SHIPPING.

Evening Star, Issue 17087, 4 July 1919, Page 1

SHIPPING.

HIGH WATER. TO-MORROW. Taiaroa Head : 8.27 a.m., 8.51 p.m. Port Chalmers : 9.7 a.m., 9.51 p.m. Dunedin : 9.37 a.m., 10.1 p.m. THE SUN. Sots to-day, 4.28 p.m.; rises to-morrow, 7.54 a. m. PHASES OF THE MOON. First quarter July 5 2.47 p.m. Full moon July 13 5.32 p.m. Last quarter July 20 10.33 p.m. New moon July 27 4.51 p.m. Sets to-day, 11.53 p.m.; ri&es to-morrow, 11.11 a.m. WEATHER REPORT. The Government Meteorologist (Rev. D. C. Bates) supplied the following weather reports at 9 a.m. to-day :

Wind.—L., light; br, breeze; fb, fresh breeze; m g, 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. ° Bates) supplied the following at noon to-day :—Southerly winds, strong to gale; weather appeal's likely to be cloudy and unsettled; heavy rain to be expected, with rivers flooded ; weather will probably become colder ; barometer rising; sea>s very heavy; tides good. SAILED.—JuIy 3. Corinna, s.s. (4.35 p.m.). 1,271 tons, Elders, for New Plymouth via ports. Mokoia. s.s. (8.15 p.m.), 3,502 tons, Ritchie, for Auckland via East Coast ports. Passengei's : For Lyttelton—Meesrs Howes, Wood, Page, Rutherford. Agea-, Murray, Drumiuoud, Robertson, Dootson, Hutton, Major Ferawick, Captain Kirkwood, Misses Wilson, Murray, Moore, Walmsley, Clark, Miesdaines Jones and infant, Fenwick and 2 children, Payne, Page, M'Lcan, Gaunson and infant, Hayes. For Wellington—Messrs Pyrke, M'Tubbs, Christie, Laffey, Anderson, lieavey, Freear, Thomson, Watson, Baigent, Morris. Mac Donald, Towsey and attendant, Judd, Missce Iladfteld, Miller, Davis, Dredge, Daly, Maolndoe, Meadamea Hviand, Satfherley, Baigent and 2 children. Black and 2 children, Robertson, Mollice, Arnold, Leake, Hicks, Dvvan, Judd. For Napier—Misses M'Nntt. Armour, Cashuian, Romeril. Mesdames Nicholls, Stuart. For Gisbome—Miss Walker. For Auckland—Messrs Garden, Smith, Nelson. Nash, Williams, Forster, Hazlett, Kerr, Stevenson, M'Fadden, Valentine, Nekoii. Qimpbsll, Crawford, WalBaird, Misses Morton (2), Leishnian, Hazktt, Plunkett. _ Curliue. _Mesdames Smith, Leeden, Williams, Wilson, Jensen and 2 children. Kerr. Stuck, Peterson, Nelson. Baird, Crawford and 2 children ; and 50 in the steerage for all ports. Putiki, s.s. (midnight), 422 tons, Robertson, for Wellington via ports. July 4. Kotare, s.s. (11.5 a.m.), 141 tons, Muinby, for Inveroargill. The Breeze is due at Dunodin to-morrow or on Sunday from Wanganui and Lyttelton. After discharge tfhc will deck at Port Chalmers for sanw and overdiaul. Tlie vessel will afterwards load at Dunedin for way ports am) Wanganui. The Kaiapoi and Kamona are at present engaged carrying coal from Greyuiout.h to Wellington.

The schooner Progress will probably j com© up to Danedin to-morrow afternoon faom Port Chalmers to load for Kaipaxa. She is expected to sail about the middle of next week. A ftreslh start was made this nuonwmg to discharge the local portion of the Rakanoa's coal cargo, and the work proceeded throughout the day. The vessel is expected to sail to-morrow evening for Bluff to complete her discharge. The Australian steamer Australnange is oxjpected to leave Lyttelton on Monday for Dunedin. She should arrive here on Tuesday, and after discharging a, large quantity of case oil from New York will proceed to Melbourne to complete discharge. Tlia American schooner Forester will probably complete the discharge of her cargo of case oil on Monday. The v©sb«J will tlhen sail for Papeete, where she will load copra for San Francisco. The Kflkapo loft Westport at 2 a.m. to-day with a full cargo of coal for Wellington. TOis Katoa left Auckland at midnight last night for Westport. The Kittawa, which had been delayed at Timairu owing to heavy rain, left that port yesterday for Wellington and Westport. The island steamer Flora is due at Auckland to-night from the Eastern Pacific. She is bringing the usual sliipment of fmiit for New Zealand. The Pakeha, which is loading Homewsurd cargo at Bluff, is expected to leave tbero on Sw)<2«.y morning for YV elilmg'fco*!-, | where eihe will complete "her cargo for London. The weather was fine at Greymouth to-day, and a moderate sea was running on the bar. Tho sea was smooth on the bar at Westport. The Mokoia, which had been delayed in working cargo at Dunedin for several days owing to heavy rain, sailed Shortly after 8 last night with a large passenger and freiglht list for East Coast ports and Auckland. She is due back hero about Jailv 18. Tho Corinna, which was worked under difficulties yesterday owing to rain, sailed I at 4.30 p.m. for Oaraaru. Tima.ru, Lyttel- | ton, Nelson, and New Plymouth. The Tbf ua has bean delayed in working cargo at Wellington owing to continuous heavy rain. The vessel is now timed to leave Wellington to-morrow for Rarotonga, Papeete, arid San Francisco.

