SHIPPING.

Evening Star, Issue 14999, 5 October 1912, Page 5

SHIPPING.

HIGH. .WATER.. TO-MORROW. Taiaroa Head : 11.11 a.m., 11.45 p.m. Port Chalmers : 11.51 a.m., p.m." Dunedin : a.m., .0.21 p.m. MONDAY. Taiaroa Hca<] : a.m., 0.12 p.m. Port Chalmers : 0.25 a.m., 0.52 p.m. "Dunedin : 0.55 a.m., 1.22 p.in.^ ' THE SUN. Sets, to-day, 6.16 p.m.; rises to-morrow, 6.36 a.m. ' THE MOON. Set to-day,ll. 4a.ra. ; rises to-morrow, 3.35 a.m. —Phases During October.— Oetobcr 11 New moon Lll a.m. October 18 First quarter 3.36 p.m. October 26 Full moon 2.1 p.m. WEATHER REPORTS. The Government Meteorologist (Rev. D. C. Bates) supplied the" following weather reports at 9 a.m. to-day : Bar. Ther. Weath. Westport— N.E.,br 30.21 55 OR Oreymouth—N.E.,br 30.08 53 0 C P Bealey—X.W.,mc ... 30.04 58 0 Christ church—Calm 30.01 55 B Timarn—X.W.,l ... 29.85 57 C Oamaru—X. fb ... 29.72 62 O Dunedin—N.N. W.,1 29.63 61 BC Queenstown—Calm ... 29.68 65 EC Nuggets—X.,l ... 29.56 57 0 Bluff—N.,mg ... 29.55 58 B P. Chalmers—N*.E.,fb 29.69 59 0 Roxburgh—N.E.,g ... 29.40 63 BC Naseby—N.W.,l ...' 27.75 56 BC Baklutha—N., 1 ... '66 0 Centre Island—X., fb 29.50 63 Z Invercargill—N. nig 29.42 67 B Pembroke—X.,l ... 28.70 61 0 Clyde— N.W., ... Pnyscigur Pt.— W..g 29.38 60 Wind.—L., light: br breeze; fb, fresh breeze; m e, moderate sale; g, whole or heavy gale ; w. gale of exceptional severity. \\ eather.—B, blue skv, be the atmosphere clear or heavv ; C, clouds, passing clouds; D, drizzling rain; F, io"rx ■ G gloomy, dark weather; H, hail: LTliVht 1 mng; M. misty; O, overcast, the whole sky covered with thick clouds; P, passing showers; Q. squally; R, rain, continued rain: S, .'.now; T. thunder; U, uglv, threatening appearance; Z, hazy. FORKC.IST. The Government Meteorologist (Rev. D. C. Bates) supplied the following at noon to-day :—Storm approaching from tne west and north, veering to south after 36 hours; boisterous weather, with rain later; glass fall fast after 10 hours; tides poor, sea rough off shore. 5. Corinna, s.s., 1.271 tons, Cameron, from Onehunga via ports. Manuka, t.s.s., 4,502 tons, Neville, from Sfjdney via Cook Strait. Passengers : Intercolonial—Miss Payard, Merdan-.es Payard, Bourne, Fleming, Messrs Bourne, Hurst, Boreham. A. Mulholland. Xichol, Payard. Coastal—Mises Hughrm, Woolly, Faulkner, Holmes, Nelson, Blake, Kelly, Barber. Tant, Mesdames "Holmes, M'Donald, Bastings, Duncan, Gamble. Smith. Brown, Harkcr, Messrs Dav, Robson, Gamble, M'Donald, Luke, 'Smith. Jameeon. Witty, Alexander. M'Rae, Nees', Smith, Waite, Hurst. Bingham, Pratt, Smith, Brown, Rev. Coates. SAlLED.—October 4. Mokoia, s.s., 3,502 tons, Harris, for Auckland via East Coast ports. Passengers: Misses J. Rabone, D. Rabone, M Donald, Mesdames Reid and child, Morton and child, Messrs Corbett. Firth, Turner, Shand, M'Lean, Ewen, Stewart: 12 steerage. October 5. Kotare, s.s., 141 tons, Treurn. for the South. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. —Coastal.— Monowai, from Auckland via East Coast ports, October 10. Tarawera, from Auckland via East Coast ports, October 13. —lntercolonial. Victoria, from Sydney via. Auckland, October 6. Maitai, from Melbourne via Hobart and_the Bluff, October 8. Ulimaroa, from S%*dnev via.Cook Strait, October 12. —Oversea, Steam.— Anelo-Calirbrnian, left New Fork June 11; due Dunedin about October 13. Tongariro, left London August 25; due about October 11. Kaipara, left Liverpool July 31; due Auckland September 22; due Dunedin about October 14. Kia Ora, left Liverpool August 19; due Dunedin about October 24. Southern, left New York July 19; due Dunedin about end of October. Whakarua, left New York August 6; due Dunedin October 29. Rakaia, left Montreal August 10; due Dunedin about October 31. Karamea, from London ; left on September 19; due Dunedin direct earlv in November. Waiwera, left Canada August 15; due Auckland October 21; due Dunedin early in November. Surrey, left Liverpool August 24; due Dunedin about November 6. Birkenfels. left New York .August 12; due Dunedin about November 10. Anglo-Mexican, from New Y'ork: sailed September 21; due Dunedin about November 20. Harpagus, from N r ew York: was to fciil September 25; due Dunedin about end of December. Hakushika Mam, from Japan; due in October. Wakanui, from St. John; sailed September 22. Rotenfels, from New York ; was to sail September 30: due Dune-din early in January. Westmeath, from Liverpool; to sail November 16. Kent, from Liverpool; to sail October 19. Mamari, from London ; to s.