SHIPPING NEWS.

Grey River Argus, 24 July 1922, Page 2

SHIPPING NEWS.

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ARRIVALS. JULY 22—23. Tutanekai, s.s., from BluiT. DEPARTURES. JULY 22. Kakapo, s.s., 1521 tons, for Wellington. Tutanekai, s.s., for Westport. IN PORT.

EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Titoki, to day from Wanganui. Kamo, to-day, from Lyttelton. Progress due from Picton. Orepuki, to-day from Lyttelton. ■ Ngakuta, to-day from Lyttelton. Regulus, Wednesday, from Wellington. Kaituua, Wednesday, from New Plymouth. Kamona, middle of week, from Ouehunga. NOTES.

The Tutanekai arrived on Saturday morning from Bluff with a number of sheep for Messrs Jeffries and Co. She discharged aud sailed later on Saturday I for Westport, arriving there at 3.15 i p.m. The Kakapo sailed ou Saturday with a loud of coal for Wellington. The ves■nd will return to this port later in the The Progress left Pieton on Saturday evening for Greymouth and is now due. vessel brings general cargo from | that port and after discharge will xeI turn, timber and coal laden. | The Orepuki is expected to arrive today from Lyttelton, which port she left at 6.15 p.m. on Saturday. She will load timber and return to Lyttelton. The Kamo and Ngakuta are expected to arrive to-day from Lyttelton, both vessels coming via Westport. The iKamo will load coal and timber far i Lyttelton, whilst the Ngakuta takes 'a load ®f coal for Wellington. i The Kaituua is expected to arrh e I about Wednesday from New Plymouth I to load timber for Australia. j The Regulus loads at Wellington toI day for Greymouth via Nelson, and Westport. She is due here on Wednesday and after discharge, loads coal for Pieton. The Titoki is due to-duy from Wan- : ganui, to load coal for Durgaville. | The Kamona should arrive here this I week from Onehunga. She will load for Timaru and Bluff.

TELEGRAMS. WELLINGTON, July 22. Arrived, 11.50 a.m., Ngaliere, from Greymouth. WESTPORT, July 22. Arrived at 7.45 p.m. on 21, Alexander, from Greymouth. SYDNEY, July 22. Sailed, Waikouati. NEWCASTLE, July 22, Arrived, Waihemo. Sailed, Twickenham, for New Zealand. PICTON, July 22. Sailed at 3.30 p.m., Progress, for Greymouth. LYTTELTON, July 22. Sailed at 6.15 p.m., Orepuki, for Greymouth. WESTPORT, July 22. Arrived at 3.15 p.m., Tutanekai, from Greymouth. WELLINGTON, July 22. Arrived at 3.20 p.m., Kakapo, from ! Greymouth. WELLINGTON, July 22. Arrived at 10 a.m., Ruapehu, from London. LONDON, July 21. Arrivals—At London, Essex; at Falmouth, Trematon; at Liverpool, Ku.mara; passed Sacres, Conde. Departure ifor Sydney, Berrima. Arrivals—At I Liverpool, Aeneas; at Colombo, Elan Macmaster. Departures —From Suez, ,Naldcra; from Port Said, Tregantle. Arrival at London, Baradines, with apple cargo. ABEMAMA HELD UP. SYDNEY, July 22. Ths officers and crew of the »ama has beau paid off, pending tht

stopping of the leakage as ordered by the Navigation Department prior to the schooner again putting to sea. The cargo of hardwood piles tor the Bluff will be shipped by another steamer. THE PHANTOM FLEET. As Captain Roald Amundsen drifts slowly across the cheerless expanse of the polar basin from which no white man has ever emerged alive, he will search the white waste about him for signs of the “phantom fleet” —the fro- | zen company of lost ships that the Eskimos claim swings around the North Polo year in and year out, gripped in tho inexorable clutch of the. great ice floes. Whether the fleet is legendary or really exists is one of the problems that has haunted tho minds of Arctic explorers for many years. Vessels have strangely disappeared in the unexplored Polar basin since the beginning of Arctic navigation. Tn one ' fell swoop tho hungry ice pack, in 1876, j carried off 30 whaling ships from the waters north of the American Continent. : Most of the men fled to the ice and escaped to Point. Barrow, and other points on tho Arctic coast, but 70 refused to desert tho ships. The slow but ceas«■less movement of the ice carried .them into the mysterious uncharted region that comprises 1,000,000 square miles. Eskimos who have escaped from the ice-pack after being carried far north into tho unknown wastes, have returned with stories of ghostly ships, frozen in tho ice, white with frost, and manned by frozen crews. So that along with discoveries of a scientific nature tho Amundsen expedition may make others that will throw light upon the manner in which the heroic mariners of northern waters have embarked upon their last great ' cruise.

HIGH WATER. July 24. —itl.2 a.m.; 10.19 p.m. July 25. —10.45 a.m.; 11.3 p.m. July 26.—11.30 a.m.; 11.48 p.m. July 27. — 0.16 p.m. July 28. — 0.35 a.m. 1.3 p.m. July 29. — 1.24 a.m., J bl p.m. July 30.— 2.14 a.m.; p.m. July 31.— 3.7 a.m.; 3.37 p.m.