SHIPPING.

Evening Star, Issue 16987, 8 March 1919, Page 1

SHIPPING.

HIGH WATER. TQ-MOBBOW. Tai&roa Head : 8.37 a.m., 9.9 p.m. Port Chalmers : 9.17 a.m., 9.49 p.m. Dunedin : 9.47 a.m., 10.19 p.m. UONSAY. Taiaroa Head i 9.40 a-m., 10.11 p.m. gort Chalmeore : 10.30 (um., 10.51 p.m. unodln z 10.50 a.m., IL2I p_m. THE SUN. Sets today, 6.41 p.m.; rises tomorrow, 6.59 &.m. Sets to-morrow, 6.39 p.m.; rises Monday, 6" a.m. PHASES OF THE MOON. First quarter March 9 2.44 p.mFull irioon March 17 3.11 a-m. I*a*t quarter March 25 8.4 a.m. Now moon April 1 8.35 a.m. •Sets to-day, 9.62 p.m.; rises to-morrow, 1.48 p.m. Sxsts to-morrow. 10.48 p.m.; rises Monday, 2.40 p.m. WEATHER REPORTS. The Government Meteorologist (Rev. D. G. Bates) supplied the following weather report at nodn to-day : Bar. Ther. Weath.

Wind.—L, light; br, breeze; fb, fresh breeze; mg, moderate gale; g, whole or heavy gale; w, galo of exceptional severity. Weather.—B, blue sky, bo the atmosphere clear or heavy; (£, clouds, passing clouds; T), drizzling rain; F, fotjg-v; G, gloomy, daxk weather; H, hail; L, "lightmag; M, misty; 0, overcast, the wholo sky covered with thick clouds: P, passing showers; Q, squally; R, rain, continued rain; S, snow; T, thunder; TJ, ugly, threatening appearance; Z, hazy. Forecast. The Government Meteorologist (Rov. D. C. Bates) supplied the following at noon to-day : —Easterly wind, moderate to strong, and by east to north, then freshening j the weather appears likely to bo cloudy and unsettled, with rain following ; barometer falling; sea moderate swell; tides good.

Tho Kamona is expected, to arrive here on Monday night or Tuesday morning from Wostport and Oamaru, After discharging the balance of her coal she will return to Westport to load for Wellington. Tho ICini will leave Onehunga. on Monday for Westport and Greymouth, to load coal for Oamaru and Dunedin. Tho To Anau will leavo Auckland aboit the middle of next week with general cargo lor discharge at Wellington. Lytt-d----ton, and Dunedin. f ho Monowai Is duo at Auckland to-dav from Dunedin and. way ports. Sho will leave tho northern port aixmt Wednesday next for Napier, Wellington, Lyttolton", and Dunedin. Tlie Poherna, which is duo nt Wostport to-morrow from Timarn, will load coal there for discharge at Oamaru. and Dunedin. Tho Kittawa will leave Wellington early nexi week for Wostport, where she will load coal for Napier and Gisborne. Tho Kahika, which has boon ;;t Fort Chalmers for several weelcs past, undergoing an extensivo overhaul, will sail early next w<v»k for Greymouth. She will lend at tho West Coast port for Lyttolton and Timaru. Tlio Rosamond is to leave Lyttolton ionight for Timaru to .complete her lending for Napier and Gisborne. will afterwards load at Gisborne and Napier for Dunedin.

The Karamu. which arrived at Greymouth at 7.50 a.m. to-day, will le,sve that port on Monday with a cargo of coal for Napier. The Corinna arrived at Wellington r.t 2 p.m. yesterday frwn New Plymouth. Sim will sail o: 1 Monday direct" for Dunedin. The Palo-ona, en route from We]]in-..;t<'Mi to Ran Francisco, continued her voyage from Rarotonga on Monday last. The Belgian motor schooner Ady ."-r----rived at Wellington yesterday morning from Sydney ■with a cargo of wheat. The Union limn- Manuka left Sydney yeste.rdlay for Auckland. She is timed to leave the northern port on March 14 on the return trip to Sydnoy. _ The Union freighter Kauri left Wellington late last night for Melbourne-, where sho will load a cargo of whe:>.t for a New Zealand port. Captain I. M'Lallan, who recently piloted the auxiliary schooner May Howard from Dunedin to Auckland, ha? returned here. He reports thai the vessel had a fine-weather passage, which occupied 21 days. The Kowhai left Wellington at 3.3 C p.m. yesterday with a full general cargo for Dnnedin. She is due here to-morrow, and on cwmnletion of discharge will proceed, to Timaru, New Plymouth, and Grevmouth. The Putiki left Wellington last evening for Dunedin direct with a full general cargo. She Is due here to-morrow, snd after discharge will load for Timaru, Lyttelton, and Nokon. Tho schooner Huamii, which arrived at Auckland on Monday last from Gisbon», has had her mainmast taken out. and it is being replaced, by a shorter one. She will thon be ketch-rigged. After the alterations have been made the vescsl will load again for Gisborno. The steamer War Citadel, which has been loading under the auspices of the Shaw, Savin, and Albion Company, arrived at Wellington yesterday from Napier to take in a, little bunker coal. She will leave Wellington to-day for London via Panama. The collier Ooirui (3,991 tone), which Mt Newcastle on February 27 with a load of coal, passed through the Lyttelton Heads at 10 on Thursday night and anchored, in the stream. The lines Rnapehn is due back at Wellington to-inorrow from Lyttelton to complete Homeward loading. The vessel is to sail from Wellington on March 14 for London via Panama. Shipmasters are notified that on and afteT* tcWtwv tho fo-g signal on Gabo Island will be altered from two explosive rockets in quick succession every five minutes to one explosive rocket every five minutes. The steamer Opihi, which while en route from Auckland to Genoa called at Melbourne the first week in Fobrruvry, sailed again on February 10 in continuotion of her voyage. She will visit Vremantle to rebunke-T. the Highland monarch. ' 'The' steamer Highlaa'd" Mem arch' is at present discharging a cargo of Newcastle coal at Bluff. On completion of discharge she will load 11,500 bales of wool at Bluff under the auspices of the C. and D. Line, and will leave there about March 16 for London via Panama.