-ul for Dunedin direct early in November. Morayshire, from Liverpool; to sail November 30. Tyrone, from Liverpool; to sail December 14. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Manuka, for Melbourne via the Bluff and Hobart, October 6. Victoria, for Sydney via Auckland, October 8. Maitai, for Svdney via Cook Strait, October 9. Ulimaroa, for Melbourne via the Bluff and Hobart, October 13. Maunganui, for Sydney via Cook Strait, October 16. Moeraki, for Melbourne via the Bluff and Hobart, October 20. Wimmera, for Svdnev via Auckland, October 22. Ulimaroa, for Sydney via Cook Strait, October 30. In port at noon to-day :—At Dunedin : Wimbledon, Manuka. 'Kotare, Breeze. Corinna (steam), Titania (sail). At Port Chalmers: Warrimoo. Walthraute (steam). Victoria, s.s., is due to-morrow morning, probably between 9 and 10 o'clock, from Sydney via Auckland and East Coast ports. She sails on Tuesday on the return trip. Walthraute, s.s., was acain undergoing survey this morning in dock at Port Chafmers for the purpose of the extent of the damage done to her bottom before she cam-e to New Zealand being accurately aseerwrned. Xgatoro, s.s., war- exneotcd at Port Chalmers to-day for docking and.periodical inspection. Wairoa, s.s., which, it will be remembered, came down to Port Chalmers some time ago to go gold-hunting .to the Auckland Islands, but never got any .further south, was docked thus morning at Port Chalmers in connection with her probable aalo to an Auckland firm. Kotare, s.s., tailed to-day for Invercargill and Riverton. Breeze, s.s., was to sail from Rattray street wharf late this afternoon for Northern ports. Manuka, s.s., arrived this morning from Sydney via Wellington and Lytteltoh. She ails to-morrow afternoon for Melbourne via the Bluff and Hobart, taking the following pasengers : —Misses Keast, Broaden, K«ast, Cavtia j(2L

Hosier and child, Courtnev, Messrs Salmon, R. Browne, M'Leod, Clifton, Courtney, Berntein, H. F. Lloyd; six steerage. Tavinui, s.s., is due hero to-morrow, and leaves on Monday for Oamarn, Timaru, Westport, and G'reymouth. Helen Denny, barque, left Newcastle yesterday on her last seagoing trip. On completion of discharge at Wellington she will be dismantled and converted into a coal hulk. Tahiti, s.s., has informed Suva by wireess that she is a day ahead of her time. She should accordingly reach Wellington at 8 a.m. on Wednesday instead of Thursday. Rotorua, s.s., left Plymouth last Saturday for Wellington and Lvttelton via ports She is due at Cape Town about October 19, Hobart November 7, Wellim-. ton November 12, and Lvttelton November 18. Navua, s.s., is due at Auckland on Monday. She proceeds to Wellington with trait, and returns to Auckland with transhipments ex Tahiti. Afterwards she will load coal at Westport for Auckland. Moana, s.s., was due at 'Frisco on lnursday. She leaves on the return trip to Wellington on October 16. Aorangi. «. s ., was to leave Sydney today for Wellington, and is due there on Ihursday, October 10. She will sail the following day for San Francisco via Rarotonga and Papeete, being due at her destination on October 31. ■ "' Waihora, s.s., left Newcastle vesterdav morning for Wellington. She is'expected there about Wednesday, and after discharge returns to Sydney, where she docks. She proceeds'' thence to Newcastle to load for Penang. Kamona, s.s.. was due'at Pictou to-dav from Newcastle. She will proceed to New Plymouth with the balance of her cargo, and thence co to Grevmouth to load timber for Sydney. Rakanoa, s.s., was 'due at Grevmouth to-day to load timber for Melbourne and Sydney. Waitcmata, s.s., is now discharging a.t Sydney, where she docks for survey p'rior to proceeding to