SHIPPING.

Evening Star, Issue 16550, 9 October 1917, Page 1

SHIPPING.

♦ HIGH WATER. TO-MORROW. Taiaroa Head : 10.27 a.m., 10.50 p.m. Port Chalmers : 11.7 a.m., 11.30 p.m. Dunedim: 11.37 a.m., midnight. THE SUN. Sets to-day, 6.22 p.m.; rises to-morrow, 5.28 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, 11.28 a.m.; rises to-morrow, 2.29 a.m. WEATHER REPORTS. The Government Meteorologist (Rov. D. C. Bates) supplied the following weather reports at 9 a.m. to-day : |

Wind.—L, light; br, breeze; f b,'fresb breeze; mg, 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; R, rain, continued rain; 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 westerly winds; cool and changeable weather; glass unsteady; tides good; sea moderate. SAlLED.—October 8. Kakano, s.s. (9.10 p.m.), 1,521 tons, Eyre, for Westport. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Tarawera, from Auckland, October 11. Calm, from Wanganui via ports, Oct. 12. Kaituna, from Westport, October 12. Monowai, from Auckland, October 14. Kokiri, from Greymouth, October 14. Corinna, from Wellington, October 14. Breeze, from Wellington, October 15. Kakapo, from Westport, October 16. Kotare, from Wellington, October 17. Storm, from Wanganui via ports, Oct'. 19. Wimmera, from Auckland, October 21. PROJECTED DEPARTURES! Kotare, for Wellington, this day! Storm, for Wanganui via ports, this day. Calm, for Wanganui via ports, Oct. 12. Tarawera, for Auckland, October 12. Coriuna, for New Ptymouth, October 15. Kaituna, for Westport, October 15. Breeze, for Wanganui via ports,, Oct. 15. Monowai, for Auckland, October 16.Kakapo, for Westport, October 18. Wimmera, for Auckland, October 23.

The Wimmera, which left Dunedin today for East Coast ports and Auckland, is due back here on Sunday, October 21. The steamer Calm is due here on Friday from northern ports. The vessel is fixed to sail the same day with general cargo for Timaru, Lyttelton, and Wanganui. The steamer Breeze is expected to arrive here on Monday next from Onehunga and way ports. The vessel will be despatched the same day with general cargo for Timaru, Lyttelton, Wellington, and Wanganui. The collier Kahika left Wellington at 10.30 o'clock last night for Greymouth, where she will load coal for Lyttelton and Timaru. t The collier Kamona, which arrived off Greymouth yesterday morning from Onehunga, was still outside the bar this morning. The Kokiri. with a full cargo of coal on board for discharge at Lyttelton and Dunedin, is expected to leave Greymouth to-day. The Kini arrived outside the Manukau Heads during last night from Westport and Greymouth, and was expected to berth at Onehunga this afternoon. After discharging her coal cargo she will return to Greymouth to load for Wellington. The Rosamond left New Plymouth last night for Wanganui to discharge the remainder of her of cement from Tarakohe. The vessel will afterwards go to Wellington to load for New Plvmouth. The Kowhai is expected to leave Lyttelton to-day for Wellington, where she will load oil and general cargo for Napier and Auckland.

Owing to heavy, continuous rain no work was carried out on the Auckland wharves yesterday. Advice received l.v the Union Company to-day states that the weather has improved considerably at the northern port. The collier Kakapo left Port Chalmers last night for Westport. She will load another cargo of coa.l at the West Coast port for discharge at Dunedin and Port Chalmers.

The Monowai, which was delayed at Auckland yesterday owing to heavy rain, will leave the northern port to-morrow afternoon for southern ports. The vessel will be despatched from Wellington on Saturday evening for Dunedin direct, thus omitting the customary call at Lyttelton.

The Te Anau. which was delayed at Auckland yesterday owing to heavy rain, is expected to leave the northern port to-day with general cargo for Lyttelton, Bluff, Oamaru, and Timaru. The Tarawera, with general cargo from Auckland, is expected to leave Wellington to-day. for Lyttelton and Dunedin. bhe is due here on Thursday, and is fixed to sail on Friday for Timaru, Lyttelton. and Auckland.