LEITRIM LEAVES NEW YORK. Advice has boon received which stata? that the steamer Leitrim left New York on February 15 with general cargo for Wellington and Sydney via vessel is expected to reach Wellington about March 22. MIDDLE-HAM CASTLE AT AUCKLAND. The steamer Middleham Castle, running under charter to tho New Zealand Shipping Company, arrived at Auckland last evening from St. John (Nova Scotia) via Panama. The vessel will discharge her cargo, consisting of general lines, at Auckland, Wellington, Sydney, and Melbourne. GREYMOUTH HARBOR AFFAIRS. At last Tuesday's meeting of the Greymouth Harbor Board the harbor master reported that during February the bar had maintained a very good depth, about 18ft being registered at low water. The average depth on the bar at his;h water lor tho month was 27ft, and tho river 23ft Sin. During the month 40 staamers (17,397 tons) entered tho port, and 38 steamers (17,087 tons) cleared outwards. PASSAGES TO ENGLAND. A oonsiderable amount of passenger accommodation on eteamers trading from New Zealand to England has been by the Imperial Government. Until recently- al the second and third-c!n.--s nno. 50 pir cent, of the first-class accommodation was rermisitioned by the Imperial authaorities. This has now hern relea-sed. NEW PASSENGER .SITIP?. It is said that the United. States Shipping Board have before them a plan for the building of five great passenger ships, intended to fly the American flag, and to engago in the cross-Atlantic service. The vessels are to bo of tho Lusitania type, and the five of them would represent an expenditure of 75 million dollars. Eadh would require two years to complete from tho lay-ing of the "keel; yards tboro is ample capacity for the construction of ships of this sizo (says a Home exchange).

SUBMARINE'S RIDES CRUSHED IN.

The honor of having rammed and suiik a Gorman sti'bmarriiK: is claimed by those on the steamer Diyitakwa. an Admiralty war prize captured in 1914 of:' Ceylon. The vessel reached Melbourne on February 14 in ballast from Alexandria to load_ a strain cargo on account of the Imperial Government. Since her reouisitiordns the Dtyitalawa, which, -was oriKir.nih' the Rappanfels, built in 1912 at Bfc-;,-.en. had been employed on British Government war service, principally in the Mediterranean Sea and Indian Ocean. Duri~\? her career as a British vessel she survived five determined attempts on the part of German submariner, to pink her- One attempt cost the German U boat crew their lives. The submarine was apparently clo?,?. to the surface when rammed. The Diyitalawa, j=aid an offices', wont "right over'" the tubmarine, and the sound 1 of crir.ding steel indicated that the side? of the submarine were being crushed in. No further trouble was experienced from that submarine. In November the Diyitalnwa was despatched on a voyage to N'-iv "\ork. pud it was while approaching the American coast that news was received by wireless telop-raphy of the signing of the armistice. The' vessel's first " pc-.-e? voyage" was from New York to Alexandria, where she was ordered to Antral in h-. Sulla^t.

WESTRALIA N"OT DAMAGED. Advice ha" ten received by tho local office of the Haddart-Parkcr Coropruiy ivhich rtatcs that tho Westralia was not damaged as the result of her collision with the ptoamcr Star at Melbourne on Tlrjr.irlay. ft is presumed, therefore, that the will lca.vo the Tietorian pott on March 25 for Wellington, Lytteltori. Dunodin, and Bluff, as time-tabled. THE HINEMOA. Tho Government steamer Hinemoa loft Wellington at noon Yesterday on a round trip to"the Iplancl lighthouses She should reach Dunedin alrout the nikMle_oi next week, and after loading a quantity of" «tores v.-ill pail for Bluff and the West Coast, calling at all the lighthouses en ronte. SHIPPING TEF.EGRAM?. \r~r I \ D i " 7 r AT | t i in M i r M Pi if ~>r I]l AT -r " 10 >. f 1 M r f flO s V d " 4 -> n i i iti i ' r lb no- I I 1 ' j i in iC 1 i f T) ■" Vutil i i i -si» —■■ 10 i if" frr M l i „ r „ V fi 7 520 } m 0 i aatl -T ' 8 "*'i 111 wi fi 1 1 ' u ] !tl f A ) , Mre JT ' *"" > kll 1 i *' 1-T li 1 f l \\ 1 t !| j I i \f A r l —1 ' "it 1 n ir m \n 1 1 , „ , r s\\ Mirch ?—M<fo u Hi a i (For continuation see Late P-hippirif:.;

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