Newcastle to load for Lvttelton and Timaru. Kurow,_ s.s., is duo at Auckland on Monday from Fiji with a cargo of sugar. She should reach Wesport direct about V\ ednesd>ay, October 16."t0 load Naw coal for Sydney. Invercargill, s.s., i 6 due to-morrow from the south. Tongariro, s.s.. is due at Wellington about Tuesday or Wednesday next, "and hero a couple of days later. Maori, s.s., was 'to come out of dock at Lyttelton to-day, and resumes in the fernservice to-night. Corinna, s.s., arrived to-dav from Northern ports. An effort was being made to get her away to-night for Onehunga via ports. The Federated Seamen's Union have secured promises from the Union Company to make improvements in the living quarters of certain of their vessels. Amonpthe vcs-sels so mentioned are the Arahura' Taviuni, and Maori. Captain Hollingsworth. who, on account of ill-health, was relieved of the command of the Tyser_Line steamer Indrabarah last voyage, has completely recovered, and is once more in charge* of that steamer, which arrived at Melbourne on Tuesdav from London. SMALL STEAMER SINKS. [Per Uxited Press Association.] WELLINGTON. October 5. Levin and Co.'s steamer Gertie sank in the Manawatu River, about six miles from Foxton, yesterday, when inwardbound from Westport. She groiuided evidently in one of the shallows caused by the recent flood, and after some of her coal had been shifted forward she floated off and commenced to go up the river. It was soon found she was making water and settling down by the head, and she soon took the ground and remained fast. It is thought probable that a seam opened when the vessel first Grounded. A centrifugal pump has been" fitted, and pumping operations commenced. It is hoped to float her off and navigate her to Foxton wharf. LUMBER FOR XEW r ZEALAND. Advice has been received locally that two American sailers have been chartered to load Oregon pine at Puget Sound for Lyttelton and Dunedin. The Sydney ' Shipping List' states that the vessels are the barquentine Benicia. 674 tons gross register, owned by the M. Turner Company, of San Francisco, and commanded by Captain Hayes (who visited Lyttelton in 1907 in charge of the magnetic survey schooner Galilee), and the four-masted schooner Kona, 679 tons gross register, owned by Hind, Rolph, and Co., of San Francisco, and commanded by Captain Hansen. The four-masted barquentine Koko Head, 1,011 tons, is loading at Portland, . Oregon, for Wellington, ° and the schooner M. Turner, 763 tons, left Sound on September 25 for Auckland. ° WHEAT FIXTURES. Notwithstanding the firmness of freights at present, and the general opinion that they will go still higher, some are of the opinion that charterers would do well to act a little more warily in regard to tonnage engagements, except that required tor prompt loading. It is rather a large question to decide off hand, but from what has happened recently here in Australia, as well as other parts' of the world, owing to the general shortage of tonnage, it is quite pardonable to assume that the pessimists have little ground to base their contentions upon, and shippers seem to think so, too. for instead of curtailing engagements lists they continue to augment them. Xo less than seven fresh fixtures have been reported, including four of the "Inver" line of vessels, at 37s 6d per ton. The additions to the fleet to load are as follows:—lnvergarry, Inverlogie, Inversnaid, and Invermark, South Australian loading: also the barques Glitre and Glenesk. 1,594 and 1.267 tons register respectively, at Sydney for the United Kingdom or Continent, new season's, and the barque Auldgirth, 1,434 tons, Melbourne or Geelong to United Kingdom or Continent, old season's.—Exchange. OVERSEA STEAMERS. SYDNEY, October 4.—Pakeha, from London. SHIPPING TELEGRAMS WELLINGTON. October 4.-8 p.m., Victoria, for Lyttelton and Dunedin, with 211 passengers.—s.2s p.m., Moeraki, for Sydney. SYDNEY. October 4.—Myra Fell, from Auckand.— 9.30 p.m., Wimmera. from Auckland. NEWCASTLE, October 4.—Waihora and Helen Denny, lor rori, for New Zealand. (For Continuation see Late Shipping.)