SHIPPING.

Evening Star, Issue 16782, 10 July 1918, Page 1

SHIPPING.

HIGH WATER-TO-MOSHOff. Taiaroa Head : 4.38 a.m.. 4.58 p.m. Port Chalmers : 5.18 a,m., 5.53 p.m. Dunedin : 5.48 a.m., 6.8 p.m. THE SUN. Set? to-day. 4.32 p.m.; risca tomiorrow, 7.53 a.m. PHASES OF THE MOON. First quarter July 16 5.55 p.m. Full moon July 24 8.5 a.m. Last quarter July 31__ 0.44 a.m. New moon August 7 8 a.m. Sets to-daw 6.41 mm. ; rises to-monwv, 8.53 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; fb, fresh breeze; rag. moderate sale; g. whole Gr heavy gale; w, gale of exceptional severity. Weathor.—B. blue .sky, be the atmosphere clear or heavy; C, clouds, passing clouds; D, drizzling rain; T\ fopgyj O. gioomy. dark weather; 11, hail; L, lightning; M, misty; 0, overcast, the whole sky covered with thick clouds: P, passing showers; Q, squally; R, rain, continued rain: S, anow: T, thunder; TJ, ugly, threatening appearance; Z, hazy. Forecast. The Government Meteorologist (Rev. D. C. Bates) supplied the following at noon to-dav :—Ktrrm,u south-west gale; glass rise fast «>on, and ooldov weatliCT; tides high : s.°a roui;h and increasing off shore. SAILED.—JuIy 9. (Vuimi.s. s.s. (4.5 p.m.). 1.271 tons. Elders, for New Plymouth via ports. ARRIVED.—JuIy 10. Kamona. s.s. (7.45 a.m.). 1.42-5 lons. Rank me, from Westport. Breeze, s.b. (11.30 a.m.). 553 tons, Braid wood, from Onehmiga and LyUelton. rXPFCTFD \RRTV\IS Wostrana fiom Melbourne July 11 \spkuta f om O i\mouth Fulv 11 Kntiif fiom I\ t- u m Tuh 12 Tohi ir m ~\\ nctnui Tnh 12 ( i] i Horn Win mm Tidy 12 in in fi mi W llmcton Jul" ]"i II ut > fion \ti I'Hmmth uK 15 Poheimi trom Ci vnrnnth Tub 15 ; M iin fiom Win -mm Tul\ 15 j Oisboinc from Well nat on 7 T"\ L 6 ' Hmemoa from Wrllinntrn Tidv 18 Puuki fiom Wi Illusion Tib 18 Cc inna mm \\ollinJ n Juh 11 Mi\ l!o\ iul fiom "\\ llin un Tnh _0 fiiK/f 'rom Onehuno i Jnh 20 Monov, u fiom \ii(Klind Juh ?8 fiom \nc 1 hud Tul\ 31 PROJECT! D DF H t/el Riptm loi Mellounn to di\ Ret/» hj \ s "ii., mil thi di\ "Kunin fo (>i mi c it'i JnH 1 Q ( ihn i n V in ii ii 7f\ 72 tin t< 7i F\ 1? ! >t in for F i\c c i_ 1 I il\ 12_ \ jVii i tin (,u vmi ulu ) i'\ I Folm foi Wm s uiui lui\ 13 I WaHrhl 1-ch lor W ellm J( n Tulv 13 Mr rm foi \\ 1114nnn 7 il\ 75 Mrnnwai * >r \u< I liid lnl\ 75 ffi utn «fii f On liuns> 7"h 18 futiki 10) \\ fulv 18 Hiiifmoi fn s)utl in hhi JnH i' 3 ( 1 n 1 f 1 N t. Phnni hj 1 U n 0 Mi\ 'Tow 11 1 foi Jm/> c 1 _ill Jul 23 Tin Kim in < a m d it T 1 1 1 In HiniH ht,l. 8 ill to d in ti V* tfj > t ii'l 1 1 'nil <iu ti i 1 l ie 1 putt it cut j a >it 11, 11 t f him'i ti I \1 i 1 in ni 1 ! (ciniili t li 1 di hj 1 u Pit 1. Inl ucis to m \r\ Flu 'hn/ urn d bie if 11 7) 1 m j to (In rmi On nuii_ i and lUt I n \ it l j 1 ul! 111 n ' (. r ind 1 nd f 1 *-il 1 lir o '-'n is c \<<] t i ul li t mij lit | roi 7 mni T tMt 111M\ it m j Ihj Mr no \ll \1 1 b 1 it 1 k lit 1111 dc _o iif mh\( and < luul t I'm' ' ( 1 ilnei is fi d 1 1 \ Pii 111 111 j V tdu FuK 15 f 1 I m It 11 \ 1 biu hi \idi ( b-1 1 id \ud 111 1 I Mi 1 ' mi i I in n c <d t1 1 1< n \\rljni.t_i i) 1 Jif tl -n lil I rn 'o t 1 Ihu <h 1 hi 1 1 1 i n tnd v 111J1I i 1 1 1 '1 It lil 1 i c, I], 1 \ to Oi Ini 'll ui ma \A in _, i 1111 11, *. i IF 1 I T 1 tn il 1 lid, i I Mr 11 <n < 1 1 1 in 1 i r h r i r c in B \ 1 n 1 11ft fas lillo \it 1 t put I 1 Fh ntlll \ tli in 1 C <.|i 1 bin d fr 111 Imtrnijil 1 W bri" < 1 ]t * 1 tbf Tf ul, <ll Ino t Mi 1 dl mm il I' 1 1 'ln 11 in f i' it me I nou The Ivot. 1 1 (1 ii I I vr- [(t ! I II to 111 Jit f>i I 11 1 1 I 1 1 1 _ 1 111 I t i„o rr Diiin dm '(if! 1 it 11 hj 11 'll 1 n m 1 111 1 1 fi It i 1 on 1 In ni hi t 1 I'b r t in i J \rn i \ in l Plie Kll Ili 1 1 ' ~ii nib tdn j 31 ciil J cit ji , 1 \fi ' it tl f'a \i "Pi ,io th j \ill rttuni 1> 1 u 111 n i 1 7 * 1 N \ 1 PK month j

