SHIPPING.

Evening Star, Issue 16549, 8 October 1917, Page 1

SHIPPING.

■■ • f HIGH WATER. 4 ( TO-MORROW. . Taiaroa Head : 9.39 a.in., 10.4 Port Chalmers : 10.19 a.m., 10.44 p.m. Dunedin : 10.49 a.m., 11.14 p.m. THE SUN. Sets to-dav, 6.20 p.m.: rises to-morrow, 5.30 a,m. PHASES OF THE MOON. New moon Oct. 16 2.11 p.m. First quarter Oct. 24 2.8 a.m. Full moon Oct. 30 5.49 p.m. Last quarter Nov. 7 4.34 a.m. Sets to-day, 10.26 a.m.: rises to-morrow, 2.8 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, fresh breeze; mg, moderate gale; g, ■whole or heavy gale; w, gale of exceptional seventy. W 7 eather.—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; R, rain, continued ram; S ; snow; T, thunder; U, ugly, threatening appearance; Z, hazy. Forecast. The Government Meteorologist (Rev. D. C. Bates) supplied the following at noon to-day : —Moderate southerly winds; cold and showery weather; glass rising; tides good; sea rough. ARRlVED.—October 8. Wimmera, s.s. (7.50 a.m.), 3,022 tons, Kell, from Auckland via East Coast ports. Passengers Misses Guthrie, Struthers, Kelly, Mesdatnes Buddie, Allan and two children, Wright and infant. Bums, Carline, Freedman, Messrs Gribble, Mast, De Silva, Gibb, O’Connor, Bums, Blair Mason, Allan, Clarke, Carline; and 15 steerage. EXPECTED ARRIVALS.

Storm, from Wanganui via ports, Oct. 9. Tarawera, from Auckland, October 10. Kaituna, from Westport, October 11. Calm, from Wangarmi via ports, Oct. 12. Breeze, from Wellington, October 13. Corinna, from Wellington, October 13. Monowai, from Auckland, October 14. Kokiri, from Greymouth, October 14. Kakapo, from Westport, October 15. Wimmera, from Auckland, October 21.

PROJECTED DEPARTURES.. Kakapo, for Westport, this day. Storm, for Wanganui via ports, Oct. 9. Wimmera, for Auckland, October 9. Tarawera, for Auckland, October 10. Calm, for Wanganui via ports, Oct. 12. Kaituna, for Westport, October 13. Breeze, for Wanganui via ports, Oct. 13, Monowai, for Auckland, October 16.

The Kakapo is expected to leave Port Chalmers to-night for Westport, where she willi load another cargo of coal for discharge at Dunedin and Port Chalmers. The steamer Storm was expected to lea,ve Lyttelton at noon to-day for Dunedin, and should therefore arrive hero to-morrow morning. The vessel will not be docked at Port Chalmers, as was originally arranged. She will sail to-morrow night for Timaru, Lyttelton, Picton, and Wanganui. The Tarawera arrived at Wellington at 8.30 o'clock on Saturday night from Auckland. Sho is expected to sail to-day for Lyttelton and Dunedin, and should therefore arrive here on Wednesday. The Monowai arrived at Auckland at 3 p.m. yesterday from Dunedin and East Coast ports. She is fixed to leave the northern port to-morrow afternoon for Gisborne, Napier, Wellington, Lyttelton, and Dunedin.

The Rosamond, with a full cargo of cement from Tarakohe, left Wellington at 2 p.m. on Saturday for New Plymouth and Wanganui. The Kokiri arrived . at Greymouth on Saturday from Lyttelton. She is expected to leave the West Coast port on Wednesday with a full cargo of coal for Lyttelton and Dunedin.

Tho Poherua is expected to leave Timaru to-day for Wellington, Westport, and Greymouth. The vessel will afterwards load coal at Greymouth for Napier. The Te A nan is expected to leave Auckland to-day with goneral cargo for Bluff, Oamaru, and Timaru. The vessel will load produce at the three ports named for Napier, Gisborne, and Auckland. Heavy, continuous rain was falling at Auckland to-day, and all work on the various vessels in port was stopped in consequence.

Tho Arahnra arrived at Napier at 7 a.m. to-day from Auckland and Gisborne. She will leave the Hawke's Bay port tonight for Gisborne.

The Rakanoa is expected to leave Napier to-morrow for Gisborne to discharge the balance of her West Coast coal cargo. She will afterwards go to Westport to load coal for Auckland.

