SHIPPING.

Evening Star, Issue 19061, 2 October 1925, Page 1

SHIPPING.

HIGH WATER. . —To-morrow.— St. Clair; 2.55 a.m., 3.18 p.m. Talaroa Head: 3.5 a.m., 3.28 p.m. Port Chalmers: 3.45 a.m., 4.8 p.m. Dunedin; 4.15 a.m., 4.88 p.m. THE BUN. Sots to-day, 6.12 p.m. j rises to-mor-row, 5.41 a.m. EHASES OF THE MOON.

Set to-day, 5.59 a.m.; rises to-mor-row, 7.24 p.m. WEATHER REEORT. The Dominion Meteorologist (Mr D. C. Bates) supplied the following at u a.m. to-day:—

Wind.—L, lighti b. brc«e( f b, freuh breeze; mg, moderate gale; g, whole or heavy gale; w, gale of exceptional severity. Weather.—B, blue sky, be the atmosphere dear or heavyi C, douds, passing doudsj D, drizzling rain; F, ioggy; G, gloomy, dark weather; H, hail; L, lightning; M, misty; O, overcast, the whole sky covered with thick clouds; P, passing showersi Q, squally} R, rain, continued rain; S, snow; T, thunder; U, ugly, threatening appaaranc«j Z, hazy. Forecast. The Dominion Meteorologist (Mr D. C. Bates) supplied the following at noon to-day-;—The indications are for south-easterly winds, strong to a gala at times: weather cloudy and unsettled ; barometer rising soon; sea heavy, tides good.

Tho Koromiko, from Newcastle, arrived in the Lower Harbor at 6.30 this morning, and berthed at Port Chalmers at 8.15 to discharge a quantity of Newcastle coal. She sails to-morrow for Oamaru to complete discharge.

Ttie Kurow leaves Auckland to-mor-row for Gisborne, Wellington, Lyttelton, and Dunedin. The Kaiapoi was to come up to town tills afternoon to load out for Bluff and Greymouth, She was expected to gel away at about 5 p.m. The Storm has been delayed at Bluff owing to bad weather. She is now due here on Sunday, and is listed to sail on Monday for Timaru, Lyttelton, Wellington, and Wanganui. The Wingatui is now due at Dunedin on Sunday from Auckland via pons. She is scheduled to sail on Tuesday for Timaru, Lyttelton, Wellington, and Auckland.

Tho Manuka was delayed in working cargo at Bluff yesterday owing to heavy rain. She sailed at night for Melbourne.

The Breeze is clue here on Sunday from Lyttelton, and will load on Monday for Timaru, Lyttelton, Wellington, Picton, and Wanganui. The Canadian Spinner was delayed in working cargo at Bluff yesterday owing to heavy rain. She was expected to leave the southern port at noon today for Wellington and Auckland to complete loading for Now York, Boston, and Montreal.

/The Kakapo was scheduled to leave Noumea for Walpole Island on Saturday last to load bag guano for Bluff and Dunedin. She is due at Bluff in about a fortnight’s time. The Union Company advises that tho Tofua was to leave Suva on Wednesday for Auckland, where she is due oil Monday next. Tho Kauri was duo at Newcastle on Wednesday to load for Auckland.

The Kawatiri loads at Newcastle today for Wellington. The Marine Department advises that the Okuri Point light has now been adjusted, and is working satisfactorily. The Union Company’s Island steamer Flora was to leave Rarotonga to-day for Wellington and Auckland. She is due at Wellington about October 11. The Kaitangata was due at Auckland yesterday from Melbourne, and later proceeds to Wellington to complete discharge. She will afterwards go to Westport and Greymouth to load timber for Melbourne and Sydney.

THE FERRY SERVICE. Tho Maori, from Wellington, arrived at Lyttelton at 6.55 a.m. to-day, and passengers and mails connected with tho 12.20 p.m. express. I INTERCOLONIAL SHIPS. The Moeraki has made her last appearance at Auckland for some time, as she is to bo withdrawn from the Sydney run. She is to go into the Melbourne-Wellington-South Island service to run in conjunction with the Manuka. The Moeraki will bo relieved in tho Sydney service by the Maunganui, which is being withdrawn from the San Francisco mail service, and is , duo at Auckland from Sydney on Oc- i tobor 13. The throe Sydney passenger 1 steamers will then be the Maunganui, ■ Mahcno, and Ulimaroa. I During the latter half of November : there will be another change. Tho Maheno will he withdrawn and replaced by the blarama, which is being converted into an oil burner at Port Chalmers. Like the Maunganui the Mamma will also carry three classes of passengers. With both vessels burning oil fuel the delays owing to crew trouble will be minimised. COMING FROM HOME. The New Zealand Shipping Company advises that the Hertford was to leave Liverpool on September 26 with cargo from West of England 'ports for discharge at Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton, Dunedin, and Bluff. She will bo followed by the Cumberland on October 24, for Auckland, Napier, Wellington, Lyttelton, and Dunedin- _ j The Ruapehu is scheduled to leave Liverpool on November 21 for Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton, Dunedin, and New Plymouth. i The Cambridge is to sail on December 5 for Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton, and Dunedin. CANADIAN CHALLENGER LEAVES MONTREAL. Messrs H. L. Tapley and Co., have received cable advice stating that the Canadian Challenger left Montreal at 7.30 p.m. on September 26 with general cargo for discharge at Auckland, "Wellington, Lyttelton, Timaru, Dunedin, and Napier. Tho vessel is due at Auckland about November 5, and at Dunedin about November 20. .

