SHIPPING.

Evening Star, Issue 15537, 6 July 1914, Page 7

SHIPPING.

HIGH WATER. TaJaxoa Head: 2.2 a.m., 2.29 p.m. „ Port Ck.liners : 2.42 a.m., 3.9 p.m. Dunedin : 3.12 a.m., 3.39 p.m. THE SUN. Sets to-day, 4.29 p.m.; rises to-morrow, 7.54 a.m. THE MOON. Sets to-morrow, 7.39 a.m.; rises to-mor-row, 3.47 p.m. —Ph.-,ses During July.— July S - Full Moon 1-30 a.m. July 15 Last quarter 7.2 p.m. July 23 .New moon 2.8 p.m. July 30 First quarter 11.21 a.m. WEATHER REPORTS. The Government Meteorologist (Rev. D. C. Bates) supplied the following weather reports at 9 a.m. to-day:

Wind.—L., light: br, breeze; f b, rn'sh breeze; m g, moderate gale; g, whole or heavy gale; w, gale of exceptional severity. Weather.—B, blue sky, he the atmosphere clear or heavy : C, clouds, passing clouds; D, drizzling rain; F. foggy: G, gloomy, dark weather: H, hail; LiTligntning; M, misty; O, overcast, the whole sky covered with thick clouds; P, passing showers: Q, squally; R. rain, -continued rain; S. snow; T," thunder; U, ugly, threatening appearance; Z, hazy. FOSKCAST. The Government Meteorologist (Rev. D. C. Bates) supplied the following at noon to-day :—Strong northerly winds. veering to west; prospect of fair weather; cold night, and at times misty and foggy ; glass has falling tendency; tides and" sea moderate. SAILED.—JuIy 5. Moeraki, s.s. (2.30 p.m.), 4.392 tons, Collins, for Melbourne. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. —Coastal.— Monowai. from Auckland via ports. July 7. —lntercolonial. Maitai, from Melbourne, Jniy 7. UlLmaroa. from Svdnev via Cook Strait. July 11. ... —Oversea, Steam. — Northern, left Liverpool April 18, arrived Auckland June 29; due Dunedin July 9. Delphic, left Liverpool May 5; arrived Auckland June 25; due Dunedin July 10. Southern, left St. John May 22; due August 15. Crari. left London June 4; due Dunedin July 22. Franklyn, left New York April 12; due - Dunedin about middle of July. Invertay. Mt Liverpool May 23; due Dunedin Augnst 7. Stolzenfels. left New York June 5. Kararr.ea, left St. John June 4: due August 23. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Ulimaroa, for Melbourne via Bluff and Hobart, July 12. Maitai, for Auckland (connecting with Maheno for Sydney at Wellington, ;ind with Mannka for Sydney at Auckland), July 8. Franklin, s.s., which arrived in Melbourne on June 30. should reach Dunedin via northern ports about 21st inst. A steamer (name as yet unknown), under charter to the A. and A. Company, will be despatched from New York for New Zealand ports on July 27. Kittawa, s.s., loads at Westport to-day for Lyttelton and Timaru. Delphic, s.s., is due at Dunedin to complete her discharge on Friday next. Her movements after that are uncertain. Monowai, s.s,, will not reach Dunedin from Auckland (via ports) until to morrow. She was delayed in order to tranship the southern fruit consignments ex Navua. Captain Roberts, of the Karamu, has come ashore at- Lyttelton on holiday leave. His place will be taken by Captain R. Stewart. KaikouTa, s.s., sailed from London on Saturdav. .-he is due at Auckland on August 21. Moeraki, s.s., got awav vesterdav afternoon at, 2.30, for' Bluff. Hobart. and Melbourne. arrved at Bluff in the early hours of this morning. Pukaki. s.s.. leaves Westport to-morrow morning for Dunedin direct. She is due at this port on Thursday. Taviuni, s.s., sails from Westport tomorrow for Bluff and Dunedin. She is due here on Friday, and leaves again the same day for the West Coast via timetable ports. - Kaipara, s.s., is due. at Port Chalmers

