SHIPPING.

Evening Star, Issue 14535, 10 December 1910, Page 5

SHIPPING.

HIGH WATER. TO-MORKOW. Taiaroa Heads: 10.16 aan., 10.42 p.m. Port Chalmers: 10.56 «vm., 11.22 p.m. Dunedin : 11.26 a.m., 11-52 p.m. MONDAT. Taiaroa Head : 11.4 a.m., 11.30 p.m. Port Chalmers : 11.44 a.m., p.m. -Orair odin : a.m., 0.14 p.m. THE SUN. Riso to-morrow, 4.17 a.m. ; set, 7.46 P-™- . THE MOON. Set to-morrow, 1.19 a.m.; rise, 1.12 p.m. —Phases During December.— December 16 Full moon 10.55 p.m. December 23 Last quarter 10.6 p.m. ARRlVED.—December 10. Manuka, e.s., 4,505 tons, Smith, from Sydney via Cook Strait. Passengers: Intercolonial—Misses Fogo, Grifl'en, Herbert, Fordo. Mctdames Fogo, Haynes, Mill. Connor, Cummin*:, Messrs Haynes, J. Connor, J. Thomson. .(. Macon, «. Herbert, G. Giles, Nancarrow, Master Bell; eight steerage. Coastal—Sister Fraiicesea, Misses King, Barnett, Young, Henrv, Gumming, Byrne, Wilson, Jopp, Mesdames Martinelli. Penhcy and child, Pattiello, Storrio, Middeltnn. Hue (2) and two children, Gilder, Phillips, Barnett, Morris and three children, Baskett, Hunter and two children, Thomson ar.d infant, Andrews and child, Bush, Messrs M'lntyre, lies. G. Mills, Hill, Harnett, Ciunming (2), Frederic, Ombler, Pattillo, Hunter, Wright, Holt; twelve steerage. SAlLED.—December 9. Kotare. 6.5., 141 tons, Trourn, for Waikawa. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. —Coastal.— Mokoia, from Auckland, December 15. —lntercolonial. Monowai, from Auckland, December 13 (brings Sydney passengers transhipped from Maheno). Marama, from Melbourne, December 13. Ulimaroa, from Sydney via Cook Strait, December 17. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Manuka, for Melbourne, December 11. Monowai, for Auckland. December 13 (Sydney passengers tranship to Maheno at' Auckland). MuTama, for Sydney via Cook Strait, December 14. Mokoia, for Auckland, December 16. In port at noon to-day :—At Dunedin : Manuka, Ennerdale, Dorset (steam), Lindstol (sail). At Port Chalmers : Delphic, Otaki, Pakeha, Turkistan. Moura, Te Anau, Progress, Flora, Ralciura, Hauroto (steam). The Union Steam Ship Company's steamer Waihora, now discharging at Sydney, has been fixed to load at Newcastle for Chilian ports. She is to fail early in January, and will be away about three and a-half months.

The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamer Otaki, -which has been laid up at Port Chalmers since October 31, went into dock this morning for cleaning and painting prior to commencing Homeward loading at this port. She then proceeds to the Bluff, Timaru, Wellington, and Lyttelton.

Manuka, s.s., berthed at tho cross wharf at ten o'clock to-day. She left Sydney at 2.30 last Saturday, and arrived at Wellington at 10 a.m. on Wednesday. An account of the voyage, which was a very rough one, has been published. Tomorrow the Manuka sails from Port Chalmers for Melbourne. Passengers : For Hobart—Misses Buckingham, Robertson, Messrs H. F. Norman, Downey, Walton. For Melbourne —Misses Anderson, Gillies, Mills.

Hawke's Bay, s.s., was to leave Lyttelton at noon to-day for Dunedin with remainder of West of England cargo. H.M.-S. Powerful, H.M.S. _ Encounter, and H.M.S. Cambrian, which cleared Lyttelton Heads at 4.30 p.m. yesterday, will carry out threo days' firing in Hauraki Gulf on their way to Auckland.

Monowai, s.s., from Auckland, was prevented from working cargo at Wellington yesterday on account of heavy rain. Consequently she was not to leave Wellinigton till to-day. She will stay at Lyttelton until Monday in order to discharge cargo, will arrive at Dunedin on Tuesday morning, and sail the same day for the North.

Strathleven, U.S. and A. steamer, from New York, was expected to leave Sydney on Thursday for New Zealand ports. Marama, s.s., from Melbourne, is duo at the Bluff on Monday morning and at Dunedin on Tuesday. Dalmore, s.s.. later advice states, left New York on November 19, not November 26.

Waipcri, s.s., which arrived at Auckland this morning with a cargo of produce from Geelong. is to go to We6tport and Greymouth after discharge and load for Lvttelton.