The Orari, after landing troops at Melbourne from Egypt, will proceed to Sydney and Newcastle. From the latter port she will go to Auckland:. The Merchant Service Guiild have received,' a letter from Admiral Jellicoe stating that he would be pleased to meet the officers of merchant vessels during Jiis stay in Wellington. Tho Shajw-Savill liner Tonic, which left Wellington on May 31, sailed from Colon on June 23 for London.. The Navua left Makatea Island on .Time 26 for Bluff direct. S'he has 2,000 tons of phosphate for Bluff, and should arrive about July 9. With coal the steamer Shropshire is to leave Brisbane to-moraow for Wellington, and on discharge is to proceed to Napier to load for Liverpool. She will complete her cargo at Wellington, and sails about August 2 for Home. TAHITI AT AUCKLAND. The. troopship Tahiti arrived at Auckland at 7 a.m. to-day from the United Kingdom with a draft "of returning troops. The vessel will proceed from Auckland to Wellington, Lyttslton, and Port Chalmers, and she should arrive here aibbnt July 9. It is understood that the Tahiti has made her last trip as a troopship, and after being reconditioned at Port she will probably ''be returned to the Union Company. WILLOCHRA LEAVES CAPE TOWN. Cable advice received states the Willoohra. en route from Australian ports to Rotterdam with repatriated prisoners of war inißi New Zealand and Australia, resumed her voyage from Cape Town en Juno 25. THE SYDNEY STEAMER. Oablo advice received by tlio Union Company states that the Manuka was delayed by bad weather on the trip from Auckland to Sydney, and did. not arrive at the New South "Wales port until this morning. It is expected that the Manuka will leave Sydney'in a day or two with mails and passengers only for Wellington. WAITOMO FROM CALCUTTA. The Union freighter Waitomo, whidh arrived at Lyttelton at 8 last night from Calcutta via Singapore, Auckland, and Wellington, is expected to arrive at Dunedin oil Tuesday next. The vessel in„> 1,000 tons of Eastern cargo for discharge Imjto, which includes rice, tapioca, gunnies, etc.. and s!he has also about 500 tons of coastal cargo on board. The Waitomo's movements from this port have net yet been announced. THE PORT VICTOR. Advice received bv the local agents for the C. and D. liner Port Vi-to- states that the vessel loft New York on .Tune 20 with general freight for Wellington, Lyttelton. Dunedin, Mdhournc. : -nd J-vL ney. She is due at Wellington about July 24, and should reach this port during the ■first week in August. Owing to the Port Victor's deep draught, she will probably dischargo her local cargo at Port Chalmers. WESTMORELAND INQUIRY. The nautical inquiry into the mishap to the Westmoreland at Bluff, which was fi\ed for to-day, has been postponed until Monday. Captain N. Beaumont, superintendent of mercantile marine at Du> cdin, who began the inquiry at, Port Chalmers, will conduct the case for the Marine Department. MATATUA LEAVES ENGLAND. The Shiw, Savill, and Albion liner Matatua ]e:t the United Kingdom on June 28 for New Zealand with a draft of returning troops. The vessel will make Auckland her first port- of call in the Dominion, and is due there about August 8. GIESSEN WITH TROOPS. The steamer Giwsen, of 6.P64 tons gross, formerly owned by the German Lloyd, " and managed by the Common'».<v»Ulh and Dominion Line on l r."ba, l f of the Imperial Government, left Plymouth ■m June 23 in bnl'iast via the C?>pe with droops for Wellington mid Lyttelton. She : s due at Wellington about August 10. BARQUEiNTINE LAURA MISHAP. All the water in the hold of the_bar"'flntine Lanra was mumped out on Mon'iv last, and a start was iw>de to unload ■••v cargo of cas-3 oik. The diver sue"ded in stormm? the m a in on Mon--v. and it did not tak» t-h" sailer's pump -v lons to clear the hold of waiter. Tt ■w remains to b° seen, when the veeswl -s up on s ! ip. th"- amount of dasn- ■• snstei"ed to h<v hnll. Tlia I/i.iira was towfd into Wpldinrlton "iv on Snndiay morning last in a leaky edition. It ifi uteted that c h<» struck me obiect enteide Wellington Heads.