•'rom Bluff to-morrow for loading for New Zealand Shipping Company. She is also :aking cargo for the A. and A. Company. The Kaipara leaves this peat for Lyttelton on Wednesday, sailing thence for London and West Coast United Kingdom porta. TRAGEDY AT SEA. SURVIVORS' SUFFERINGS. Four emaciated wrecks of humanity, v ':•■- 34 hours before had abandoned hop* of life, were carried down the side of the American Revenue cutter Senaca at Halifax, N.S., on May 18, and taken ashore to the hospital, after a thrilling experience. They alone of 15 men of the steamer Columbian survived thirteen and a-halt days of exposure. Eleven of their companions died in a boat from hunger, thirst, and exposure. Two died from hunger and exposure alone, but the majority drank salt water, and one of the last, to die, a Russian fireman, trk>d to kill his five companions then Jiving, and had to be overpowered. —Foretold in a Dream.— The eleventh to die, Peter Prie-ve, expired on Sunday morning. He had dreamed that they would be a fortnight in an open boat. When he died the last of the biscuits on which they had existed for nearly a fortnight was almost gone, and the water was used up, -but the "smoke of the Revenue cutter was seen, and they sighted. The four survivors- were Robert Trire, first officer; Edward Belanger and Oscar Wendal, seamen; and Michael Ludwigsen, fireman. Trire is a native of Liverpool, and 22 years old; Belanger belongs to Cherbrooke, Quebec; and the other men are Swedes. The story of the survivors is that the fire on the Columbian started with a series of explosions, which ripped the ship asunder, and drove the crew to the -boats. The narrative told of the high hopes raised when the Olympic swept by early that morning, snd the despair into which they were plunged when she parsed by in the darkness three-quarters of a mile away. Fresh hopes sprang up whon they sawtwo other steamers- pass next day, but they were "too far off to sight the little craft. Then followed a fight with rough weather for days, in which the boat was several time* half-full of water, and expedients were used in order to devise sea anchors. Rations of biscuits and water were gradually shortened from three hardtack biscuit* acd a pint of water ner man per day to one biscuit and half a pint of water to the four men. Hope had been finally *handoned, when suddenly the Seneca, hove in sight. .

NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYDS. MAKING A BId"iOR AUSTRALIAN PASSENGER SERVICE. f WELLINGTON, July 5. Following on the cabled advices received a few days ago, that the Norddeutscher Lloyd Company had decided to continue the Australian service of passenger steamers, Messrs Castendyk and Focke (local agents) have received cable advice that the Norddeutscher Lloyd Company have decided to make a bid for the patronage of the travelling public during the coming season, and to that end have decided to send out on the Australian service four of their largest steamers, Including the new s.s. Zeppelin, of 16,000 tons, now building, which will be the largest steamer to pass through the Suez Canal, as well as the largest steamer which has ever visited Australia. The steamers Grosser Kurfurst (13,000 tons), Bremen (11,540 tons), and Friedrich der Gross© (10.7? i tons) will also be sent out during the season. FORTUNE IN A WRECKED STEAMER. Three months ago a tramp steamer named the Jane Rowe piled herself up on Bolt Tail, between Plymouth and Dartmouth, so successfully as to defy every effort to refloat her. She- was loaded with 3,000 tons of iron ore. After a thorough survey of the damaged vessel, the insurance agents recommended that the ship and cargo be sold as- they lay. At the sale Mr' George Turner, a marine store dealer, of Plymouth, offered £250 for the lot and secured it. Then he went to see what he had bought. The weather being fine, he lost no time in removing everything movable. Anchors, chains, ridinglights, and suchlike trifles he computes will recoup his speculation. Engines and boilers will be worth a considerable sum,and no one knows better than Mr Turner how to obtain full value for the scrap iron to which he proposes to reduce the hull. The claimed his particular attention. Tho words iron oro have a peculiar fascination for a marine store dealer. and 3,000 tons, estimated to be worth £1 a ton, appeared a fine prize. The hatches were lifted, and Mr- Turner looked long and earnestly at the yellowish rubble, but- said nothing, except to* order half a ton of it to be put ashore. This half ton was sent- to be assayed. It proved to be heavily veined with copper, I and was estimated to be worth £6 a ton. To-day 40 men in lighters attack the stranded steamer. They will only be able to work at certain states of the tide, but all the powers of persuasion which lie within 10? per day and the best of victuals are being extended to each of these a 4o men.

