SHIPPING.

Evening Star, Issue 16993, 15 March 1919, Page 1

SHIPPING.

HIGH WATER. TO-MOEEOW. Taiaroa Head : 2.12 a.m., 2.30 p.m. Port Chalmers : 2.52 a.m., 3.10 p.m. Dunedin : 3.22 a.m., 3.40 p.m. MONDAY. Taiaroa Head-: 2.50 a.m., 3.9 p.m. Port Chalmers : 3.30 a.m., 3.49 p.m. Dunedin : 4 a.m., 4.19 p.m. THE SUN. Sets to-day, 6.28 p.m.; rises to-morrow, 6.9 a.m. Sets to-morrow, 6.26 p.m.; rises Monday, 6.10 a.m. PHASES OF THE MOON. Full moon March 17 3.11 a.m. Last quarter MaTch 25 8.4 a.m. New moon April 1 8.35 a.m. First quarter April 8 0.9 a. m Sets to-day, 4.16 a.m.; rises to-morrow, 5.45 p.m. Sets to-morrow, 5.20 a.m.; rises Monday, 6.5 p.m. WEATHER REPORTS. The Government Meteorologist (Rev. D. C. Bates) supplied the following weather

Wind.—L, light; br, breeze; f b, fresh bre«ze; mg, moderate gale; g, whole or heavy gale: w, gale of exceptional severity. Weather.—B, blue sky, be the atmosphere clear or heavy; C, clouds, passing clouds; D, drizzling rain; F, foggy; O, 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, thunder; U, ugly, threatening appearance; Z, hazy. Forecast. The Government Meteorologist (Rev. D. C. Bates) supplied the following at noon to-day :—Westerly winds, strong to gale, and backing by west to south; the weather appears likely to be cloudy and unsettled, with rain fololwing; barometer unsteady, but rising soon; sea rough; tides good. ARRIVED.—March 14. Alert, American schooner (7.50 p.m.), 623 tons. Hansen, from San Francisco (in the stream). SAILED.—March 14. Calm, s.s, (10.45 p.m.), 890 tons, Radford, for Wanganui via ports.

