SHIPPING NEWS

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1745, 16 August 1905, Page 51

SHIPPING NEWS

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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9. » Mokoia, s.e. (11.10 a.m.). 2154 tons, Sforrisby, from Sydney. Passengers—Saloon: Misses Anderson, Merbach. Rose, Robson, Royelle, Mesdames Patterson, Findlay, Johnston, Murray, English, Dixon and child, Pointon, Watson, Dr Findlay, Captain Jackson Barry, Rev McGrath, Messrs Patterson, Bellingham, Kellow. Brown, Kerr. Shallcrass, Taylor., Cowan, Walker, Price, Davies, Lev neohn, Shelton, Johnston, Martindale. Williams. McNeil, Murray, Matthews, Pointon (2), Shaw, Watson, Lee. Adams. Allshorn, Pearce, Freyrouse, Norman. Howes, Jover. Chew Chong, Master Reid; 55 steerage. THURSDAY, AUGUST 10. Takapuna, s.s. (3 a.m.). 369 tons, G. Holford, from Onehunga and New Plymouth. Passengers—Saloon: Misses Edlr. McNeill, Simmelhag, Mesdames Ellis, McGuinness, Watson, Messrs Stephens, Hall, Ellis, Cox, McLean, Raleigh < Morrow, Hanna. Watson; 2 steerage. Pateena s.s. (5 a.m.), 550 tons, Collins, and Kennedy, from Nelson and P cton. Passengers—Saloon : Misses Hargreaves, Cottier, Green, Hawkesworth, Mu ■■ley Roberts, Waters, Murray, Mesdames Tuely, Franklyn, Harris, Oliver, Shaw, Talbot and bov, Cain, Logan, Coward, and 4 children Sowman (2), Cox, Keating, Messrs McAdams. Murray, Duncan, Adams, Tuely, Parker, Liebent, Leadford, Truby, Jeffries, Green, Franklyn. Dolberg. Berg, Paton, Wilson, Sowman. Cross. Thomas, Coppin, Talbot, Henry, Brewer, Headmore, B.vrne. Cain, Love. Spence, Oben, Price, Loughnan, Ba ilie. Walsh. Westley, Coward, Reid, Nelson, Bonsai. Cradick, Walsh, Clouston, Maher (2), Scott, Short, Black, Keating, Clark; 12 steerage. Zealandia, s.s. (7.15 a.m.), 1736 tons. Entwisle, from Dunedin and Lyttelton. Passengers—Saloon: Misses Summered O'Meara, Maginnity, Bromley, Brown, Hill. Gr'eve, Watt, Messrs J as. Mills, Corliss, Orr. Boyes, Oakden, Candy. Dig by, Dijberly, Maginnity, Barber, Bromlev, Arnott, Drayton, Darling, Grant. Welch, Hall, Boyle, Holmes, Milne,; Simmonds, Ward. Kaye, Morris, Beatth Clime, Hislop* Grant, Waters, Hayward: 40 steerage. FRIDAY, AUGUST 11. Rotomahana, s.s. (6.20 a.m.), 864 tons, Manning, from Lyttelton. Passengers — Saloon: Misses Grater, Gibbs. Reeves, Malthus, Steele, Richardson, \Lawrence, Mesdames Paterson, Gibbs, Page, Gilling and two children, Wilson, Reeve®, Jamieson and child, Hooper, Greenwood, Chryne, Sir Joseph Ward, Messrs Aiken, Buchanan, Martin, Dawkins, Dunlop, Higgie, Wilson, . Warren, Lauren&on, Munro, Bain, Johnston. Tennent, Page, Blair, Ross, De Mon talk, Grabliam, Rounthwaite, Moore, Gilling. Aenyue, Pattu’lo, Brooks, Jones, Jamieson, Maher, Wickes, Gill, Laurenson, Wilkinson, Bewlev, Lawrence, Touthwaite; 14 steerage. *' x lonic, s.s. (7 a.m.), 7823 tons, Carter, from Lyttelton. Mararoa, s.s. (10.5 a.m.), 