NEW ZEALAND-BUILT VESSEL WRECKED. News received by the last mail from Svdnev states that quite a wave of excitement passed over Sydney shipping circles on June 2 when it became known that an immense quantity of wreckage had been washed ashore at Point Plummer, near Port Macquarie. It was at first feared that a very serious disaster would have to be credited to the recent gale experienced off the New South Wales coast. When the Island steamer Mirima reached Sydney, she brought news of having sighted a lot of gear belonging to some vessel whilst on her way down the coast. Subsequently it was learned that it had been found possible to identify portion of the wreckage as having belonged to the coastal trading schooner Aleda, and later on this news was confirmed by the receipt of a telegram to the navigation authorities from Port Macquarie to the effect that the Aleda had gone ashore three miles from Point Plum mer during the gale at the end of the week. Immediately this news was learned steps were taken by the authorities to send out a party of police to the spot from Kemsey with a view to locating the crew. The "Aleda, it appears, left Sydney on Friday, June 12, for one of the Northern Rivers to load a cargo of hard-v.-ocd. and was noparently on her way up the -coast when she fell in with the recentbad weather, which delayed and was eventually the cause of her end. The vessel was built at Whangaroa- (New Zealand) in 1897, "and almost immediately came to Sydney, out o£ which port she has since traded regularly. She was owned by J. Breckenridge, Ltd., and carried a crew of six hands all told, the master being Captain Fidler. MOTOR BOAT CONTROL IN VICTORIA. To ensure the safety of passengers on motor boats, the regulations controlling the traffic in Victoria have been overhauled. The State Executive has approved of the following new regulation : A motor boat plivne in waters other than

rivers or land-locked lakes only must, for U;e purpose of making signals of distress in emergency, bo' furnished with, and at all times carry in a position approved by the inspecting officer, sis self-igniting red marine signal lights, effectively waterproofed, i WHALE STOPS LINER. The Elder Dempster liner Sangara, on her last voyage to West Africa, was stopped for three-quarters of an hour by a whale (says an English paper). At 5.30 a.m. on May 6 the ship's company felt a shock as if the vessel had run on the rocks. It was found that a whale had its head jammed between two blades of the propeller and the upper part of the stern post. Preparations were made to ph'K-e a wire round the whale, with the object of hauling it away. Before this could be done, the whale, which was 30ft or 40ft long, had struggled violently, and slipped clear of the propeller. OVERSEA STEAMERS. LONDON. -July 4.—Tokomarn. from Auckland.—Matatua, for Lyttelton.— Wildenfels, for New Zealand. SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. AUCKLAND, July 4.—5.20 p.m., Tutanekai, from Sunday Island.—2.4o p.m., Wanaks, for Oamaru.—ll.3o p.m.. Linden, for Newcastle Heads.—3.4s ' p.m., Riverina, from Svdney. AUCKLAND, "July 5.—7.55 p.m.. Keren;, from Nine. WESTPORT, July 5.—7.40 a.m., Waitomo, for Sydney. SYDNEY. July 4.—11.30 a.m., Marama, from Auckland.—6.4o p.m., Ulimaroa, for Wellington. MELBOURNE, July s.—Maunganuf, from Bluff. BLUFF, July 6—1.30 a.m., Mooraki, from Dunedin. /For continuation see Late Shipping.)

Bar. T her. \ \>ath Auckland —Calm 30.53 49 B Napier—S.W., I 30.41 37 B Wansanni —N., 1 30.45 49 0 WeiJfngton—N.W., br 30.37 51 B West port—E.S.E., 1 30.43 44 C Hlr-VTr, lX1 th— F... 1 ... 30 50 45 BC Bea-ley—W., f b 30.38 39 BC Tknaru—\V., 1 30.37 32 BC Oamaru—Calm 30.32 37 BC Dunedin—N., I 30.26 40 BC Queenstown —N., 1 ... 30.27 40 BC Nuggets—S.W., br ... 30.19 38 C Bluff—X.. 1 30.17 43 0 Naseby—Calm 28.25 35 BC Invercargill—E., 1 ... 30.20 42 0 P. Chalmers—Caini ... 30.23 46 BC Roxburgh—N.. sir ... 29.97 43 BC Clyde—N., 1 — 37 *B - Pembroke—C;i!m 29.20 43 V? Puysegtir P.—N.W. £ b 30.13 43 O Balclutha—S.W.. 1 ... 35 BC