SHIPPING NEWS

North Otago Times, Volume CVI, Issue 13975, 10 September 1917, Page 3

SHIPPING NEWS

HIGH WATER AT OAMABtJ, Today 9.44 a.m. 30.18 pirn. To morrow .. . 10.51 a.m. 11.24 p.m.

SUNBIBE AND BUI.SET, ; ■;■ •■ .■.."•'Kise.v ; ■.■', Sot. To-day ..,..'./ (1.20 a.m.- r>,s2;p.ni) To-morrow .. . 6.18 'a'.m, 5.53 p.m. < PHASES OF THE MOOK. Now moon—September 16th, 9.57 p.m. First Quarter.—September 24th, 5,11 ■ " PinPull Moon—October Ist, 8.1 a.m. Last Quarter-October Bth, 9%i a.m.

ARRIVALS, ' September 8, Koromiko, s.s,, 2479 tons (Baldwin), from Lyttclton, t ■■' Putiki, s.s., 422 tonj) (Robertson), from Duuedin, —/ '. DEPARTURES. September 8. Putiki, s,s., 422 tons (Robertson), for Wanganiii, ' , NOTES. The Koromiko arrived from Westport at '8 a.m, on Saturday with GOO tons of coal. . After discharging she will load, for Auckland, Napier, and Gisborne. She is'expected to sail'touight. The Putiki arrived from Dunedin at 8 a.m. on Saturday, and after loading 200 tons of produce for Wellington and .Wanganiii left at four o'clock in the afternoon for Wanganiii. The Iluia is at present loading timber at Greymouth for Oamaru, and is expected at this port about the 14th inst. She will load produce from here for Auckland,

The scheme for connecting up the three maiu wharves in Auckland by railway (says the Star) will be completed .shortly, now that the work has been commenced oil the new Central wharf, The laying of rails, etc, will take about three weeks, and at the end of that time the Harbour Board's elaborate arrangements for cargo hand-. lino- will be practically completed on the new wharf. The Central wharf has already been used extensively by both coastal and overseas shipping. The Marine Department has been notified by the Kawhia Harbour authorities that the Kawhia bar has shifted to the south,.and 1 the.channel is now nearly the same as it occupied' prior to May, 1910. The leading-beacons \vliifh were erected in July 190S, have been established 'and painted white, viz., the front beacon on the" rock off South Head and t-ho back beacon on the western extreme of Te Motu Island. These beacons in line bear 121|deg. (S. 74deg. E. magnetic), -and lead over the bar in 17ft M.L.W.S. The width of the channel is about U cables. The beacon ou'tlic snndbank to seaward ofj Te Motu Island has been painted brown, and is not to be used. When about two cables inside the bar, vessels must haul ono and n-quarter points to the eastward, and continue on this course till outer point of South Head' (Urawitiki Point) is abeam, then steer through the contre of channel between the Heads.

An interesting sight was witnessed at tho Wellington patent slip, Kilbirnie, on Thursday when tho big refloated barque wnß re-launched. The vessel has undergone extensive repairs necessitated by her grounding near the Wellington Heads some weeks ago. When Hie slip eraille holding the vessel was lowered till the barque's bows were about level with tho roadway, the (•radio was allowed to run free, in order to give the vessel a good, rapid roturn to the; water, so that she was carried well out into deep water,

FERRY SERVICE. The following vessels leave Lyttelton for Wellington on the arrival of trains from Ohristehurch as under:— Today—Marnroa, at 5.20 p.m. To-morrow—Maori, fit 0.55 p.m.