAINING SHIPS. ' At the present time four training ships —the White Star Company’s Mersey, Messrs Devitt and Moore's Port Jackson and Medway, and the Union Company’s Hartford—are approaching' Australia, but very soon there will be six, for advices re-, , eeived state that the Nordeutscher Lloyd schools for officers of the company's fleet —the four-masted barques Herzogin Cecilia and Herzogin Sophie Charlotte —have t again been fixed for wheat loading. All except the Dartford are bound for Syd- ■ ney. The Mersey, which is ninety-four days out, is coming from Liverpool, and, like the Medway and, Port Jackson, from' London on August 6 and September 6, will load wool and general merchandise for Home ports. The Herzogin Cecilie and Herzogin Sophie Charlotte, unlike the others, are coming down'in ballast from Honolulu and San Francisco respectively. REFLOATED. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. SYDNEY, November 1. The schooner Australia has been refloated, and has been towed into port. OVERSEA STEAMERS. RIO DE JANEIRO, October 29. Athenic, for London (left Wellington October 6). PLYMOUTH, October 29.—Rotorua, for Wellington. LONDON, October 29. —Marcrc, for New Zealand ports via Australia. SHIPPING TFLEGRAMS. AUCKLAND, November I.—Norman Monarch, from Valparaiso. WELLINGTON, November 1.—5 p.m., Hauroto, for Lyttelton and Dunedin. Passengers : For Lyttelton—Messrs Berkeley, Martin. For Dunedin : Misses Hallett, Heart, Turner, Mreclames Stevens, Matbieson and child, Captains Stevens and M‘Donald. SYDNEY, November 1 1.—2 p.m., Uli-' maroa, from Wellington. BLUFF, November 1.—6.15 p.m., Warrimoo, for Hobart and Melbourne. FREMANTLE, November I.—Otranto, from London. (For continuation see Late Shipping.)