SHIPPING.

Evening Star, Issue 16626, 8 January 1918, Page 1

SHIPPING.

HIGH WATER. TO-MORROW. Taiaroa Head : 11.30 a.m., 11.58 p.m. Port Chalmers : a.m., 12.10 p.m, Dunedin : 0.13 a.m., 12.40 p.m. THE SUN. Sets to-day, 7.54 p.m.; rises to-morrow, 4.34 a.m. PHASES OF THE MOON. New moon Jan. 13 10.6 ' a.m. First quarter Jan. 20 2.8 a.in. Full moon Jan., 27 2.44 p.m. Last quarter Feb. 4 7.22 p.m, Sets to-day, 3.20-p.m.; rises to-morrow, 0.35 a.m. WEATHER REPORTS. Tlie Government Meteorologist (Rev. D. 0. Bates) supplied the following weather reports at 9 a.m. to-day :

»v i-UU. i~jj iigxit | Dtj DreCZB l ID> IttiSu breeze; rag, moderate gale; g, whole or gale; w, gale of exceptional severity. Weather.—R, blue sky, be the atmosphere clear or heavy; 0, clouds, passing clouds; D, drizzling rain; E foggy; G, gloomy, dark weather; H, hail; L, lightning; M, misty; O, overcast, the whole sky covered with thick clouds; P, passing showers; Q, squally; R, rain, continued rain; S. snow; T, tliundor; U, ugly, threatening appearance; Z, hazy. SAlLED.—January 7. Kahika, s.s. (4 p.m.), LWB tons, Williamson, for Westport. AT til, IV i IT). —Jannaiy ft. Kaituna, s.s. (11 a.m.), 1,977 tons, Martin, from Auckland and Timaru. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Kotare, from Stewart Island, Jan. 9. Te Anau, from Auckland, January 10. Corinna, from Wellington, January 10. John, from Wanganui via ports, Jan. 10. Putiki, from Wellington, January 13. Storm, from Wanganui via porta, Jan. 13. Calm, from Wanganni via porta, Jam 14. Portland, scow, from Auckland, Jan. 14. Breeze, from Lyttelton, January 14. Kaitangata, from Westport, January 14. Kahika, from Westport, January 14. Monowai, from Auckland, January 20. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Kaituna, for Bluff, Auckland, Jan. 9. Kotare, for Bluff, Invercargill, Jan. 10. John, for Wanganui via ports, Jan. 10. Corinna, for Now Plymouth, Jan. 11. Te Anau, for Auckland, January 11. Storm, for Wanganui via porta, 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. Kahika, _ for Westport, January 16. Monowai, for Auckland, January 22. The Kakapo completed discharging her general cargo from Wellington yesterday afternoon. The vessel went down to Port Chalmers this morning for docking and survey. The Kotare is expected to leave Stowart Island to-day with a cargo of timber for Dunedin. She is due hero to-morrow morning, and is fixed to sail on Thursday for Bluff and Ihvercargill. The Kini left Wellington at 6 p.m. yesterday for Westport. She will afterwards go to Greymonth to load coal for Wellington. The To Anau, with general cargo from Auckland, loft Lyttelton at 8.50 last night for Wellington. The vessel will afterwards come to Dunedin, and is expected to arrive here on Thursday. The Rosamond loft Timaru at 1 p.m. yesterday for Napier and Gisborne. She will afterwards proceed to Wellington. The Karamu left Lvttelton yesterday for Greymonth. where she will load coal for Bluff. Fine weather prevails at Greymouth today, with light easterly winds. A smooth sea is running on the bar. Westport reports fine weather, with a smooth sea on the bar. The CorinnaNis fixed to leave Wellington to-day for Dunedin direct. She should arrive hero on Thursday morning, and is timed to sail the same day for New Plymouth via the usual way ports. Having completed her annual overhaul and survey, the collier Kahika left Port Chalmers at 4 p.m. yesterday for Westport. She will load coal at the West Coast port for Port Chalmers. The coastal steamer John is due at Dunedin on Thursday from northern ports. She is fixed to sail the same day with geueral cargo for Oamaru, Wellington and Wanganni. The steamer Calm arrived at Lyttelton an Sunday from Dunedin and Timaru. She left the Canterbury port yesterday for Wellington, Picton, and Wanganui. The steamer Breeze arrived at Lyttelton on Saturday morning from Timaru, and sailed later in the day for Napier and Gisborne.

