SHIPPING

Evening Star, Issue 19550, 7 May 1927, Page 10

SHIPPING

WEATHER REPORT. The Dominion Meteorologist (Mr D. C. Bates) supplied the following at 9 a.m. to-day:— Bar. Ther. W.

\Vind.—L, light; b, breeze; f b,- [resh breeze: m g, moderate gale; g, whole or heavy gale; w, gale of exceptional severity. Weather.—l 3, blue 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; 0, overcast, the whole sky covered with thick clouds; P, passing showers; Q, squally; R, rain, continued rain; S, snow; T, thunder; U, ugly, threatened appearance; Z, hazy. Forecast. The Dominion Meteorologist (Mr D. C. Bates) supplied the following at noon to-day:—The indications are for south-easterly winds, moderate to strong; there is a prospect of fair weather, there will probably be a hard frost to-night; barometer rising slowly; sea moderate, tides good. ARRIVED.-May 7. Waikawa, s.s. (9.45 a.m.), 6,677 tons, Todd, from Bunbury via northern ports. SAILED.—May 7. Port Curtis, s.s. (6.40 a.m.), 8,287 tons, J. J. Hudson, , for Timaru and New Plymouth. THE FERRY SERVICE. The Wahiue, from Wellington, arrived at Lyttelton at 6.40 a.m. to-day, and passengers and mails connected with the 8.50 express. The Waikouaiti will now leave Sydney on Monday for Bluff, Dunedin, Lyttelton, and Timaru. The Karotu leaves Bluff tor Sydney and Newcastle to load for South island ports. ~ , The Kaituna will leave Hobart on Tuesday for Bluff, Dunedin, Lyttelton, Wellington, New Plymouth, and Auckland. The Waipiata is to load at Auckland 9n Friday for Wellington and Dunedin. The Kamona will load at Westport about the end of the next week for Timaru, Oamaru, Dunedin, and Bluff. The Opihl is expected on Tuesday from Westport. She sails on Wednesday for Nelson, New Plymouth, and Westport via ports. . The Progress is duo on Monday from Wellington. She will sail on Tuesday for New Plymouth and Port Waikato via ports. The Waikawa arrived to-day irom Bunbury via northern ports to discharge the balance of her hardwood cargo prior to bring laid up. Tho Galo is due to-night from Lyttelton. She will sail on Monday for Picton and Wanganui via ports. The Arawa is duo at Auckland tomorrow from Liverpool with general cargo, /which will be despatched at Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton, and Dunedin. The Raranga is due at Wellington on May 18 from Wanganui roadstead, and is scheduled to sail .finally from the northern port on May 22 for London via the Falkland Islands, Montevideo, and Rio de Janeiro. The motor ship Port Dunedin is scheduled to sail from London on May 18 for Suva, Wellington, Auckland, and Napier. P.ORT DARWIN DELAYED. The Port Darwin is -to leave Wellington at 9 p.m. for Port Chalmers, where she is now due on Monday morning to load frozen meat, cheese, wool, fruit, and other products. She leaves this port for London via Capo Horn and Montevideo. CROSSKEYS DUE TUESDAY. Turnbull, Martin, and Co. advise that the American steamer Crosskeys, from Pacific Coast via northern ports, is now due here on Tuesday to discharge general cargo, case oil, and lumber. Hence she sails for Melbourne to finish unloading. DENHAM FROM NEW YORK. The British Steamship Company’s vessel Denham, from New York via northern ports, was off the Otago Heads at 10 o’clock this morning, and was expected to be berthed at Dunedin this afternoon. The ship, which has case oil and general cargo, left New York on March 16, and went direct to Auckland via Panama in thirty-eight days. Colon was reached on the morning of March 25, and Balboa was cleared later the same day- Exceptionally fine weather prevailed all the way. The Denham, which was built in 1906 at Newcaslle-ou-Tyne, was named the Invertay, but she has twice changed hands since then. About eight years she was sold to Messrs Furness, Withv, and Company, who renamed her the Lexington. Five years later she was purchased by her present owners, the British Steamship Company, of London, who rechristened her the Denham. Captain E. H. Bagnall is in command of tho Denham, and the following are the officers; —Chief, Mr T. 11. Evans; second, Mr J. Robson ; third, Mr J). G. Martin; wireloss operator, Mr K. A. Webster; chief engineer, Mr J. C. Hammond; 1 second, Mr J. Bornes; third, Mr I. | WoodliiTe; fourth, Mr J. Goodfellow; I chief steward, Mr H. Gcrhardt. The crow- of forty includes two West Africans and ten British Asians Irom Aden. The Denham, which is under charter to the C. and D. Line, sails hence for Newcastle, Hobart, ami Burnie to complete discharge. BELIEVED RECORD SHIPMENT. What is believed to be a record shipment of general merchandise from | Britain for discharge at one port in the dominion is being carried by the New Zealand Shipping Company’s steamer Rotorua, which is due at WolI lington on May 14 from London and Southampton via Panama Canal. The Rotorua lias 7,000 tons of cargo, to land at Wellington. TEES FOR THE QHATIIAMS. Tho steamer Tees arrived at Lyttelton on Thursday from Wellington, and was to sail yesterday for the Chtaham Islands. The looked passages:—l)r Walter Fox, Miss Rose Muir (matron of the Christchurch Hospital), and two nurses, Mr J. M'Combs, M.P., Rev. Father M'Monagle, Rev. Barnett, and Master Barnett, Messrs Lanauze, O. Mitchell, Johannsen, Renwick, Bertrand, Solomon, Miss Crawford, Mesdarnes Cannon and two boys, Barnett, Turner, Bertrand, and Johannsen. MOTOR SHIP FOR TONGA. Tha diagonally-built wooden vessel which has Been built by Mr C. Bailey, jun.. for the Tongan Government, was to nave been launched at Auckland last Thursday. She is named the Hifofua. From the slip she was to be towed to Prince’s wharf to have installed a 100 h.p. semi-Diesel engine, and is expected to be ready for sea by the end of the month. GUNBOATS FOR FAR EAST. Messrs Yarrow and Co. have recently launched two of the four light-draught gunboats which they have on hand for the British Admiralty. The vessels are intended for service in the Far East mainly for river navigation, and in consequence their draught is only from Bft to 4ft.

