SHIPPING.

Evening Star, Issue 17284, 24 February 1920, Page 1

SHIPPING.

HIGH WATER. TO-MOEBOW. St. Clair : 5.58 a.m.. 6.36 p.m. Taiaroa'. Head : 6.58 a.m.. 7.6 ».m. Port Ciial--mors: 7.18 a.m.. 7.46* p.m. JDunediu :, 7.43 a.m., 8.16 p.m. THE SUN. Sots to-day. 7.3 p.m.; rises to-morrow, 5.42 a.m. PHASES OF THE MOON. fi First quarter Feb. 27 11.20 a.md Full moon Mar. 5 8.43 a.m.-' Last quarter Mav. 15 5.27 a.m.' New moon Mar. 20 10.26 p.m.i Sets to-day, 8.55 p.m. : rises to-morrow.. 11,23 a.m. What has turned out to he a close and: extitiin; race between two well-known American schooners terminated retvntlv, when the vessels concerned—the W. M. Smith and 11. I). Bemiixs.en—entered Sydney Heads. Both vessels are from' the Pacific Coast. The W. H. Smith : was first away on December 2, and tho' following day the 11. I). Bendixsen set out. To show how close the sailing vn.s, the vessels entered the Heads withh; throe hours of each. _othei\ the W. I!. Smith being first at / o'clock, while the .Bciidix.seii. turned np at 10, which meant, that the latter vessel turned out thj winner. The margin, however, was clcsa. Both vessels reported nothing startling on' the way across. Little success lias so far attended tho efforts of the salvaging party at work o;i tin? Sehvyn Craig, which still lies <m the' bottom near Chelsea ->vharf (reports ;b» Auckland 'Star'). Although continuouswork has-been the order of "the day sine* Sunday last, the Wait mm- has u'ot vei been able to move the hulk in the least degree. The operations are. coirlimiinc:, however, and the Union Company officials speak hopefully of a successful sal-' vajje. Jn crossing 6,000 miles of ocean, the manner in which the Uvn Cnnard and Australasian liners Port Stephens and Port Macquarie kept together was remarkable, 1.-oth reached" .Melbourne <u January 16, the Port Stephens from New York via ihc Gape, and th?'. Port- Maeqnarie from London v.-ith muni- j (ion workers and families. The vessels ! joined each other at Cape Town, but one i of them cleared the South African port ' four days before the departure of the other. Despite tins fact, thev both'' reached Adelaide, in the same uv*k. At' Port Phillip Heads the Port Stephens bad gained several hours. Advjce ha* been received by the; Canadian Trade Commissioner at' Auok- i land (Mr AY. A. Beddoo) that the nextj Canadian Government steamer to leave.: Vancouver for Xcw Zealand will lx>. th* Canadian Kxp->vter. The Canadian Tm-> porter, the first of the new line to leav* Canada for Xcw Zealand, was expected F to leave Vancouver last Monday. Another I vessel_ of the line, not named, will follow \ the Canadian Exporter on the loading! berth at Vancouver for New Zealand. THE~FEP,RY SERVICE. The Vahine. fro:;'. Wcll'midon. arrived at LvtteUcr, at 8.5 this niornir.jr. and \ connected with the first or»i'ess for 'he ' s:)uth_ (Continued from nags 7.)