SHIPPING.

Evening Star, Issue 16625, 7 January 1918, Page 1

SHIPPING.

. HIGH WATER. T.O-MORHOW. Taiaroa Head : 10.56 a.m., 11.3 p.m. Port Chalmers :, 11.16 a.m., 11.43 p.m. Dunedin : 11.46 a.m., p.m. THE SUN. Sets to-day, 7.54 p.m.; rises to-morrow, 4.33 a.m. . PHASES. OF THE MOON. New moon " Jan. .13 10.6 a.m. First quarter Jan. 20 2.8 a.m. Full moon Jan. 27 2.44 p.m. Last quarter Feb. 4 7.22 p.m. Sets to-day, 2.14 p.m.; rises to-morrow, p.m. ARRlVED.—January 6. Kakapo, s.s. (7.10 a.m.), 1,521 tons, Eyre, from Wellington. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Kaituna, from Auckland, January 8. 'Kotare, from Stewart Tsland, Jan. 9. Corinna, from .Wellington, January 9. Te Anau, from Auckland, January 10. . John, from Wanganui via ports, Jan. 12. PutikL, from Wellington, January 13. Storm, from Wanganui via ports, Jan. 13. Calm, from Wanganui via ports, Jan, 14. Breeze, from Lyttelton, January 14. Kaitangata, from Westport, January 14. Kahika, from Westport, January 14! Monowai, from Auckland. January 20. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Kahika, for Westport, this day. Kotare, for Bluff, Invercargill, Jan. 9. • Kaituna, for Bluff, Auckland, Jan. 10., Corinna, for New Plymouth, Jan. 11. Te Anau, for Auckland, January 11. John, for Wanganui via ports, Jan. 12. Storm, for Wanganui via ports, Jan. 14. Calm, for Wanganui via ports, Jan. 14. Breeze, for Wanganui via ports, Jan. 14. Putiki, for Wellington via ports, Jan. 14. Kaitangata, for Bluff, January 16. Monowai, for Auckland, January 22. The local agents for the steamer Calm advise that the vessel is due at Dunedin about January 14 from northern ports. She has been fixed to load here for Timaru, Lyttelton, Wellington, and W T anganui. The steamer Storm, which is at present undergoing annual overhaul at Lyttelton, is expected to arrive at Dunedin ;rbont the end of this week. The .vessel will load here for Timaru, Lyttelton, Picton, and Wanganui. The steamer Breeze was expected to leave Lyttelton on Saturday for Napier and Gisborne. She will afterwards go to Wellington and then to Dunedin. 'The vessel is due here about January 13, and will load for Timaru, Lyttelton, Picton, and Wanganui. The Kahika, having completed her overhaul and survey at Port Chalmers, is expected, to sail to-day for Westport. She will load coal at the West Coast port for Port Chalmers. The Te Anau arrived at Lyttelton at 5 p.m. yestorda}- f-roin Auckland direct. She is expected to leave the Canterbury port to-day for Wellington and Dunedin. The vessel is due here on Thursday, and after discharging a quantity of general cargo will load for Lyttelton and Auckland. The Kittawa left Wellington on Saturday evening for Westport to load coal for Timaru and Oam aru. The Kaitangata left Picton on Saturday with a cargo of chaff for Onehunga. After discharge at the Manukau port she will go to Westport to - load coal for Du&--' edin and Bluff. The Poherua is due at Wellington today from Westport. After discharging her coal cargo she wall return to Westport to load for Lyttelton. The Monowai, which is at present at Lyttelton, will leave there to-morrow evening for Wellington, Napier, Gisborne, and Auckland. Captain IT. Gordon, deputy harbor master at Dunedin, is nt present on holiday leavo. He is being relived by Captain S. Bryant, a well-known local retired ship master. The Kakapo arrived at Dunedin yesterday morning from Wellington direct. She brought a quantity of general cargo, and after completing her discharge will go to Port Chalmers for docking and survey. The Kini left Timaru on Saturday evening for Wellington, Westport, and" Greymouth. She has been fixed to load coal at Greymouth for Wellington. The Rosamond, with general cargo from Dunedin, is expected to leave Timaru today for Napier and Gisborne. The Kowhai is to leave Wellington today with general cargo for New Plymouth. She will afterwards go to Greymouth to load coal for Wellington. The Government steamer Hinemoa is expected to leave Wellington about Wednesday on her round trip to the northern and West Coast lighthouses. The vessel visited various Cook Strait lighthouses at the end of last week. The scow Portland arrived at Wellington early on Thursday morning last from Auckland -with explosives to discharge at the northern port. The Portland is' a schooner-rigged scow of 59 tons register, built at Auckland in 1910, and is owned .by Mr John Wilson, of Auckland. UNDERWRITES S AND WAR. RISKS. ' Shipbuilding and Shipping Record' (London) animadverts against the growing practice of several firms employing one underwriter to accept risks for their account. This, carried to an extreme, would mean that an exceedingly large liue could be written by cjie underwriter represent ang several firms, none of which amount to much as units of the market. Such a tendency is strongly to be discouragod. The absorption of a large amount of business by one firm tends to eliminato the competition necessary to maintain rates at' a reasonable figure; on the other hand, the cutting of rates, which can be ohecked when a risk is being placed in small lines throughout the market, is more- easily effected when.the whole of an order csn be placed in one office. HIGH PRICE FOR SMALL STEAMER. The small steamer Thordis, the first British merchantman to sink a submarine has recently beon sold (wrote " Beachcomber" in the London 'Daily Express' of November 3). A friend at" the Baltic tells me that she has had aji extraordinary financial career even in these days of high prices. She was bought from a Norwegian firm in 1915 for £9,000. She was again sold a year ago for £23,000, changed hands m tho spring of last year Tor £28,000, and I understand that her new owners paid £38,500 for her. The Thordis is a vessel of 509 tons gross and 283 tons net. She was built at Torsgrund in 1904, and was purchased by Messrs S. Instone and Co., Ltd,., Cardiff, last April. POSTED MISSING AT LLOYD'S. _ Amongst British steamers posted missing at Lloyd's towards the end of August, 1917, was the steamer Highbury, 4,881 tons, wWoh visited Melbourno in September, 1915, with the 11th of tho 13 cargoes of American wheat imported bv the Victorian Government subsequent to tho severe drought of 1914. London 'Shipping World,' in -referring to the vessel, says that on her last voyage she was carrying a cargo of nitrate from Halifax to Liverpool. Owned by Messrs Watts, Watts_, and Co., she was built in 1912. There is every probability, remarks ' Shipping World ' of Augußt 29, that she was sunk by an enemy submarine, and the case will probably go forward for ' ' ,

