SHIPPING.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XCVI, Issue 14416, 5 July 1907, Page 6

SHIPPING.

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WEATHER REPORT, ETC. High. water this day (Friday) morning: 11.45 a.m, evening 12.15 a.m. Sun rises 7.36 *ntL, sets 4.32 p.m. Moon rises 2.4 sum., ** <B 10 ' 19 Thursday, july 4. 9 a.m. Noon. B p.m. Barometer . . 29.77 29.50 29.77 Thermometer . 44 45 47 Wind, calm. arrived. ' July 4, at Heads.—Wainui, e.s., 411 ions, Evans, from' Raipaxa, with barque Wai-iti in tow. Union Steamship Company agents. July 4, in tow.—Wai-iti, barque, 659 tons. Cotton, from Eaipara. A. H. Turnbull and Co. agents. ' , July 4, 2.30 p.m.—Mararoa, s.s., 13S1 tons, Manning, from Wellington. Union Steamtihip. Company agents. Passengers—Misses Gates and M’Lein, Nurse Todd, Mesdames Stone, ilair, Morooro, Layman, Bed, Belcher, and'Wiokes; Rev Fathers Marnane, Ahem©, Eegnault and Tubman, Messrs Sotham (2), Day, Young, Smith, Dacro, Roope, George, Donaldson, Smith, Beck, Belcher, Cathro, Will M’Millan, Hamilton, Dalaioll, Hecksher, Hume, Steven, Lane, Petne, Hyde, Taylor, Lawry, King, Marshall and Harris, end thirty-one steerage. SAILED. July 4, 1.23 a.m.—Storm, s.s., -136 tons, Woods, for Dunedin, Timaru and Wanganui. A. H. Turnbull and Co. agents. July 4, 2.30 p m.—from Head®, Wamm, a.s., 411 tons, Evans,- for. Wellington. Union Steamship Company agentstJuly 4, 7.30 a.m.—Wootton, 8.8.; 90 tons, Teatherston, for Kalapoi. Pitcaithly and Col agents. ' ' „„ , July 4, 4.50 p.m.—Brisbane, s.s., 716 tons, Graham, for Eaipara. Pitcaithly and Cc. agents July 4, 6.35 p.m.—Mararoa, b.*. 1381 tone, Manning, for Wellington. Union Steams-uip Company agents. Passengers—Misses LUley, Staples, Cook, Hart, Grant, Penny, Phillips, Strong, Swain, Willis, Pike, Meadames Jones (9), Broadly. Staples, Montgomery, Lorimer, Williams, M’Neil, Paterson, Stewart, Fletcher, Dallas, Wigley, Vaughan, Dunvill, Roberts, Sev Latter, Judge Williams, Judge Chapman, Rev H.- L., BJamires, Dx Morris, Rev X Dawson, Rev Father -M’Mannas, Messrs Haggdtt, Jones, Whitman, Richardson, Neale, Wigley, Webster, Wilkes, Broadly, Barber, Chapman, Milne, Rosenham, Whitman, Paterson, Robson, Gilbert, Hadfie-d, Duncan, Taylor, irßefl. Stonyer,: Overton, Spearsley, Litchfield, MOlaiohie, M'Kinley. Montgomery, Wilson, Petrie, Swain, Gardner, Skelton, Harrison (2). Vaughan, Dun villi Roberts and Masters Roberts and Lester. July 4, 6.55 p.m.—Mamari, s.s., 4280 tons, Moffati,' for Wellington. Dalgety and Co. ***UNIOiN STEAMSHIP COMPANY’S FLEET.

FRlDAY.—Rotomahana \ arrives from Wellington, and leaves on return trip. Warrirnoo arrives from Melbourne, via southern ports, and leaves for Sydney, via 'Wellington. Tnieri arrives from Greymouth; via Wellington.