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The Hokitika Shipping Company's steamer Paeroa ha-* been stuck up in Okariro (West Co;wM for several week.*. Tho vessel has beon hauled up to the wbwf there and, discharged her cargo again. The crew have returned to ITokitika. If is expected to be several weeks before the channel will be workable,' and the Paeroa must perforce remain idle during that time. The auxiliary ketch Waterlily, which arrived at Dunedin yesterday with a load of timber from Ftewait Island, will sail towards the end of the week for Wellington. She will afterwards return to Dunedin, and will bring down a set of Diesel oil engines fox the ex-dredge, Progress, which is now being converted into a cargo-carrying vessel at Port Chalmers. The W-nterlilv was purchased a short time ago by Messrs Miller 8r05.,, of Port Chalmers, for tis© in connection with the salving oi" £h© -wrecked steamer Waakare.

The Corinna sailed late yesterday afternoon for Oarnaru, Timaru Nelson, and New Plymouth. The vessel will afterwards go to Lyttelton to load for Nelson and New PlymouthA sailing vessel wliiclx arrived in Mel-' bourne seven weeks ago, and which tecently loaded a heavy "cargo of wheat at Williamstown, has remained at an anchorage oft' Gellibrand since the completion of her loading. It was reported that difficulty was being experienced in securing s- full crew, and this was responsible for the delay. The American four-masted schooner Moshulu, which left Melbourne on. March 27. has arrived, at San Francisco after a smart passage of 54 days. The sailing vessels Irene. Alert, and Fearless will each bring about 800,000 ft of timber from the Pacific Coast to Sydney, to the agency of the American Trading Company. The steamer traffic on the Chitha has had to be suspended owing to the very low state of the river, there being quite a number of places where theiie- is not more than 2Aft of water. With frosty weather there is no saying how long present conditions will continue. Fortunately there is not a great deal of cargo offering, the moat pressing being _ probably am.). There is said to be very little snow in the Clutha watershed. A notable piece of ship surgery is reported in the American Press to have been recently performed by the Robins 'Dry Dock aiid Bcpair Company at their Erie basin establishment at New York (states ' Syren and Shipping'). A steel ship of 2,300 tons entered ■ the dock at 11 a.m. to be lengthened 52ft, and. at 4 p.m. the following afternoon she began to receive the additional matter, the fore and aft sections having been cut apart and pidled in 29 hours. NEW COASTAL STEAMER. A new strainer bnilt to the order of Langley Bros., Ltd., was launched on June 26 from the vards of David Drake, Ltd., Balmain, Sydney. The vessel is intended for the rfew South Wales coastal trade, running principally to the Tweed lHver. Shy is 133 ft long, 29ft beam, and 9lt depth moulded, and is built throughout of colonial hardwood, excepting the decks, which are of colonial hoop pine. The boiler and machinery will be installed by Mort's Dock and Engineering Co., Ltd. As the vessel left the ways sha was named Coraki by Mrs A- Langley. NORWAY'S SHIPPING. According to figures published by the 1 Anglo-Nerwegian Trade Journal, the shipping of Norway decreased in January by 24 vessels (of 24,372 tons}, and 15 vessels (of 3,492) tons were added, making the net decrease for the month 0 vessels (of 23,880 tons); while during February 23 vessels (of 23,835 tons) were removed from the register, and 22 vessels (of 5,284 tons) added, showing a net decrease of 1 vessel and 18,551 tons. On March 1, therefore, the Norwegian mercantile marine consisted of 3.260 vessels of 1,998,175 tons. LARGE SHIPBUILDING SCHEME. It. is the intention of a Melbourne syndicate, to carry out a large shipbuilding trheme on the north-west coast of Tasmania, and it is anticipated that operations will be commenced this month. Tha plans for the various shipbuilding yards are complete, and the plans for the ships it- is proposed to construct are well in hand. It is the intention to build 74 wooden vessels, six of which will have a tonnage of 1,503 to 2,000. six of 1,000, 12 of" 500, six of 600, and four of 400. The headquarters of the scheme will be Bnrnie, owing to the facilities it provides in connection with the supply and liandhni; of timber, and in each case tho six vessels will be constructed simultaneously.

