SHIPPING.

Evening Star, Issue 16821, 24 August 1918, Page 1

SHIPPING.

HIGH WATER. 10-IIORKOW. Taiaro:i Head : 4.44 a.m., 5.9 p.m. Port Chalmers : 5.24 a.m., 5.49 p.m. Dunedin : 5.54 a.m.. 6.19 p.m. MONMY. Taiaroa, Head : 5.35 a.m., 6.1 p.m. Port, Chalmers : 6.15 a.m., 6.41 p-in. Dunedin : 6.45 a.m., 7.11 p.m. THE SUN. Sets to-day. 5.22 p.m. ; riisea to-morrow, 6.56 a.m. Sets to-morrow, 5.24 p.m. ; rises Monday. 6.54 a.m. PHASES OF THE MOON. Last quarter August 29 6-57 a.m. I Now moon Sept. 5 10.74 p.m. | First quarter Sept. 14 2.32 a.m. i ITull moor, Sept. 21 0.31 a.m. j Sots to-dav, 7.25 a.m.; iises to-morrow, 9.38 p.m. Sots to-morrow, 7.51 a.m. ; rifes Monday. 10.56 p.m. WEATHER REPORTS. The Government Meteorologist (Rev. D. C. Bates) supplied the following weather reports at 9 a. in. to-day : Bar. Tbor. Weath. Auckland—N.N. W.J 30.20 54 OP Napier—N.W.. 1 ... 30.15 56 B Wellington—N., I b 30.07 54 C Westport—N.E., f b 30.05 51 C Grovn-iouth—N., 1 ... 30.00 48 O Beaicv— W.. 1 ' 29.92 45 C Chris'tchurch—N.E., 1 29. SO 57 BC Timam—.S.. 1 ... - 29.98 46 BC Oamaru—S.'E., 1 ~. 29.37 46 OG Dunedin—S.W., I ... 30.01 48 OD Queenstown—Calm ... 29.92 43 R Nutlets—S., 1 ... 29.93 44 MO Bluff—S.E.. f b ... 25.97 44 0 Balclutha—Calm ... Clyde—Calm Jji'veTcargill—Calm ... 30.00 40 O Pembroke—Calm ... 2-3.85 50 R Naseby—Calm ... 27.95 43 R Port Chalmers—Calm 20.96 46 R Wind.—L, light; br, breeze; fb, fresh breeze; nag, moderate gale; g, whole or heavy gale; w, galo of exceptional severity. Weather.- —B, bluo sky, be the atmosphere clear or heavy; C, clouds, passing clouds; D, drizzling rain; F, foggy; G, gloomy, dark weather; H, hnili C, lightning ;*M, misty; 0, overcast, the whole sky covored with thick clouds; P, passing showers ; Q, squally; ~R, rain, continued rsin; S, snow; T, thunder; U, ugly, threatening appearance; Z, hazy. WEATHER FORECAST. The Government Meteorologist (Rev. D. C. Bates) supplied the following a* noon to-day :—Moderate S.E. winds; heavy rain; class unsteady; tides high; sea rough -swell, ami increasing shortly. ARRIVED.—August 23. Lyttelton, tug (7.10 p.m.), 292 tons, f-orn Lyttelton, with an American ship in tow. ARRIVED.—August 24. Calm, b.s. (11.45 a.m.), 890 tons, Radh ford, from Wanganui and Wellington. BAlLED.— August 24©kwm, s.s. (0.10 a.m,), 405 tons, Caw«n, for Wanganui via ports.

