SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

Greymouth Evening Star, 12 July 1905, Page 2

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

- Port of Greymouf.il.

HIGH WATER. July 13.—7.12 a.m.; 7.46 p.m. WEATHER REPORT. Greymoufh.— Wind, east, light; barometer, 29.84; thermometer, 47 degrees; tides, poor; bar, rough. ARRIVED. July 12.—Nil. SAILED. July 12.—Nil, IN PORT. Ramona, Taieri, Pel one, Torgauten, Kongsbyrd, Annie Hill. Owing to tln> heavy westerly sea on the bar, (bore have been no shipping movements since yesterday. The Ramona for Timarn and Lyttelton will sail to-morrow. Tim Rosamond is due from Now Plymouth and Onebunga on Friday. We learn (bat Mr Darling is chief engineer of the Taieri; Mr G. Mueller being second engineer. The Kennedy leaves Nelson to-day, is due to-morrow, and sails at 5 p.m. same day for Foxton direct .

Tim Koonya from Wellimdon, Westport, and south .arrives to night, and will sail for Rlnlf and Dunedin to-morrow night.

The Mapourika arrives from Wellington, via Coast ports, at five o’clock to morrow afternoon, and will sail on her re turn trip at 7.30 p.m.

The little steamer K'aramea is to be engaged carrying sleepers between Charleston and Westport, It is vears ago since a vessel entered the, Nile River, The, Charles Edward resumes running after a six weeks’ overhaul on Saturday, and is due. here direct from Nelson early on Monday. She loads a full cargo of timber for Wellington direct, sailing on Monday night. Last year 141 derelicts were reported in the North Atlantic from time to lime. This last winter alone has claimed a. harvest of 48 with the list growing daily. The winter of 1903 1904 saw 53, and the full year of 1903, 280. Messrs Costar Pros, have purchased from Captain Riley the hull of the old steamer Result, now lying sunk in the lagoon at West Spit, Westport. Tim new owners consider the. hull is sound. They purpose to alter (he vessel and construct her into a schooner.

The Mils! llislii Company’s new dock at Nagasaki was completed on March 22. J(s principal dimensions are : Extreme length, 722 ft ; length on blocks. 714 ft; breadth at entrance on top. 96ft bin. ; at bottom, 88ft 3in.; depth of water on blocks at spring times, 34ft 6in. A passenger by Ibe Campania in a recent trans-Atlantic trip, New York to Liverpool, writes: “We have broken the. records for ‘Marcnnigrams’ thi.s trip, receiving a message from Poldliu (Cornwall) when we were 2200 miles away, the farthest before being 2000 miles.—-Sent a Marconigram to (be Celtic, and got an answer; cost 55.”

The four-masted British barque Lord Kolscley, 2518 tons, is to be rigged as a five-masted barqnnntino at Seattle. ■ It is estimated that the work will cost nearly £4OOO. The vessel is of iron, and was built about 26 years ago at Belfast. As the German barque Colnmbai she was caught in a hurricane and towed info Royal Roads on April 7th, 1903. and she lay idle for nearly a year before being purchased by the Victoria and Vancouver Stevedoring Company, the present owners of the vessel.

Tn (lin past ton years derelists and wrecks have been reported from the North Atlantic. From 1887 to 1893 1146 unidentified .abandoned vessels and 482 identified were reported to tbe United States Hydrographic office. These reports were from between 3000 and 4000 volunteer observers, the masters and officers of shins of all nations, who arc enlisted loyally in the service of tbe Hydrographic office. The Government pays those men of the sea in free printed weekly records and monthly pilot charts, which tell in graphic symbols the condition of (be ways they follow, where derelicts wore last soon, and will probably lie mot again, what winds nr gales may be expected, and meteorological data of the highest scientific valtic. liarring interruptions, the export of timber from Grcymonth this week will be very large. In addition t otiie Kamona, which is taking 600,000 feet, the Torganten. Kongsbyrd and Annie Hill arc taking full cargoes, besides smaller shipments by other boats. The amount of timber railed from the various mills on Saturday last established something like, a record for the one day. Messrs Morris.- Tcnncnt, Tloberls, Malfrny ami Michel are at present in Christchurch arranging matters generally in connection with (ho timber trade, and it is to be hoped a. satisfactory understanding will be arrive' l at as a means of fostering tbi.s most important in dnslry in (be interests of all concerned. We arc (old that the kauri forests in the North will be exhausted within the next ten or fifteen year.--. This will me.-in a big demand lor our Wer t ('oast limber.

Owing to the, number of steamers of heavy tonnage now visiting this port, Captain Connor, harbourmaster, in order to ensure their safety during had weather, found it necessary to ask the Harbour Board to have the present mooring posts in the vicinity of the hydraulic cranes and at the upper end of (he wharf replaced with moorings of a more substantial nature. It appears those at present in use, and which ho condemns, are merely lowered down lo about low-water mark and bolted to the wharf. This, in Captain Connor’s opinion, is not sufficient to withstand the strain put upon them at times, the superstructure being apt lo give way. He maintains, and with good reason, that the piles should he driven as far as possible into the solid, similar to what has been done with those connected with (lie now addition to the wharf and the outer ones that wore driven below the lower shod—in tho curve; and, further, that they should he tied hack lo the street to lessen the strain on the wharf. The Board has acceded to the request, and the work will he put in hand as soon as possible.

AN ERROR IN JUDGMENT

An Auckland message slates that an inquiry into the wreck of the British barque Emerald on the North .Spit at tho entrance to Kaipara Harbour on June 15th, was held yesterday, before Mr Kettle, S.M., and Captain Adamson and Camphell, nautical assessors, Mr Martin appeared for Captain Bushel Mr Bose, Collector of Customs sai dthat tho question at issue was whether the. master was justified in entering the harbour in such weather and so early in the day. After hearing evidence as to how the wreck occurred, Mr Marlin, addressing (he Court, submitted that the only matter for the Court to consider was as to whether (he error of judgment shown by tho captain was such as to load the Court lo order lii mio pay the costs of (he enquiry. The position of the captain was that of a man who had been trading for a great number of years on tbe coast, and who was called upon to decide suddenly upon the adoption of a course for tho safety of his vessel and crew. The course the captain had adopted in the present instance was not an unreasonable one, hut it had turned out under the circumstances to ho an error of judgment. After the vessel had got into her dangerous position it waclearly shown that the captain had taken the wisest an (’only safe course to provide for the. safety of his crew. The Court decided that Captain Bushel had committed an error of judgment in attempting to enter Kaipara Harbour under tho existing conditions, but the error did not warrant tho Court in suspending his certificate. He was ordered to pay the costs of tho inquiry, amounting to £ll 18s. COST OF GREAT NAVIES. Mr Prettyman, in a. printed answer to Mr Partington, gives (he amount of tonnage and ils cost, added by new construction, to tho British, French German, United States of America, and Russian navies for tho five years ended March 31st, 1905, as follows: Tons Cost. Great. Britain .. 601,755 £46,712,193 France .. .. 178,322 £17,589,215 Germany .. .. 198.561 18,830,704 United'Slates .. 154,184 £14,663,817 Russia .. .. 267,586 £23,836,892 The figures do not include torpedo and submarine crafl.

PHASES OF THE MOON--JULY. New Moon .. .. 5 5.20 a,m. First Quarter .. 10 5.15 a.rn. Full Moon .. 17 8.3 a.m. Last Quarter .. 25 0.30 a.m. Perigee .. 10 4.30 p.m. Apogee .. 24 6.0 a.m.