SHIPPING.

Evening Star, Issue 16995, 18 March 1919, Page 1

SHIPPING.

HIGH WATER. TO-MORROW. Taiaroa Head : 4.8 a.m., 4.28 p.m. Port Chalmers ; 4.48 a.m., 5.9 p.m. Dunedin : 5.18 a.m., 5.39 p.m. THE SDN. Sets to-day, 6.22 p.m.; rises tomorrow, 6.12 a.m. PHASES OF THE MOON. Last quarter March 25 8.4 a.m. New moon April 1 8.35 a.m. First quarter April 8 0.9 a.m Full moon April 15 7.55 pan. Sets to-day, 7.27 a.m.; rises to-morrow, 6.56 p.m. WEATHER REPORTS. The Government Meteorologist (Rev. D, C. Bates) supplied the following weather report at noon to-day :

Wind. —L, light; hr, breeze; f b, fresh breeze ; 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: G, gloomy, dark weather; H, hail; L, lightning; M, misty; 0, 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. iC. Bates) supplied the following at noon to-day : —Southerly wind, moderate to strong; weather probably cool and changeable ; the night will nrobably he very cold : barometer rising slowly; sea moderate swell; tides good. SAILED.—March 17. Kotare, s.s. (3.55 p.m.), 141 tons, Mum by, for Bluff and Port Craig. [ Kaiapoi, s.s. (midnight), 2,oC>3"tons, EoLilliard, for Lyttelton. The Corinna will leave Lyttelton tonight for Nelson and New Plymouth. She will afterwards proceed to Wellington and then to Dunedin. The Kahika arrived outside the Greymouth bar this morning from Port Chalmers, and was expected to cross inwards later in the day. The Kamo left Picton at 4 p.m. yesterday with a cargo of chaff for Oneliunga. After discharge ehe will go to Greymouth to load coal for Wellington. The Tarawera left Timaru at 3 p.m. yesterday, produce laden, for Auckland. ; She will load at Auckland at the end of this week for Timaru, Oaamru, Dunedin, and Bluff. The Te Anau left Auckland last evening with general and transhipment cargo for | discharge at Wellington, Lyttelton, and Dunedin, She should arrive here early ! next week. | The Storm has been diverted to another port and consequently will not come to Dunedin this week as was originally intended. The Breeze is due here on Friday from I the north to load for Timaru, Lyttelton, i Picton, and Wanganui. The Koromiko is at present discharging a cargo of Newcastle coal at Lyttelton. , She will sail towards the end of this I week for Sydney. I The American four-malted barque Golden Gate arrived at Sydney yesterday after a passage of 60 days from San Francisco. She brought a full general I cargo, and is to the agency of the Union | Steam Shin Company. The cargo steamer Kara, hound from Lyttelton to Greymouth. is being delayed bv bad weather. She was sheltering in French Pass to-day. The Greymouth bar was again unworkable last night, but it was hoped that vessels would be able to work Urn port to-day. The weather was fine to-day, bat a considerable eea was running on the . bar. Tim Kokin and Kowhai were barj bound at Greymouth this morning, i The Kaiapoi sailed at midnight Inst i night for Lyttelton and Wellington to put out the balance of her Melbourne cargo. She will afterwards go to Greymonth to load timber for Melbourne. The liner War Opal, which arrived at Wellington on Saturday from New York land Auckland, is to sail this evening for Lvtt'dton and Dunedin to discharge the remainder of her cargo. She is expected to arrive here on Saturday next. To complete Homeward loading, the Shaw. Savill liner Mamari is due at Wellington to-morrow, and will sail from there on March 21 for London via Colj ombo and Bomba.v. It is announced that the Federal-Shire st" 'oner- Westmorland, due at Auckland ■ early next month from Liverpool with I troops, will, after discharging some cargo j there, go on to Australia to unload. I New- has been received in Wellington i that Captain Sherrington has succeed -d ' Captain Hond as master of the line-' fort Alma, in Australia. Captain Hoad i* proceeding to London. The next steamer to arrive at Wellington with passensres from Sydney will be (he Rivcrina, which is due at the northern port to-morrow evening. The vessel is to sail from Wellington on the return trip next Saturday evening. Through the services of the Government Seamen Inspector (Captain W. Clark) over 1.200 seamen and firemen, etc., were engaged for vessels at Wellington during G,--> months of January and February. The actual figures were : January 654, February 595. ] The -d’in Tonawn.nda was towed to sen I from Wellington Inst Thursday morning bv the Pelican, and set snil for j via Cape Horn. The vessel is loaded with I about 7.000 hales of wool and 1,225 tons iof ore, the latter being from New Cals- i donia. I The barque Titania is 129 days out to- I day from New York bound for Welling- 1 ton, and is therefore now fully duo at the northern port. The vessel is cornmg via the Cane of Good Hope route. She i has 2.500 tons of general cargo to put out ' at Wellington. ! The steamer War Music left Newcastle on Friday last for New Zealand. She will be loaded for England by the New , Zealand Shinning Company. j T K o steamer Ajana, which is due at I Auckland, about the end of this month with troops from England, has been fi-t«d ; to load at Waitara, Wanganui, and Wd- . Ibmton. The vessel is to sdl finally from | Wellington about the middle of April ' for Liverpool via Panama Canal. ; Private advice has been received that I Cantain W. H. Lea, who was cantnred by the Germans and made a prisoner of war about two years ago, when his vessel, the Port Adelaide, was sunk, is now recuperating in London. It is stated that he will bo given command of one of the new C. and D. liners.