1331 tons, Smith, from Sydney, Auckland, Gisborne, and Napier. Passengers—Saloon : Misses Culpan, Griffin, Sheedy, McGillivray, Mrs Clare, Messrs Connelly, Smith, Riley, Parish, Davenport, Wilkins, Fabian; 13 «teerage. Star of Australia, s.s. (10.50 a.m.), 4668 cons, Ulyatt, from London, via Australian ports, Auckland, and Napier. SATURDAY, AUGUST 12. Rotoiti, s.s. (2.45 a.m.), 629 tons. James, from Onehunga and New Plymouth. Passengers Saloon: Messrs Herdman Smith, Butler, O’Leary; 3 steerage. Pateena, s.s. (6 a.m.), 550 tons, Kennedy and Collins, from Nelson and Picton. Passengers—Saloon-: Mieses Martin, Gifford, Hubbard (2) Close, Mills. Mesdames Kirk, Jenkin, Martin, Bastard, Mowat, Revs Jenkin, Lyons, Messrs Egan, Bayley, Hunt, Bastard, Webb, Jameson, Skerrett, Milne, Marsh, Austin, Hill, Brown, Wimsett and child, Austin Hall, Kalker, Cable, Bostock, Whiteker, Newman, Hubbard, Meade, Swan, Kirkpatrick, Tait, Reed, Duncan, Watson, Mowat, Holcroft, Morgan, Badley. Broad, Fail-bairn, McLandress, Burnside, Seymour. Warnock, Jenkins. Jeffries, Wilson, Caillman, Watson; 16 steerage. Moeraki, s.s. (6.40 a..m), 2715 tons. Worrall, from Melbourne, Hobart, and South. Passengers Saloon:, Misses Blackie, Crossley, Smith, Lewis, Alexander Matheson, Hall (2), Cosgrove. Mesdames Little and three children, Drury, Hall. Lucena, Denholm, Hughes and three children, Low, Gibson, Pentacost, Keller, Kober, Reid, Gibson and child. Muti, Broad, dames, Kilgour, Carmichael, ITemeted, Rev Hales, Messrs Struthers, Tre r loar, Drury, McDonald, Fraser, Lochhead, Bmith, Kendall, Dick, Hales, Reid. Burley, Gilmour, Fea, Whinham. Stubbs, Gibson, Cohen, Naylor, Keller, Kober. Hellier, Lelievre, Fass, Mouat, Carter, Wilson, Scott, Gibbs, Young, Mills. Higginson, Holmes, Day, Bright, Hurling, Manning. Taylor, Birkenshaw, Anderson. Hoton, Glover, Neill, James, Jones, Clifford, Innes, Whatman, Scott, Crawford; 72 steerage. SUNDAY, AUGUST 13. Rotomahana, s.s. (8.50 a.m.), 864 tons, Manning, from Lyttelton. Passengers— Saloon : Misses Souper, Hawkings, Kent (2), W right, Mesdames Rainger, Grace. Neill, Lambert, Bayley, Kent, Colonel Hume,’ Messrs Rainger, Chipper, Clark, Murgatroyd, Adamson, Cotton, Herron, Heney, Jackson, Dateman, Nash Shelly Staker, Hewitt, Scott, Findlay, Barker, Kinzett, Ongley, Johnston, Hepburn, McMinn (2), Butler, Ne Nai, Whisker, Smith, Dilks, Dickie. Rodgers, Rainey, Deslandes, Seville, Kelly, Bayley, Owen, Kent, Mitchell, Barry, Lewis, Patterson, Carleton, Hollows, Edger Whating, Cairns, Shadholt, Birks, "Ward, Knight, Cathie; 9 steerage. 1 Mapourika, s.s. (4.40 a.m.), 717 tons, Clift, from West Coast and Nelson. Passengers—Saloon: Misses Martin, McCarthy, Barr, Lopes, Bock, McNamara, Tabuteau, Austin, Mesdames Hand, Keen, Phillips, Kirk, Baul and 2 children. Empson, Grant and 2 children, Sontgen, Bates and child, Dreur, Harley, Janson. Searle, Austin, Ducklev. Hunter, Levien, Fowler

