SHIPPING NEWS

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10541, 18 March 1920, Page 2

SHIPPING NEWS

PHASES OF THE MOOft. MARCH.

THIS DAT. Sun rises, 5.50 a.m.; sets, 6.8 p.m. Moon rises, 3.10 a.m.; sets, 4.50 p.m. High water, 1.59. a.m.; 2.20 p.m. ARRIVED. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17. KAITOA, s.s. (4.45 a.m.), 305 tons, Wildman, from Nelson. (No. 10, Queens wharf ) ' OP AAV A, s.s. (4.55 a.m.), 110 tons, Nicholas, from Picton. (No. 11, north. Queen's wharf.) WAIMBA, s.s. (7.5 a.m.), 404 tons, Graham, from Picton. (No. 14, north, Queen's wharf.) ~„„>. WAHINE, s-s. (7.30 a.m.), 4435 tons, Edwin, from Lyttelton. (Ferry berth.) PATEENA, s.s. (8.35 a.m.), 1212 tons, Cameron, from Nelson and Picton. (No. 12. Oueen's wharf.) KOUTUNUI, s.s. (5.25 p.m.), 171 tons, Beaton, from Napior, via coast. (No. 1, centre. Queen's wharf.) WAIMBA, s.s. (11.30 p.m.), 454 tons, Graham, for Westport and Greyruouth. OPAWA, s.s. (midnight), 110 tons, Nicholas, for Picton. SAC LED. \ WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17. HUIA, s.s. (11.20 a.m.), 127 tons, Muir, for New Plymouth. ' PATEENA, s.s. (1.45 p.m.), , 1212 tons, Cameron, for Picton and Nelson. KAITOA, s.s. (5 p.m.), 305 tons, Wildman, for Nekon. - INVERCARGILL, s.s. (5.10 p.m.), 224 tons, Wilkinson, for Waogamui. STELLA, s.s. (6.25 p.m.), 269 tons, McBride, for Dunedin. ~„.. WAHINE, s.s. (7 50 p-m.), 44361 tons, Edwin, for'Lyttelton. CORINNA, s.s. (10.55 p.m.), 12<1 tons. Elders, for Dunedin, Oamaru, and Timaru. , , NGATORO. s.s. (10.55 p.m.), 1137 tons, Dowell, for Lyttelton and Chatham Is> lands. . _„„ , ROSAMOND, s.s. (11.5 p.m.), (21, tons, Bullock, for Picton. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. John, Ly.ttelton, to-day Mararoa, Lyttelton, to-day Nikau, Nelson, to-day Pateena, Nelson, Picton, to-day Wairau, Picton, to-day Kennedy, 'Foxton, to-day Wootton.Lyttelton, to-night Kokiri, Westport, to-day Blenheim, Havelock, to-day Hawera, Tarakohe, to-day Kapuni, Patea, to-day Nuddea, New York, Auckland, Friday Rosamond, Picton, Friday Wahine, Lyttelton, Friday Kaitoa, Nelson," Friday Paeroa, Hokitika, Friday Moeraki, Lyttelton, Friday Karaniu, Gisborne, Friday. Opawa. Pioton, Friday Wakatu, Lyttolton, Kaikoura, Saturday Kapiti, Wanganui, Saturday Wavorley, Patea, Saturday . Huia, New Plymouth, Wanganui, Satui. dav Armagh, Lyttolton, Saturday InvercargiH, Wanganui, Saturday Wakatu, Lyttelton, Kaikoura, Saturday Ripple. Gisborne, Sunday Kurow, Newcastle, Monday Monowai, Auckland, Napier, Tuesday Calm, Lyttelton, Wednesday PROJECTED DEPARTURE*. Waverley, Patea, to-day Kapiti, Wanganui, to-day, 4 p.m. Hawera, Tarakohe, Patea to-day Ngahere, Greymouth, to-day, noon Hinemoa, southern lighthouses, to-day Mararoa, Lyttelton. to-day, 7.45 p.m. Nikau, NeUon, tc-day, £ p.m. Wairau, Picton, to-day, 