SHIPPING.

Evening Star, Issue 14962, 23 August 1912, Page 7

SHIPPING.

HIGH WATER. TO-MORBOw;. Taiaroa Head : 0.33 a.m., 1.1 p.m Port Chalmers : 1.13 a.m., 1.41 p.m. Bun edin : 1.43 a.m., 2.11 p.m. THE SUN. .Sets to-day, 5.22 p.m. ; rises to-morrow 6.57 a.m. THE MOON. Rose to-dav, 0.23 p.m.; sets to-morrow 5.23 a.m. —Phases During August.— August 28 Full moon 7.29 a.m WEATHER REPORTS. The Government Meteorologist (Rev. D. C. Rates) supplied the followinc weather reports at 9 a.m. to-day : Bar. Ther. Weath. Westport—S.,l ... 30.46 48 OG Grevmouth—E..br ... 30.42 48 BC Benlev-SAV.br ... 30.44 47 KC Christ-church—E..fb 30.56 50 0 Timaru— Calm 30.59 46 OG Oamnru—N..l 30.50 48 O Dunedin—N.r:..fh ... 30.46 47 C Queenstown -Calm ... 30.41 45 U Nugget*-N..f b ... 30.29 44 Z Bluff—N.E..l 30.03 44 B Nasebv—Calm ... 28.30 37 BC Balelutha— Calm ... -- 52 B Roxburch—N.E..l ... 30.14 49 BC Pembroke—Calm ... 29.30 50 0 P. Chalmers—N.K., fb 30.45 50 OM Invercaraill—E.,l ... 30.35 42 B Clyde—N.W..l ... Pu'ysegurPt,—N.W..l 30.28 46 G Wind.—L., light; br, breeze; fb, fresh breeze ; m g, moderate gale • g, whole or heavy rale; w, gale of exceptional severity. Weather.—B, blue sky, be tHe. atmosphere clear or heavy; C, clouds, passing clouds ; D. drizzling rain; F, foggy; G, gloomy, dark weather; H, hail; L, lightning; M, misty; 0. overcast, the whole fky covered with thick clouds; P, passing ehowers: Q, squally; R, Tain, continued rain; S, snow; T thunder; U, ugly, threatening appearance ; Z, hazy. Forecast. The Government Meteorologist (Rev. D. C. Bates) supplied the following at- noon to-day : —Northerly winds, moderate to strong; unsettled and cloudy weather, with increasing haziness; glass fall after 10 hours; sea and tides moderate. SAlLED.—August 23. Mokoia, s.s., 3.502 tons, Harris, for Auckland via. East Coast ports. Passengers : Misses Moloney (2), Porter, Mesdames Mays, Cameron. Kempt-home and child, Wat son and child, Grant and child, Moloney, Thompson, Sutherland, M'Arthur uwl four children. Fleming, Messrs Camo•cn. Malcolm, Firkin, Price, Hodge (2), Wilkins, Rev. Father Keenan-: 12 steerEXPECTED ARRIVALS. —Coastal.— Monowai, from Auckland via East Coast ports, August 29. —lntercolonial. Maunganui, from Sydney via Cook August 25. Wimmera, from Sydney via Auckland, August 25. Warrimoo. from Melbourne via Hobart and the Bluff, August 27. Manuka, from Sydney via Cook Strait, August 31. —Oversea, Steam.— Strathroy, left N«w York May 29; due Dunedin about August 28. § Whakatane, from Montreal via Australia and Northern ports; due Dunedin about August 28. Essex, left Liverpool June 22; due Dunedin about August 31. Opawa, left London July 19; due Dunedin about September 1. Indralema, left New York June 16; due Dunedin about September 7. * Matatua, left Montreal June 20; du* Auckland August 20; due Dunedin about September 10. Kia Ora. left London August 1 for Dunedin direct: due about September 16. Walthrante, left New York June 5; due Dunedin about September 18. Waimana, left Liverpool Ju';y 16; due Dunedin about- September 20. Anglo-Californian, left New York June 11: due Dunedin about end of September. Kaipara, left Liverpool July 26; due Auckland September 22; due Dunedin about October 10. Southern, left New York July 19; due Dunedin about October 20. Wimbledon, left Philadelphia August 3 ; due Dunedin about the end of October. Rakaia, left Montreal August 10; due Dunedin about October 31. Waiwera, was to leave Canada August 15; due Auckland October 21; due Dunedin early in November. Anglo-Mexican, from New York; to fail. Whakarua, left New York August 6; due Dunedin in October. | Birkenfels, left New York August 12; due Dunedin about November 4. Surrey, from Liverpool; to sail August 24 : due Dunedin November 4. —Oversea, Sail.— Titania, barque, from Surprise Island.

PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Maunganui, for Melbourne via the Bluff and Hobart, August 25. Wimmera, for Sydney via Auckland, Anaust 27. Warrimoo, for Svdnev via Cook Strait, August 23. : Manuka, for Melbourne via the Bluff i and Hobart, September 1, Tu port at noon to-day :—At Dunedin : Mokoia (steam). Huantii, Houto. Makawelli (sail). At Port Chalmers : Moeraki, Mourn., C'orinna (steam). Maunganui, s.s.. acted as ferry steamer from Wellington last night. She was to leave Lyttelton at 8 o'clock to-night, and ia dne at Danedin about 1 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. She leaves on Sunday for the Bluff. Hobart, and Melbourne. Mokoia.. s.s., mailed this afternoon for Auckland via East Coast ports. Tavinni, s.s.. leaves the Bluff to-mor-row night, and is <lue here on Sunday. Slip leaves on Monday for the West Coast via ports. Kowhai. s.s.. loaves Greymouth on Saturday for Oainarn and Dunedin. She is due here towards the end of next week. Flora, s.s., will leave West-port tomorrow for Wellington and Dunedin. She is due here about Thursday. Invercargill. s.s., left l'nvercargill tins morning for Dunedin via Waikawa,. .She is <\ue here to-morrow. Strathroy, s.s., is at present at Lyttelton. Sh» is due here- about Wednesday •with case oil from New York. Essex, s.s.. was to leave Wellington today for I.yttelton. She is due there on August 24. at Dunedin on the 31st, and at the Bluff on September 6. She will then proceed to Timaru to load, and is due there on September 14. The Essex will sail funliy from Tiinaru on September 17 for United Kincdom via Australian ports and Suez ('ana!. THE S.S. CORSICAN'S ESCAPE. A LESSON' FROM THE TITANIC. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON/August 22. The steamer Corsican, which collided with an iceberg recently, has arrived at Liverpool. She reports that at the time of the collision the vessel was going dead plow, which prevented a serious disaster. Even then her stem was driven in 10ft above the water line. The boats were s'.vtiivj; out. but there -was no panic, though many apprehended a repetition of the Titanic disaster. The iceberg towered high above the vessel, and hundreds of tons of ico fell on board. LABOR SCHOONER WRECKED. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. SYDNEY, August 23. (Received August 23. at 10.45 a.m.) When the French labor schooner Nobanga was lying off Pentecost Island (New Hebrides) a. charge of dynamite that was prepared to attact the natives was dropped alongside, and knocked a hole in the bottom of the vessel, which sank. Th« crew narrowly escaped.

LOSS OF THE G. W. WOLFF. Press Association— By Telegraph—Copyright. .MELBOURNE, August 22. The Court found that the wreck of the G. W. \Volff was caused by the improper and unskilful navigation of the master (Captain Thomas). MISCELLANEOUS. Tho following paragraph is interesting, as showing how important wireless telegraphy on ships is considered by American authorities :—'"Captain E. D. Johnstone, of the steamship Sabine, of the Mallory Line, has been lined £2O for sailing from New York last December without a wireless operator. He told the Court that the Sabine, outward bound for Gulf ports, anchored until nightfall, waiting for her operator. The man did not come, and rather than lie at anchor all night he proceeded on his voyage, leaving instructions for the operator to go bv rail to Brunswick (Ga.), the Sabine's first port of call. The operator did as instructed, but as Brunswick is more than 200 miles from New York, Captain Johnstone was held guilty of a technical violation of the law." The schooner Joseph Sims, purchased some time ago by Tasmanian buyers, which was unable to leave New Zealand" until the 23rd of July owing to difficulty in securing ;i crew, has arrived at Melbourne (says the Sydney 'Shipping List'), and created a very favorable impression. She is of the topsail class, and but 87 tons register, and although a fair amount of adverse weather was met on the run from Hokianga, came through undamaged. The Joseph Sims will discharge at Melbourne, and then proceed to Launceston to begin her new career.

The extensive harbor improvement scheme which is to be carried out at Valparaiso, and will take about seven years to complete, has been begun. The contractors are Messrs S. Pearson and Sons, Ltd.. of Enjland, whose tender for the work was £2,816,81* This long-awaited and greatly-needed improvement to the important Chilian port will no doubt give that republic as a whole great impetus towards attaining the standing its commercial progress warrants. It is reported that the proposals for a subsidised steamship lino to ply between Black Sod Bay (Ireland) and Ha'Hfax have been renewed to the Canadian Government. It is stated that a fast Pacific lino to Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and India is included in the scheme. —Sydney ' Shipping List.' At Caird's shipbuilding ward, Greenock, a steamer is beinp built for the Peninsular and Oriental Steamshin Company. She will be 11,500 toiis, and 525 ft long.