The M. Taieri with the balance of her cargo of ooal will arrive from Greymoiith via !V7«ilinjrton tibia morning. The Huddart Barker Company"* M.,.Wimjnera, from Sydney via ."Wellington, is due in LytteJton early this maraingv and will - leave in the afternoon for DTinedin, Bluff, Hobut and Mielbourne. The schooner Eliza Firth, i9hiah loft Lyt.teMoß on Wednesday .vigm, was passed by the Mararoa yesterday morning, having fot away from the headsj and apparently nuwed the fog that delayed ehippwg later in tho moraingi The barque Dunblanei, which ia at present discharging , salt at Lyttelton has undergone her change of nam*, and the signwriter has ■ubslituted " Joseph . Oraiir " on the stern «nd bowe. C*pt£in Walker is relinquishing command, and will retire from the sea. Tbe last of the damaged wiheiat has been discharged from the 'hip Gienlui at Fort Chalmers. The vessel wiill 1 be dooked l fox lighting in about a fortnight, after which ii» balance of the undamaged cargo now in store will be restowed. The vessel is expected to be ready to resume her voyage early next month. ■ ■• ■ ' ' 5 The' New Zealand Shipping Company's stealer Tongariro, due at Wellington from London, Cape Town and, Hobart today, is to come oh to Lyttelton to eoneplete her discharge. She will then load at the following ports in the order named: 'Bluff, Timaru, Napier, Lyttelton and "Wellington. She is due- baok at Wellington on J»ly 29, and will sail for London on August 1. The steamer MJeinham, recently launched at Jarrow for the Compagnie des Mes'sageriea Maritime*, is the first cargo boat ordered by that oompamy to be built in o> foreign yard. By doing, this, the company (which has a building' yard of its own at La Ciotat) eacriloes the French, building.bounty of 13S francs per ton. Other Flinch companies are a'.so taving steamers built in England, the greater ooat of building in France not being compensated for by the budding premium. The cargo steamer St Oswald (Captain Bennett) arrived at "Wellington from Caloutta, Rangoon and Newcastle on Tuesday morning an her way to the west coast of South America. Captain Bennett reported having experienced heavy weather fox the first two. days after leaving Newcastle, thence moderkt* ■weather to arrival. The vessel is loaded with rice and gunnies. She took in 800 tons of bunker coal at Wellington under Messrs John Mill and Co.,' and resumed her voyage yesterday. "What is reported to be * "-"business" cruise aswmg! the Pacific Islands is being undertaken by • party comprising about twenty gentlemen, an the Howard Smith steamer Tynan, whioh. l*ft Sydney a week ago. The expedition, which ha* been arranged by the Pacific Phosphates Oompisny, will, it is expected, last for two or three monthst Ocean Island and other spots wher phosphates are found being "visited," There is some 'talk also about an intended call being> made at still another island, whioh has not yet been exploited for this product of marine birds., but nothing definite hat transpired in this connection, within the past few years, the islands,have been exten<siv*:y operated on for supplies of phosphates, large quantities of which are brought to the colonies at fairly short' intervals. The work of placing in position the ferroconcrete piles for tie "sheeting" of the new wharf facing Kitchener Street (says the "Ot»go Daily Times") is now being undertaken. The' piles .will be continued for the full distant* of 600 ft authorised by the board. "When completed this wall .afford good berthage for small trading vessel's, and it is not intended, in the meantime at all events, to erect the wharf proper. With the pkoing of the "shetitingv" however, an important step in its construction will have been taken, aoid in * few year's* time' no'doubt, when the snapping has sufficiently -increased' to warrant it, '■£ d*ep-»ea berth' will be diedged and the work finished. ■ ' ■•-■'■ ~ , Yesterday afternoon. » further attempt was made' to raise the hulk Blackwall, which was somewhat knocked about by the recent heavy weather. Steam was obtained' from the s.s. Purau and Mullogh. and also from the boiler rigged forward, and full speed was kept up on all of tho four centrifugal pumps.. The. effort was commenced about four o'clock, on an ebb-tide, and the water was lowered a couple of feet, but, with the increasing pressure outside, as the water dropped, the pumrjs began to lose their headway, and as the tide turned coxild hardly hold their own against the inrush of water thai followed at •/number of undetected' leaks. Pumping was therefore discontinued. The growing American practice of perforating sails in order to increase the speed of a sailing vessel ia interesting. The idea ie that in a square-rigged ship the wind escaping through the holes of the sails from one yard strikes the sails on the yard of the next mast forward, but even in fore-and-aft sails the holes have proved an advantage in making the oanvas draw better. Some captains provide little sand-bags, which can bo pulled through the perforations in. the sails, when it ie deemed an advantage to close the holes, but this is rarely done. The British four-masted barque Port Jackson has logged 345 knote in 24 hours with perforated sails. Even the big coastwise schooners in the American trade are beginning to tho idea.

Under ihe- heading "A Shipping Opportunity," the "New Zealand Times" returns an a recent issue -to its advocacy of a diversion of the trade of Kawhia from Auckland to Wellington. The present moment, it says, is singularly opportune for a Wellington shipping firm to make a beginning, and liberal support will be forthcoming. It is anticipated that the Wollington-Kawhia steamer connection is only a matter of time, and tho residents are hopeful of an early settlement of their wishes. In this connection it •will be remembered that a meeting of the Shipowners' Federation, at Auckland, on Friday passed a motion expressing indignation at tho suggestion, and pledged itsolf to assist in defeating tho motion. The birtiue W*u4ti, which was overturned &t Manukau at the end of January, and lay there v for several months, being eventually 'righted after her. masts had been taken out, ■was towed into liyvtelton harbour about mid-d»v yesterday by the Union Company's B.si Wainui. ': The two vessels were - to have T«.ft Kmr^ra:, on Sunday, but owing- to the