5 p.m. Kennedy, Foxton, to-day, 4 D.m. Kapuni, Patea to-day, 4 p.m. Wahine, Lyttelton, Friday Kaitoa, Nelson, Friday Pateena, Picton, Nelson, Friday 'Moeraki, i Sydney, Hobart. Friday Karamu, Westport, Friday John, Nydia Bay, Friday Rosamond, Greymouth, Friday Opawa, Blenheim, Friday Megantic, Liverpool, via Panama and New York, Friday KoutuHui, Napier, Friday Karu, Lyttelton, Friday Blenheim, Tory Channel, Friday Wootton, Lyttelton, Saturday Orari, Lyttelton, Saturday Nuddea, Sydney, Monday Paeroa, Hokitika, Monday InvercargiH, Wanganui, Monday Wakatu, Kaikoura, T,yttelton, Monday. Ripple, Akitio, Napier, Gisborne, Tuesday Monowai, Lyttelton, Dunedin, Tuesday . Armagh, Boston, New York, Wednesday TELEGRAPHED MOVEMENTS. SYDNEY, Tuesday—lhumata, from New Zealand: Manuka (midnight), from Wellington; Lindstol, barquentine, from Auckland NEWCASTLE, Tuesday—Kurow, for Wellington. Wednesday—Rakanoa, from Auckland; Laura, barque, from Auckland. Namoi for New Zealand; Rakanoa. for Auckland. AUCKLAND, Wednesday - Athenio (12.40 p.m.), from Whangarei; Makura (1.80 p.m.). from Vancouver via Honolulu and Suva. Nuddoa (6.30 a.m.) for Wellington. ONEHTJNGA, Wednesday -- Rarawn (13.45 a.m.). from New Plymouth. PATEA, Wednesday Kapuni (/7.10 a.m.). from Wellington. WANGANUI, Wednesday-Calm (7.15 a.m.). from Wellington. FOXTON, Wednesday—Kennedy (8.35 a.m.). from Wanganui. PICTON. Wednesday—Wairau (B a.m.), and Pateena (6 p.m.). from Wellington. Wairau (7.30 n.m.). for Wellington. TARAKOHE. Wednesday—Hawera (6 a.m.). from Wellington NELSON. Wednesday—Nikau (6 a.m.), from Wellimrton; Alexander (7.30 a.m.). from Greymouth. Nikau (7 p.m.), lor Wellington. HAVELOCK. Tuesday Blenheim. (6 p.m.). from Wellington. Wednesday— Blenheim (6.30 a.m.). for Wellington. WHSTPORT. Wednesday Regulus (11.20 a.m.) and Eileen Ward (2.20 p.m.), from Wellington. Kokiri (6.35 a.m.), for Wellinorron. GREYMOUTH". Wednesday Glatucus (7.50 a.m.). for Newcastle. LYTTELTON. Wednesday Orepuki (2A I ) a.m.). from Greymouth; Moeraki C 8.20 a.m.). Mararoa (9.45 a.m.), and Matatua (12.45 n.m.). and Wootton (9 p.m.). for Wellington; Canopus f<r Westnort. «,,.,. BLUFF, Wednesday Westralia (G p.m.), for Melbourne Mr P. B. Low has joined the Pateena as assistant purser. Captain Stewart has been appojnted master of the barque Rothesay Bay. Mr O. C. Miller has signed on tho Ngahere's articles as third engineer. Mr P. Neville has joined the Ngatoro as second engineer vice Mr B. M. MoMnrran. The coastal steamer Wootton. duo at Wellington to-night from Lyttelton, is to sail on the return trip at noon on Saturday. Tho Koutunui, which arrived at Wellington lost evening from Napier via coast, U .to sail to-morrow for Napier. Tho Stella, jifter her disclinrg-e nt Dunedin. will mnko n trio from thnt port 1 ta tho Campbell Islands and back.

