SHIPPING

Greymouth Evening Star, 13 May 1927, Page 8

SHIPPING

HIGH WATER. May 13—8.22 a.m.; 8.45 p.m. May 14 —9.5 a.m.; 9.25 p.m. May 15—9.47 a.m.; 10.10 p.m. May 16—10.25 a.m.; 10.40 p.m. May 17—10.55 a.m.; 11.10 p.m. May 18—11.28 a.m.; 11.47 p.m. May 19 — ——; 0.7 p.m. May 20—0.25 a.m.; 0.47 p.m. DEPTH OF BAR. The depth on the bar and river at high water yesterday was: —Bar. 24ft. 2in.; river, 20ft. 2in. ARRIVED. May 13 —Kanna, s.s., 784 tons (McLellan), 7.30 a.m., from Lyttelton, via Onakaka. SAILED. May 13 —Regulus, s.s., 232 tons (Maylen), 10 a.m., for Nelson. IN PORT. Kanna. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Kaponga, Auckland, to-day. Waimea, Onehunga, to-night. Ihumata, Kaiparaj Sunday. Kairnai, Wellington, early. PROJECTED”DEPARTURES. Ihumata, Melbourne, early. Waimea, New Plymouth, early. Kairnai, Wellington, early. Kanna, Sydney, early. Kaponga, Wellington, early. AT OTHER PORTS. WELLINGTON, May 13. Arrived at 2.40 a.m., Kittawa, from Greymouth. WELLINGTON, May 13. Sailed, Moeraki, for Wellington. SUVA, May 13. Sailed last night, Tofua, for Auckland. POUTO, May 13. Sailed at 11 a.m., Ihumata, for Greymouth.

SHIPPING NOTES.

The Kanna arrived this morning from Lyttelton, via Onakaka. At the latter port she loaded pig iron for Australia. She loads timber for Sydney and Melbourne, and sails via Westport to complete. The Kaponga is due from Auckland to-day, and loads a cargo of coal for return, sailing via Westport. The Kairnai leaves Wellington tomorrow foi- ’ Greymouth direct. On arrival she loads a cairgo of coal and timber for Wellington. The Ihumata is due from Wanganui on Sunday to load timber for Melbourne. The Regulus sailed this morning for Nelson, coal laden. The Waimea is due to-night from Wellington, via Nelson, Westport and Greymouth with general cargo. On discharge she loads coal for New Plymouth.

The Grey Harbour Board’s dredge Mawhera is expected to be ready to leave for Greymouth to-morrow or Monday, after having been on the Wellington Patent Slip at Evans Bay for the past three weeks, undergoing overhaul. The Mawhera is manned entirely by a Greymouth crew. There has recently been placed in commission off the coast of New Jersey the first Diesel-engined lightship in American wafers. Like all the lightships maintained, she is self-pro-pelled, so that she can proceed to and from her station at the prescribed intervals. For this purpose she is fitted with an eight cylinder 450 b.h.p. engine, which is arranged in a watertight compartment. In addition there are two 25 k.w. generators, each driven for supplying current for the motors which drive the principal pumps in the ship and the compressors for the fog syren. Current for lighting purposes and for the lanterns is provided by two 71 k.w. generating sets situated on the deck above the main engine-room and running on kerosene. The fuel tanks contain sufficient oil to enable the whole of the machinery to operate for a year. In normal weather all of it is at rest during the day, the only fuel consumed being in winter —the furnace of a small boiler employed for heating the crew’s quarters. The vessel has two 3,000 c.p. lamps, of which one is a standby, it being the practice in the United States lighthouse service to install duplicate lanterns.

NORTHERN STEAMSHIP CO. (Special to "Star.") AUCKLAND, May 13. At the annual meeting of the Northern Steamship Company on May 17, it will be 'recommended to declare an S per cent, dividend for the year ended March 31, for which the profit was £13,103.