ASSAULTED BY CHINESE SEAMEN,

At the Melbourne City Court on June 26 two Chinese seamen, who were* convicted of a brutal assault upon John A. Ferguson, engineer of the steamer Kanv hangan, on June 24, were sentenced eaeli to three months' imprisonment. According to the evidence) of a mini her of witnesses, the crew, which comprised about 100 Chincs-'O, mutinied at about 6 o'clock in the overling, when some heavy ma-chin-cry wa.s being loaded. Ferguson, who was directing the operations, said that when be ordered the men to lower the slinks they hoisted them, and vice versa. They had a rooted objection to working late. but the boat was duo to leave that evening: under a demurrage penalty of £I.OOO. Eventually sewn or eight of the crew rushed the oiheer, and violently assaulted hi!)], the accused being the ringleaders. One of them struck him with an -iron bar. and lie would have been seriously injured but for the arrival of the naval guard. wild succeeded in quelling the disturbance. * OT 1 -IKA 01 PIOFIT-^ il d "i« ri lb i i \ mi or hi /i op nlv u <1 i p n i ni! in c nhi i ic hi l u hn i not \ ant n„ 0 i t i ( \ n i rnm „ f ir i it i p j i ii tiij % nus % l (I il i t I i i> hini ) B Join il 1 i t] i\ im ! * \\nii 4) ibis il j a in n ntl b\ I ord Le l 1 i m t i i i i i I jnft in 1 If v r n 't I i \i iil J] } omtul nt tb t In it J 1) ihi M iik + ii i f ii "NX L \fr r t iii hj a jr t \ r tip t'ui o ' bu. Id Ii ' iu< (-4- i 1 _i ui i n it \ hj hi >vi rnm if till i Ui iii | m fieri but 1 f t 1 c up m i i i i /il t 1 f ovi i i ( il\ i i I ic H \ ton pdm -ril rn in r > + 1"4 rn pdmll nf\ <n 44 t i 10 m 1 i i ml iut frrm 44 t i _JQs li 1 i 1 0 it it this d\ ice i) fi i i ' In ill V \ 1 \cr Bi x md )t \\ t Fit nfi) trninrnt th re 1 1 hj \ ip n i 1 n\ f p -ifi'tei ii, ill" ft i i if in il tin id \n l ii mi li ii t ) ".h jv. the utU) 1i ih nt (hj s. n\ < r ] i interring 1 l a L >t\ t) t liif Miei enenlK do not ile'i ' t i J i'oih l>ehi mm i t tn ( ifi rn n n tli dir <tion tkJ i th j url c re l e la tr e 'ija i< i in s j ( i'l d p fit il g ihj n,i.u Kin, T ) in K:n„ -t in WESTftALIA DUE TOMORROW. The Huddart-Parker steamer Westrrdia. which arrived at Lyttelton to-day from ' Melbourne arid Wellington, is timed to leave the Canterbury port this evening for Dunedin. She .should arrive here to-mor-row forenoon, and will berth at the Hattray street wharf to discharge over 800 tons of general cargo. The vessel is fixed to sail on Friday afternoon for Bluff and Melbourne. SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. LYTTELTON, July 10.—8.45 a.m., Mararoa, from Wellington (connected -with express). OAMARU. July 9.—11 p.m., Corinna. from Dunedin.

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