SHIPPING.

Evening Star, Issue 15066, 24 December 1912, Page 6

SHIPPING.

wßiffi ' \ - HIGH WATER, SS?J&£ -' ' - mffii; 10-MOBHOW. a.m., 4.50 p.m. fyf- s '''" l THUBBBAT. Head : 4.9 a.m., 4.43 p.m. import .Chalmers : 4.49 a.m., 5.23 p.m. Dunrafcfshv: 5.19 a.m., 5.53 p.m. j£",;' THE SUN... Sets'-to-day, 7.54 p.m. j rises to-morrow, P'„4.2l i a.m. _ THE MOON. §f*A ™'- ses to -^ a yj 8-34 p.m.; sets to-morrow, a.m. *£,' • —Phases During December.— —— - , _ gy" ARRlVED.—December 24.. ■. / |':.,Kotare, s.s., 141 tons, Treurn, from £_; Invercargill. %(.*[ ' EXPECTED ARRIVALS. ';','' t , —Coastal.— '£• _Mokoia, from Auckland via East Coast iV.Eorts, December 26. p, ' —lntercolonial. I'' Victoria, from Sydney via Auckland, f. December 29. #/' Moeraki, from Sydney via Cook Strait, £; December 29. 'f\ ' —Oversea, Steam.— |, -Anglo-Mexican, from Ni-w York; |i, sailed September 21; arrived Auckland £' December 10; duo Dunedin about Decem-jfJ-.'ber 24. §-', Harpagns, from New York; sailed early 'y]in October; at Melbourne December 16; ••/"due Dunedin middle of January.' i*. ~-Hakushika Marn, left Kushiro (Japan) ,;".on N° v ernber H,- d ue New Zealand early. ( n. , Hnrunni, left Liverpool November 5; \„m Melbourne December 15; due Auck- ■ u land January 1. &, Mamari. from Liverpool; sal'ed Novem--11: her 14 for Dunedin direct; left Cape i"> Town December 3; now about due here. - t t Buteshire, left New York November 5; \- due Dunedin in February. Ei Star of Treland, \.o leave New York i 24 "jj, -Westmeath, from Liverpool; sailed Not vember 28. Kent, from Liverpool; sailed October j- 19;' due Dunedin January 2 *\ Essex, from Liverpool;" to sail Jannarv J- Tyrone, from Liverpool; sailed DecemJ ' ber 15. 3S_ Eotenfels, left New Y r ork October 22; |.„at Melbourne December 16; due Dunedin abonfc January' 16. P'j 'Morayshire, left Liverpool December 5. ;'',', K ai fc° nra > from London; sailed DecemK ber 5: due Dunedin about January 19. *}_ Finisterre, from New Y"ork; sailed NoL vember 28; due in February. | s ; Waimate, from Montreal; sailed No-&;-vembor 29; due Auckland January 29. £*■' —Oversea, Sail.— %."■ Jane , L- Stanford, left Pngefc Sound ¥ , YaUaroi, ship, left Marseilles, Septem'g ber 23; due Dunedin in January. | PROJECTED DEPARTURES, fi;; Maunganui, for Sydney via Cook Strait, ft-, .Kotare, s.s., arrived this morning from She lays up for the holiJv, days. I s '- Flora, s.s., is due to-morrow night. ii' Pukaki, s.s., is due on Saturday. J; Kowhai, s.s., is expected on Sunday. # -Katoa, s.s., leaves "Westport at the end f y < of this week with Navy coal for Fre|ymantle. ahe returns fiom Bunbury to •s\ 'Lyttelton. 5; Kaitangata, s.s., left Kaipara on Satnrday for Melbourne and Adelaide. She revia Hobart to Dunedin, Oamaru, f,\ Timaru. and Lyttelton. f Wanaka, s.s., leaves Auckland to-day £-for Port Chalmers. J £,"- . Ruapehu, s.s., arrived at Lyttelton yesfp.terday morning. After discharge "she jV-ytakes up the Homeward loading berth, g. and sails from .Wellington on January 9 London. \ } The efforts to refloat the French barque v': Chateau Briand,. which went ashore on y the Truebridgo Shoal, have so far proved fv unavailing. T'„ s y ver al captains, of French coasters and their owners have each been fined 300 j;, francs at Havre for breaches of the navigation laws. The vessels were taken to £ the Azores for the purpose of purchasing - crayfish, thus performing "oversea" vovt>„ A tele P" a m from Santiago de Chili says £sfthat; a .British British Steamship ComsV.pany has informed the Chilian Governi"! ment tnat Jt intends, as soon as the £•-.7 Panama Canal is open, to establish five £. steamship lines between Chili and the •£ r United States, two of which will <r o rvj.'" l ? l *? the Straifc of Magellan and three V- .'Will use the Panama' Canal. %" The small tug Doto, which was " ar&'rested" at Auckland some weeks ago in |J; .consequence of a failure on the part of her £- owner to meet a liability in respect to to wages, was sold by auction on Thursday ~; last for £550. It is understood that steps ft are being taken to form a syndicate' with * % the object of working her as a tug in and p about Auckland. The Doto is an iron ves!j' 4 sel of 29 tons register, and is 58ft in r ; length, and fitted with a 16 h.p. engine V;She was built at Gisborne in 1891 and *f;.for a number of years was worked as a fi£-t ug and trawler °«t of Napier and Wellmgton. For some months past she has '"a ? een employed as a tug in Auckland Har- «/ bor. t- '• Captain Joseph Tyndall Adams, in the |, 'earlier days well known in New Zealand •".•■shipping circles, died at the Taita, WelVMington, on Saturday morning. Captain who was born in London in 1842 # ™ e ft i£ sea , at il n earl - v a § e in the shi P and after a few years at sea, # ,'wmle. stdl a youmr man, he reached the ,d c position of chief officer of the s.s. Soukar \PI ?? e ° f } he H sfc J essels t0 carf y passengers from India round the Cape of Good '#> rre'? e ' L , &hort] y ; the Soukar left the captain died, and Mr Adams %. who was then only about 23 years of age' ,1- -'navigated her to England, and on arrivai 2*-' 11 the command. He served in & Jl I " dl , an trade for some vears, and when 5? a-,i « was P urch ased by the Shaw- £, Savill Company Captain Adams came to », -New Zealand in her. That was in the # "-early seventies. He commanded the -a&oukar for 10 years, and shortly afterwards the New Zealand Shipping Comy> Pany was formed, when he transferred his v-;- services, and was given command of the if. . Hurunui on her second voyage, in 1875 I%V He afterwards commanded the Wairoa in | .ywhich he made a number of voyages to I.' Wellington, and the Wanganui. " When f" T? litter vessel was sold in 1888 Captain j; Adams settled down at the Taita, where 3. he had lived quietly ever since. He was *.-. married twice. He leaves three sons (the f eldest being Mr E. C. Adams, of the 1 j 10 ? x Com P an .y» Wellington), and two ■J-, -daughters by his first wife, and four sons |gV ,-.by his second wife, survives him. '.' PERSONALIA.