Monday, and got away between two and three o'o.ock in the afternoon. Fairly good weather and smooth water were experienced all the way down, until rmdndgit on Wednesday, when the weather became thick with a heavy fog. They would have reached port by daylight, but were delayed by fog until about one o'clock, when they were signalled from the Heads. The Harbour Board tug went out, and about two o'clock took the barque in tow near Damp Bay, and brought her elowly inside, the fog having lifted about half-past two o'clock. The Wainui did not come up the harbour, but turned at the Heads shortly after two o'clock and steamed back to Wellington. The Waiiti wa9 berthed at the Gladstone Pier. She is rigged with three short niastsi, and lcolc3 sadly different from her bright appearance on her last visit to Lytteiton early in January, bearing eloquent signs of her long immersion in the mud ut Manukau. She ■brought a cargo of about 400,000 ft of timber which she will discharge here. She will be refitted at Lytteiton by Mr M. J. Miller, ■and the work will occupy two or three months. Nearly everything, it is understood, will be renewed, and the vessel will resume her old run*. Captain Cotton, who is very well known in New Zealand waters, is in command, and Mr Barr is still mate. TELEGRAPH NOTICE BOARD. LYTTELTON, July 4. Sailed, 3.30 p.m., Wainui, for Wellington; 4.50 p.m., Brisbane, for Naumai; 6.30 p.m., Mararca, for Wellington; 7 p.m., Mamari, for Wellington. WELLINGTON, July 4. Sailed, 1.10 p.m., Rimutaka, for London; 8 p.m., Taieri, for Lytteiton; 8 p.m., Wirhmera, for Lytteiton; 8 p.m., Rotomahana, for Lytteiton. PORT CHALMERS, July 4. Sailed, 4.30 p.m., Warrimoo, for Lytteiton. AUCKLAND, July 4. Arrived, 4.30 p.m., H.M.S. Prometheus, from Wellington*

SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. AUCKLAND, July 4. The steamer Kildaxe has arrived from Valparaiso, for docking and coaling, e<n route to Newcastle. Arrived—Mara, from Valparaiso. The Talune arrived from Gisborne at 1 p.nv., after a dirty trip, which delayed her. H.M.S. Prometheus arrived from Wellington this afternoon. GISBORNE, July 4. The Victoria arrived at nine o'olook this morning, after a rougih passage of forty-one hours from Auckland. The weather was thick and dirty, and heavy seas were encountered in the Bay of Plenty. At noon yesterday the Victoria reached the vicinity of Cape Runaway-and sheltered there for six hours. WELLINGTON Juno 4. The Rimutaka, which sails for' London to-day, will take the following passengers: From Wellington—Mesdames Fairholme and Watts, and Mr F. C. Fairholme; from Napier —Misses Oxford, Nurse and Renouf, Mesdames Nelaon and Pickard. Hawkins, Messrs Packard Hawkins and Kettle,- Masters Nelson (S), Hawkins and Pickard. From Auckland— Misses K, Tyler and C. Eyden, Mrs E. A. Tyler; from Christchuroh—Mr and Mrs and Master Dowell, Mr Hanm-ex; from Dunedini— Miss M. and Mrs J. A. Lande-Js. Sailed—Wimnaera. 7 p.m.; for Lytteiton, Dnnedin, Bluff, Hobart and Melbourne; passengers: For Lytteiton—Miss Francis, Mesdames Gosling, R. Francis, and C. Francis, Messrs Fyfe and Gosling; for Dunedin— Miss Hansen, Mrs Spence and child, Rev Spence; for Melbourne—Miss Scott, Messrs Laws, A. H. LaiTd, H. Kemp, A. Davis arid W. F. Foster. Rotomahana, 8 p.m., for Lytteiton; passengers—Misses James, Linfield, Hill and Charlewood, Mesdames Deans, Brown andl Powell, Hon W. Hall-Jones, Messrs Davis, Ryan, Scott, Parker, Murdoch, Douglas, Evans, M'Glue, Dunning, Fullerton, Glover and Bishop. DUNEDIN, July 4. Arriyeed—Pateena, from the Bluff. Hinemoß, from Wellington. Tarawera, from Auckland, via east coast. Sailed—Warrimoo, for Sydney via Wellington; passengers for Lytteiton—Miss Sheppard, Messrs Passmore and Nash. AUSTRALIAN SHIPPING. NEWCASTLE, July 4. Sailed—Whangapei, for the Bluff.

d. h. m. Last quart*! . . 8 a i a.m. New moon . . . 11 2 11 a.m. First quarter . . ia 0 42 a.m. Full moon . . . 25 i 0 a.m.