Following the entry of tho K.M.S. I?o----torua in the London-New Zealand passenger service is the retirement of the Rimutaka to the ranks of tho cargo-enrrying fleet. In the New Zealand Shipping Company's list of sailings from London the Rimutaka is scheduled as a KiTgo steamer, to sail on November 30 for Dnnedin, Lyttelton, and the Bluff. Word has been received that tho F.-H.-S. liner Kent, bound from New Zealand ports to Loudon, arrived at Fernando Noronhii, 125 miles east of Brazil, on November 26.

Mr Albert Kaye fa director of tho Maoriland steamship Company), who has returned to New Zealand aftoT six months' absence in England ami Canada, states that the now steamer which is being built for the eonip;uiy to rephue the one wrecked at Greymouth, is of 2,200 tons deadweight carrying capacity, and will be proba.bly Toady for a trip to New Zealand at tbo end of January. She will be engaged in the coastal and intercolonial trade. THE AUSTRALIAN .SQUADRON. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. SYDNEY, December 9. The warships Challenger and Promef hens have been reeommissioned for an<it her term on the Australian station, but each vessel has been given a new crew. ANOTHER MARINE LEVIATHAN. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, December 9. The contract for tho Cunard Steamship Company's new 50,000-ton liner, with a guaranteed speed of twenty-three knots and accommodation for 3,790 persons, has been given to Messrs John Brown and Co., of the Clydebank Works. Tho steamer will he 685 ft long, have a beam of 95ft, and bo driven by turbine engines. She will cost two millions sterling. WIRELESS ON THE ALL-RED ROUTE. Tho value of wireless on ocean liners ■was again demonstrated on tho voyage of the R.MJ3. Makura from Vancouver, reports the 'Sydney Daily Telegraph.' When about 900 miles out from the Canadian port some excitement was occasioned on board owing to the receipt of a wireless message from the steamer Falcon. The message announced that the Falcon was on fire, and that she was in need of assistance. The operator on the Makirra tried to get into communication with her, but, « the burning steamer was a long distance off, he failed, and the position of tho Falcon could not bo properly located. The Makura continued on her passage, and on arrival at Honohdni it was ascertained that the Falcon—a cargo steamer, bound for Australia—was picked up by the steamer Snohomish and towed into Portland (Oregon) badly damaged. It subsequently transpired that the messages eont by the Makura to the Falcon were •heard all the way down the Pacific Coast from Vancouver Island to San Diego. It is interesting to note that on the outwand trip of the Makura the operator heard Messages from San Francisco, 2,700 miles »ff. He was also in touch -with the British warehips in Sydney Harbor -antil two JBajH? sail bejoniSuL,

NEW FROZEN ME AT LIN FR The new steel twin-screw steamer Star of India, the latest addition to the Star Lino fleet of steamers, owned by Messrs J. P. Cony and Co., of London, left Belfast on October 29 and proceeded down tho Lough, for adjustment of compasses, aftor which sho underwent her speed trials over the measured milo course. Tho results attained were highly satisfactory, and the. vessel subsequently left for Barry to take in coal, perparatory to •sailing on nor maiden voyage to Australia. The Star of India, which was constructed by Messrs Workman, Clark, and Co., is 486 ft iu length, with a gross tonnage of 7,3f0, and has bocu built under Lloyd's special survey for tJio highest ches in their registry, also ftufiVUng tie requirements of the Board o£ Trade for a first-class carrying steamer She has been specially designed .and equipped fon the conveyance of frozen moat, fruit, and other products from Australia and Now Zealand. OVERSEA STEAMERS. SYDNEY, .December 9.—Star of Scotland, for New Zealand. SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. OMAPERE, December 9.—6.50 a.m., Claymore, from Onehunga. AUCKLAND. December 9.—Drayton Grange, for Lyttclton.—James Craig, barque, for Melbourne. WELLINGTON, December 10.— Monowai, for Lyttelton and Dunedin. Passengers : For Lyttelton—Mosdames Humphries, Carringtoii, Young, Sterricker, Messrs Howden, Paraham, Black, Well, Humphries, Schnmakor. For Dunedin : Misses Bcgg, Clare. Roach, Hemming, Christie. Hern, Mesdames Clieyue, Cunningham, Fleming, Roberts, Mattheweon, Bremaer, Mr Hern. LYTELTON, December 9.-4.55 p.m., Manuka, for Dunedin.—H.M.S. Encounter, Powerful, and Cambrian, for Auckland.

SYDNEY. December 9.—lnga, from Kaipara.—Maheno, from Auckland.

(For continuation see Late Shipping.)