EXPECTED AEEIVALS. Stella, from Auckland, August 25. Karamu, from Greymouth, August- 25. Corinna, from Wellington, August 26. Ivotare, from Catlin's River, Aug. 26. Westralia, from Melbourne, August 27. John, from Wanganui, August 28. May Howard, from Lytteltort, Aug. 30. Putiki, from Wellington, August 31. Rosamond, from Wellington, August 31. Monowai, from Auckland, September 1. Breeze-, from Wanganui, September 2. Storm, from Lyttelton, September 3. Calm, from Wanganui, September 4. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Galm, for Wanganui, to-day. Kakapo, for Auckland, to-day. Stella, for Wellington, August 27. Corinna, for New Plymouth. August 27. Kotare. for Invercargill, August, 27. John, for Wellington, August 28. Westralia, for Melbourne August 28. Gisborne, for Invercargill, August 30. Rosamond, for Gisborne, September 2. Putiki, for Wellington, September 2. Breeze, for Wanganui, September 2. Storm, for Wanganui, September 3. Monowai, for Auckland, September 3.

Tho Calm, which arrived here shortly before noon to-day from Wanganui and Wellington, brought 800 tons of general cargo. She will be despatched to-night with a full general cargo for Timaru, Lvttelton. Wellington, and Wanganui. 'The Kakapo came out of dock at Port Chalmers this morning. She will Bail this evening for Timaru to load produce for Auckland. Tho vessel will make a call at Wellington en route for bunkers. The Karamu is due at Dunedin tomorrow -with a full cargo of coal from Greymoutli. On completion of discharge she will return to the "West Coast. Smart work was carried out on the steamer Storm at Dunedin last night by the local watersiders, when over 400 tons of what is termed "awkward." cargo -was discharged and loaded in six hours by two gangs. The vessel cleaned the port at midnight for way ports and Wanganui. The repairs to the schooner May Howard are expected to be completed early next week. The vessol "will leave Lyttelton about Wednesday for Dunedin. No definite arrangements have yet been made by the owners as to the schooner's future movements. The Kini is expected to leave Lyttelton to-day for Westport, where she will load coal for Now Plymouth and Onehunga. The Whangape is expected to leave Timaru to-night with a full cargo of produce for Auckland. Tho Monowai left Wellington at 3 p.m. yesterday for Napier, Gisborne, and Auckland.. She is due at the latter port on Monday, and will sail about Wednesday next for East Coast port 3 and Dunedin. The Huddart-Parker steamer Westralia is timed to leave Wellington to-day for Lyttelton and Dunedin m continuation of her voyage from Melbourne. 'lTie vessel in due here on Tuesday, and is fixed to sail on Wednesday aftfemoon for Bluff and Melbourne. The Kowhai arrived at Greymouth at 8 a.m. to-day from Kaipara. She is expectefl to sail on Monday with a cargo of coal for Wellington. Tli3 Kittawa left Greymoutli at 10.45 last night with a cargo of coal for discharge at New Plymouth and Onehunga. The Kokiri is fixed to leave Auckland to-day with general cargo for Wellington. The vessel will afterwards go to Westport. The Kahika is expected to leave Onehunga t»d:»7 for Greyraomh. •"-here slid will load coal for Wellington. The Kamona is fixed to leave Wellington today for Greymoutli to lord ooal for Lyttelton. The Pohenia is duo at Lyttelton tomorrow from Greymouth. After discharging her cargo of coal, she will return to Greymouth to load for Napier. The To Anau arrived at Bluff at 9.15 a.m. to-day from Oamaru. She is expected to leave the southern port on Monday for Napier and Auckland. The Union liner Mocraki is du-e at Wellington on Monday from Sydney direct. The vessel is timed to leave Wellington on Thursday next for Sydney and Hobart. The weather was unsettled at Greymouth to-day, with easterly winds and a moderate sea on the bar. Westport re-port-ed a moderate swell on the bar. The Storm sailed shortly after midnight. liiPt night with a full' general cargo for way porta and Wanganui. She is due back here about September 3.

