SHIPPING NEWS.

Grey River Argus, 3 April 1922, Page 2

SHIPPING NEWS.

PORT OF GREYMOUTH. TIDES. HIGH WATER.

ARRIVALS. APRIL 1. Orepuki, s.s.. 550 tons, from Wellington. Waimea, s.s., 207 tons, from Picton. DEPARTURES. APRIL 1. Kakapo, ».s., 1521 tons for Auckland. IN PORT. Joan Craig, Opua, Orepuki, Waimea, Kaituna (steam), White Pine (sail). EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Ngahere about Wednesday from Onehunga. Kamo, Thursday from Lyttelton. Regulus, to-morrow from Wellington and Nelson. NOTES. The Kakapo sailed at midnight on Saturday with ’ a cargo of coal for Auckland and Whangarei. The Orepuki arrived yesterday from Wellington. She has a quantity of benzine on board on the discharge, of which the vessel will load timber for Lyttelton, sailing about Wednesday. The Wyimea arrived at 4.30 p.m. yesterday with a cargo of chaff from Picton. On discharge she will load coal at Westport for New Plymouth. The Opua is loading timber for Lyftelton and she is expected to sail for that port to-day. The vessel will return to Greymouth on Thursday or Friday with general cargo. The Joan Craig is expected to sail to-day timber laden for Australia. The Kaituna, which arrived on Fri-

day evening from Dunedin is loading timber for Australia, sailing about the end of this week. »

The barque White Pine should sail about the end of the week timber laden for Sydney. The Regulus en route, from Wellington is expected to leave Nelson today for Greymouth with general cargo, arriving here to-morrow. The Kamo is expected to arrive on Thursday from Lyttelton and Timaru with general cargo. The Ngahere, from Onehunga is nowexpected to arrive on Wednesday. She will load coal at this port. Messrs J. E. Walker and C. 11. M. Long, late officers of the Maheno, laid up at Sydney, arc awaiting orders at Wellington.

A trading vessel from South. Africa has just arrived at the London docks with a most disconcertingly deficient log and an explanation for its deficency that has made even the soured officials of the Board of Trade dissolve into smiles. One of the stokers was bringing homo a pet for his children, a small but voracious monkey, which for the greater part of the voyage was the popular plaything of-every-one on board. Unfortunately, it was left for a short time alone in the cabin where the ship’s log book was lying on the table, and during the short interval of solitude made the most of its time in examining this important volume. When the second mate returned he found the monkey on the table, much paper spread in small pieces on the floor, and a book no longer of conventional tidings. In less than 10 minutes that monkey had reduced the log of some days journeying to a mass of small and unrecognisable pieces. What was more remarkable was that five pages were missing altogether, and not a single piece could be found, suggest ing that the monkey had not only torn, ! but devoured them in the few mmutes at its disposal.

Oil continues, to »urpU~t coal,

Lloyd’s latest shipbuilding returns show that there were 121 steamers and motor vessels, each of over 1000 tons, with a total tonnage of 793,193 tons, under construction in the world for the carriage of oil in bulk. Of the total . 82, totalling 535,019 tons, were under I construction in the United Kingdom. The tonnage of vessels now building which were to be fitted with internal combustion engines amounted to 368,494 tons. The motor ship and the oilI burning steamer arc making their way into the mercantile marine of the ’world and what is chiefly delaying I Britain, is the great expense of putting new tonnage in. hand. THE VALMARIE. Mr A. IT. Tasker, of Nelson, who bn Wednesday purchased the hull and cargo of the three-masted schooner Valinarie, states that he is hopeful of salvaging the hardwood. He intends to lay a tramline from the schooner’s side as she now lies near Farewell Spit to Puponga, from which port the timber will be shipped to Wellington, possibly by the auxiliary schooner Kohi. There is stated to be about 10,000 ft. of hardwood in the hold ob the Valmarie, and the work of discharging the cargo has already commenced. TELEGRAMS. MELBOURNE, April 1. Sailed— for New Ze?land.

April 3. — 145 a.in.; 2 2 p.m April 4 — 2.25 a.m.; 2.50 p.m April 5. — 3.20 a.m.; 3.47 p.m April 6. — 4.25 a.m.; 5.14 p.m April 7. — G.O a.m.; 6.40 p.m April 8.— 7.15 a.m.; 7.47 p.m April 9.— 8.15 a.m.; 8.40 p.m April 10 — 9.0 a.m.; 9.25 p.m April 11.— 9.43 a.m.; 10.12 p.m April 12.— 10.30 a.m.; 10.51 p.m April 13.— 11.12 a.m.; 11.35 p.m April 14.— 11.58 a.m.; April 15.— 0.23 a.m.; 0.47 p.m April 16.— 1.10 a.m.; 1.36 p.m April 17.— 1.59 a.m.; 2.2S p.m April 18.— 2.48 a.m.; 3.18 p.m April 19.— 3.50 a.m.; 4.24 p.m April 20.— 5.6 a.m.; 6.0 p.m April 21.— 6.42 a.m.; 7.12 p.m