The Opawa, which is due back at Wellington to-morrow from Picton, will be dispatched for Blenheim in the evening. The Hawera, due at Wellington today from Tarakohe, will be dispatched this evoning for Tarakohe to load cement for Patea.

The costal steamer Huia left Wellington at 11 a.m. yesterday for New Flymouth and AVanganui. The vessel is due back hero on Saturday morning. Tho Karamu loft 'Gisborne yesterday for Wellington, where she is due tomorrow in order to change her articles. The vessel is expected_ to get away tomorrow evening for Westport. The Rosamond, which is due back at Wellington to-morrow with a load of chaff from Picton, is to sail to-morrow evening for Greymouth. The Kokiri left Westport at 6.30 a.m. yesterday with a full load of coal for Wellington, where she is due this morning. Tho Monowai, due at -Wellington on Tuesday from Auckland and Napier,' is to sail'in the evening for Lyttelton and Dunedin.

The Canterbury Company's steamer Calm, duo at Wellington Ticxt Wednesday from Lyttelton, will sail on the following day for Wmnganui. The vessel will return from Wanganuil to Wellington to load for south. The Hinenioa is to get away from Wellington at 11.45 a.m. to-day for Lyttelton, on her round trip to the South Island' lighthouses. The Blackball Company's collier Ngakuta is to leave Greymouth to-day with a load of timber for Sydney. The Shaw, Savill and Albion liner Athenie left Whangarei at 6 a.m. yesterday for Auckland to continue Homeward loading. The coastal steamer Paeroa is duo at Wellington to-morrow from) Hokitika. Bannatyne and Co. advise that tho vessel is to sail next Monday for Hokitika. The Armagh is due at Wellington next Saturday or Sunday from Lyttelton and will sail on Wednesday for Boston and New York. TO-DAY'S BERTHAGE. Queen's wharf—Koutunui, No. 1; Alvena, No. 3; Ngahere, No. 4; Kapiti, No. 7; Kapuni, No. 7; Waitangi, No. 0; Nikau, No. 10; Wairau, No. 11; Kennedy, No. 11; Wootton, No. 13; Waverley, No. 12; Nora Niven, No. 13; John, No. 11; Hawera, No. 11. Taranaki 'street wharf—Orari, Kokirl. Perry wharf—Mararoa, Hinemoa. Railway wharf—Waiknwa. King's wharf—Suffolk, Port Napier, Blenheim. Pioitea wharf—Karu. At the slip—Komata. * In the stream —Megantlo. WITHIN WIRELESS RANGE. The following' steamers should bo within range of the undermentioned wireless stations to-night:— Awanui.—Otira. Auckland—Nuddea, Atua, Athenie, YVaitomo, Otira. Wellington.—Pateena, » Mararoa, -Wahino. Moeraki. Awarua.—Westralia, Koromiko. Chathams. Northumberland, Port Caroline. - THE OTIRA. The Shaw, Savill and Albion liner Otira is expected to arrive at Auckland from Port Kembla to-day. The vessel will load at Auckland and Napier and Is to leave tho latter port on the 22nd inst. lor London via Panama. MOE'RAKI FOR SYDNEY. The Union Company advise that the departure of Iho Mooraki' from Wellington for Sydney and Hobart has been postponed till 3 p.m. to-morrow. The vessel will leave Lyttelton at 5 o'clock this evening for Wellington, where she is duo to-morrow morning. KUROW FROM NEWCASTLE. Tho "Union Company have received cable advice that the Kurow left Newcastle on Tuesday with a full load of coal for Wellington, ' where she .is due on Monday afternoon. On completion oi discharge tho vessel will