The i Kaitangata, which is discharging ~a cargo of chan at Onehunga from Fiction, is expected to leave the Manukau port to-day for Westport, where she will load coal for Dunedin and Bluff. The schooner Lily arrived at Lyttelton on Saturday morning with a cargo of timber from Kaipara after a voyage occupying a week against light head winds. On completing her discharge she will load produce and general cargo for Kaipara. The boys of the Government training ship Amokura were due back on board their vessel at Wellington yesterday from their Christmas holidays. The portion of the cargo of timber which remained on the scow Moa when the German prisoners who seized her were recaptured has been discharged at the yards of the Leyland-O’Brien Timber Company, in Freeman’s Bay, Auckland. Measurements show that of the total cargo of 80,000 ft of sawn timber, no less than about 47,000 ft was jettisoned, the balance brought to Auckland being about 33,000 ft. Unfortunately the portion that was thrown overboard included practically all the clean heart or joinery timber ■ in the cargo, tbis having been loaded last. Owing to an accident to one of the hydras ilio cranes on the ferry steamer Mararoa, the vessel did not leave Wellington until 9.30 on Saturday evening, instead of 7.45, her scheduled time. Tho accident having occurred during the afternoon, when no mechanics were available owing to the half-holiday, tho work had to be undertaken by the engine room staff. The vessel was berthed at Lyttelton at 11.30 on Sunday morning, but it was 12.30 before the passengers alighted on tlio Christchurch railway station. THE FERRY SERVICE, The Maori arrived at Lyttelton at 7.10 a-tu., and connected with tno first express for the. south. SCOW PORTLAND FOR DUNEDIN. Tire scow Portland, which arrived, at Wellington on Thursday morning last with a cargo of explosives from Auckland, is expected to leave Wellington tomorrow for Dunedin to discharge the remainder of her cargo. While on her way down the coast from Auckland the Portland sprang her foremast, and she is now having a new one fitted at Wellington. This work is -expected to be completed to-day. The vessel should arrive here about the end of this week. Captain C. Mayall is in command, of the Portland, and bis mate is Mr J. Christaffersen. ■ MEN AFLOAT AND ASHORE. Mr S. L. Chandler has signed on the John’s articles as chief engineer. Mr W. Clark has joined the Patoena as assistant purser. Mr W. Wilson has joined the Baden Powell as engineer, in place of Mr W. E Daniel. Mr R. V. Dickey, who has been temporarily engaged iti the Wellington office of the Union Company, will leave there on Thursday next for Auckland by the Monowoi to join another vessel as purser. Mr R. D. Halstead, of the biaims department in the Union Company’s Dunedin office, is at present on his way to Auckland on holiday leave. Mr C. A. Brent, late purser in the Union Company’s employ, has resigned from the company’s service. Mr Brent has accepted a shore position with a well-known island firm at Rarotonga. PASSENGERS FOR ABROAD. The following saloon passengers have left New Zealand for America and Canada ?—Misses W. A. Oudden, M. Lennox, S. Mncfarlan, L. C. Mason, E. Milne, E. R. Small, B. H. Barker, M. Brown, J. 0. Waldron, Mesdamos E. H. Ehrenfroid, M. Hustler, H. A. Lacon, L. Louissom Blyton, Grand and 3 children, Silver and infant. Walker, Trindor, Messrs C. Schilskv, A. Sclater, C. J.' Silver A H Silver, *E. H. Strong, ,T. P. Waiker, T. E Barker, F. R. Bently, P. C. Blyton, S. S. Gordon, J., T. Grant, T. F. Hgn : son, C. R. Trindor, Dr F. Truby King, Lieutenant J. E Histcd, Dr M. D. Price, Sergeant B. C. Sharp, Master Louisson; and two steerage. LIEUTENANT BONNER, V.O. Lieutenant Bonner, who has jnst been awarded the V.C., received bis early nautical training on board H.M.S. Conway. Upon leaving the school ship in 1901 ho joined the Mercantile Marine Service Association and entered the merchant service, becoming an apprentice on board the ship Invermark, a stoel-bnilt barque owned by Messrs George Milne and Co., and- later served on tho barque Ashmore. Ho entered the Royal Naval Reserve with a temporary commission as sub-lieutenant in December. 1914, and was awarded the D>S.C. in July last for services in connection with anti-submarine work. His Majesty has now been pleased to award him tho stall greater honor of tho V.C. GERMAN SHIPS AT NEUTRAL PORTS. At the beginning of tho war the Germans thought they had saved a great part of their tonnage by directing it into neutral ports. So they might have saved it, but their subsequent conduct drove one neutral nation after another into the ranks of the Allies arrayed against tho nation of pirates. And so Gorman shipping has, as a matter of course, been used to help the allied cause. China had a small quantity of enemy tonnage in her porta, about 30,0 CX) tons’in all, and she has agreed that these vessels shall bo used for the Allies at rates arranged by the Interallied Chartering Executive. All details will be arranged by tho British Consul-General at Shanghai. THE NEW FREIGHT RATES. In reference to the now freight rates on exports, which came into operation on Tuesday last, Mr R. Burns, .president of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce, stated last Thursday that ha did not think the increases could be justified on the plea of increased cost of running the ships (says the Auckland ’Herald’). The Imperial authorities had taken control of the shipping at a flat. rate, which provided hardly a normal profit to tho owners. It appeared to him that the policy of the Imperial authorities wag to fix a maximum price for commodities, and then to impose the greatest possible charge in freight, in order to make a profit in the shipping department. This did not immediately affect the producers of commodities taken oyer by the. Imperial Government, as prices had been arranged for them f.o.b. Other articles of export, however, such as flax and gum, were heavily penalised, and the flax industry in particular was seriously affected. Mr Bums also expressed the opinion that the increase in freights by the British Government would be. followed by a general increase on the part of all “neutral or Ally shipowners, chiefly those trading from Now Zealand to America. KAITUNA FROM AUCKLAND. The Kaituna arrived at Dunedin at 11 a.m. to-dav from Auckland and Timaru. She brought a large quantity of general cargo, and was berthed at the Birch street wharf to discharge the local portion. The vessel will sail to-morrow for Bluff, Oamaru, and Timaru. She will load general cargo and produce at those ports for Auckland.