The British barque Kilmallio, which arrived at Sydney early this month, had an uneventful voyae* of 112 days from .America. She brought, a full ' general <;ir;r<> for discharge at Sydney. The nautical inquiry into the circumstances connected with the collision between the steamer M<iko and the scow Seagull in Auckland H'aTbor on July 12 has been postponed to next Wednesday. Tt was originaliv intended to open the inquiry last Wednesday. The barque John Bn», -which visited Auckland a. few mouths ago. completed a smart trip from New Zealand to San Francisco last month. She left Wellington on May 26. and arrived, at San Francisco on July 19, covering the trip in 54 davn. The American schooner S. N. Castle has completed discharge, of her cargo of cane oil and. timber at Auckland, and is to commence loading for San Francisco. A barquentino, nnparentlv hound for Wellington, was sighted off the heads from the Beacon "Hill signal station, Seatonn. at 4.30 p.m. on" Wednesday, about 22 miles away to {he south-east-ward . The American schooner T.ncv has completed the discharge of her oil and timber cargo at Auckland. is to sail in a day or two for Vauvan, Tonga, to load copra for Pan Francisco. It is underwood that tho coa.ft.nl steamer Baden Powell will shortly enter tho WdUngton-Wanganni-Lyttolton. running. A wireless message received in Wellington on Wednesday stated that tho Government steamer Tntanekai. under charter to the Chatham Island Fishing Company, has bee/n delayed at tho Chatham Islands by bad weather. Tho vessel, which is to bring the ship-wrecked crew of the Himitangi back to Welb'ngton, la not expected to reach the. northern port until to-morrow. Laden with 700.000 ft of lumber, the American four-master schooner William H". Smith, from Cosmopo'is fWasliinpf/m Territory), arrived at Sydney on the evening of Autmst 14. after a- passage of 67 days. The schooner ftxp^rieuced moderate weather during the trip. The American barquentine K. B-. Sterling, which cleared at the Sydney Customs on August 12 for Pan Francisco, takes a big cargo. Tt includes, besides a ouantity of wool. 1.290 tons chroma ore. 49 tons peas, 108 tons cocoanut oil, and 37.000 ft of Australian hardwood. The American four-masted schooner Alert, from Gray's Harbor, with 800.000 feet of lumber, consiirned to the American Trading Company, arrived at Pydn«y on August 14, after a passage of 68 davs. The caotain reported moderate weather till in the vicinitv of Lord Howe Island. Hire a. heavv frale was encountered, followed by unsettled weather to port-. THE COR.INNA. The Coriuna. which arrived at Wp.lh'*>rrton at 9.30 last night from New Plymouth, is expected to sail to-night for Dunedin direct. She should arrive hero on Monday morning, and i« fixed: to sail on Monday night for Oam&ru, Timaro, Nelson, and N«w Plymouth.