CHINESE ON JAPANESE SHIPS. Japanese steamship owners, whose vessels are. manned much more cheaply than any other vessels on the Pacific, are now looking to cheaper labor, and Chinese and Indians are being employed. The ' Kobe* Herald' says: "It is stated that the Japanese shipping companies are gradually being converted to the idea that Chinese and Indians should be engaged as seamen and other servants on hoard merchant vessels. Those in favor of this proposal declare that by engaging Chinese and other Asiatics a saving of trom 40 to 50 per cent, in wages will be effected. Moreover, these men are more hardy than the Japanese. Already about 600 Chinese are employed in vessels belonging to Japanese shipping companies. For instance, 50 per cent, ot the men serving on 11 steamers of the Japan China Steamship Company, chiefly plying on the Yang-tsc, are Chinese. Chinese are also engaged on steamers on the Dairen-Shanghai steamers in the service of the Nippon YusenKaisha, and on vessels of the Osaka Shoseu Kaisha and other companies trading in the Far East and in other waters. THE TITANIC DISASTER. The Merchant Shipping Advisory Committee of the Board of Trade, in the course of their report in connection with their investigations subsequent to the Titanic disaster, say: "It is important to remember that the Titanic belonged to a special and limited class of vessel. The disaster demonstrated the extraordinary difficulty, even in calm weather, oi using to the full the available boat accommodation." Tho committee emphasise the primary importance of every precaution being taken to provide stability and seaworthiness, also buoyancy in a vessel after a casualty, with efficient means of communication with other ships. They urge the adoption of the principle that the carrying capacity of I boats provided under the tonnage scale, and additional collapsible boats and approved life-rafts, should be sufficient to accommodate all on board. It is recommeuded that there should be two efficient hands in every boat that puts off from a vessel, and that there should be adequate 1 provision of life-jackets. Vessels should | only proceed at a moderate speed at night time hi the vicinity of ice, the report adds, but searchlights should not he used, nor I should the look-out be provided with bino- I culars.

BLUFF HARBOR MASTER RETIRES

AN ENTHUSIASTIC VALEDICTORY

Our correspondent wires : —One of the most enthusiastic functions of the kind held in this part of the Dominion was tendered Captain Norman Macdonald, who recently | retired from the position of harbor master' |at Bluff alter 25 years' service. Captain Macdonald was presented with an illuminated address and a puree of sovereign.-. subscribed by over 200 friends. The i -VI ay or (Mr W. Hinchey) presided, and in milking the presentation said that before Captain Macdonald came- to the Bluff the harbor had a very bad mime, so much eo that shipowners simply declined to allow their ships to come to the Bluff, and insurance companies would not insure large vessels bound for the port. -He was an enterprising man, with the courage of his convictions, and. he set about breaking down the prejudice existing against the harbor. Pie made a thorough success of it, and the Bluff was now considered one of the safest harbors for vessels of all sizes. Captain Macdonald's service had made the port what it was. He had saved it from being what it might be termed—merely a suburb of Otago Harbor. The circumstances of his severing his connection with the Bluff harbor were well known. It was. a strong statement to make —awl he did not care who heard it—but Captain Macdonald had been the victim of the grossest injustice ever meted out to a public servant. He made that statement voluntarily, and he knew that it would be backed up by all the residents of the, Bluff and Southland. (Cheers.) Captains trading to the Bluff know his worth, and were of the same- opinion as himself arid hundreds of others. (Cheers.) Captain Macdonald had spent the best part of his life in the service of the Bluff harbor, and he had got very little for it except ingratitude. (Cheers.) Messrs E. A. Nichol, C. A. Tipping. Joseph Metzger, and Captain Stewart also spoke at length and voiced the general regret. j Captain Macdonald modestly responded. He left for Dunedin yesterday, where he { will take up his residence. SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. AUCKLAND, August 22. Monowai, from Southern ports. WELLINGTON. August 22.-8.5 p.m.. Maunganui. for •Hobart and Melbourne via Southern ports. Passengers for Dunedin : Misses Watkins, Pilcher, Holdsworth, M'Lean, Heaven, Middlcton, Hart, Summers, Baglev, Mesdamos Tuckwell, Mitchell, Relbrave, Middleton, Nicol, Messrs Tuckwell, Ballard, Monro. LYTTELTON, August 22.—Uliimvroa, for Wellington.