MINES OFF AUSTRALIA. Commenting on a , discovery made on October 8, the Commonwealth Minister of the Navy, .Mr Joseph Cook, made a statement, in the course of which he said the operations of mine-sweepers had revealed that a minefield had been established about five miles from Gabo Island. The mines so far discovered were laid in deep water, and, in an open situation. The mines might have dragged to. some distance from the position in which they were originally laid. Some weeks later the master of the cargo carrier ZEon, belonging to Howard Smith, Ltd., reported to the look-out at Gabo Island lighthouse that he had passed a buoy with a spar attached off Green Gape, bearing west by south, 10 miles magnetic, and that it looked like a floating mine. Shortly afterwards a persistent rumor reached Melbourne that a floating mine had been washed ashore in Mallacoota Islet, a few T miles to the west of Gabo Island. (For continuation see Late Shipping.)

Auckland—N.E., f Bar. Thar. Weath. 30.10 68 BO Nap i or—E., br 30.20 68 D Wellington—E., 1 ... 30.18 72 BO Westport—aST.E., br 30.16 66 B Grovmouth—E., I 3a 14 67 B Baaley—K, 1 30.34 65 B Ohristchnrci,—S. W*, 1 50.25 88 C Timaru—S., 1 ... 30.22 59 OD Oamaru—S.E., 1 ... 30.17 63 0 Dunedin—N. ( I 30.50 59 O Queenstown —OaLm 30.15 65 B Nuggets—W., 1 Bluff—S.E., f 30.20 30.19 56 57 O BO Pt. Chalmers—S.W,,1 30.23 60 P Roxburgh—S.E., 1 30.05 63 O Balclutha—Calm 60 B Clyde—Calm 73 B Nasoby—CaJm ...- ... 28.15 62 B Invercargill—Calm 30.23 58 O Pembroke—Calm 29.20 70 BC Wind.—L. liffht: hr. r f 1 k ■fruah