The collier Kamo arrived at Wellington at 9 a.m. yesterday with a full cargo of coal from Greymouth. Tho Kararmi left Nelson on Saturday for New Plymouth. After discharge ofc the Taranaki port she will go to Westport to load coal for Timani.

The Kowhai arrivod at Lyttelton at 3.30 p.m. yesterday from Greymouth. She is expected to leave the Canterbury port to-morrow for Wellington. Napier, and Auckland.

The Huddart-Parker steamer Wimmera arrived off the Heads last night from Auckland and East Coast ports. Tho vessel entered port early this morning, and was berthed at the Rattray street wharf to • discharge about 400 "tons of goneral cargo. She is timed to sail «-,t noon to-morrow for East Coast ports and Auckland.

The Government steamer Hinemoa will probably leave Wellington to-day on her periodical visit of inspection to the northern lighthouses. The Orepuki, which has been thoroughly overhauled and renovated, will probably come out of dock at Lyttelton to-day. No movement has yet been mado to unload the overseas steamer at present in Wellington. The agents of the company state that they are reluctantly compelled to pay off members of the crew except the master, officers, engineers, cook, steward, and boatswain, since the expense of keeping all hands on is too heavy. _ The price of ships in England is steadily rising. During the three months end^a £.i y /Ji l aSt j C s rg °. I boate ' negating •xu,UAJ tons deadweight carrying capacity, were sold for £9,362,000, the estimated profit, calculated at pre-war values, being £7,150,240. One of the vessels was

built on the Clyde 12 years ago for £35,000, and changed hands at £315,000,' and yet the buyers believe that they will (make substantial profits if freights continue firm. The harbor master at Nelson (Captain Collins) reported that the trade of the port for the past month had been considerably below the average for this period of the year, due to the laying up of the small steamers at Wellington, and in common with other ports in the Dominion the effect on trade is being severely felt in Nelson. During the month 87 vessels entered and left the port—23 Union Company steamers, 54 small steamers, and 10 Bailing vessels, having a total -of 18.385 tons register, against 26,621 for September, 1916.

One of the whaling motor launches from Kaikoura has arrived at Lyttelton with a cargo of fish. It is understood that the launch is to go on to the slip for overhaul, and will then return to Kaikoura with provisions. The trip from Kaikoura to Lyttelton occupied eight hours. The little vessel is able to travel at the rate of 25 miles an hour.

MEN AFLOAT AND ASHORE.' Mr G. H. Stephens has signed on tiy Monowai as fifth engineer. Boatman G. Reeves has resigned from the Nelson pilot service in order to take up a position as master of the scow Kapua. INTERNED GERMAN STEAMERS. At the outbreak of war there were abgut 650,000 tons gross of German shipping in United States ports. Of this 14 vessels have been taken over by the United States Navy Department, and the balance, 87, of over 500,000 tons, have been seized by the United States Shipping Board, 1 who have been authorised "to repair, equip, and man the vessels, to operate, lease, or charter the same in any service of the United. States or in any commerce, foreign or coastwise; and to do and perform any and all things that may be necessary to accomplish the purposes of the joint resolution under which the President acted." SUCCESSFUL SALVAGE OF THE OPOURI. The arrival of practically all the Opouri's machinery at Lyttelton makes it clear that the salvage operations at Greymouth have been very successful. When the Opouri was wrecked on the northern breakwater at Greymouth she was considered v to be a hopeless wreck, and was soon abandoned to the underwriters. She was sold by auction and purchased by Mr D. Reese, who carried out the salvage operations himself. All the winches, windlass, etc., were soon got off, and a big effort was made to get out the main engines and boilers. A hole was cut in the side of the vessel, and with a heavy wire cable forming an aerial tramway overhead connecting the ship with the shore the whole of the main engines, after being dismantled, were landed on the beach. After that another big hole was cut on the port side opposite the boilers, and after building heavy skids the boilers were par buckled out with a heavy wire rope round them, and pulled from "the shore with a bush log-hauler. Altogether the salvage has proved a successful venture, and with the high price of machinery to-day the purchaser should be well rewarded for his energy and enterprise. The conditions of the purchase stipulated a removal or destruction of the hull, and this work is now being carried out. Already all the vessel forward of the bridge deck has been blown away, so that there is now no risk of that part falling into the fairway. It will be interesting to know that, in spite of the frequency of wrecks at Greymouth, this is the first vessel that has had her engines and boilers salved since the steamer Girder went ashore 28 years ago. Altogether it is the best pieco of salvage work since the Union Company refloated the Mapourika a good many years ago.