and infant, Wood, Wilkins, Sergt. Cullen, Messrs Keen, Dye, Chum, Hayes, Coutts, Fox, Wells, Watkins, Phillips, Nelley (2), Jay, Richards Merritt, Reese, Taylor, Baul, Weber, Shepherd, Chalk, Newton, Empson, McCauley, Hawker, Hansbury, McQuilkin, Reakes, - Organ, Boxer Ferguson, Betts, Foster, O’Brien. Batt, Ibboteon, Glover, Easton, Levien, Jeffries, Wilkins, McKenzie, Harper, Batchelor; 14 steerage. Talnne, s.s. (1.30 p.m.), 1284 tons, Bernech, from Dunedin and Lyttelton. Passenger®—Saloon: Miss Beare, Mesdames Rolls, Lahmant, Waters, Levestan, Suckling, Me&srs Rolls, Brown, Munro, Smith, Paterson, Tosswell, Cowdery, Smith, Allen, Suckling, Greene, Suckling, Carroll, James, Nicholson; 14 steerage. SAILED. Pateena, s.s. (1.10 p.m.), 550 tons. Kennedy and Collins, for Picton and Nelson. Passengers —Saloon : For Picton — Messrs Elliott and Broad. For Nelson — Misses Porteous, Young. Dodd, Maginnity, Mesdames Harris Grimmett, Dodd, Messrs Kinniburgh, Maginnity, Parrot, Lucena, Kerr, Zealandia, s.s. (4.35 p.m.), 1738 tons, Entwisle, for Napier, Gisborne, Auckland, and Sydney. Passengers—SaJ-oon : For Napier—Miss Brodie, Messrs Williams and Shanks. For Gisborne —Mrs Drummond, Messrs Williamson. Morris, Pearce. For Auckland —Mesdames Smallbone and 2 children, Lewer, Messrs Bird. Smallbone, Pvrke; 5 steerage for all ports. Mokoia, s.s. (4.45 p.m.), 2154 tons, Morrisby, for Lyttelton, Dunedin, Bluff. Hobart, and Melbourne. Passengers Saloon: For Lyttelton Misses Joseph, Fitzgerald, Pitcairn, Beighton and child, McKegg, Sowman, Allan and child, McNair Summerhall. Mesdames Blakiston, Reid. Galbraith, Reid, Woolwright. Logan and eh Id Sowman, Allan and 2 children, Chapman, Messrs Burnip, McLean, Johnston, Burrup, Jaist, Walden, Reid, Murray, Henderson, Thomas, Craddock, Middleweek, Gaffney Hughes, McMullan, Beatty. Ross. Friedlander, Roach, Ingleton. Galbraith, Propistring, Maher (2), Fahy, Evans Jury, Weller, Butt el, Pritchard (2), Levy, Thompson, Lory, For Dunedin —Misses Cairns and Moorehouse, Mesdames Anderson and McDonald, Messrs Morgan, McDonald. Brown. Raleigh (2). Ngunguru, s.s. (7.10 p.m.), 54 tons, Stevens, for Blenheim. FRIDAY, AUGUST 11. Tomoana, s.s. (7.15 a.m.), 3905 tons, Gonby, for London. Takapuna, s.®. (5 p.m.), 369 tons, G. Holford, for New Plymouth and Onehunga. Passengers—Saloon : For Onehunga—Miss Henderson, Mesdames Crawford, Fox, Messrs Broderick, Page, Buchanan, Martin, Henderson. Mararoa, s.s. (4.25 p.m.), 1381 tons, Smith, for Lyttelton and Dunedin. Passengers—Saloon: For Lyttelton Misses Stainer, Dyer, Beate, Mesdames Stainer, Beate, Wool right, Bo wick, Hurst, Russell, Hart and child, Messrs McCallum, Bennett, Kilgour, Shaw, Hurst, Hall, McRae, McCaldman, Cooper, McKenzie, Propsting, Merson, Hurst, Russell, Bennett, Studholme, Oakden, Anderson, Donovan, Miles, Friedlander, Goombes, McKrright, Khouri, Hart. For Dunedin— Mesdames Lorimer, Hume and infant, Messrs Hume, Welslier, Quick. Rotomahana, s.e. (8.10 p.m.), 864 tons, Manning, for Lyttelton. Passengers—Saloon: Misses Dewsbury, Millar, Burgess, Bannister, Grant, Handyside, McDonald, Hall, Hooper, O’Callaghan, Eatcliffe, Mesdames Dewsbury, Dreaver, Speight, Kelly, Keating, Hudson, Hill, Ames, Russell, Hume and child, Beat son, Eva, Harrison, Barron, Quin, Hume, Russell. Captain Campbell, Messrs Craigie, Turner Hall, Bortbwick, Ross, Pitcaithly. \\ itty, M.H.R., Braitliwaite, Waterfield. Louis, Allan, M.H.R., Jameson, Williams, Graham, James, AVilson, Carroll, M.H.R., Keating, Hudson, Arnes, Gilmer, Russell, Hume, Lightband, Moore. Hay, Quin, Allan, Moore, Higgins, Cooper, Bennett, Knight, Hobbs, Dockerill. Ward, Walker, Edwards, Clark, McFarlane, Drayton, Hawkins, Von Haast, Littlebury, Beatson, Neagle, Hassell, Bannister, Patterson, Higgott, Bach, Harrison, Gordon, Williams, Wright, Martin, Isbester, Buchanan, Fraser, Patterson, Palliser, Kelly, Stevens, Martin. SATURDAY, AUGUST' 12.