FROM SAN FRANCISCO. The Palcona, which arrived at Wellington last Monday afternoon from. San Francisco and way ports, left tine Califoniian port on June 4, and had a good June 17. Departure w;as from that trip to Papeete, where she arrived on port on June 19, and two days later aha arrived at Rarotonga, after a fair passage. Barotonga, was cleared on June 22, and on June 26 the vessel ran into a south-west gale, which lasted until Sunday. The vessel brought 1,505 tone of cargo for discharge at Wellington, in eluding 5.500 cases of island fuuit. The following were the saloon passengers on the vessel j—Misses E. Capo and E. Mitchell, Mrs .Bell, Messrs E. D. Cameron, G. G. Hume, N. S. Wardell, G. P. Smith, H. Vv. Airey, R. M. Adams, B. C. Lindsell, V. M. Dinneny, P. W. Armstrong, J. B. Grove, A. Cape, I*. B. Taylor, W. H. George, Oaptam Bell, Revs. P. o'Sullivan, J. Pront, and T. Daly. THE STEAMER PRINZESSIN. An arrival at Wellington on Monday afternoon last was the- Prinzessin; with a draft of returning troops from London via Panama. This is the Prinzessin'e first trip under the British flag. she being known as an " armistice ship"—being one of the vessels the Germans were required. to hand over to the Allies with the signing of tine armistice. The vessel left London on May 16 and Colon on Jon© 14, arj-d Ib-a-d a. f air passage tint.Sl a.Yx>iit. e. -oc^ee.'K ago, wb.cn she met bad weaiber, said, being in ballast, ft made things very uncomfortable for those on board. The Prinzessin is a etael twin-screw steamer of 6,387 tons, built in 1906 by. Messrs Blohm and Voes, of Hamburg, and owned prior to the war by the Deustedhe-Osi Af rika Lino. The vessel is well equipped, and she is reported to have behaved vraU in the rough weather she encountered oft New Zealand. Captain A. Neagle is in charge of the Prinzessin. The vessel, which is being managed by the Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company for the Imperial Government, is expected to leftvs Wellington to-day for Newcastle. MERCHANT OFFICERS. Caotain F. A. Maciodoe, secretary of the Merchant Service Guild, mentioned to a Wellington ' Post' reporter on Tuesday that, owing to the depletion of tonnage as a result of the war, many British. masters and officers had lost wieir employment. Statements, he aaid, had! been made in the Press relative to the probability of these men finding suitable positions in the American Mercantile _ Marin®. " But from constant inquiries which have been mode by the Imperial Merchant Guild," continued Captain Macindoe, " such a probability is small, and captain* and officers would bo well advised to make themselves quite sure lest they _ may _ waste money and expend valuable time in undertaking a fruitless mission to the United States. From information received from. New York arising out of inquiries mado at the Customs Bureau there, provisional licenses were granted to British captains and officers for the duration of tihe war only, arid it was stated that as soon as peace was signed these licenses would bo revoked. After it would be necessary to be an American citizen before a certificated British subject could, be employed on American vessels. To become a citizen of the United States it is necessary first of all to have an established residence. A declaration of intention as tJittj* required, and the final papers axe issued. in about two years. Further, the gaild have just been informed that a powerful organisation such as theirs exists in America, which is insisting on British captains and officers becoming nationalised and ateo passing a stiff examination before licenses arc issued. No British certificate can be merely exchanged for an American license. Still further inquiries are being made by the but in the meantime it is considered desirable that this information should become known to those concerned.*SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. AUCKLAND. Jnlv 4.-7 a.m., Tahiti, from London via Panama. LYTTELTON, July 4.—11 a.m., Miraroa, from Wellington. SYDNEY, July 4. —Manuka, from Aue.kilsi.ud. , ,_.-,.- NEWCASTLE. July 3.—Port Pine, for Auckland. (For continuation sec Late Shipping.)

Auckland —W., 1 29.42 50 BC Napier—Cairn 29.33 49 O Wellington—S., br ... 29.34 45 OR Westport—S.E., 1 ... 29.38 38 B Grey-mouth—E., 1 ... 29.45 38 B Bealey—Calm , — 35 8 Ch natchm-ch—W., 1 29.34 46 C Tiaiaru—»S., £ 29.52 44 OP Oamaru—S.E., tl 29.60 48 OG Xl-viiiodin.—S.I£-, 1 - — 29.58 46 o Queenstowxi —Calm, ... 28.48 38 o Nuggets — 8., m — 29.63 43 p Bluff— E., f ..: ... 29.52 45 or InvercargiU—S., 1 ... 29.60 43 CB Balcluthu.—Calm — 43 — Clyde—Calm — 44 o Nasesby—Calm 27.55 40 0 Pembroke—Calm 28.48 41 0 Roxburgh—S.E., 1 ... 29.30 46 R Pt. Chalmers—S.E., b r 29.54 52 O