SHIPPING.

Evening Star, Issue 16847, 24 September 1918, Page 1

SHIPPING.

HIGH WATER. TO-MORROW. Taiaroa Head : 6.14 a.m., 6.45 p.m. Port Chalmers : 6.54 a.m., 7.25 p.m. Dunedin : 7.24 a.m., 7.55 p.m. THE SUN. Soto to-day, 6.2 p.m.; rises to-morrow, 5.58 a.m. PHASES OF THE MOON. Lart quarter Sept. 27 4.9 p.m. New moon Oot. 5 2.35 p.m. First quarter Oct. 13 4.30 p.m. Full moon Oct. 20 9.5 a.m. Sets to-day, 7.29 a.m.; rises to-morrow, 0.0 p.m. WEATHER REPORTS. The Government Meteorologist (Rev. D. 0. Bates) supplied the following weather Tcports at 9 a.m. to-day : Bar. Ther. Weath.

Wind. —E, light; br, breeze; f b, fresh breeze; mg. moderate gale ; g, whole or heavy gale; w, gale of exceptional severity. Weather. —B, blue sky, bo the atmosphere clear or heavy; C, clouds, passing clouds; D, drizzling rain; F, foggy; O, gloomy, dark weather: H, hail; L, lightning ; *M. misty; 0, overcast, the whole *ky C covered with thick clouds; P, passing showers; Q. squally; R. rain, continued vain; S, snow; T, thunder; U, ugly, threatening appearance: Z, hazy. WEATHER FORECAST. The Government Meteorologist (Rev. D. C. Bates) supplied the following at noon to-day :—Moderate north winds ; fine wrpthcr; tda-*s fall; tides good; sea moderate. ARRlVED.—September 24. Calm, s.s. (8.50 a.m.), 890 tons, Radford, from Wellington. Pohcxna, s.s. (9.55 a.m.). 1,175 tons, Chadwick, from Greymouth via Oamam. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Putiki. from Wellington, Sept. 25. Monowai. from Auckland, kept. 25. Kotare, from Oanuiru. September 20. Breeze, from Lvtte.lton. September 30. John. from Wellington, October 1. Poherua, from Westport, October 2. Storm, from Lyttelton, October 3. Calm, from Wanganui, October 4. Fail-burn, sell., from Auckland, Oct. 4. Houto, sch., from Wellington, Oct. 4. Stella, from Auckland. October 5. Westralia, from Melbourne. October 8. Corinna. from Wellington, October 11. PRO.! E( "TED D ERA UTUR-ES. Kotare, for Invercargill, to-day. Calm, lor Wanganui, to-day. Corinna, for New Plymouth. Sept. 25. Poherua., for Westport, September 25. Monowai, for Auckland, September 36. Putiki, for Wellington, September 26. Breeze, for Wanganui, September 50. John, for Wellington, October 1. Storm, for Wanganui. October 3. Westralia, for Melbourne, October 9.

The Calm, which arrived hero this morning from Wellington direct with _a large quantity of general cargo, will sail late to-night for Timaru, Lyttelton, Wellington, and "Wanganui. The Poherua arrived here at 10 a.m. today from Greymouth via, Oamaru, and was berthed at" the Birch street wharf to discharge a part cargo of coal. She will sail to-morrow for Westport, where she will load again for this port.. Tho auxiliary schooner Gisborne, which left the Lower Harbor on Sunday morning for Kaipara, was sighted by the officers of the steamer Calm at 8 a.m. yesterday off Banks Peninsula. The schooner was making splendid headway under a strong southerly breeze. The Kahika arrived at Lyttelton at 6.30 a.m. to-day from Greymouth after a rough and "lengthy passage. She is expected to leave the Canterbury port tomorrow' for Westport, where she will load coal for Napier and Gisborne. Tho Kotare will be despatched to-night for Bluff and Invercargill. She will afterwards go to Stewart Island to load timber for Oamam.

