SHIPPING.

Evening Star, Issue 18281, 22 May 1923, Page 1

SHIPPING.

HIGH WATER. TO-MOEEOW. St. Clair : 8.12 a.m., 8.40 p.m. Taiaroa Head : 8.22 a.m., 8.50 p.m. Port Chalmers : 9.2 a.m., 9.30 p.m. Dunedin : 9.52 a.m., 10 p.m. THE SUN. Sets to-day, 4.34 p.m.; rises to-morrow, 7.35 a.m. PHASES OF THE MOON. First quarter May 24 1.55 a.m. Full moon . May 30 4.37 p.m. Last quarter June 6 8.49 p.m. New moon June 15 0.12 a.m. Sets to-day, 10.20 p.m.; rises to-mor-row, 12.38 p.m. WEATHER REPORT. Tho Dominion Meteorologist (Mr D. C. Bates) supplied the following at 9 a.m. to-day :

Wind.—L, light; b, breeze; fb, fresh breeze; mg, moderate gale; g, whole or heavy gale; w, gale of exceptional severity. Weather.—B, iblue 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; 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. Tho Dominion Meteorologist (Mr D. C. Bates) supplied the following at note to-day —The indications are for freshening westerly winds (strong to a gale) prevailing ; weather cloudy to overcast; rain probable; the barometer lias a falling tendency; sea heavy off shore, tides good. ARRIVED.—May 22. Katoa. s.s. (7.25 a.m.), 2,484 tons, Bruce, from Auckland direct. Moeraki, s.s. (11.30 a.m.), 4,421 tons, Doorly, from Melbourne via Bluff. Passengers : Misses Simpson, Rush, Wilson, Brownlie, Mesdames Wilson, Ward and two children, Howarth, Curtis, Messrs Wilson and two children, Ward, Paul, Milne, Matheson, Kiornan, Hudson, Howarth, Bev. Goggins, Curtis and boy, Lock; and thirty-fivo in the steerage. SAILED.—May 21. Montrose, s.s. (4 p.m.), 4,452 toas, Reid, for Brisbane. May 22. Erroll, s.s. (7.15 a.m.), 3,779 tons, Hunter, for Melbourne.

Tho New Zealand Shipping Company’s liner Rotorua is to leave Port Chalmers this evening for Bluff and northern ports to complete her loading for London.

Having completed the discharge of her Newcastle goal cargo, the Kaikorai went to Port Chalmers yesterday afternoon to undergo annual survey and’ overhaul. The Eurow and the Kiui are undergoing survey in dock at Port Chalmers. The Kini Is having a number of hull plates renewed.

The Tremere is to leave Dunedin tomorrow for Bluff and Australian ports, where she will complete discharge of her American cargo and load for Home.

The S.S. and A. Lino steamer Waimana is to sail from Wellington on Thursday for Now York, Boston, and London. The Waipa-ra is to leave Lyttelton tomorrow for Avonmouth, Liverpool, Manchester, Glasgow, and London via Panama.

Messrs H. L. Taple.y and Co. advise that 120 tons of transhipment cargo, ox the Canadian Ranger from Halifax and New London, will reach Wellington today by the Wanaka from Auckland. The C. and D. Line has been notified that the Port Auckland was to leave Port K.einbla on Saturday morning for Waitara to commence loading in New Zealand for London. The Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company’s steamer lonic is due to arrive at Wellington on May 27 from London. The vessel is scheduled to sail again on the return trip Homewards on June 26.