A general meeting of the Merchant Service Guild was held at the Wellington rooms yesterday morning. ° The Wellington shipwrights, S. Wood and Son, are effecting minor rencirs to 10 vessels of the local mosquito fleet The firm have 17 men fully occupied, and could do with manv more. The Government cable repair steamer V 1 ™ «. m l vas brought in from the stream at Wellington to the railway wharf last Friday to have a new cylinder placed in her cable engine. The original cylinder was cracked when the vessel was out on her last cable work.

The Government training steamer Amokura was relaunched from the Wellington patent- slip on Saturday mornin.c. It is understood that the claimants in connection with services rendered to the barque recently stranded at Pencarrow ilead intend to move to have the amount ii awarded by the Admiralty Court reviewed.

The Chatham Islands Fishing Company's steamer Himitangi, which left Wellnicton at. 2.30 p.m. on Tuesday last for Waitangi (Chatham Islands), arrived at the latter port on Thursday night.

The Government steamer Hinemoa returned to Wellington on Saturday morning from the Cook Strait lighthouses and Kaikoura. The vessel landed supplies at the latter port and then visited the Brothers and Jackson Head. She was exEected to leave Wellington yesterday on er trip round the northern lighthouses. The coastal steamer Huia returned to Wellington-last Friday night owing, it is understood, to a leak being discovered when she was outside Wellington Heads outward bound for Wanganui and Now Plymouth. It was found on Saturday morning that as a result of striking against the wharf when she was leaving earlier in the evening a, jagged hole had been made just under the belting aft. The Hokitika Shipping Company are reported to have purchased the Auckland steamer Paeroa to take the place of the wrecked auxiliary ketch Jane. EXPLOSIONS ON SHIPS. '

A Press Association telegram states that the Merchant Service Guild, at a special meeting held at Wellington yesterday, resolved that, in view of the several losses caused recently by explosions on overseas vessels, the' Government should be urged to do all in their power to prevent explosions, and a commission Bhould be set np to deal with the matter. MEN AFLOAT AND ASHORE. Mr P. N. Jeffreys, manager of the New Plymouth office of the Union Steam Ship Company, who has been absent on holiday for several weeks, has returned. Mr D. Morrison, the relieving manager, has returned to the head oflice at Dunedin. Mr W. Clarke (secretary of the Dunedin branch of the Seamen's Union) and two other delegates left for Wellington yesterday morning to attend a conference of union delegates. It is said that the outside branches are not altogether pleased with the handling by the Wellington executive of the mosquito fleet industrial trouble, and that the conference has been called to discuss the action of the executive. "SET" AT WANGANUI. Captain F. Syman, master of the Wanganui Harbor. Board's tug Togo, in giving evidence at the Eunice inquiry, said the bar wns fit for the Eunice to come over it. The weather was good enough to allow any ship to come in or go out. He did not experience any set at the entrance on that day. In all bar harbors the set was in the direction of the wind, and these conditions obtained at Wanganui. He did not think it feasible that the Eunice had sheered as a result of a sea.