The Putiki is due at Dunedin to-morrow night from Wellington and Timaru. She has been fixed to load here on Thursday for Timaru, Lyttelton, and Wellington. The Kokin arrived at Greymouth at 11.30 last night from Westport. She was expected to sail at noon to-dav -with a cargo of coad Use Omehunga,

The Te Anau is duo at Tirajum to-day from Auckland direct. She will load a full cargo of produce at the South Cantorbury port for Auckland. A moderate sea was running on the Graymouth bar to-day. The weather was fine, with -o, light south-easterly wind. Westport reported fine weather and a moderate sea on the bar. The Kini, which arrived at Westport last evening from Port Chalmers, is expected to sail to-day with a cargo of coal for discharge at Timaru and Lyttelton. The Greymouth bar was in good working order lost week-end, there being 25ft of water at high tide on Friday. Messrs Brownlee’s scow Hazel Benton will continue to lav up in Evans Bay (Wellington) for an indefinite period. Repeated efforts to find a master and crew have been fruitless. The Wostralia left Bluff at midnight on Thursday last for Melbourne direct with 40 passengers. Work on the waterfront at Lyttelton during tho past eight or ten days has been extremely quiet, especially on Friday and Saturday last. RECENT AUCKLAND COLLISION. The nautical inquiry' concerning the recant collision between the Richardson steamer Make and the scow Seagull was mentioned in tho Auckland Magistrate s Court last Thursday. Mr Selwyn Mays, for the Marine Department, said the costs would amount to £6B. Sir E. C. Cntten, R.M.. ordered Captain Fletcher, of the Make, to pav £2O. and the mate, W. Marshall, £lO. ” He said he would consider the question as to how much of tho balance, amounting to £3B. the owners, Richardson and Co., should pay. SHIPBUILDING IN AMERICA. The Auckland ‘ Star ’ states that advice received from San Francisco show's that shipbuilding is progressing at a rate never before experienced. On .Tulv 4, the actual number of shins launched in tho United Ptafoa was 82. ’ Machinery is beginning to come through for the wooden hulls, many of which have been delayed after launching bv the lack of engines. On Independence Dav 17 American war vessels were launched and the keels of eight others laid. TRANSFORMATION of ltnfiw . The transformation of the P. and 0. mail steamer Naid-era. at Greenock, into a 19-knot cargo-carrier, shows that vessels can h-a built as liners, used for war work while the war continues, and converted into real liners when the proper tunc como«. It should not bo impossible, then, for Lord Pirrie to arrange for thc_ constmetinn of n. number of liners —nniforu! in tvpe if necessary—so that the l<iiv» firms would have at their command ..t the close of the war at least some ships which thev could put on to their P..-S sengor services within a very short time. WtNCANUT HARBOR ENTRANCE. As an outcome of the disaster which overtook the launch (Monarch at the "Wanganui harbor entrance some months ago, th" "'Van garni Harbor Board consult rd with the Marine Department- upon the fmggestinn that special signals should he nr.-p-ncred for launches and small, boats, to be displayed wh«n the bar was < dangerous to them When recently in Wan-