proceed to Makatea Island to load phosphates for New Zealand. COAL FOB WELLINGTON. _ The Union Company's steamer Kurow left Newcastle on Tuesday with a full load of coal for Wellington, where she is due on Monday. The Kokiri sailed from AVestport at 6.30 o'clock yesterday morning with a load of coal for Wellington, where she is duo this morning. DUNEDIN BARQUE ANTIOPE. Cable advice has been received in Dunedin by the owners of the barque Antiope, which is delayed by the Rotterdam watersidcra' strike, that the strike is expected to bo declared off by tho end of the month. FROM MELBOURNE. A Press Association message'from Dunedin reports that the Kauri leaves G-ce-tong to-day with a full cargo of wheat for Dunedin and Tiinaru. The Paloona is to leave- Melbourne about March 25th for Bluff, Dunedin, Lyttelton and Wellington. NUDDEA ARRIVES TO-MORKOW. Tho A. and A, Line chartered steamer Nuddea, en route from New York, left Auckland at 6.30 a.m. yesterday for Wok lington, where she is duo to-morrow morning with part cargo to discharge. The vessel is to leave hero on Monday for Sydney. ' NEW ZEALAND SHIPPING CO. Tho New Zealand Shipping Company's liner Orari is to leave Wellington on Saturday for Lyttelton, Timaru, Melbourne find Sydney to complete discharge of her cargo from St. John. Tho Euahine, en route from Wellington to Southampton and London, left Kingston (Jamaica) on March 6th for Newport News, where she arrived on March 11th. The Opawa, en rouito from Liverpool to New Zealand ports, arrived at Newport News on' March 7th and resumed her voyage on March 9th. Tho Ofcaki, bound from- Liverpool to Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton, and Dunedin, arrived at Newport News on March 11th. Tho Whakatane, now discharging coal ait Auckland, is to leave that port on March 24th for Whakatane for Homeward loading. She will return to Auckland to fill up and sail for London via Panama. i " I A radio message received yesterday via the Chathams from Captain McKellar, of the Ruapehu, en route from Wellington to Southampton and London, etatod: "Fine and smooth since leaving. All well; 1680 miles off." HOUTO CHANGES OWNERS. A Press Association message from Dunedin reports that the auxiliary schooner Houto, well known an the coastal trade, has been purchased by Briscoe and Co. from the Iron and Steel Company of New Zealand, and will be employed in carrying tiles from Dunedin to tho company's northern branches. The Houto is of 77 tons gross, and haa visited Wellington at various times for some years past. THE~WAIHEMO. The Union Company's new steamer Waihemo, now discharging portion of her case oil andi timber at Lyttelton from San Francisco, will load general cargo for the American port montioned, 4t present she is timed to sail from Lyttelton this evening for Dunodin and Wellington to continue discharge of hot sase oil. OPIHI AT LYTTELTON. .After an absence of about a year and two • months the steamer Qpihi, owned by Reese Bros., of Christchurch, arrived' at Lyttelton on Monday morning with a cargo of timber from JBunbury. As will bo remembered, tho Opihi was formerly the Union Company's/ Wellington hulk Lilla, and was converted into a steamer at Lyttelton, the engines and machinery {rom tho wrecked Opouri having been

