SHIPPING.

Evening Star, Issue 15777, 14 April 1915, Page 6

SHIPPING.

HIGH WATER. TO-MORROW. Taiaroa Head : 2.49 a.m., 3.9 p.m. Port Chalmers: 3.29 a.m., 3.49 p.m. Dun.xiin i 3.59 a.m., 4.19 p.m. THE SUn7~ Sets to-day, 5.50 p.m. ; rises to-morrow, 1.48 a.m. THE MOON. Sets to-day, 5.6 p.m.; rises to-mor-row, 7.23 a.m. —Phases During April. — New moon April 14 11.6 p.m. First quarter April 23 3.9 a.m. Full moon April 50 1.49 a.m. WEATHER REPORTS. The Government Meteorologist (Rev. D. C. Bates) supplied the following weather reports at 9 a.m. to-day ; Bar. Ther. Weath. Auckland—N., lb ... 30.21 62 B Napier—S.W., 1 ... 30.07 66 BC Wanganui—N.N.W. hr 30.02 63 G "Wellington—N.W., br 30.05 61 CM Westport —Calm ... 30.09 50 F Grevmonth—S.W., 1 b 30.08 57 O Bealey—W.. lb ... 30.09 55 B Christchurch— S.W., lb ... 30.03 54 B Timaru—Calm 30.01 53 B C Oamarn —Calm 29.90 55 B C Dunedin—N.N.E.. br 29.86 48 B Queenstown —S., 1 ... 29.85 52 O Nugqets—N.W~ 1 BJnfli—N., 1 ... _. 29.81 65 BC Port Chalmers — N.E., fb ... 29.89 56 BC Naseby—Calm 27.90 51 B C Invercargill—Calm ... 29.80 58 BC Puvsegur Point — N.W., str Pembroke —Cairn ... 20.85 56 O Roxburgh—Calm. ... 29.55 55 ( ■ Baldutha—S.W., 1 b Wind.—L., light; hr. breeze; £b. fresh breeze; m g, moderate gale; g. whole or heavy gale; w, gale of exceptional | severity. I Weather.—B, blue sky, be the atnms- | phere dear or heavy; C, clouds, passing j clouds; D, drizzling rain; F. foggy; G. , gloomy, dark weather; H, hail: L, light- | ning; M, misty; 0, overcast, the whole I sky covered with thick clouds; P. passing ! showers; Q. squally; R. rain, continued ! rain; S, snow; T, thunder; U, ugly,; threatening appearance; Z, hazy. j FOEKCAST. The Government Meteorologist (Pev. D. i ". Bates) supplied the following at noon j .'■o-da,y : —Strong westerly winds, veering I to south; rain and snow in high conn-j try: glass rising after 24 hours; tides I good ; sea rough off shore. ‘j ARRIVED.—ApriI 14. i Paloona. s.s. (0.50 a.m.). 2.771 tons, \ 31‘Beth, from Melbourne via Hobart aml 1 Bluff. Passengers : —Mesdamcs Paltison, j Chambers, Zennison, O'Brien, Cummins, | Begg. Messrs Hall, Paul. Dr ('umniins. j .Misses Pattison, Bart ins. Sa.vi.gny. j Maloney, Lawles, Chambers; and 13steerage. ! EXPECTED ARRIVALS. j —Coastal and Intercolonial.— j Monowai, from Auckland and East : Coast ports, April 15. j Victoria, front Auckland and East Coast I ports. April 13. ! PROJECTED DEPASTURES. j —Coastal and Intercolonial.— ! Monowai, for Auckland and East Coast 1 ports, Friday, April 16. Victoria, for Auckland and East Const ports, Tuesday, April 20. The Paloona arrived early this morning from Melbourne via Hobart and Bluff, and was berthed nt the Cross wharf. She left again this afternoon for Melbourne via Lyttelton, Wellington, and Hobart. j The Poherua is due at Dunedin to- i morrow with a cargo of coal from West- j port direct. ) The Whangap© left Newcastle yester- I day with a cargo for Dunedin direct. j

The Invercargill sailed to-day for southern ports. Messrs Turnbull. Martin, and Co., local agents for the A. and A. Line, have been notified that the steamer Berwick Law left New Y'ork last Sunday with general cargi for Lyttelton and Dunedin. She is coming to the Dominion v : a the Panama CanaL

A new P. and O. steamer, to bo c.dlcd ihe Kashmir, the seventh of the new 9.000-ton “K” class, was successfully launched on February 18 from the builders’ wards at Greenock. These vessels are intended for the company’s intermediate passenger services to Calcutta and the Far East respectively. According to a message published in the ‘ Times of Ceylon,’ the shortage of shipping tonnage in the East is becoming serious, freights having risen to unprecedented rates. As an exceptionally large number of steamers is engaged in the wheat transport trade between Argentine, North America, and Britain, the result is a scarcity of tonnage in the East, while present indications are that relief will not be forthcoming for same considerable time. The immediate prospects are that freights will be still further increased as the demand becomes stronger.

Messrs Turnbull, Martin, and Co., local agents for the Federal-Shire Line, have been notified that the following steamers are to load at West of England ports ; La Blanca, to sail from Liverpool about April 20; Opawa, to sail about April 24: Somerset, to sail about (May 5: Hurimui, to sail about May 20;'' Orari. to sail about Juno 5.

