SHIPPING

Greymouth Evening Star, 9 October 1928, Page 8

SHIPPING

HIGH WATER.

October 9—6.30 a.m.; 7.10 p.m. October 10—7.50 a.m.; 8.20 p.m. DEPTH OF BAR. The depth on the bar and river at high water yesterday was: —Bar, 29ft.; river, 21ft. ARRIVED. Nil. SAILED. Nil. IN PORT. Kaituna, Tees, Kaimai, Kaiapoi, Putiki, Balls Heaj, Kanna. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Kaitangata, Westport, Thursday. Orepuki, Lyttelton, early. Regulus, Wellington, early. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Kaimai, Wellington, to-day. Kaituna, Melbourne, to-day. Putiki, Gisborne, to-day. Balls Head, Auckland, early. Kanna, Napier, early. Kaiapoi, Wellington, early. Kaitangata, Auckland, early. Regulus, Wanganui, early.

OTHER PORTS.

AUCKLAND, October 9. Sailed at 11.35 p.m. on Sth, Niagara, for Sydney.

SYDNEY, October 9. Arrived, Ulimaroa, from Auckland.

SHIPPING NOTES.

It is unlikely that there will be any shipping possible until to-morrow, owing to the heavy sea. The Kaimai sails when the bar allows, with coal and timber for Wellington. The Kaituna is waiting suitable conditions for departure for Melbourne, with timber.

The Kaiapoi arrived yesterday from Wellington. She is loading coal for return, and is expected to sail to-mor-row.

The Balls Head entered port on Saturday afternoon. She is loading coal for return to Auckland, and sails when the bar moderates.

The Kanna arrived ' from Westport yesterday to load coal for Wellington. She will sail when the sea and bar moderates".

The Kaitangata is due from Westport on Thursday, to load for Auckland.

The Putiki will sail wheu the bar moderates for Gisborne and Waikokopu. The Kamona is expected here from Wellington during the week-end. The Regulus leaves Wellington tomorrow for Nelson, Westport and Greymouth with general cargo. After discharge she loads coal for Wanganui. The Tees is expected to sail when the bar allows, with timber, fox’ Wellington and Waikokopu. The Orepuki leaves Lyttelton on Thursday for Nelson, Westport and Greymouth, with general cargo.

STEAMER ASHORE.

WELLINGTON, October 8.

The Secretary of the G.P.O. has received the following: “Radio signals intercepted at eleven-thirty p.m. on October 7, indicate that the steamer Kinross is ashore on Cato Island reef. She is making no water. She was endeavouring to get' off at daylight, weathex- permitting.”

“PORT” AND “STARBOARD.”

NOT SO EASY TO ELIMINATE.

A London correspondent writes to an American paper: A reprieve has been granted the words “port” and “starboard,” which were recommended for removal from the nautical vocabulary by an international conference in London, at which 14 nations, including all the chief maritime countries of the world were represented. The president of the Board of Trade, speaking on the subject in the House of Commons, deprecated any change in “holm orders” which, he said, were governed by custom not by regulations. He declared he had no intention of bringing any ruling until the proposed alteration had been fully considered by navigating officers and pilots. Lord Apsley drew attention to the fact that tjio United States now had two systems, one for the Navy and the other for the Mercantile Marine, and he hoped such a state of affairs might be avoided here by making it necessary to obtain Parliamentary sanction before any change was made. Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister, in reply, said he hoped the fact that the question had been discussed would not be taken as meaning that a. change was contemplated. If, however, the British system were altered it should be to one “which will be international.”

The secretary of the Channel Pilots’ Association, in a letter to Lloyd’s List, a 200-year-old London shipping journal, says: “There are over 200 pilots at Gravesend and the general view, as expresed by them through their authority, is that it is undesirable to substitute Tight’ and ‘left’ for the distinctive orders ‘port’ and ‘starboard.’ ”