SHIPPING

Greymouth Evening Star, 27 October 1921, Page 7

SHIPPING

HIGH WATER. October 27 —7.7 a.m. ; 7.38 p.m. October 28—8.7 a.m. ; 8.28 p.m. October 29 —8.54 a.m. ■ 9.15 p.m! October 30 —9.39 a.m. ; 10.0 p.m. October 31 —10.22 a.m. ; 10.42 p.m. \ ARRIVED. October 27—Kamona, s.s., 1425 tons, from Westport. October 27. —Perth, s.s., 1111 tons, from Akaroa. SAILED. October 26 —Kahika, s.s., 1172 tons, for Wellington. October 26 —Waimea, s.s., 207 tons, for' Nelson. IN PORT Kamona, Perth. 'The 'Waimea sailed this morning for Nelson, coal laden. The Alexander is due to-morrow morning from Picton with a cargo of chaff. After discharge of same she loads coal for Picton. The Regulus leaves Wellington today Tor Nelson, Westport and Greymouth, with general cargo. The Perth arrived tiiis morning from Akaroa, via Westport. She will load timber for .Melbourne, and is expected to sail about Saturday week. Messrs Wild and Robertson are the local agents for the vessel. The Kamona arrived this morning from Westport, and will sail to-morrow night for Lyttelton. The Kaiapoi left Wellington last night for Greymouth, and is expected to-morrow morning. She will load timber for .Melbourne and Adelaide. The Kahika sailed yesterday afternoon for Wellington, with coal, timber and general cargo. The Kamo left Onehunga yesterday for Greymouth. and on arrival will load for Wellington and Lyttelton. The Opua is expected to-night from Wellington. She will load timber and sail for Lyttelton on Saturday night. The Orepuki is expected at noon tomorrow from Lyttelton, and will load timber for Auckland, sailing on Saturday night.

AT OTHER PORTS. LYTTELTON, October 26.—Sailed, Orepuki, for Greymouth. M ELLINGTON, October 25.—Sailed Opua, for Greymouth. ONEHUNGA, October 26- —Sailed, Kamo, for Greymouth. WELLINGTON, This Day.—Arrived at 10 a.m., Ngahere, from Greymouth. SYDNEY, This Day.—Arrived, Canadian Traveller, and Kumara. ADELAIDE, This Day.—Arrived, City of Sydney, from New Zealand. MISCELLANEOUS. The wooden hulls of America, being of no use as ships, must find secondary uses or perish. It has been proposed that about sixty of them might be utilised to form a pontoon budge over the Hudson .River. Even for this purpose, however, it would be necessary to see thift their seams are properly caulked. Three .Japanese' steamers are reported in trouble. The Shoshu .Mani is a steel steamer of 1,532 tons gross, and was built at Pert. Glasgow in 1891. She is owned by the Osaka Shosen Kaihsa, and w.is wrecked near Okinawa, on a voyage from Keelung to Japan- '1 he Dainiehiz.'in Marti, which drove ashore off Loodos during a typhoon, was built at Kobe in 1910, and is 544 tons gross. She belongs to the Hashimoto Risen, and is insured on a. value of £19,600. The Kabalnto Kisen’s steamer lleivei Marit No. 2, which is reported to have tilled and sank at Tobjr, was built of steel in 1918, and her gross tonnage is 1.142. ' , The electric ship, as far as Australia is concerned, is yet a novelty. A vessel of the type, the Eclipse, of the United American line, America’s first electrically propelled cargo carrier, arrived ; t Sydney leceinjy, having completed her first ccc-.in voyage with new equipment, a trip of 26,500 miles, without the slightest hitch io any of her machinery. The Eclipse left New York on November 12th. Her first stop was at Port SyiH Siio then proceeded to Singapore and Java, took in a cargo, and on Mardi 23rd Jell Bombay on her return. Both going and coming she encountered heavy seas, but maintained an average speed of better than 10 knots, covering the distance in a week less time than required for similar boats not equipped with the electric drive, and with a great saving in the amount of [uel used. The Eclipse was built at the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation’s Union Iron 'Works, Sin Francisco, in 1918. Last summer her propulsion apparatus was changed by the Shipping Board to the turbine electric drive. Contrary to reports that special specially-t rained men would be requireil to operate the vessel before the same crew which manned vessel before Ihe change used, and experienced no difficulty. The craft is the first of twelve 12,000-ton vessels being equipped by the General Electric Company with the electric drive i'or the Shipping Board- Her electrical equipment consists of a steam turbine and a 2300-volt generator, driving a 3000 horse-power motor at 100 revolutions a minute. Some details connected with the Hireling of the R. and O. Company and the Union Steam Ship Company were given by the Hon. G. W. Russell in a speech at Auckland last week. He said that when the negotiations for the merging of the P. and O. and the Union Company were in train he had approached the Solicitor-General (then Sir John Salmond) to see if there w is anything to prevent the Dominion of New Zealand taking the place of the and O. Company in the deal. The Solicitor-General said there was nothing improper about it at all; it would be quite constitutional, and only required a bill of one short clause. A deputation waited on Mr. Massey, and asked him to adopt this course, but without success, and a supreme opportunity of keeping controf of shipping in this country was lost forever. Today the whole of the foreign trade was being throttled, not because there was no trade, but because the big master spiders m Great Britain, who belonged to the shipping rings, were lighting all over the world for the forcing down of seamen’s wages. The whole thing was part of a scheme for a lock-out.

SHIPBUILDING COSTS. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) MELBOURNE, This Day. The “Herald,” publishes details of tho sale of eight ships which changed hands in England at £4 10s to £7 a ton, whilst tho Commonwealth building of similar steamers in Australia is costing £3O a ton.