IN PORT.

Grey River Argus, 4 August 1908, Page 2

IN PORT.

Clyde, from Wanganui. Jap, from Clarence River. Petone from Wellington. Taieri, from Welling-ton,. Kirtawa, from Wellington. The Arahura arrived if rom Wellington via usual port's yesterday morn-, ing, and sailed on her return trip at midnight. The Kini with a full load of^ ti-miber, said for Lyttelton yesterday afternoon. The Tiaiierj which arrived on Sunday has commenced loading a cargo of ifimiber for Adelaide. lit is expected to get her away towards 'the enti ol the week.The Kittawa arrived yesterday from. North, and sails .to-day for Wellington and Napier coal laden. The Torgauten sailed for Gisfoorne yesterday morning with a full loa<l of timber. The Petone sails to-day with a cargo of Blackball coal for Lyttellton. The Putiki arrived from Wanganm direct la-sit evening. The Kennedy leaves Nelson to-diay. for West-port and Gieymouth and is due here ito-morrow afternoon. _ It was stated during, the hearing of a case in the. Magistrate's -Court, Auckland, on July 27, that during the past five years the Tyser Company had paid in claims for loss byYet another invention for the Prevention of sea-sickness is being tried. It is composed of a machine like a tremendous spinning-top. On Wus the patients lie and are spun lound at a sufficient speed to keep it fairly perpendicular. The experiments, which have been carried out ah Stettin, are said to Wave been successful but the views of the patients Oo not appeared to b e known. Perhaps they were too giddy to say whether they were seasick or not. • The stokers on board an ocean liner, provided that the men are siteiady i their habits suffer, very little' from •their arduous labors. A stoker works four hours at a stretch and during •that time the temperature of his surroundings varies from 120-deg. to 160 dfg. One stoker has usually four .Jfdsrn aces to attend to, and while feeding one furnace a man has to b e ex,tr£mely careful, or -Ms arm' will be burned by the furnace,, .behind him. t 4V man is occupied 1 "' ' about three' miri"-' utes at each furnace. ' It has been ■found. that the work is least injurious g the men who are regularly employis an impression that mail con t£lh aT f alwav s -hig-hly profitable to^. tiie steamship companies which Wthem. T Ws theory, however, is X^K h^ Tne out by SGme figures- just XrVT l6^ J e9 Pecting bh c mail subsidy." tpeijAs of the P. and O. Company,. the amount paid by that .company i>n#buez. Canal dues. It appears that in the three .years ended 30th September, 1007. the P. and O. paid canal <h ps to the amount of /q84,275. and t W t the net postal subsidy, payable in tffi same periods was £007,158. A vfcety of arguiments might be based UT»n tHese statistics One of- them is thp. if the Suez Canal were toll free/ the P. 'and O. Company could afford tp| carry the mails for nothing 1 . But it probably would require a good deal nffconviotion 'on that point. "• '