The French barques Xopmi and Bougainville left Newcastle on March 31 at 9.25 a.m. and 9.40 a.m. respectively for San Francisco. The captains have arranged that ho who arrives flr ? t shall provide a dinner for the other. The Koemi is taking 2.567 tons of coal, and the Bongainvilia 2,976 tons of coal. The exports of coal from Newcastle for the week ended Friday week reached 77,503 tons, as compared with 157,793 tons for the corresponding period of last, year. In the Easter week of last year the coal trade was exceptionally busy. Only three sailing vessels were at Newcastle on Saturday week waiting for despatch, and there were but one or two steamers being loaded for the interstates trade. High freights have had a damping effect on both interstate ami foreign trade. In. a recent case before the Admiralty Division of the English High Court, in which the owners ot the hospital ship Glenart Castle and the Sunderland steamer J. Y. Short, claimed damages for each other for collision in the Thames, a witness stated that the force of the impact nit the legs off the female form of J. Y. Short's figurehead, and deposited them on tha "operating table of the hospital ship.' Tbs Petone is expected to leave Dunedin _ for Tiniaru, Lyttelton, and Wanganui on or about April 16. THE FERRY_ SERVICE. The Maori, from Wellington, arrived at Lyttelton at 6.50 this morning, and connected with the first express for the Booth. RAKIURA STRIKES A ROCK. THE CREW SAVED. [Pee United Press Association.] NELSON, April 14. Messrs Nyberg _Bros.’ (Greymonth) steamer Rakiura, of 81 tons, struck a rock near Stephens Island at 5 o’clock this morning and sank. The crew were saved. HOW THE CREW LANDED. The Rakiura’s crew_ landed by their own boats. Messrs Wiggins and Brown, who were stationed at Port Hardy, at the northern end of D’Urville Island, think the crew will proceed through the French Pass to catch the Wellington steamer. The Anchor Company’s Regains passed through Stephens Island passage at 2.30 this morning, when a fresh nor’-wester was blowing, and the weather was very thick, and heavy rain falling. The steamers Red Pine and Jane Douglas were sunk in the vicinity during. . recent years.

' ' ARMED LINER MISSING. FEARED LOSS OF CREW OF 280. The Secretary of the Admiralty regrets to announce that H.M.S. Clan M'Naughton, armed merchant cruiser (Commander Robert Jeffreys, R.N.), has been missing since February 3, and ifc is feared that The vessel has been lost. Unsuccessful search xvas made, and wreckage, supposed to be portions of this ship, has since been discovered. The last signal received from the Clan M'Naughton was made in the early morning of February 3, and it is feared that she was lost during the bad weather which prevailed at that time. The Clan M'Naughton, 4,985 tons, owned by Cayzer, Irvine, and Co., of Glasgow, had a crew of 280, made up of 20 officers, 191 petty officers, noncommissioned officers, and men, and 69 “ specially entered mercantile crew.” The names of the officers were: Commander Robert Jeffreys, R.N. ; Lieutenant-com-mander Arthur L. Popham, R.N.; Lieutenant Leslie B. Prest. R.N.; Lieutenant George 0. Weldrick. R.N.R.; Lieutenant Edgar C. Joel, R.N.R. ; Lieutenant Frederick G. Lewis, R.N.R. : Lieutenant Chas. 5 Garnsworthy, R.N.R. ; Sub-lieutenant Arthur Burlinson, R.N.R. : Midshipman Geoffrey E. Brown, R.N.R.; Midshipman William Brown, R.N.R.; Midshipman Basil G. Butler. R.N.R. ; Midshipman John H. Auhi, R.N.R.; Chief Engineer John I). Chapman, R.N.R. ; Senior Engineer Andrew Thomoon, R.N.R. ; Engineer Richard H. Jones. R.N.R. ; Engineer Frank Kincaid, R.N.R. ; Assistant Paymaster Francis R. Emson. R.N.R. ; Staff Surgeon IV. Graham Moore-Anderson, M.8., 8.A.. R.N. : Surgeon Probationer Raymond O’C. Redmond, R.N.V.R. : Chief Gunner Ernest G. Courtis. R.N. Forty of the crew belonged to_ Tilbury, and about 50 to Grays and district. The following are" the auxiliary ships lost since the war broke out: —■ September 9. 1914.—Oceanic (armed liner), i wrecked off Scotland. I October 50. 1914.—Rohilla. (hospital ship), j wrecked off Whitby, ! January, 1915. —Viknor (armed liner), sunk I north of Ireland. | February o, 1915.—Clan M'Naughton i (armed liner), sunk. | AN IRISH CHANNEL TUNNEL. i The Prime Minister of England was | asked whether the Government were pre- ! pared to consider the construction of a | tunnel between Great Britain and Ireland. “so as to avoid the danger of | submarine attacks.’' If even the- shortest, j route available (five schemes of the kind I have been brought forward in the past) ■ were adopted, such a tunnel would be of | no use. in the present campaign unless the war lasted for years and years .and 1 years, as the comic song has it. The i verv shortest route possible, that between j a. point in the north of Ireland and the > Mull of Caatirc. would he 13 miles long, land as a. submarine tunnel would take j longer to construct than one on land. I it is not unreasonable to assume that it I would not be finished in. less than 10 , years. Having regard to this fact, and | to the cost of the scheme, the project i resembles throwing a very large whale | to catch a very small sprat. OVERSEA STEAMERS. SYDNEY. April 13.—Star of India, from New York. ____________ 1 SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. WELLINGTON, April 14. 6.40 a.m., Talune. from Samoa. LYTTELTON. April 14.—8 a.m.. Ta.rawera. from Dunedin. MELBOURNE. April 15.—The Malo- ; ja’s New Zealand passengers arc Messrs j Abbott and Lnbeeki and Mrs Taylor. j NEWCASTLE. April 15.—Whangape. ! for New Zealand. j FREMANTLE, April 13.—Omrah. j from London. ! PORT AHURTRI. _ April 14.—T0 sail 6 p.m., Kauri, for Newcastle. (For continuation see Late Shipping)