The steamer Montrose loft Dunedin at 4 p.m. yesterday for Brisbane to continue discharge of her cargo from New Orleans. She will afterwards go to Sydney and Melbourne to complete discharge. The Hain steamer Erroll sailed from Dunedin shortly after 7 a.m. to-day for Melbourne and Sydney to discharge the remainder of her general cargo from St. John,

The Katoa arrived at Dunedin shortly after 7 a.m. to-day from Auckland direct after a fair weather passage of about eighty-one hours. She was berthed at the Birch street wharf to discharge a large consignment of general cargo, which includes several hundred tons of sugar and transhipments ex the Canadian Ranger from Halifax and the Port Melbourne from New. York. The Katoa is listed to sail to-morrow afternoon for ease const ports and Auckland. The Kini is expected to como up to Dunedin on 'Friday from Port Chalmers. She is listed to.sail on Saturday for Napier, Gisborne, and Tauranga via ports, taking general cargo. The Kurow will probably complete her overhaul at Port Chalmers within the next few days, in which case she will load at Dunedin about the end of the week for east coast ports and Auckland. The Corinua is now expected to arrive at Dunedin on Friday morning from Wellington to load for Nelson and Now Plymouth.

The Kaiapoi is due at Auckland tomorrow from Adelaide and Melbourne. She is bringing general cargo for discharge at Auckland, Whangarei, Wellington, Lyttelton, and Dunedin. The Kaitangata was expected to leave Auckland to-day for Grevmonth, where she will load timber for 'Melbourne and Adelaide.

The Kaitoke loft Auckland to-day for Wellington and Lyttelton. She will load at the latter port for Auckland. The Kawatiri urns due at Newcastle yesterday from Auckland. She will load at Sydney this week for Fiji and Auckland. The Kaitnna is to leave Wallaroo about the end of this week for Dunedin, Lyttelton, Wellington, and Auckland with general cargo and hardwood. The Waikouaiti left Tima.ru yesterday afternoon for Sydney. She will load at Newcastle and Sydney at the end of this week for Bluff, Dunedin, Timaru, and Ljttolkm. THE FERRY SERVICE. The Wahine arrived at Lyttelton at 6.55 a.m. to-day from Wellington, and mails and passengers connected with the 8.45 a.m. express for the south. NEW ORIENT LINERS. The now Orient Line steamer building at, Messrs John Brown and Co.’s works, Clydebank, Scotland, has been named Oronsay. This steamer is a sister ship to the Orama, and is a 20,000-ton oil-

burner. It is anticipated that both the Grama and Oronsay will leave London for Australia tovjards the end of next year. OUT OF COMMISSION. H.M.A.S. Pioneer, which has been lying idle in Sydney Harbor for some time past, has been towed from Garden Island to an anchorage off Cockatoo. The vessel is on the sales list, but has not yet been disposed of. WORLD’S SHIPBUILDING TRADE. During 1922, according to ‘ Lloyd’s Register ’ annual summary of shipbuilding, there,were launched in the world 852 vessels of 2,467,084 tons gross. The output in Great Britain and Ireland, totalling 1,031,081 tons, represents nearly 42 per cent, of the total. The reduction in the total output, as compared with 1921, was about 1,074,000 tons, and was spread over every,country, with the exception of Germany. , The quarterly returns show that at tie opening of 1922 1,557,000 tons were building throughout the world, (but these figures do not include Germany. SHIP CANAL ACROSS SCOTLAND. A project for the construction of a ship canal across Scotland, between the Clyde and Firth of Forth, was again revived at a recent meeting of the MidScotland Ship Canal Association. Two schemes have been proposed, one by the ■ direct route, and the other, which would avail itself of existing waters, is known aa the Loch Lomond route. •It developed at the meeting that the experts are divided as to the relative advantages of the two routes, and it was agreed that what was needed was the setting up of a Commission, which should include expert engineers," representatives, of shipping and of the British,Admiralty. A selection of the better route will be made by this Commission, whose decision will be final. THE LARGEST DIESEL ENGINE. Tho order which the Swedish-America Lino has placed with Messrs Armstrong, Whitworth, and Co., for a 17,000-ton motor passenger liner is of tho greatest importance- to the marine engineering world. The oil engines to be installed are larger than any yet constructed or contemplated, since each six-cylinder set will develop 6,750 s.h.p. It will be remembered that in the liner now bein£ built by the Fairfield Company for the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand, four oil engines of 3.250 h.h.p. each are to bo fitted. The advance that has been made obviously represents a considerable stop in the development of internal combustion machinery. Moreover, the Swe-dish-America liner’s engines, which will be built by Messrs Burmeister and Wain in Copenhagen, are of an entirely new design, and will form the first application of the double-acting four-stroke principle to Diesel motors. IRON PRINCE WRECK. Reserved judgment was delivered on May 10 in the Sydney < Marino Court < by Judge White in respect of the stranding, on April 19 last, and subsequent abandonment of the steamer Iron Prince, off Capo Howe, while on a voyage from Devonport, Tasmania, to Newcastle, with' about 5,000 tons of limestone. The court found that the second officer should have discovered that the ship was out of her course when passing Gabo; that he was negligent in failing determine accurately tho ship’s position at that point ;■ that when he found the ship was within the red sector of tho Gabo light at 1.35 a.m. he must have realised the vessel was in immediate danger. Notwithstanding that,, he failed to take appropriate action to place the ship out of danger, and, by reason of that failure, tho ship became a wreck, and, finally, a total'loss.