THE OLD STEAxMER HAUPIRI. It was reported some months ago that the old steamer Haupiri, which was such a well-known unit of the Union Company's fleet, had been sunk under instructions from the Home authorities at the entrance to a French port. It will, therefore, come as a great surprise to those interested in shipping to know that the old vessel is still afloat and doing good service in another part of the world. In the columns of the shipping journal ' Fairplay,' under date July 26, appears the following notice regarding the Haupiri in respect to the renaming of the vessel :—" I. William Arthur Cox, of 24 St. Mary Axe, in the City of London, hereby give notice that m consequence of the boat'hereunder mentioned being owned by the Sun Shipping Company, Ltd., and it being desired that all the company's boats' names shall have the prefix "Sun," I have applied to the Board of Trade under section 47 of the Merchant Shipping Act. 1894, in respect of my ship Haupiri, of London, official number 89,094, of gross tonnn.ge 715. or register tonnage 452. owned by Union Steam ShiD Company of New Zealand, Ltd., of Dnncdin, 'New Zealand, for permission to change her name to Sunland, to be registered in the said new name at the Port of London as owned by Sun Shipping Company. Ltd." The Haupiri has had "an adventurous and long career. Many years aco she was purchased by the Union "Steam Ship Company, being then known as the Richmond, and was engaged in the South Sea Islands trade for some time. Later on she was placed in the Auckland-East Coast, bavsGisborne service, in which trade she "remained for several years. She also had the distinction of being the vessel selected to inaugurate the regular paßsenger and cargo service between Wellington, Picton and Nelson. The Haupiri has met with several mishaps dnring her long service. On one occasion a fire broke out on board shortly after she had left Auckland for the East Coast. The vessel at once returned to port, whan the fire was extinguished by the Auckland Fire Brigade before any serious damage had been done to the ship. On May 17, 1912, she ran ashore on Barrett's Reef, at the entrance to Wellington Harbor. Tho Haupiri put back to Wellington and was beached and subsequently repaired. In later years the Haupiri was added to the unemployed list, and after being laid up in Wellington Harbor for some considerable time was purchased by a South African firm. The vessel left Wellington about two years ago. and after reaching a South African port was then ordered to proceed to England.

WEST COAST WEATHER. Telegraphic advice received by the Union Company states that rough weather was experienced at Westport during the week-end. The conditions, however, improved considerably to-day. The flood in the river has moderated, and a moderate sea is running on the bar. The Kittawa, loaded for Lyttelton, and the Kaituna, loaded for Dunedin, have been bar-bound since Saturday, and there is little prospect of these vessels getting awaj to-day. There was a heavy flood in the river at Greymouth yesterday. To-day's report states that the weather is south-westerlv, while a strong fresh is running in tho river and a heavy sea breaking 3 on the bar. The Kamona, from Onehunga, was outside the bar this morning, but was unable to cross inwards twing to the heavy sea running. SHIPPING TELEGEAMS. LYTTELTON. October 7.-8.30 am MaTaxoa, from Wellington. ' (For continuation 'see Late Shipping.} •

Auckland—N.W., 1 ... Bar, Ther. 30.03 59 Weath. R Napier—W., 1 29.98 ‘61 C Wellington—N., br ... 29.90 57 0 Westport—S.W., 1 ... 29.95 50 BC Greymouth—E., 1 29.96 53 BC Boaley—W„ br 29.94 46 C Christchurch—S. W. 1 29.86 56 B Tiniaru—S, ,1 29.84 54 BC Oamaru—Calm .. 29.90 50 0 Dunedin— W.. 1 .’ 29.92 46 OR Queenstown—N.E., hr 29.86 45 G Nuggets—N., 1 29.83 43 R Bluff—Variable, 1 29.87 47 OM Port Chalmers—S.W., 1 29.91 47 R Invercargill—Calm ... 30.15 54 C Naseby—Calm 27.85 50 C Balclutha—N.E., 1 ... 46 R Pembroke—Calm 28.80 51 BC Clyde—Calm ... ... 55 0 Roxburgh—W-, 1 29.55 50 R