SHIPPING

Evening Star, Issue 19352, 11 September 1926, Page 1

SHIPPING

HIGH WATER. —To-morrow. — St. Clair:. 5.37 a.tn., 5.57 p.m. ■* a r roa Head; 6.47 a.m., 6.7 p.m. • ort Chalmers: 0.27 a.m., G. 47 p.m. Dunedin: 6.57 a.m., 7.17 p.m. —Monday.— St. Clair: 6.20 a.m., 6.46 p.m. Taiaroa Head: 6.30 a.m., 6.56 p.m. lort Chalmers: 7.10 a.m., 7.36 p.m. Dunedin: 7.40 a.m., 8.6 p.m. THE SUN. Sets to-day, 5.,50 p.m.; rises to-mor-row, 6.19 a.m. Sets to-morrow, 5.51 p.m.; rises Monday, 6.17 a.m. PHASES OF THE MOON.

Sets today, 9.32 p.m.; rises to-moi-row, 8.31 a.m. Sets to-morrow, 10.37 p.m.; rises Monday, 8.59 a.m. WEATHKR REIiORT, The Dominion Meteorologist (Mr D. C. Bates) supplied the following at 9 a.m. to-day:— Bar. Thor. W.

Wind.—l., light; h, breeze: I b, (rob hreezr; m g, moderate gale; g, whole, or heavy gale; w, gale of exreplkmnl sererily. Weather.— B, blue sky, be the atmosphere deaf or heavy: C, clouds, passing clcuds; 11, drizzling rain: F.' foggv; G, gloomy, dark weather: H, hall: U lightning;' ’M, misty; O, overc-vt, the wtmle *ky covered with (hick clouds; P, passing showers; y, squally; R, rain, continued rain; S, snow; T, thunder; U, ugly, threatening appearance; Z, hazy. Forecast. The Dominion Meteorologist (Mr D. C. Bates) supplied the following at noon to-day;—The indications are for westerly winds, strong to a gale, and backing by west to south after about forty-eight hours; the weather appears to be cloudy and unsettled, with rain following; barometer falling; sea iwigh off shore, tides good. BAlLED.—September 10. Manuka, s.s. (9.15 p.m.), 4,534 tons, Martin, for Melbourne via BlulF. The Kaituna came up from Port Chalmers about midday. She will sail on Monday for Westport and Urcymouth via Timaru. The Kurow is expected on Tuesday from Auckland via ports, and will sail oi. Thursday for Timaru, Lyttelton, Wellington, and Auckland. The Calm is due on Tuesday from Lyttelton, and will sail on Wednesday for Timaru, Lyttelton, Wellington, and Wanganui. The Karetu is due at Lyttelton tomorrow from Newcastle and Sydney with genera! cargo and coal. She is ex|tected at Dunedin about Wednesday. The Storm has licen fixed to load at Dunedin on September,l7 for Timaru, Lyttelton, and Wanganui.