The court found that, after the stranding, everything possible was done to save the vessel and prevent loss of life. The court also considered it proper to express its strong disapproval of what appeared to bo a growing tendency on the part of masters of vessels to navigate unnecessarily close to the shore. The court called upon the second officer to show' cause why his certificate should not be cancelled, suspended, or otherwise dealt with. THE MELBOURNE STEAMER. The Union liner Moerald, Captain J. G. S. Doorly, arrived at Dunedin shortly' after 11 a.m. to-day from Melbourne via Bluff, and was berthed at the cross wharf to disembark passengers and discharge several hundred tons of general freight. The vessel made a smart run of nine'and a-half hours from Bluff: to Otago Heads. Her cargo from Australia includes transhipments ex the steamers Moncalieri, Palma, Langisau, Carignano, Naldera, Emita, Ormuz, Knight of the Garter, Bnonnh, Parattah, Gdltgai, Hobson’s Bay, and Kowhai. The Union Company hope to despatch the Moerald to-night for Lyttelton, Wellington, and Melbourne. vesselsln wireless call. The following vessels are expected to be within range of the undermentioned wireless stations to-night:— Auckland.—Kauri, Kawatiri, Jtena, Rimutaka, Kaitangata, Port Auckland, Kaiioko, H.M.S. Cliatbam, Arahura, Karori, H.M.S. Laburnum, Orari, Flora, H. Veronica, Bradford City, Kaiapoi, AVestmeath, Bcnen.gar, _ Tutanekai, Kaiwarra, Waipori, Tredinnick, Ulimaroa, AVsiiomo, Canadian Ranger, Makura. Chatham Islands.—lonic, Tainui. Wellington. —W’ahine, Mararoa, N-gaio, Manuka, .Maungamn. Admiral Codrington, Wan,aka, Middlesex, W 7 aiwera, Montrose, Moeraki. AAmikouaiti, AVingatui, Port Melbourne, Rotorua, Erroll, Opawa. SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. WELLINGTON, May 21—Arrived : Wniwera (8.45 a.in.), from Nelson. LYTTELTON, May 21.—Sailed ; Port Melbourne (6 p.m.), for Gisborne; AVootton (6.15 p.m,), for AA T cl,lington ; Cygnet (8 p.m.). for Nelson. TIMARU, May 21. —Sailed : AA 7 a : - kouaiti (4 p.m.), for Sydney. May 22Arrived ; Mat-akana*, (8 a.m.), from Brisbane. Sailed : Gale (11 a.m.), for Dunedin.

BLUFF, May 22.—Sailed ; Canadian Seigneur (noon), for Port Chalmers.

(For continuation see Late Shipping.)

Bar. Ther. Weath. Wellington—N. W., f 29.67 58 > 0 Greymouth—E., b ... 29.60 ,50 BC Christchurch—Calm, ... 29.48 47 B Timaru—S.W., 1 ... 29.49 42 BC Osmaru—Calm ... ... 29.43 45 BC Dunedin—Calm ... 29.41 48 BC Queenstown —N. W., 1 29.36 44 C Nuggets—N., 1 ... ... 29.35 49 c -Bluff—E., b ... ... 29,30 49 oz