To Mr Cohen : There was no more set at Waneanui than at any other bar harbor in New Zealand. The set there was a wind set, not a permanent one. J. Sutherland, foreman in the Harbor Board's employ, said he was in a better position to form an opinion about a set than anybody. During' the construction of the south mole the" staging had been carried out 200 ft beyond the stones. In order to get the piles outside they were dropped overboard. During the ebb tide the piles always went to the southward, and with the flood tide they became jammed against the piles, and caused considerable trouble in getting them out from the south side of the south mole. These conditions prevailed even when there was a strong north-west wind blowing. This showed that the current ran towards the north. There is not a permanent set at Wanganui. NEW NOTICE TO SHIP MASTERS. The Board of Trade have issued a new notice to ship owners and masters relate ing to the special precautions which should be taken when a vessel is in a submarine area or danger zone. This notice is a new edition, with important alterations and additions, of two notices previously issued by the Board of Trade with regard to the special precautions to be taken when British vessels go through a danger zone. The preceding notices were issued in August, 1915, and May, 1916. and these notices are now cancelled. The most recent notice, which is issued after consultation with the Ministry of Shipping, applies to all sea-going British merchant ships, whether chartered or requisitioned by His Majesty's Government or not. Areas in which there is a possibility of attack by enemy submarines or collision with mines are indicated in the Admiralty instructions to masters. * INITIAL STABILITY OF VESSELS. To .prevent a vessel taking a serious list if holed by a torpedo or mine, the Board of Trade point out that it is very important that a vessel should have sufficient initial stability. It is desirable, the board state, that the freeboard of the ship should not be unnecessarily reduced by the addition of water ballast, but if the nature or amount of the cargo, taken in conjunction with the amount of bunker coal on board, is such at anv time that a sufficient margin of initial stability cannot otherwise be obtained, some or all of the ballast tanks should be filled. The vessel should not, however, be overladen. If the initial stability is not so ample as to prevent any danger of a serious list, and if the vessel is constructed with longitudinal bulkheads, such as wing bunkerbulkheads, precautions should be taken to allow water which may enter the vessel to flow as freely as possible through the longitudinal bulkheads. The emission of smoke is referred to, it being pointed out that smoke is sometimes the only indication given to a submarine of thrTpresence of a vessel, and masters are urged to take particular care with the stoking of the boilers when in a danger zone, so as to minimise the amount of smoke emitted. The expediency of preparing a number of wooden plugs before the ship leaves port to be kept handy to plug up all shell holes is also recommended. Suitable plugs, it is claimed, can be made of spruce,' about 2ft in lnngth and about Sin in diameter, tapering to 2in.

THE BRTGANTINE ARATAPTJ. The locally-owned brigantinc Aratapu arrived off the Westport bar yesterday morning from Dunedin after a passage of 13 days. The vessel was expected to cross the bar and berth at Westport this morning. After discharging her general cargo she will load coal at the West Coast port for Kaiparn. The Aratapu will subsequently load another cargo of timber at Kaipara for Dunedin. THE CORINNA'R MOVEMENTS. The Corinna arrived at Onehunga last evening-with a cargo of chaff from Picton. She is expected to leave the Manukau port this evening for New Plymouth to load dairy produce for Wellington The vessel is due at the latter port on Thursday, and will sail about Friday for Dunedin direct. She should arrive here on Sunday, and is fixed to sail on Monday next for New Plymouth via the usual way ports. WEST COAST WEATHER. Reports received by the Union Company to-day state that the sea on the bar and the flood in the river at Westport are moderating. There was every prospect of despatching the Kittawa for Lyttelton and the Kaituna for Dunedin on' this afternoon's tide. Both these vessels have been bar-bound at Westport since Saturday, night. The weather is fine a*. Greymouth to-day, with light easterly winds. A. moderate sea is running on the bar and the fresh in the river has also moderated* •

SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. > LYTTELTON, October 9.-7 a-m., Maori, from Wellington. (For continuation see Late Shipping.)

Auckland—W., br ... Bar. Ther. Weafch. 29.99 57 BOR Napier—Calm Wellington—N.W., br 29.88 67 G 29.83 56 BC Westport—N.E., 1 ... 29.89 '0 BO Greymouth—E., 1 29.66 50 O Bealey—W., f 29.82 53 C Christchurch—S.W., 1 29.74 48 B Timaru—E., 1 29.75 49 BO Oamaru—Calm 29.87 48 BC Dunedin—S.W., 1 29.76 45 O Queenstown—Calm ... 29.78 46 F Nuggets—N.E., 1 ... Bluff—E., br 29.73 29.72 41 47 R OMZ Balclntha—Calm - 43 R Invercargill—Calm ... 30.10 SO 0 Naseby—Calm 27.70 45 B Port Chalmers—Calm 29.75 53 OP Pembroke—Calm 28.70 47 BC Roxburgh—Calm 29.45 50 BC Clyde—Calm — 55 C