The Stella, which was due at Lyttelton this morning, will make, another trip to the Chatham Islands for a load of wool for Lyttelton. She will probably go to Westp>rt afterwards to load ycrap it on for Dunedin. The Kini left Greymouth at 11 last night with a full cargo of coal for discharge at Oamarii and Dunedin. She is expected to arrive here on Tuesday. The Koromiko arrived in the stream at Lyttelton at 3 a.m. to-day from Newcastle, and was ordered into quarantine for 24 hours. She has a full cargo of coal for discharge at the Canterbury port. The Mo'iowai arrived at Napier fhi« morning from Auckland, and sailed this afternoon for Wellington, Lyttelton, .uid Dunedin. She is due here "on Thursday nevt. The Tarawera left Lyttelton late last night for Timaru to complete her loading for Auckland. The Kittawa loft Westport at 8 a.m. to-day, coal laden, for Napier and Gisborae. The Kaitnna has been fixed to loa-d at Westport early next week for Gisborne and Auckland. The- Kamona is to leave Westport today for Wellington. She will subsequently return to the''West Coast port to load coal for Lyttelton. The Karamu is expected to leave Napier to-day for Westport, where she will load coal for Oamam and Dunedin. Tho Kohiri is to leave Greymouth today for Wellington. After discharge there she will return to the West Coast port to load coal for Lyttelton and Dunedin. The Kowhai has been fixed to load at ■Orevmouth and Westport early next week for 'Onohunga and New Plymouth. The Rnkancia is fixed to leave Auckland early next week for Sydney. She will afterwards go to Newcastle to load coal for a New Zealajnd port. The Rosamond left Napier last night for Gisborne. She will return to Napier on Monday to load for Dunedin. The Wanaka is expected to com pi M" the discharge of her Newcastle < oal cara;o at Port Chalmers on Monday. She .■ i'l then sail for Sydney. A moderate sea was running on the Greymouth bar to-day, The weather vas overcast, with a light north-easter'}' wind. Westport reported fine weather and a moderate swell on the bar. The ste.am.er Daghild left Newcastle yesterday with a cargo of coal for Lyttfl ton, where .she is due on Thursday. v he will load 24,000 bales of wool and other cargo at Lyttelton for the United Kingdom. The Poherua, which arrived at Lyttelton at 11 a.m. yesterday from Westport, will sail to-dny for Oamani and Dunedin to discharge the balance of her coal cargo. She is expected to arrive heie on Tu"«day. The Atua, which was released from quarantine at Auckland yesterday, will leave the northern port on Monday evening for Sydney. The island steamer Talune, from the Friendly Islands and Samoa, arrived at Suva yesterday. She was expected to sail this morning for Auckland" with a cargo of fruit. The Talune is due at the northern port on Wednesday morning next. The French barque Buffon, 1,971 tons, which sailed from Melbourne on November 30 last year, with a cargo of wheat, has arrived at San Frnn-eisco. Tho liner War Opal is due at Wellington to-day from New York and Auckland. The Vessel is expected to leave Wellington on Tuesday evening for Lyttelton and Dunedin to discharge the lemainder of her cargo. Tbe departure of the Argyllshire from Wellington for Liverpool via Colombo and, Bombay, has inow been fixed for March I 25. Tho Shaw. Pa.vill, and Albion Company advise that the steamer War Castle w-as' expected to leave Gisborne yesterday with a full cargo for London via Panama.. The Westland. with general cargo from New York, arrived at Auckland on Tuesday morning. She is due at Wellington on 1 Monday. The steamer Glaucus has been loading gua.no at Noumea for Wellington and N»w Plymouth. She is expected at New Plvmonth about March 18, and at Wellington several days later. The steamer Opihi. en route from Auckland to Genoa, arrived at Colombo on Tuesday !asj., and aftex bunkering sailed for Genoa.