ganui. th« Minister for Marine, tho Hon. R M W-"!Wd. made inquiries into the practicability to’ - ’stion. Hip conclusions ware c'-’ > ’ -- _ leal -.or Board at "V Ip i V'tirg f .-' jjw *o* viso-j t'naf it was ■hnpvacti- Arc. :-rl, ! t it was advisable to use th" ordinary code of signals such as were goimral in all nnrts of tlm Dominion. Urn chairman orri-aimM that ono of the reasons whv it was thought necessary to have a. cede of - pnßcabl" to all craft was the possibility of confusion arising from two sets of signals To a launch the her might he iip.am.ratw, lull- not- to a larger craft, and with signals for Cecil confusion m'-Oit. arrive. Tie added that the signal “Bar dang-emiTs had heeu but scl-.om used m Wa.nfra.nm. THE CO PINNA. Tho Corinna. which is completing her snrrev at Port. Chalmers, will come up to TV-inedlu to-morrow morning to a large shipment of general merchandise. She is now timed to sail to-morrow evening for Oamnru, Timaru. Nol-mi. r.ud New "Plymouth. The vessel will nfter-a-iwU go to Wellington, and then to T.vltoitou to load for Nelf on and New Plymouth, Mnvnv’tl RTF TO-MOBRnTV. d'be Monowai is due a! Dunmlin tomorrow morning from Auckland \ia Wellington and Led tel ton. The vessel will berth at the Cross wharf on arrival to discharge several hundred tons of cargo and load a full outward general cargo. Mie is timed to sail on Thursday night for Lyttelton. Wellington. Napier. (Gisborne, and Auckland. MANUKA AT WET.LINOTON. The Union liner Manuka arrived at Wellington at. 6 p.m. yesterday from Svdnev, which port she left at 1 p.m. on Thursday last. The vessel brought 71 saloon and 26 steerage passengers and over 1.000 tons nf cargo for Now Zealand, The Manuka is timed to leave Wellington to-day for Lyttelton. She will bproluo hark at Wellington on Thursday morning, and will leave there on Thursday evening for Sydney and. Hobart. AVAR BONUS FOR SEAMEN. Referring on August 31 to the complaint that’ war risk bonuses wore not yet being paid to seamen, the Acting Minister for the Navy (Mr Poyntonl said that regulations providing for bonuses to sailors while operating Jn danger zones were being prepared. He hoped to announce shortly the extent of the bonus and tho zones in which it would apply. It had been impossible to introduce the scheme immediately, as the Imperial authorities had tn be consulted on the question of increased payment. Estimates were now being prepared of the estimated cost of the, bonus. A schedule was also being prepared under which sailors would he compensated for losses of effects caused by enemy action, and this may bo made retrospective.

RETURN OF THE WOODEN SHIP. Thus a writer in ‘Syren,’ commencing an article on ‘ Wooden Ships—An Historic Revival! Had any one predicted prior to the outbreak of war that the wooden ship would come into her own again, lie would have been scouted as a false prophet, a visionary who_ would unseat utilitarianism and put in its place sentiment. The advantages of iron and steel as a shipbuilding material are now so obvious, and have been so long and practically demonstrated that the mere suggestion of reversion to wood could only be regarded as evidence on the- part of any who made it of puerility or insanity. Yet the strange thing has happened, as it has so frequently in the complex history of this world of ours, and the wooden ship, with all the shortcomings inherent to construction of such a material, bids fair to once again play an-important part in sea transportation. Viewed, from our present day standpoint it is no miracle that has been wrought. It is no temporary declension from the parts of sanity that has induced the shipbuilder to revert to primordial example and, like the first man who journeyed by water, use wood for the construction of bis vehicle. W© want ships and want them badly. The whole world requires them, and we want them in being at the earliest possible moment.

Auckland—S.S.E.,1 . ... 30.04 55 0 Napier—N.W.. f,b . ... 30.13 48 O Wellington—Calm ... 30.08 I West-port—N.. fb . 30.. / S <2 Grey mouth —E., 1 ... 30.02 44 B 0 Bfiiley—S.W., I .. 29.91 45 B Christchurch —N. E., 1 30.02 48 B Timaru—N.E.. fb . ... 30.09 42 E Oamaru—N.E., 1 ... 30.00 44 B Dunedin —N.E., 1 - ... 30.98 42 B Queenstown —Calm ... 30.13 40 B Nuggets—S.E., 1 ... 29.98 42 B Bluff—N.W., hr ... 29.89 41 BC Z Clyde—Calm 49 Clear Pembroke—Calm 28.80 42 B Balcluth a—Calm — 42 B Box burgh—S.E., 1 . ... 29.69 43 B C Port Chalmers —N.E. .1 30.06 48 B Invercargill—N., 1 . ’.. 29.05 44 B N Jise by—C aim ... ... 27.90 38 B