BRITISH-BUILT MOTOR SHIPS. One regrettable phase of motor ship development, so far as England is concerned, is that in the past it has obviously been far more difficult for British builders to quote competitive prices for oil-engined vessels than tor steamers when: foreign orders are in question. It is well known (says ‘The Motorship’) that when the steam engine held sway the proportion of foreign-owned Bri|j«h-built craft was far greater than it'is at the present time. Naturally, this is partly accounted for by the increased facilities for construction, that has developed in foreign countries, but it has also been due to a certain extent to the preference of foreign owners for Continental machinery, probably on account of price. It is, therefore, all the more gratifying to note that some, of the motor ships recently ordered in the United Kingdom are to sail under a foreign flag. Five large motor tankers are included in the - recent batch of contracts, all for American owners. Two cargo and passenger liners, also to sail under the American flag, are in hand in a British yard, whilst there are several motor ships for Norwegian owners being built.

VESSELS IN WIRELESS CALL,

The following vessels-are expected to be within range of the undermentioned wireless stations to-night and to-mor-row ;

Auckland.—Arawa, Queen Eleanor, Tofua. Matra, Whangape, Canadian Britisher, Wairuna, Aorahgi, Marams. Chatham Islands.—Tainui, Ruapehu, Rotorua.

Wellington.—Maori, Wahine, Ngaio, Arahura, Port _ Darwin, Middlesex, Raranga, Tamahine, Tahiti, Kaiapoi, Northumberland, Otokia, Hertford, Ulimaroa, Maunganui, Cumberland, Moeraki, Poolta, Oinana. Awarua.—Denham, Crosskeys, Port Curtis, Waikouaiti. SHIPPJNG TELEGRAMS. AUCKLAND, May 6.—Arrived: Kartigi, from Westport; Veronica (2 p.m.), from Wellington. May 7—Arrived: Petricola (1.65 a.m.), from San ■Francisco; Australia,/! (6.5 a.m.), from New York; Kaponga (6.35), from New Plymouth; Baron Ruthven (9 a.m.), from, Cr>a. Sailed Queen Eleanor (6.45 a.m.), for Wellington. NEW PLYMOUTH, May 6.—Sailed: Rarawa (7 p.m.), for Onehunga. Arrived: Titoki (5.30 p.m.), from Westport. May 7—Arrived: Totara (6 a.m.), from Lyttelton. WANGANUI. May 6.—Arrived: Hertford (12.30 p.m.), from Dunedin, WELLINGTON, May 6.—Arrived: Tongariro (2.25 p.m.), from Auckland; Calm (2.25 p.m.), from Lyttelton, Sailed: Ulimaroa (12.25 p.m.), for Sydney. LYTTELTON, May 6.—Arrived: John (3.35 p.m.), Gale (3.45 p.m.), from Wellington. Sailed: Denham (2.40 p.m.), for Dunedin; Breeze (3.15 p.m.), 'for Wanganui: Kittawa (3.25 p.m.), for Greymouth; Gale (9.50 p.m.), for Dunedin. May 7—Arrived: Kanna (8.30 a.m.), from Westport. WESTPORT, May 7—Sailed; Opihi (3.5 a.m.), for Dunedin. BLUFF. May 6.—Arrived: Karetu (midnight), from Dunedin. May 7 Arrived: Storm (8 a.m.), from Dunedin. ■ !

HULL, May s.—Arrived: Nardana. DUNKIRK, May s.—Arrived; Clan MacPhee; Kent. SEATTLE, May 4.—Arrived: West Nivaria.

BOSTON, May 4.—Arrived: Birmingham City. TENERIFFE, May 4. Sailed; Euripides. NAPLES, May 4.—Sailed: Oronsay. GIBRALTAR, May 4. Sailed; Orvieto.

LONDON, May 6. Sailed: Remuera, for Auckland. BALBOA, May 4.—Sailed: Maryland, for New Zealand.

(For continuation see Late Shipping.)

Wellington—Calm ... 30.20 44 BO Greymouth- E., b 30.19 42 B Chnstch’ch —S.W., 1 30.20 45 BC Timaru—Calm ... ... 30.23 41 B Oamaru—S.W., 1 ... 33.24 43 B Dunedin—S.W., 1 .... 30.26 •51 BC Queenstown —S.W., Nuggets—S., f b I 30.26 ... 30.20 36 46 B Z Bluff—N., 1 ... ... 30.12 47 B