The Zealandie (10,898 tons), from Timani, arrived at Wellington on Thursday,; and will leave on Monday or Tuesday for London via Bombay. Captain G. S. Doorly, of the Union Company's steamer Navua, has written a, book rolating incidents connected with tha war work at sea performed by the merchant service, entitled ' The Handmaiden of the Navy.' The work is at present in the hands of publishers at Home. The liner Port Melbourne, now loading i for Home at Auckland, is due at Tokomaru Bay on tlie 19th inst., at Napier en the 21st, and at Wellington on the 26th inr-t. The vessel is expected to leave Wellington on March 31 for London via Panama. The schooner Rita, at present in Lyttelton. was originally known as the Kcrem, and was owned by Messrs dagger and Harvey, of Auckland. She is now owned by the Scale? Line. She will probably sail to-day for Auckland. HORARATA FROM LONDON. The New Zealand Shinning Company's liner Horarata arrived in the stream at Wellington at 7.30 last evening from London via Panama with a large draft of returning troops. The vessel, which was planed in quarantine, was expected to berth this afternoon. As soon as the Ifnrorata has disembarked the Wellington and South Island troops she will proceed to Auckland with the remainder. At the latter port the liner will commence to discharge her cargo, and will subsequently put out cargo at Wellington, Lyttelton, and Port Chalmers. NEW STEAMERS LAUNCHED. Messrs Harland 1 and Wolff, of Belfast, have lnunched the War Priam, 8.000 tons gross and the War Cowslip, 5.500 tons; tliA Palmer Shipbuilding and Iron Co., Hebburn, the War Camel. 8,100 tons; D. and W. Henderson and Co.. Patrick, the War Picotee, 8.250 tons; and Craig, Taylor, and Co.. Stockton-on-Tees, the War Fox. Another recent launch was the steamer Port Bowen. for the Commonwealth and Dominion Line. The Port Bowen i,s 495 ft in length, has a beam of 62ft, and depth of 44ft Gin to shelter deck. ' She is of 10.600 tons gross and 12,600 tons deadweight. TUG KOPUTAI'S GOOD WORK. It is very rare that a tug has the Inck to tow two sailing vessels into port to-; getlwr, more so in these times, _ when there are so few .sailing vessels coming to Australasia (says the Sydney ' Shipping List'). Messrs'J. and -f. Daley's paddle | tug Koputai. originally from Dunedin, ap- I peared off the heads with the three-masted schooner- W. F. Jewett and the big fourmasted barquentine C&i*fpicrcr in tow, i and later on took them to an anchorage in the stream. ,The last double tow was done'by Messrs Femviek and Co.'s tug Hero, which picked up two four-masted schooners off Port Stephens and towed them to Sydney. STRANDED SCHOONER-REFLOATED Little difficulty was experienced on the morning of February 22 in rolloatjng the schooner Louis Theriault, which, entering Westernport in mistake for Port Phillip, j grounded upon a mud bank near the east- I em end of French Island on the afternoon of February 20. The schooner was re- j floated at high tide on the Safurday morn- j ing. As she is of only 386 tens she was got off the mud bank with comparative case. The tug James Peterson brought the schooner in tow to Melbourne. The Louis Therrault, with a -crew of eight and a cargo of about 700 tons of paper, left Montreal on October 24 fv.r Melbourne direct. She had been expected to arrive for some time past.

