LATE SHIPPING.

Evening Star, Issue 15066, 24 December 1912, Page 4

LATE SHIPPING.

WEATHER EEPORTS. The Government Meteorologist (E«T. D. C. Bates) supplied the following weather reports at 9 a,m. to-day : Bar. Ther. Weath. Westport—Not received. ,-

Wind.— L, light; br, breeze; fb, fresh breeze; m g, moderate gale; g, whole or heavy gale; 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 sky covered with thick clouds; P, passing showers; Q, squally; B, rain, continued rain; S. snow; T, thunder; V, ugly, threatening appearance; Z, hazy. Forecast. The Government Meteorologist (Rev. D. C. Bates) supplied the following at noon to-day : —Northerly winds and freshening; miid and hazy conditions, increasing to cloudy weather, and change following; glass falling tendency; tides good, sea moderate. ARRlVED.—December 24. Maunganui, s.s., 7,527 tons, Worrall, for Sydney via Cook Strait. Passengers: Mesdames Latham, Osborne, Tombs, Pearce, Wotten, Hall, Patterson, Nugent, Kilgour, Wood, Smith, Latham, Harrison, Misses M'Lachlan, Hall, Chandler, Stevenson. Mills, Mattews (2), Ray, Mellick (2), M'Cleary, Hall, French (2), Aitken, Boclirch, Hamilton, Brice, Read, Wood, Cowie (2), Hall (2), Mitchell, Grav, Mum, Kettle. Duncan, Carruthers, Webster, Bagley, Messrs Dunhill, Gerrie, Field, Mills, Leys, Carruthers, Patterson, Mazengarb, Latham. Nettleford, Young, Alios, Halligan, Bell, Young, White, Storrie, Robertshaw, Rossbotham, Moxham, Ahlfeld [2), Wotten, Wilson, Towry, Louden, Tombs, Harrison, Fitzpatrick, Agie, Osborne, Tyrrell. Adam: and 44 steerage. Whangape, s.s., 2,931 tons, Parsons, from Newcastle. Maunganui, s.s., 7,527 tone, Worrall, from Melbourne via Hobart and the Bluff. Passengers: Misses Rosbotham, Bishop' Thompson. Black, Scoullar, Schroder, Paterson, Herring, Viney, M'Kenzie, Cos, Mesdames Atkinson, Price, Percy, Eva, Stevens, Cox, Messrs Fieldrith, Andrews, Rev. Gallop, Kinder, Price, Thompson, Duthill, Masters Pierce, Kelpatrick, Bowling, Stevens. In port at noon to-day :—At Dunedin : Maunganui, Invercargill, Kotare (steam), Triton (sail). At Port Chalmers : Moura, Wakanui, Taviuni, Kauri, Maitai, Progress, IT.M.S. Cambrian (steam). Mokoia, s.s., is due at Dunedin early on Thursday morning from Auckland via East Coast ports. She sails on Friday afternoon on the return trip. Whangape, s.s., reached Port Chalmers to-day from Newcastle. Slie comes up to Dunedin in a day or two to complete her discharge, and then returns to Port Chalmers for survey. Anglo-Mexican, s.s., is expected tomorrow, and will start discharging on Friday. It is hoped to get her away on Saturday for Newcastle. Invercargill. s.s., at present at Dunedin, will lay up till January 3, when she will sail for Invercargill. Maunganui, s.s., arrived at an early hour this morning from Melbourne via Hobart and the Bluff. She sailed this afternoon in continuation of her voyage to Sydney via Lyttelton and Wellington. Wakanui, s.s., at present laid up at Port Chalmers, leaves on Thursday to start Homeward loading at Oamaru. Moure, s.s., was having her compasses adjusted this morning at Port Chalmers. Fog signals boomed at the Heads todav.

Grcymonth—S.W., 1 30.17 63 0 Bealey—Calm 30.20 65 0 Christchrtrch—Calm 30.15 64 0 Timaru—X.E.,1 30.26 68 BC Oamaru—N.E.,1 30.02 66 O .Dunedin—S.E..1 30.02 00 0 Queenstown —Calm ... 30.16 65 BO iMiCRets —isr.,i 29.98 59 Jtf Bluff—W.,br 30.12 59 BC Pembroke—Calm 29.10 68 O Roxburgh—N.E..1 ... 29.94 65 BC Balclutha—N.E.,'1 ... 62 OG Clyde—N.W., 1 — 70 O Naseby—Calm 28.20 60 D Fort Chalmers—Calm 50.15 59 D PuysegurPt.—W.,1 30.18 62 B Invercargill—S.W., 1 30.01 63 O