&: Captain R. E. Smith joined the Mokoia at Auckland to enable CapjSi! tain Harris to come on to Dunedin owing j|«j. Lto the death of his mother. fi. ■ -■> Mr F. Dinsmore rejoined the ' MaunIV'ianm to-day at Dunedin as second officer. i^'-'Mr. Huon. went back to third, and Mr &5--.-J3amson to fourth. jgr- ~ f*i;; -,' HANDICAPS AT. WELLINGTON. |->- \Thfl old,' old trouble—shortage of trucks K...1-1S again much in evidence at Welibg-fo-.ton. On top of this comes a shortage of |'.;the wharves. Speaking to a reporter, Mr £, Galbraith, of the New Zealand Shipping stated that his company ha<l unable to do anything wit'i transshipments from the Riiapehu on account IjlXof shortage of labor. The A. and S. Line's Jj -.chartered steamer is held-up on .".ccount of *J,rthe same thing. Regarding the shirla.-'e g ! of .trucks, the local agents 'or the Tyser IfiktKeir"steamer Marero have bea-i haaipeied p/CTho position became so acute that, iu ||::\prder to get tho vessel away for London, local representatives of the con.par.y mji arranged-. for a. special train to run to Sj]Jßs£Petone to facilitate the work of loading jgfjS"&id also to get'trucks. The Union Comgppany's Rakanoa.. has also suffered 'Do-