CARGO STEAMER CALONNE. The big car so steamer C-alonne. which arrived at Wellington on Wednesday morning from Newcastle, brought 3,000 tons of coal and 1,000 tons of lead for discharge at the northern port. She will subsequently load at Wellinston for London, under the auspices of tiie New Zealand Shipping Company. The Calonne. which is under the com-' maud of Captain . John Telfer. had _a thrilling adventure at Halifax, being in that port when the great explosion took place. The vessel, in fact, was dangerously close to the vessel that blew up. The Calonne had her funnel and deckfittings blown away, six of her her men were'lulled, and about a dozen injured. Fortunately, at thi moment of the explosion many of the Calonne's crew were below, otherwise the loss of life would have !x>en much srreater. The Calonne was formerly named the Anglo-Australiaa. She is a steel screw steamer of 4.019 tons gross, built in 1809 by Short Bros., at Sunderland. KAIAPOI DUE TO-MORROW. The freighter Kaiapoi. with general carrjo from Melbourne, was expected to leave Bluff this morning for Dur:elin. She should arrive here to-morrow morning, and will discharge the local portion of h. ; r cargo on Monday. The Kaiapoi will s;di on 'Monday night for Lyttelton and Wellington to put out the balance of her freight.

WAUIORA'.s TRIP FROM C\LrT'!T\ Tho Union G> tnpa'iy s fr. i, hiei V n hora which timved at I) ui"din , -~t ei .i > v j ft win >n i -win Cabii'Mi \ 'a Alhim in Bluff, pi.(.unified \ >r\ b 1 uiti'i,; t the 1"IW <.i !.r \. \ t„-ele-.Hv] OakuUi on and had an uneventful tup to Alba , v,iu"{- -!n- ,>rii\(d at 4 pro. on Snfindn, Ft brim v 22. O-iri' to the ijuaimtiu r. pi'atioii", the ship fay ,<t anch n in 1i ,p h.iln-, a..d no i oimounii atioii v >i <il(u',.d vlth the sJioie Ci.il hull.- v '<■ liought alongside, and the \cstel i.jhil by her Tew She 1 dt Alb'iiy on W' ! ui\-d,i\, Febiii.ny 2t>. and hj, d a f. ' - vieitner inn nnt'l li v d<- about ifvj i i • of Ta manr, ,<h'ii ,< heav_, viMo [rale v as encountered The ga'e rag'd I thitc d-ys. and as the Waihora - oi not make much b<-.-d."py. and for !' safety of the ship <-he was ho\i to r ,hj hours. The rrale having then abated, '" •■ wop again put on ho l - roil" 1 " 1 , havinz -i'tno damag" T'"o Wail.era's raiirj for *his p-it Col. iMt, . "f a laij;e <oi.M_ r n i"ent of gunnies will *ail to im rro ■ fift'inoon for Timaru. Lyttelton. Well) s; ton, and Auckland to complete her discharge AUCKLAND HARBOR RETURNS. During the month of February 9 large cargo steamers, 7 intercolonial or island traders, 14 coastal steamers, 1 oversea sailing vessel, 2 intei-colonial sailing 'essels, together with 440 local coastal vessels, making a grand total of 473 vessels, of 187,483 gross tons and 110.494 net tons, arrived at the port of Auckland, making an increase of 35 large vessels of 21,0/9 gross and 14,674 net tons, and of 2-5 coastal vessels over the corresponding period of 1918, though the coastal tonnage decreased by 4,161 gross and 2,660 n-tt tons. The' departures last month consisted of 8 oversea steamers, 7 intercolonial or island traders, 17 coastal steamers, 4 intercolonial sailing vessels, 2 coastal sailing vessels, together with 368 local -coastal vessels, making a grand total of 406 vessels of 171,065 gross tons and 99,442 net tons. At the port of Onehunga the arrivals for February totalled 24 vess-els, aggregating 16,460 gross and 7,485 net tons, being a decrease of 4 vessels and, 1,085 tons' net in February of last year. The departures were 25 vessels, totalling 16.602 gross and 7,569 net tons, being a . decrease of 2 vaa*ela tad UOQI ooS jw»

ATHENIC FROM LONDON. According to the latest advice received by the local agents for the Shaw, Sa<nll. and Albion Company, the Athenic will arrive at Wellington on Monday from London via Panama. After her troops have been disembarked the vessel will proceed to Auckland to commence the discharge of her Home cargo. She will afterwards unload cargo at Wellington, Lyttelton, and Port Chalmers. Th« Athenic is due here about March 29, and will sail about April 2 for Timaru and Wellington for Homeward loading. She will be despatched from Wellington oii April 15 for London via Panama. SHIPPING TELBGEAMS. AUCKLAND, MarcTi 14.—6.25 p.m., Niagara, for Sydney. LYTTELTON, March 14.—8 p.m., Kotare. for Port Chalmers. —March 15 ! 7.45 a.m., Maori, from Wellington (comnected with express). TIMARU, March 15.—11 a.m., Calm, for Port Chalmers. NEWCASTLE, March 14.—War Mnse, for New Zealand.—Daghild, for Lyttelton. SAN FRANCISCO, March IL—Bnflon, from Melbourne. —W. H. Marston, far Svdnev. 'LONDON .March 11.—Kashmir, Bessa, and Port Darwin, for Australian ports.

{For continuation gee Late Shipping.)

report at noon to-day : ;— Bar. Tl lier. Weath Auckland—N.N:W., br 30.03 63 0 Napier—N.E., f 30.00 70 BC Wellington—N., f ... 29.88 60 OD Westport—N., f 29.80 62 0 Greymouth—N.E., 1 29.73 58 O Bealey—W., 1 29.69 57 P Chiistchupch—Calm ... 29.63 63 BC Titnara—N.E., f ... 29.54 63 BC Oamaru —Calm 29.47 60 CB Dunedin—N.W., 1 ... 29.53 64 G Queenstown—N.W., 1 29.50 64 0 Nuetrete—N.W., 1 ... 29.60 60 0 Bluff—N., 1 29.42 60 0 Clyde—Calm ... ... — 68 0 Naseby—Calm ... ... 27.60 58 0 Pt. Chalmers—N.E.,1 29,54 61 c Invercargill—S.W., 1 29.50... 60 ou Pembroke—N., 1 28.55 64 0 Balclutha—Calm —. 58 0 Roxburgh.—Calm 29.26 63 0