Captain X. E- Bower is ia command of the big liner Hororata, which arrived in the stream on Friday evening from London. Amongst the passengers by the Ruv pehu, which left Wellington on Saturday for London, were the following :—From Dunedin, Miss 0. M. Farquhar. From. Timaru, Colonel H. F. Tracey. Third class ; From Dunedin, Miss H. Findlater. From Ashburton, Mrs E. Day. From Timaru, Mr T. Simmonde. LYTTELTON HARBOR BOARD. The report of the Lyttelton Harbor Board for last year stated that, taking into account the disorganisation of shipping due to the war, the board’s revenue had remained fairly satisfactory. The earnings for the year amounted to £63,562, or £3,835 more than during 1917. The wharfage returns showed a decrease of £678, due to a falling off of 43,075 tons in the quantity of goods passing over ii* the board’s wharves. The value of exports from Lyttelton was £3,225,428, a decrease of £780,813. There was an increase in the value of imports, which were £3,781,155, an increase of £537,254. The number of vessels that entered the port during 1918 was 1,841, a decrease on the previous year of 142. The total tonnage wa*3 1.128,900, a decrease of 274,558 tons compared with the previous year. SCHOONER ELSIE IN DISTRESS. The American wooden auxiliaiy schooner Elsie, of 814 tons gross, which was towed into Wellington last Friday evening in. distress, has had a very short and. unlucky career. As reported by telegram, the vessel left Sydney on December 3 in ballast for Nukualofa (Tonga), where a ful Icargo of copra was loaded for tha Pacific Slope. After clearing the islands, bound for Portland (Oregon), she encountered bad weather, and received damage to her jib-boom. It is expected that tha Elsie will be ready for sea again this week. Wellington Harbor has on a former occasion been a safe haven of refuge for the Elsie in distress. Bound from Port Pirie, South Australia, with a load of concentrates, she put into the northern port on May 4, 1917, in a leaking condition the heaviness of her cargo having strained her Lull. After unloading her freight there, the vessel was placed on the patent slip for recipilking. To prevent if possible further leaking the concentrates were stowed in a special manner when she was reloading. Bales of hemp were securely packed in the forward and after parts of the hold and along the sides, leaving a space in the centre, where the metals were less likely to cause a strain. Nearly two months elapsed in Wellington before the Elsie finally got under way for her destination—San Francisco. She later went on to Portland, her homo port, and loaded lumber for Sydney, arriving there at the end_ of last October. This is her second trip in succession that lias been marred by ill-fortune. She was built at Tacoma, Puget Sound, in 1916, and is owned by Messrs A. 0. Andenjgn and Co., of Portland, Oregon. An oil engine drives twin screws, and she has four masts. Her principal dimensions are : Length 185 ft 6in, beam 42ft, depth 13.7 ft. HOMEWARD-BOUND STEAMERS. The New Zealand Shipping Company advise that the Romuera and subsequent steamers leaving New Zealand for London, will proceed via the Panama Canal route. DUQUESNE FOR NEW ZEALAND. Advice has been received by Messrs Neill and Co., Ltd., local agents for the Luckenbach Line, which states that the new American steamer Duquesne. 8.000 tons gross register, is at present loading at New York, and is to sail at any time now for Auckland, Lyttelton, Dunedin, Melbourne, and. Sydney. She should arrive here early in May. CORINTIIIC LEAVES LONDON. Cable advice received states that the Shaw, Savill, and Albion liner Corintbic left London on March 15 for New Zealand via Panama. It is expected that the vessel, which is bringing troops, will make Wellington her first port of call. She should reach Wellington about April 24, and will subsequently discharge her cargo of Auckland. Wellington, Lyttelton, and Port Chalmers. CANOPUS SECURES CREW. Six firemen reached Lyttelton by the (Maori on Saturday morning as the result of a request for firemen sent to the secretary of the Seamen’s Union by the captain 'of the Canopus the day. j Five of the men signed on. in addition to } another man who was secured at Lyttelton. The men on signing on were informed before the Government marine superintendent that the shin’s bunkers I would be replenished at the final port of call. As the firemen's demand has been granted, there is little likelihood of any more trouble occurring. SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. AUCKLAND, March 17.-4.30 p.m., Hororata, from Wellington.—s.4o p.m., | Tq Anau”. for Wellington—lhumata, for ! Wbangarei.—March 18; 4.40 a.m., Kaitangata, from Newcastle. LYTTELTON. March 18.—-7.35 a.m., Maori, from Wellington (connected rvith express). BLUFF. (March 17.—4 p.m., Hmemoa, from Dunedin via southern lighthouses. (For continuation sec Late Shipping.) i ■- ■—

Bar. T1 Wrath. Auckland—W., f 30 00 65 BO Nauier—W., m 29.85 70 BC Wellington—S.W., hr 29 79 68 B Grevmouth—S., 1 29 96 57 BC Bealey—S.W., 1 29 86 43 B Christchurch—S.W., 1 29.78 60 B Tirnaru—W., f 29.82 58 B 0 Oamaru—S.W., in ... 29.77 57 BC Dunedin—S.W., str ... 29 81 54 BC Queenstown—S.W., 1 29 90 49 O Nuggets—S.W., str ... 29 58 45 P Bluff—S.W., m 29 78 49 PO Pembroke—N.W., 1 ... 23 85 51 BC | Invercargill—S.W., m 29.95 49 Q Naseby—N.W., 1 27.75 52 BC Roxburgh—Calm 23*59 55 BC ; Balclutha—S. W., 1 ... — 45 O i Clyde—Calm — 61 BO