SHIPPING NEWS.

North Otago Times, Volume CV, Issue 13856, 17 April 1917, Page 2

SHIPPING NEWS.

HIGH WATER AT OAMARU. To-day .. .. 10.50 a.m.''\ 11.24 p.m. To-morrow .. 11.55 a.m. '— SUNRISE AND SUNSET. Rise, Set, To-day .. .. (1,41 a.m. 5.39 p.m. Tomorrow .. 6.42 a.m. 5.37 p.m. PHASES Or THE MOON. New Moon—April 22nd, 1.21 a.m. First Quarter-April 29th, 4.52 p.m. FullMoon-May 7th, 2.13 p.m. Last Quarter—May 14th, 1.18 p.m. ARRIVALS. April 17. Corinna, s.s., 1271 tons (Elders), from Dunedin. NOTES. The Corinna-ftrri'-nd about midnipht Inst, night, bringing transhipments, including 415 bales of gunnies and three I tons of electric light fittings, from Tumbull and Jones, Dunedin, for the [Borough Council, After loading 200 I tons of merchandise for Nelson and New .Plymouth, she was expected to sail for the north, via Timaru, about six o'clock this morning,

The dates of arrival of the Karamu from Auckland, and the Karori from Westporf, are uncertain, on account of the coal strike.

The contract for erecting at Gisborne tho new leading light near the abattoirs has been let to the Steel Construction Company of Auckland, This work is being undertaken by the Gisborne Harbour Board to provide for a highe towcrr to the back leading light which direct? the entrance to the harbour. The tower will be made in Auckland, but the lighting apparatus has been in Gisborne for some time,

! '.The Sydney Marine Underwrites and Salvage Association received last week the following cablegram from London: "Rates to Africa, ludia, and Burmaharc now quoted at 3 per cent. N heretofore. For the Far East Pacific, Straits, and Java the rates have been' reduced from 3 to 2 per cent. Fof Fiji, New Caledonia, the quote is 1 per cent., as against H per cent., and sailers, South Africa, have dropped from 10 per cent, to 6 per cent,.'' Note-India includes Colombo; Pacific includes America and Canada; Straits includes Penang and Singapore.

It has bceu suggested that, in the ovent of shipwreck, whore this occurs -too far from shore to be reached with a lino throwing gun, or when the sea ' is 100 rough for n lifeboat to go to the rescue, that a lifeline should be carried to the wreck by means of an aeroplane;,, and, in view of the fact that aeroplanes at the front have been compelled to reconnoitre in very bad weather, this .nurjrsfiun does not seem too farfetched. The aeroplane would also be useful in detecting derelicts, the United States' Government is so im-. pressed with the possibilities of the aeroplane in the. work mentioned that , Congress has been asked to provide aviation stations' and equipment for the coastgard, and to man these officers are now being trained. The United States experts think that, apart from life-saving, tho aviatiori facilities,provided for the coastguard would be a valuable supplement to naval aviation cquipemeilt in the case of war, FERRY SERVICE. / The following vessels leave Lyttelton for Wellington on the arrival of trains f rom as undor:— To day-Maori. 7,23 p.m. v To morrow—Mararoa, 7.23 p.m. SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. . PORT CHALMERS, April 16, Sailed—Corinna, at 7 , p.m., for Oamriru, '\ ,