CALCUTTA TRADERS. Aparima, s.s., is' due at Lvttelton on Saturday from Calcutta. Waihora, s.s., left. Singapore vesterdav, and will clear Java early next\veek for Auckland direct, where she is due early in January. ' P. AND 0. CADETSHIPS. The P. and 0. Company have had for some years past an arrangement for the admission of candidates on board the Worcester training ship, on payment of hait the college fees', the company paying the other halt, amounting to 32Ags annually, and subsequently bearing half the cost ot three years' apprenticeship, until the cadets are qualified to join their fleet as junior officers. This arrangement will ho expanded next rear to more Jiberal conditions by the company paying the .whole amount of the apprenticeship fees for three years, and thus giving additional encouragement to families desirous of entering their eons for a sea. life.—'Fairplay. NA TIONALITY AT SEA. In going through the table showing the ; ratings ot different nationalities, it appears that 21.8 per cent, of the Scotchmen at sea are engineers, and 14.3 per cent, stewards, etc.; of Welshmen 15.6 per cent, are engineers, and 15.4 per cent. mates; of the Englishmen. 24.8 per cent, are-engaged as stewards, etc., 14.2 per cent, as firemen, and 11.5 per cent, as engineers; while of the Irishmen employed, p?r cent, act as able seamen, and 20.9 per cent._ as firemen. Of the foreigners in the Unlisn mercantile marine. 34.1 per cent, serve as sailors, 26.7 per cent, as firemen, and 15.3 per cent, as stewards, ASPECTS OF THEJREIGHT BOOM. hill! f ™t«re of the present tiouble with shipbuilders is (savs ' Fair-' Play ) that while they are unable to secure a profit m consequence of the action of tne men. tlie shipowners have in many instances been able to sell the vessels on the stocks at a profit of £IO.OOO or £20.000, a Portion of which might have been secured by the shipbuilder* if they could only Have turned out work at anything like the contract dates. There are' a lot of inquiries in the market at the present time ioi special work, and owners are quite prepared to pay the enhanced prices deman e d by builders, but the late P delivery "> Atlimg the business, and owners are preerring to charter to contracting at such J.gh prices for delivery so long* ahead as ADVANTAGE IN SPEED. The new British battle cruiser Princess Royal, winch completed her steam trials lastmonth has .settled for ever the claim made by | le German naval authorities trial hie latest German battle cruiser, the w^n n, f n ll « fast « t Dreadnought m the world. 'lhe Princess Royal-ha* attained upon her trials the' phenomenally hi*h speed of 34.7 knots per hour, a world's lecord for vessels of her class! The new cruiser ,s 660 ft long, and has a displacer . *S \°» s - Her turbine engines £ • £n r°rn° 00 u h - p " aS ***imb the Goelens 50.0C0 h.p. In every essential the Princess [loyal and her sister ships, the Lion and Queen Mary, though rated as cruisers, are move formidable, both for" attack and defence, than any of the preDreadnoivjnt battleships. Her armor is superior m its resistance to perforation by modern guns, and her eight 13.5 in guns provide an armament which should enable her to Pns,ly account for two battleships of the Knig ]-.<hvard class. Her immense supei-.on,y ,„ s]Wfl . toot would enabJe ner to steam round a whole fleet of King '.awards firing when it suited her, and keeping beyond the range at which the guns <„ th older battleships could perforate the armor of the modern cruiser. Th" difference between the battleshios of the latest Mipei-preadiionght dass and armored cruisers such as the Princess Roval is \er\- sn„ht Tn the cruiser a little 'has to j be samheed in the matter of armor pro-! tection to S o l; , !r e the high speed demanded by the modern tactician, while, instead of iJ oig guns, the ciuiser carries eight, ltiej-e arc- tne only points of difference, I ana. in the opinion of naval experts, the extra speed of the cruiser makes her for many purposes a moi'e effective ficdithv? nnit than (lie battleship. In the Princesl Kovaf. as ,n some of the later battleships. tliesiu, ? le mast has been reverted to in preference to the tripod mast, which ZT f ,T' h „\^ aint and distinctive feature of the hrst Dreadnought, .SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. AUCKLAND December 23.-6.20 p.m., Wimmera. tor Svrlney r,-,!, J i\ t , tp!ton - w,th 320 Passengers. ORI-\: MOUTH, December *" 23.-0 30 p.m.. kaituna. for Sydney' LYTTELTON. December 23.-5.50 a.m. Zealandic, from Gisborne.-Tarawera, for Wellington. ' SYDNEY. December 23.—Saturday. Makura, from Auckland.—Sunday, Malwa from Auckland. ' (For continuation see Late Shipping).