TIMA.RU harbor affairs. REVENUE SHRUNK OONSIDEfo ABLY. [Special to the 'Star.'] TIMARU, August 25. The Timaru Harbor Board's reveaua has shrunk considerably during the waff period, and the board "have been searching for a remedy. The chairman (Mr F, J. Rolleston) announced at yesterday's meeting that he had made inquiries, and had found that the Lyttelton Harbor Board had increased all their charges by 10 per cent. Timaru already had reached the legal limit in respect of some charges, but it would be possible to imposa * charge that would affect coastal and intercolonial shipping, which at present escaped very lightly. Some years aco the board had charged a harbor master a fee of one penny per ton, which wra paid only by smaller vessels, but this charge had been abolished in favor of fees for pilotage. If the harbor master's fee were put into force again it would probably produce about £BOO per annum. After a brief discussion tha meeting agreed to restore the harbor master's f« at the earliest possible moment. Mi Rolleston also mentioned that it had besa rumored that overseas shipping -would not continue to call at Timaru. He had therefore communicated with the Overseas Committee, and had a reply stating that Timaru would not be overlooked. SCHOONER C. S. HOLMES. The American echoonor 0. S. Holmes, which arrived at Dunedin yesterday afternoon from San Francisco, ole&red the Califomian port on June 19, and had an uneventful voyage, which, was accomplished in the good time of 65 days. The vessel was off Cape PaUiser on Monday last, and was delayed on the run down the coast by calms and unfavorable winds. The work of discharging her cargo of case oils and lumber was commenced this morning. MEN AFLOAT AND ASHORE. Mr H. Spurgeon, chief steward on th« Mararoa, has gone ashore et Wellington on sick leave, his place in the meantime being taken by Mr W. Price, second steward. The second mate of the scow Ca&hkrt. Mr P. J. Ewing, had been three years minesweeping in the North Sea before coming to New Zealand. His vessel wa» blown up. and he was badly wounded, and advised to come to the Dominion to recuperate. New Zealand was too cold, and he shipped on the scow in order to got to Australia. Mr H. L. Tapley, tiis well-known Dunedin shipowner, is at present on a visit to Wellington. , Mr K. Gorrie. late parser on the Wim • mora, has joined the Westralia as pureei STELLA DUE TO-MORROW. Considerable interest is being taken in the coming visit to Dunedin of the former Auckland tug -Stella, which has been purchased by the Iron and Steel Company of New Zealand, Limited, for the coastal and intercolonial trade. The vessel loft Wellington at 5 p.m. yesterday for Dunedin in continuation of her voyage from Auckland. She should arrive here about noon to-morrow, and after discharging a full shipment of general cargo and scrap iron, will load general cargo for Wellington direct. NEW 7 JAPANESE STEAMER, The Japanese steamer Burma Ma?ti, the latent addition to the Osaka Shoseii Kaifiha line, is & fine type of the modern passenger and cargo boat. She arrived at .Sydney early last week with over 6,00 C tons' of 'general cargo. The vessel will complete " her discharge at Melbourne. The Burma Maru is a 4,500-ton vessel. She is fitted with wireless, ansd was built last year for the Osaka Shosen line, at the Kawasiku Dockyards, Kobe, Japan. Her master. Captain Marita, has previously made several trips to £*&' tralia in 'charge of the Chosen M-' PATEENA'S MANNING BCAH< f ALTERED. The secretary of the Seamen's Union, Mr W. T. Young, lias received a letter from the Marine Department intimating that the Minister has sanctioned alteration of the manning of the Union Comjanv's steamer Pateena to nine firemen and* three trimmers. Thte is an improvement in the stokehold manning of the vessel to which, the union agrees. »Some weeks ago the union approached tli« owners on the subject, an.l the company agreed to the proposal of an alteration to nine firemen. The Pateena is considered a "heavy job" in the stokehold, there being two boilers with twelve furnaces. Formerly she had two firemen in each watch, which meant that each fireman had to handle eix furnaoes, being two furnaces more than the average. This caused the Pateena to be a "heavy job" for firemen, and as a result of it firemrn were always reluctant to join the ship, and generally they did not stay in T.ha vessel very long. With the now manning o£ nine firemen will three fireinetj in each watch, and thus each fireman wili work four furnaces, which is the averag* number, but these firemen will do the til of trimming in addition. The alteration will come into operation immediately. INSPECTOR OF SEAMEN. j Captain William Frederick Cornelius Clark, of the Government Shipping Office. Wellington, who has been selected out of 19 applicants to fill the position of Government Inspector of Seamen as Wellington, in succession to Captain Barr, who resigned recently to return to sea, is a native of Cornwall, England, and served his apprenticeship at sea in the sailing ships of Trinder Anderson, of London. ' He next went into the Glen Line steamers, and afterwards visited New Zealand, first in the old steamer Ruapehu. and subsequently in various vessels of the New Zealand Shipping Company and Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company. Some years ago he brought the steamer Ennerdale out from England to Wellington, when she was purchased at Home by the late Captain F. Holm. Captain Clark afterwards had command of the steamers Hnlmdale (now Kaln) and Lauderdale. Following that he joined the Union Company's service, and in May last was appointed to take charge of the Government Shipping Office, Wellington, in succession to Captain Hall, who took the place of Captain Whifce> ford as Inspector of Ships. Cantaii! Clark, who has a British Board of Trad* ordinary master's certificate, served foi 21 years in the Royal Naval Reserve, including two years' continuous service in the Royal Navy. SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. WELLINGTON, August 23.-5 p.m., Stella, for Dnnedin. LYTTELTON, August. 24.-7 a-m.. Maori, from Wellington (connected wit! express). (For continuation see Late Shipping.)