SHIPPING

Greymouth Evening Star, 25 August 1928, Page 8

SHIPPING

HIGH WATER. August 25—5.45 a.m.; 6.15 p.m. August 26 —6.55 a.m.; 7.30 p.m. DEPTH OF BAR. The depth on the bar and river at high water yesterday was: —Bar 20ft.; river, 20ft. ARRIVED. Nil. SAILED. Nil. IN PORT. Kaimai, Balls Head, Zingara, Totara, Alexander. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Ihumata, Port Ahuriri, to-day. Huia, Westport, to-day. Kamona, Wellington, to-night. Gabriella, Melbourne to-night. Regulus, Lyttelton, to-night. Piri, Auckland, early. Titoki, Onehunga, early. Orepuki, Wellington, early. Kaiapoi, Wellington, early. Putiki, Gisborne, early. Kaimai, Wellington, early. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Balls Head, Auckland, to-day. Kaimai, Wellington, to-day. Totara, New Plymouth, to-day. Alexander, Nelson, to-day. Zingara, Hokitika, early. Gabriella, Melbourne, early. Ihumata, Sydney, early. Kamona, Wellington, early. Huia, Brisbane, early. Piri, Melbourne, early. Regulus, Tarakohe,, early. Kaiapoi, Wellington, early. Putiki, Gisborne, early. OTHER PORTS. SYDNEY, August 25. Sailed, Toten, for Auckland; Sewell, for Wellington. SHIPPING~NOTES.

The Balls Head is still bar-bound, but is expected to get away to-night with a cargo of coal for Auckland.

The Kaimai will leave to-night, if the bar is workable, taking coal and timber for Miramar and Wellington. The Kamona is in the roadstead from Wellington, and is expected to enter port to-night. The Kaiapoi leaves Wellington to-day for Grey mouth, to load foir return to that port. The Totara is loaded with coal for New Plymouth, and is expected to get fiway to-night. The Putiki is due on Tuesday from Gisborne to load coal for return. ,

After reaching Wellington from here the Kaimai is expected to return to load coal and timber for Miramar and Wellington. The Ihumata is in the roadstead .from Port Ahuriri. On entering, she loads timber for Sydney.

The Gabriella is waiting outside to enter port, when she will load timber for Melbourne. The Tees is due to leave Chathams to-day, proceeding to Lyttelton and Wellington. The Regulus arrived in the roadstead to-day from Nelson and Westport with general cargo. After discharge she loads coal for Tarakohe. The Alexander sails to-day for Motueka and Nelson with a full cargo of coal.

The Titoki leaves Picton to-day, and Wellington on Monday, for Nelson, Westport and Greymouth, with general cargo. She is due here on Wednesday, and after discharge loads coal for Wanganui. The Orepuki leaves Wellington on AVednesday for Nelson, Westport and Greymouth, with general cargo. She is due here on Saturday. After discharge she loads coal and timber for Nelson, and coal for Wanganui. The scow Zingara is still in port waiting for a chance to leave for Hokitika.

The Huia is expected from Westport to-night. After discharge she will load timber for Australia.

The Piri is still undergoing overhaul at Auckland, and is expected here with explosives in a fortnight’s time. She is to load timber for Sydney and Melbourne.

RATE WAR STARTED. MONTREAL, August 24. With the departure on Thursday of the steamer Baron Inchcape for New Zealand ports, under charter of the New Zealand Shipping Company, and the Canadian Conqueror, of the Canadian National Steamships, new freight rates, representing a big reduction to shippers, are in force. There will be a general rate of five dollars a ton on first-class cargo. The New Zealand Shipping Coy’s charge was formerly as high as twenty-five dollars a ton, though the amount carried between the Dominions was relatively small. The change is virtually a rate war.