installed. The reconstruction work, which was carried out by local labour, wa» completed in seven months, tta nor latest outward voyage tho Opihi left Auckland on January 18th, 1919, for Marseilles, via Melbourne, Fremantle, Colombo, and Port Said. At the last-named port she loaded for Luis da Rhone, aud subsequently called at Algoria and Orau. Thence she proceeded with fruit and ore to Dunkirk. At Ponarth, her next port of call, she loaded coal for Port Said. Subsequently she proceeded to Aden and loaded salt for Calcutta aud Singapore. A part cargo of general commodities was thon shipped for New Zealand, and the vessel called en route at liunbury, where 400,000 ft of timber was loaded. On proceeding to Newcastle for bunker supplies, the Opihi was obliged to put into Melbourne first to have her bunkers replenished. After discharging Jier timber at I»yttolton the Opihi will bo docked for overhaul and cleaning. Thereafter sUo will sail for Auckland, thence to Opua (Bay of Plenty).' Captain Campbell, who has been in charge of the Opihi since she was first commissioned, is. signing off, and his place, will be taken, by Captain Pierson, lato of tho Opouri, who recently re., turned to New Zealand after four years' naval service. Mr Rogersou, who ha» been in the Navy for three years, is to take charge of the engiiieroom, in succession to Mr Hail. PANAMA'S BIGGEST YEAR, Traffic through the Panama Canal in 1919 exceeded that of any previous year. Two thousand three hundred and ninetysix ships, of 7,128,000 net tons, passed through the waterway. The cargoes of the merchant ships amounted to 7,711,000. tons. Ships measuring 7000 tons, carrying 10,000 tons of cargo, were 2 per cent. greater than in any previous year. December broke the monthly record, 283 ships, of 957,000 not tons, carrying cargoes of 953,000 tons, traversed the Canal. The tolls collected amounted to .£178,275 for December and .£1,394,400 for the year. IDLE SHIPS" RECOMMISSIONED. After, in some cases, eleven weeks oJ idleness, the marine engineers who.had been on strike returned to their ehip* at Melbourne on February 37th. Practically without exception the men again, "signed on." Seamen, cooks, and stewards, as well as masters and officers, had also to be re-ensagfcd, and the mercantile marine office in Market street wai tha sceno of great activity. "It was liko sweet music to hear tnat rigmarole read out again," remarked one mariner. In many cases no tinio was lost in raising ■steam and getting the vessels away to sea. . . The service to Tasmania is now in full 6wing, and also. all tho interstate services. The strike had detained 56 vesgels, of an aggregate tonnage of 180,496 tons, in the port of Sydney alone. On Fobruary 27th a total of 19 oversea and -;n|ter-SHato vtdssflls, aggregating 85,470 tons, were cleared at the Sydney Customs House. AUCKLAND HARBOUR AFFAIRS. The arrivals at Auckland during the month of February totalled 473 vessels, of 231,742 tons gross. Departures during tho month totalled 497 vessel's or 215,186 tons gross register. The Olliopo. Dock was engaged for fourteen days by six boats of 11,192 tons gross, and-.the 600-ton slipway was used for seven days by seven boats, aggregating 1000 .gross tons. OVERSEAS VESSELS. Otira—Due Auckland March 18th; left .London January 4th. (Shaw Savill.) Canadian Importer—Due Auckland March 19th; duo Wellington March 25th, Nuddea—Due Wellington March 19th; left New York February, 13th. (N.Z. and African Co.) Mamari—Due Wellington March 22nd; left United Kingdom, January Ist via iJoinbuv und Sydney. (Shaw Savill). , Wailiomo—Duo Wellington March 22nd via. Dunedin; left San Francisco February Bth (Union Co.) Hoilbronu—Now at Auckland; due Wellington March 24th; left Safaga February. (Murray, Roberts and Co.) Norkatay—Due Lyttelton March 26th; left New York February 3rd. (Dalgety and Co.) Lorain—Duo Auckland March 27th; due Wellington Aprii 3rd; left New York February 23rd. (Dalgety and Co.) Cathlainet—Due Lyttolton March 28th; left .New York Fobruary 22nd. (Dalgety and Co.) City of Agra—Duo Auckland April Ist; duo Wellington April 7th; left New York Februury 27th. (N.Z. and African Co.) Waimato—Due Auckland April 2nd; due Wellington April 9th; left London January 22nd. (N.Z. Shipping Co.) Tainui—Duo Auckland April 2nd; due Wellington April 9th; left England Fobruary 16th. (Shaw Savill.) Woodarra —Duo Dunedin April 4th; left New York February 29th. (N.Z, and African Co.) Corinthic—Duo Wellington April 6th; left Southampton February 20th. (Shaw Savill.) Port Victor—Due Auckland April 6th; due Wellington April 16th; left London Fobruary Ist. (0. and D. Line.) Otaki —Duo Auckland April 7th; due Wellington April 12th; left Liverpool February 26th. (Federal and Shire Line.) •' Opawa—Duo Auckland April 9th; due Wellington April 16th; left Liverpool February 19th. (Federal and Shire Line.) Port Melbourne—Due Auckland April 30th; left London March 6th via Galveston (Texas). (C. and D. Lino.) Port Nicholson—Duo Auckland May 4th; due Wellington May 13th; left London February 23rd. (C. and D.) SAILERS. ' Raupo, barque—Left San Francisco January 14th- (G. H. Scales.) Monongahela, four-masted barque— Lef \ San Francisco January 23rd. (Murray, Roberts and Co.) Louis Theriault, 3-masted schooner—, Left Adelaide March 3rd.

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