Another steamer referred to as missing was the Bonlarig, which was en route from Fremantle tn Colombo with a cargo of wheat. Of 3,921 tons, she wa ß built in 1904.- "In all probability," says ' Shipping World.' "she was lost; like several other steamers, by onemv mines near Ceylon."

Reference is also made to tho French barque General Boisdeffre. which was missing on a voyage 'from .Melbourne for Brest with a cargo of nitrates. In 1916 she visited Melbourne with a cargo of cased oil. DEATH OF CAPTAIN C. H. LOVETT. Captain Charles H. L'ovett. late harbor master at Bluff, who died on Thursday last, was 64 years of age. He was the second son of Mr F. 11. Lovett, of the Tasmanian Survey Department, and was born in 185-3 at Hohart." where ho was educated at ( a collegiate school, and afterwards joined the whalinc barque Aladdin, belonging to Mr John M'Arthur, of Hobart. He remained seven years in that gentleman's whaling service] and rose to the rank of second mate, obtained a master's certificate in 1878. and then commanded the barque Bells nd. other vessels belonging to Mr C. W. Turner, of Christcli>,rch. until 1892. when he was appointed to the Bluff Harbor Board's staff, being appointed harbor 51 aster on Captain N. MacDonnkl's retirement. Ho was initiated into Freemasonry in in Lodge Unanimity, Lyttelton, and in 1893 affiliated with Lodfre Fortitude. No. 64, N.Z.C.. Bluff, in which he was Past Master. Captain 'Lovett was married in 1880 to Miss Lucas, of Tasmania, and had five children.

AMERICAN SAILTNO SHIPS FOR, OCEAN TRADES.

A large number of American sailing shins are diverted into ocean trades, and underwriters would do well to look closely into their condition before accepting risks upon them which are bound to result in heavy claims (says 'Fairplay'). Most, if not all, of the vessels have been employed in short trades on the American seaboard, and are quite unfitted for long voyages, wliile. moreover, the masters and officers are not accustomed to the change in the trade. Numerous cases have already been reported of vessels which have ha-'l to abandon their deep-sea voyages owintr to their condition, and more will probably be heard of this later on. It would be well, also, if underwriters were to exercise care in the acceptance of risks on now wooden ships, because in most cases this js an entirely new industry, and it is impossible.-to secure labor ca>r> nble of handling work in a craftsmanlike manner. REMUNERATING SWEDISH OWNERS.' The shipping journal 'Fairplay' states that according to advices from Stockholm, the French Government have offered to remunerate Swedish shipowners for requisitioned tonnage at the rates ruling for Scandinavian tonnage in the open market, and that the French Government have appointed a commission, on which Swedish owners have been'^iv en representation, to fix the values - • of-' vessels requisitioned, these values to be a. basis for compensation in cases of total loss. The French Government are paying blue-book rates—equal to about one-sixth of the current market rate—for 2,000,000 tons of British shipping, and it would be interesting .to ]ft}-~>}y whether British shipown-;ert-4mi-?i nc-Vniore 01.v.t" vopsidoratioi) than Swedish owners, whose Country has not shown such regard for the interests of the Allies as she might have done. SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. LYTTELTON. January 6.—11.30 a.m., Mararoa, from Wellington. (For continuation see Late Shipping.)