DANISH MOTOR SHIP ARRIVES. The captain of the Danish motor ship Sally Maersk advised the New Zealand Shipping Company by wireless that the vessel would reach Otago Heads at 1 p.m. to-day. She came to Dunedin some three hours later. The vessel brought several hundred tons of general cargo from Sydney (C. 8.) and Montreal.

The vessel proceeded in ballast from Rotterdam to Sydney, experiencing heavy weather on the voyage. From Sydney she proceeded to Montreal to complete her cargo, taking her final departure from the last-named port on July 31. Fine weather was experienced on the run to Panama, where the motor ship arrived on August 15. She obtained transit the same day, and continued her voyage to New Zealand. In tho Pacific favorable weather was encountered until a series of westerly tales, with heavy seas, was met with, 'he Sally Maersk was severely buffeted by the storms, which lasted for three days, but was undamaged. The remainder of the voyage to Auckland (reached on September 16) was made without incident. Tho Sally Maersk is under the command of Captain 6. Rahde, who has with him a Danish crew totalling twenty-three. The motor ship was built in 1923, and has no particular trade run. She has five holds, and carries three masts. Cargo is handled by electric winches, and the vessel carries other up-to-date appliances to facilitate cargo work. Tho motor ship has an economical oil fuel consumption, her average daily consumption being five and a-half tons. She carries some 600 tons of oil in her bunkers, which are replenished only twice a year. Fumes from the vessel’s engines and galley escape bv means of a small funnel. The Sally Maersk is similar in design to the Leisk Maersk, which visited Auckland earlier in the year. Her tonnage, however, is considerably greater.

SISTER SHIP TO P.ORT DUNEDIN,

At present in Australian waters; the new Commonwealth and Dominion Line’s motor ship Port Hobart, is a sister ship to the company’s Port Dunedin. The Port Hobart, of 7,500 tons gross register, was launched only this year from the yards of Swan, Hunter, and Wigham Richardson, Ltd.. New-caslle-on-Tyne. She is a steel twinscrew vessel, with a cruiser stern, and is of the shelter-deck type, and embraces a number of improvements on the vessels previously constructed for tho Commonwealth and Dominion Line. A notable departure is the introduction of the twin Diesel motor propulsion. She is equipped with electrical machinery for rapid cargo handling, and three holds and ’tween decks are insulated, the total space available for refrigerated cargo being 300,000 cubic feet. Fan rooms are fitted in connection with tho refrigerating arrangements in order that fruit cargoes may also bo carried. The deadweight carrying capacity of the vessel is 10,800 ions.

VESSELS IN WIRELESS CALL. The following vessels are expected to be within range of the undermentioned wireless stations to-night:— Auckland. H.M.S. Laburnum, H.M.S. Veronica, H.M.S. Dunedin, Tofua, Flora, Masirah, Hinemoa, Waihemo, Cokesit, Ilona, Canadian Conqueror, Kurow, City of Winchester, Niagara, Cool ana. Port Hacking, Waiotapu, Kaiwarrn, Omana, Makambo, Henrik Ibsen, Kaikorai, Kartigi, Aorangi, Port Sydney, W’est Nilus, Kaitangata, Ulimaroa. Wellington.—Wahine, Maori, Ngaio, Moeraki, Maheno, Katoa, Shranistad, Karori, Kairanga, Tongariro, Arawa, Arahura. Awarua. Manuka, Erviken, Hermes, _ Kaiapoi, Sally Maersk, Canadian Spinner. SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. AUCKLAND. October I,—Sailed: Skranistad (5.5 p.m.), for Napier; Kaiwarra (6 p.m.), for Newcastle. WELLINGTON, October I.—Sailed: Holmdalo (5 p.m.). for Wanganui. LYTTELTON, October I.—Arrived; Waikonaiti (2 p.m.J, from Dunedin. Sailed; Kamo, for Napier. (For continuation see Late Shipping.)

Full moon Oct. 2 4.53 p.m. Last quarter Oct. 10 6.4 a.rn. New moon Oct. 18 5.36 u.m. First quarter Oct. 25 6.8 a.m.

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