SHIPPING.

Evening Star, Issue 18159, 27 December 1922, Page 1

SHIPPING.

HIGH WATER. TO-MORROW. St. Clair ; 9.57 a.m., 10.20 p.m. Taiaroa Head : 10.7 a.m., 10.30 p.m. Port Chalmers 10.47 a.m., 11.10 p.m. Dunedin : 11.17 a.m., 11.40 p.m. THE SUN. Sets to-day, 7.53 p.m.; rises to-morrow, 4.25 a.m. PHASES OE THE MOON.

Rose to-day, 12.57 p.m.; sets to-mor-row, 0.43 a.m. WEATHER REPORT. The Dominion Meteorologist (Air D. C. Bates) supplied tho following at 9 a.m. to-day :

Wind.—L, light; bt, breeze; fb, fresh breeze; rag, 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 Dominion Meteorologist (Air D. C. Bates) supplied the following at noon to-day ;—The indications are for northerly winds, strong to a gale, and backing by west to south: the weather appears likely to bo cloudy and unsettled: heavy ram is to bo expected, with rivers rising shortly; barometer falling, but rising after about sixteen hours; rough seas off shore; tides good. The Waipori is due at Dunedin tomorrow from Westport via Bln ft. She is to sail on Inday for Crevmouth. The Federal steamer Kent will go to Port Chalmers to-morrow to load wool an ! other cargo for the United Kingdom. Tho Breeze is to leave Dunedin on Friday for Tiinaru. Lyttelton. Wellington, Picton. and Wanganui. Qn her next vovaire to Vancouver the mail steamer Niatrara will leave fevdnev on Friday morning, the 29th inst., amt will arrive at Auckland early on January 2, sailing the same day for Suva, Honolulu, and Akinenuver. The Union Company’s steamer Ka.iapoi, after loading a cargo of timber at Kokianga, left (he latter port on December 21 for Melbourne. She was recently recommissioned with, a volunteer crew. The Federal liner Suffolk completed her loading at Wellington on Saturday. She is to leave Wellington to-day for Napier. Gisborne, and Auckland. The vessel is to sail finally fgry Apr’'):,;,id oa Ja.tjiiyy- 6 for Boston, Avonmouth, .Liverpool, Manchester. and Glasgow, The Government steamer Tntanekai has been equipped with the new wireless direction-finder, invented for the. purpose of aiding navigation in thick or foggy weather. The Tutanekai will carry mil preliminary tests with the apparatus during her trip to the West Coast, where she will visit Westport- and Kahura-ugi Point lighthouse. The radio signals will bo sent out from stations at Wellington. Tho vessel is to leave Wellington to-morrow-on her round trip to the North Island lighthouses. THE FERRY SERVICE. Tho Alaori arrived at Lyttelton at 6.55 a.m. to-day from Wellington, and mails and passengers connected with the first express for tho south. THE PORT DARWIN. The C. and D, liner Port Darwin is to leave Wellington to-day for Lyttelton and Dunedin to complete discharge of her cargo from London. She will load later at Lyttelton, Gisborne, Napier, and Wellington, and will sail finally from Wellington on January 21 for London via Montevideo. lONIC DDE ON SATURDAY. Tho_ Shaw, _Savill, and Albion liner lonic is now discharging London cargo at Lyttelton. She is to leave the Canterbury port on Friday for Port Chalmers, and will then proceed to Wellington on January 4to complete loading. The vessel D scheduled to sail from Wellington at daybreak on January 11 for Southampton mid London. LUMBER FOR AUSTRALIA. Three steamers have .been fixed lo load lumber at tho Pacific Coast for Melbourne —namely, the Pawnee, for December loading; the Ida, for January loading; and tho Arcadia, for February loading. These steamers were formerly under the German flag, and were during the war taken over by the American Shipping Board. The Pawnee is an old Australian trader, and was formerly known as the German-Australian steamer Harbutg. HISTORIC BARQUE, An historic ship—tho American fourmasted barque Aln.scoota—arrived at Aidbourne on December 6. It is claimed of the Aluscoota that she is one of tho finest models of “square-riggers” afloat, that she was originally launched at Liverpool as the Buckingham by Queen Victoria, and that she was rechristened Muscoota after sailing under the German flag variously as the Ottawa and the Bertha, by Mrs Wilson, wife of the former President of the United States. The Muscoota’s figure-head, adjudged by the “old hands ” along the waterfront one of the finest ever seen in the port of Melbourne, represents Queen Victoria holding the “ red rose of England.” Tho Aluscoota made the fast voyage of sixty-nine days from. Port Ludlow, Puget Sound. A passenger by her was the Rev. Father F. P. Dwyer, formerly Roman Catholic chaplain aboard H.M.A.S. Australia. Her commander (Captain A. O, Wilvers) served during tho war as a lieutenant-commander of the United States navy. Subsequently he commanded the Yantic, a United States naval training ship, and then the liner Oity of Soutliavon. When in charge of the latter vessel ho picked up tho late Horry Hawker’s aeroplane In tho At! antic Ocean eliortly after Hawker himself had been rescued by the Norwegian ship Alary. Tho Muscoota brought two and a-half million feet of Oregon timber to Melbourne. PORT LINCOLN FROM NEW YORK. The C. and D. liner Port Lincoln arrived at Auckland on Alonday from_ New York via Panama. Tho vessel, which is Laden with general cargo and case oil. will later visit "Wellington,' Lyttelton, Dunedin, Aldboumo, and Sydney. She is due here about Janaooc o.

VESSELS IN WTEEJMSS CALL. The following vessels are expected to be within, range of the undermentioned wireless stations to-night:— Auckland.—A .rah urn, Capo May, Kauri, Otarama, Port Lincoln., Tredenham, Ulimaroa. Wellington.—Maori, VVahino, Ngaio, Maun garni i, ‘Suffolk, Kaituna, City of Winchester, Whangape. NEW SHIPPING ACT. Shipping companies trading to the Ended States have been notified that a uosv Shipping Act. came into operation on September 22 last. Under this Act ah alien women who married citizens of the United States subsequent to September 22 are still regarded as aliens, ana as a consequence shipping; companies are asked to notify passengers. A head tax is to be collected in each instance. The law, it is pointed out, does not affect those who married American citizens prior to the passage of the Act. SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. AUCKLAND, December 25. —Arrived : Port Lincoln (12.40 p.m.l. from New York WELLINGTON, December26.—Sailed : John (10 a.rn.). for Wanganui. LVi'IELTON, .December 26 : Carpentaria (6.55 p.rn.), from Newcastle. NEWCASTLE. December26.—Arrived : Kaikorai, from Lyttelton. (For continuation see Late Shipping,)

Full moon Jan. 3 2.3 p.m. Last quarter Jan. 10 12.25 p.m. New moon Jan. 17 2,11 p.m. First quarter Jan. 25 5.29 p.m.

Bar. Tiler. Woatb. Wellington—N., b ... 29.57 64 0 m: Greymemth—N., b ... 29.45 63 DC Cbrifileh u rcli—N. E., b 29.31, 66 0 Timaru—Calm 29.22 65 /. Camara—Calm 29.22 65 DC Dunedin.—N.E., I 29 29 62 0 Queenstown —Calm ... 29.21 60 0 Nuirgets—.N. E., 1 29.10 60 0 Bluff—N., 1 28.95. 6.1. r