SHIPPING

Greymouth Evening Star, 16 June 1922, Page 7

SHIPPING

HIGH WATER. Juns 16 —2.33 a.m. ; 3.0 p.m. June 17—3.23 a.m.; 3.50 p-m. ' June 18—4.15 a.m.; 4.45 p.m. June 19—5.12 a.m. ; 5-4 p.m. June 20 —6.15 a.m. ; 6.50 p.m.

ARRIVED. Nil. SAILED. Nil. IN PORT.

Waipori, Opua, Karori, Kamo (steam), Wanganui (sail). The Karori is loading coal and timber for Lyttelton and Miramar. She will sail at 3 o’clock to-morrow morning, provided the bar is workable, it was expected that the Waipori, which is lifting timber for Melbourne, would be able to sail to-morrow even-

ing, but the fact that the timber workers are observing a holiday to-iiiorrow on account of the annual meeting of the Union may prevent her being loaded in time. The Kamona left Tima.ru last evening for Dunedin. From there she sails for Westport and is due in Greymouth about Tuesday. The Regulus arrives this evening from Wellington, Picton, Nelson and Westport. After discharge of general cargo she loads coal for Nelson. The Waimea leaves Lyttelton tomorrow for Nelson, Westport and Greymouth with general cargo. Tlie Titoki leaves Wellington to-mor-row for Greymouth direct, with general cargo. She will probably proceed to Westport and New Plymouth. AT OTHER PORTS,

PORT NELSON, June 15. Sailed at 3 p.m., Regulus, for West Coast ports. WANGANUI, June 16.Arrived at 5 p.m. on 15th, Progress, from Greymouth. LYTTELTON, ’ June 16. Arrived at 1.5 p.m., Kakapo, from Greymouth. MISCELLANEOUS. Plans for laying a new cable across the Atlantic to Northern Europe have been completed, according to Mr. Newcomb Carlton, president of the Western Union Telegraph and Cable Company, who has just returned to New York from England and Germany. He said the new cable will represent the greatest progress in cable construction in history. It is the invention of engineers connected with the Western Electric and American telephone engineers. Whereas the old cables under the Atlantic are capable of handling but 5,000,000 words a year the new line, Mr. Carlton said, 'will carry 40,000,000 words. It will be laid

from New York to the Azores and from there probably to a German jiort. Mr. Carlton secured a contract with a new Germany company to co-operate in the new cable management. The cable will be laid by the summer of 1923, according to Mr. Carlton. An example of the manner in which the inhabitants of secluded Pitcairn Island appreciate the occasional calls made by oversea liners was furnished the passengers on board the New Zealand Shipping Company’s Rimutaka, which reached Wellington on Saturday evening from London, says the “Dominion.” The vessel stopped off the island for a few hours on May 27th, and as she was taking her departure for Wellington, the three boat loads of islanders who had visited the ship feathered their oars and gave three lusty cheers for Captain Hemming, the master of the Rimutaka. The passengers lining the deck of the big vessel cheered in return, and the islanders rowed shorewards, singing ‘Tn the Sweet Bye-and-Bye.”