Wainui, s.s. (12.19 p.m.), 411 tons, Baclcstrom, for Picton, Nelson, Westport and Greymouth. Passenger®— Saloon: For Picton —Misses Bird, Berryman, Messrs Boulton, Smith, Stevens, Clouston, Dawkins, Herd, Frailer, Diniant. For Nelson —Mieses Ellis and Highet, Messrs Fabian and Thompson, For Westport Miss Brown, Mrs Porter, Messrs White, Reynolds, Scott and McMaater. For Greymouth - Mies McNamara. Mesdames Thompson, Doig, Janie®, Messrs AVisdom, Burke, Watson, Myers and Thompson. Kaipara, s.&. (1 p.m.), 4880 tons, Kiddle, for London via Auckland. Moeraki s.e. (5.45 p.m.), 2715 tons, Worrall, for Sydney. Passengers Saloon: Misses Sanderson, McGregor, Stuart, Cress, Armstrong, Mesdames Sanderson, Manson, Smith, Armstrong, Meilelans and child, Sylvester and child, Messrs Sanderson, Maneon, Haughton, O’Leary, Boyd, Baker, Bell, Collie, Sylvester, Ainslie, Carpenter; 66 steerage. Pateena, s.e. (11 p.m.), 550 tons, Collins and Kennedy, for Lyttelton. Passengers —Saloon : Misses Scully, Haywood, Speedy, Day, Jorgenson, Watt, Skinner, Peppier, Mesdames Donnelly, Poole, Cudby, Armstrong, Ball, McLeod, Lowry, Captain Bingham, Messrs Appleyard, Beasely, Groom, Parsons (2), Wild, Lowry, Herrick, Palmer, Riddiford, Paterson, Cowan, Law, Stead, Jenkins, Brown, Cudby, Davis, Ross, McGuinness, Donnelly, Bunny, Adams, Guile, Ball, Miller, Trtaeman, Scott, Munro, Kinross White, Graham, Franks, Milne, Cotter, Watson,. Hardy, Nicoll, Gankrodger, Mead, AVard, Blair, Kensington, Grant, Goss, McCracken, Sutton, McKenzie, Mackay, Johnston, Nicholl®, Bliclc, Hile®, Watson Bolton, Luxford, McKay, Anderson, Loughnan, Hazlet, Peppier, Brown, Young, Pole, Storey, Gibb®, Armstrong, Ghee® cm an, Waller, Waters, Master Storey. SUNDAY, AUGUST 13.