Tho Galo will sail to-night for Trmani. Lyttelton, Wellington, uid Wanganui. Tho Rimutaka was to leave I'itnarn at noon for Dunedin, and is timed to berth on tho morning tide. The Holuidalo is due here on Monday morning from Wellington to discharga and load general rargo. She is timed L) sail on Monday night for Oamarn, Tim am, Lyttelton, Wellington, and WanganuL TILE FERRY SERVICE. The Waltine, from Wellington, arrived at Lyttelton at 6.40 a.m. to-day, and passengers and mails connected with the 5.50 express. WORLD’S LARGEST CABLE SHIPS. The cable ships Dominia and Faradav aro now lying in the Thames, and will shortly go to the Pacific, taking 7,(XXI miles of cable for the duplication of tho Pacific Cable Board’s line. Tho Dominia will lay a lino between Vancouver and Fanning Island, and the Faradav will will lay a line between Fanning Island and Fiji. Each ship will carry 200 trained men, and observations will ho made throughout tho voyages of tho depths of the ocean. Both vessels will lay the cables at the rate of 200 miles a day Tho work forms part of the scheme which was begun in 1900, when tho Pacific Cable Board entrusted the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company with the connecting of Canada, Australia, and New Zealand by the cable. Tile Oolonia. 8,022 tons gross, did tho original work, but this larger cable ship was found necessary for their next operation, Tho new cable, which permits of a much, greater speed in the transmission of signals, will weigh no Joss than 8.500 tons, while tho length of the “ Mnnmotal ” loading wire to bo wound round tho conductor is over 250,000 miles. The oil-burning steamer Dominia, which is of 9,000 tons gross register, has a steaming range of nearly double that of the Colonia. NOTTINGHAM MADE A PORT. Mr Neville Chamberlain, Minister of Health, recently visited Nottingham to o|ien the Trent Navigation Works of tho Nottingham Corporation, claimed to bo the biggest scheme of inland navigation undertaken iu England since tho construction of the Manchester ship canal. Tho object of the work, which has taken nearly five years to complete, is to render the river Trent navigable from the Humber ports to the Midland city at all seasons of the year. The sum of £400,000, about one-eighth of which is being provided by the Government, has been spent on constructing four locks and tho weire, and nearly a million tens of material has been taken out of the river bod by dredging. Hitherto cargoes have had to bo transhipped into sumallcr boats at Newark (about twenty miles north-east of Nottingham) owing to the shallowness of the upper reaches of the river. In future cargoes of 12(1 tens can be carried at any season from Hull to Nottingham, a distance'of miles. No other place in Great Britain is accessible to craft of this sine so fart from the' seaboard. The locks have been made large enough to allow a tug to pull three barges through at once. Several large industrial undertakings have been erected on’the'hanks of the Trent, including a sugar boot factory, iu anticipation of the advantages of the now facilities for water transport. SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. AUCKLAND, September 10.—Arrived: Norfolk (7.20 p.m.), from Gisborne. September 11—Arrived : _Gity of Newcastle (6 a.m.), from Now York; Remuora and Waipnhi (7 a.m.), from south. Sailed: Sussex (12.4 U a.m.), lor Wellington. WANGANUf, Sepicmlier ll.—Sailed: Kairunga, for Sydney. WELLINGTON, September 10.—Arrived: Waiiau (d.dO p.m.), from Blenheim. Sailed: Kahika (i 1.5 p.m.), for Bluff; Kcelung (1 p.m.), for Lyttelton; Opibi (6.10 p.m.), lor Dunedin. LYTTELTON, September 10.—■Banpi Kelvin (Ip.m.), from Wellington; Kurow <4.45 p.m.), Ironi Auckland. BLUFF. September 11.—Arrived: Manuka (11. a.m.), from Dunedin. SYDNEY, September !ll. ; —Sailed: Manama (2.45 p.m.), for Wellington. PANAMA, September 9.—Arrived: Hertford, from YVo.lliugtun. COLON, September 9. Sailed: Tiiinui, lor Loudon; Port Hacking, for New Zealand. SAN FRANCISCO, September 9. Sailed: Tahiti, for New Zealand. PORT VICTOR, September 9. Sailed: Olivohauk, for Auckland. (For continuation sea Late Shipping.)

First quarter Kept. 15 3.57 p.m. Full moon Sept. 22 7.49 a.ni Last quarter Sept. 29 6.18 a.m. New moon Oct. 7 9.43 ••ieo- 4 r’l. 11. IU. .mnr-

Weirton—N.W., f b 29.95 50’ B Greymoutb—-E.. b 29,90 40 B Christchurch—W., 29.85 52 B Timaru—N., 1 ... Oamaru—W.. f b 29.82 50 BG 29.74 01 B Dunedin—N.E., 1 29.OS 58 B Queenstown —Calm 29.70 57 G Nuggets—N.E., 1 Bluff—N.W., f b 29.02 52 B 29.00 54 G -5