Rotoiti, s.s. (6 p.m.), 629 tons* James,

for Nelson. Passengers—Saloon : Misses Lloyd Hassell, Atkinson, Hursthouse, Chaff ey, Mesdames McCarthy, Suckling, Messrs McCarthy, Burdekin, Ro&s, Gray, Stevens, Walton, Duncan, Willcocks, Field, Harvey, Lane, McNabb, Wilkinson, McMillan, Stickling; Hokitika football team (20).

The French bounty system helps many a French sailer to tramp backward and forwards looking for cargo when vessels of other nationalities are compelled to take their chances or lay-up. The French barque General de Sonis, which recently put into Hobart, has had quite an unique experience. Last April she arrived at Newcastle from San Francisco. Failing to- secure a charter she was sent to Capetown for orders, and meeting with no better luck she proceeded to Hobart for orders. She has carried no cargo for thirteen months, but the owners will get a bounty from the French Government calculated on the basis of mileage travelled. The cargo steamer Planet Venus, which arrived at Sydney recently from Moji, Japan, brought a cargo front England to Japan for the Japanese Government, which was valued at threequarters of a million sterling. The vessel had a very anxious time, as from the Red Sea onward the steamer was in the track of the Baltic Fleet. After reaching Colombo the captain thought he had left the Russians behind, hut on arrival at Singapore he heard that 47 vessels of the fleet had passed there the day before. One night he saw the reflection of the searchlights, but keeping well to the east he fortunately cleared the track of the warships. The Planet A 7 enus was being removed from Stockton to the inner basin at Sydney, assisted by a tug, and the large vessel being iii very light trim, drawing only 10ft, a heavy north-west squall which struck her carried her over to the. bank opposite the ferry wharfs. She eventually floated off the mud, and was taken to the north harbour. The Planet Venus loads sleepers for Calcutta, completing the cargo at Brisbane. The Hamburg-American troopship Syrian of 3500 tons, had a narrow escape from being sunk in a dens© fog in the English Channel on June 9. She was proceeding down Channel early on the morning of that day for the West Indies with about 200 naval men for one of the German stations, and was off the coast of Dover, when she was struck by another steamer, which proved to he the Rookwood, of London. The water poured into the troopship’s forehold on the port side, and she was towed into Dover, where she was patched, and afterwards proceeded to Tilbury docks for repairs. The announcement of the sinking of the British India Steam Navigation Company’s Ik bona, 5252 tons gross register, built in 1900, by the Russian cruiser Terek, caused great excitement and indignation, at Lloyd’s (says “Fairplay”). It was generally regarded as deeply humiliating that the first maritime Power in the world' should continue to put up with outrages on its mercantile marine by a Power whose navy has almost ceased to he. It was recognised, however, that the Russians were seeking to make a diversion with the ultimate object of saving their face—as regards Japan—by treating for peace after a general scrimmage. The Ikhona was uninsured. and was worth, when new (in 1900), about £100,000; her cargo of rice is said to he insured for £68,000. Mr Gerard Fiennes, writing in the “Fleet” on “The Strategical Use of Submarines,” says the invention of the submarine, like every other invention applicable to naval warfare, has placed an additional weapon in the hands of the Power which is strongest in battleships. Torpedo craft are part of the armament of a battleship as surely as her own guns. Similarly, torpedo craft attached to a fortified port are part of the armament of that fort. They may render it immune from attack by the shorter-ranging guns of an enemy from the sea; they cannot take the offensive any more than Oherburg can attack Rosy t-h. The question, therefore, resolves itself into the greater or less range of a certain weapon—of the distance at which a blockading or observing squadron can. safely lie from it© objective. Here we must use some precision of language. Except when aching in cooperation with a besieging land force a squadron never blockades a port; it blockades the enemy’s squadron within that port, or, rather, observes it; for the object of every Admiral sufficiently strong to blockade must obviously be to induce his enemy to come out and fight. This being so, it is obvious that the Admiral will establish himself at “a certain place,” unknown to the defenders, and as nearly as possible out of range of their weapons—including the torpedo craft. He will obtain information and be himself screened from observation by his own light craft. What chance has a creature s© blind and so slow as a submarine of finding him, or of hitting him if found ? On the other hand, he knows precisely the position of his enemy’s fleet, which is his objective. He can choose his range; for fcy pressing his inshore squadrons of destroyers and light cruisers in closer: by coming out himself, and ploying “long bowls” with its forts, at very little risk to himself, he can force the enemys’ vedettes .until he can start his submarines on their desperate venture with a clear run and at point-blank range. What, then, ;-s their mission? To do to the enemy, lying secure inside their fortified harbour.

what Togo’s destroyers did to- the careless Russians in the outer roadstead of Port Arthur on February. 9 last year. It will be a desperate service; the submarines will run the gauntlet of the mine fields first, then to pass through the boom defence, and to come to the surface to take bearings in a very maelstrom of the enemy’s shot and shell. At any rate, once inside the some of the enemy’s fleet must die “as a fool dieth,” or the whole must make for the open sea to give battle to their waiting enemies. The tendency of the submarine undoubtedly is to make it impossible for a fleet to remain at anchor in a fortified harbour, and to compel it to seek battle.