SHIPPING.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 11254, 26 October 1898, Page 1

SHIPPING.

PORT CHALMERS. Phases or the Moon -Calculated for.New' Zealand mean time). October. Last Quarter. ... .. Sth 5.35 a.m. : New-Moon . . . . . 16th ■* 6.7 a.m. First Quarter . • . . 22nd 8.39 p.m. Full. Moon-.. , .. . ... 29th 11.48 p.m. , Sun rises to-day at 4.58 a.m.; sets 6.46 p.m. THE WEATHER. - October 25.—8 a.m.: Wind N.E.; weather overcast. Noon: Wind N.E.; weather fair. 5 p.m. .* Wind N.E. .weather dull. - '■-'.' 8 am. Noon. 5 p.m. Barometer 20 _4 29*42 2.'_S Thermoraeter ■ ... 44*0 . -O'O t-'O •FO'RECA_T.--MrPaulin'sent us the following 1 it 9 o'clock last night:-" Squally to light S.W. to 3.-.. winds and heavy electrical rain showers. Barometer unsteady." HIGH WATER. • ••,'.'■' am. p.m. ' * ('At the Heads... ... 0.5 0.35 6ct. 26-! At Tort Chalmers ... 045 1.10 ft i lAt Dunedin ... ... 1-30 2.0 : . . ARRIVAL. Invercargill,' s.s., 123 tons, Marks, from Timaru. K. Ramsay, agent. DEPARTURES. Tutanekai, C.G.S., 412 tons, Post, for Wellington./ Invercargill, 123 tons, Marks, for Invercargill. K. Ramsay, agent ' Elingamite, s.s., 1625 tons, Waller, for Sydney, via Auckland and way ports. Neill. and Co., agents. Passengers: Messrs A. G. Reynolds,' Beaver," Simpson, King, White, Pa.sluore, Neilson, Hall. Barnett, Preen, Grant, Moller, Rev. A. Morrison, Stafford, Roland, Brown,. Misses Campbell, Cartwright, Watson, Mesdames King (and 2 children), Simpson, Culling, Henderson, Teller, Morrison (and child), Culling (and.children), Martin. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. From London.—Turakina, ship, Fox (sailed from Algoa Bay September 18); due October 25. Waitangi, ship (July 30); due October 31. Nor'-wester, barque (August 31). Lilla, barque (September 23); due January 2. Canterbury, ship (September 11); due about December 14. From Glasgow.—Soukar, ship [June 30); Mauritius for repairs; due January 1, Taranaki, ship (August 23); due November 8. From Liverpool. — Lake Ontario, barque, Pundt (April, 28); overdue. Oamaru, ship (July 30); due November 7. . From.New York.—Sayoia, barque (July,2o); . Sue about October 28. . From Lady Elliott's Island.—Severn, barquentine (loading). Cloud, barque (loading). From, Sydney .—Waikare, November. 2. Westralia, November 6. . From Melbourne.—Talune, November 1. From Kaipara.—lsabella Anderson (early). From Auckland. —Te Anau, October 28. • -PROJECTED DEPARTURES. ! For Melbourne. — Waikare, November 3. Monowai. November-14. .'. For Sydney.—Westralia,1 November 8. • Majraroa, November 2. . "■■:". '. . For Westport.—Taupo, October 27. Kini, November 4. For Greymouth.—Herald, November 2. For Auckland.—Te Anau, October 29. For Wellington.—Rotomahana, October 28. SiOVEMENTS OF DIRECT STEAMERS. , . 10 AB-IVE. ' At Port Chalmers.—Matatua (S.S. and A. 'Co.). London, October 18: ' '■_'.' At Wellington.—Ruahine (N.Z-S. Co.), October 15; -due November 30... Ruapehu (N.Z.S. C 0.),: September 20; due November 3. . At Auckland.—Tekoa, sailed September 11 (Capetown, October 20); due November 16. Delphic (S.S. and A. Co.), London, October 4; due November 20. : , At. Ly-eiton.—Ruahine.N.Z.S. Co.), -'•: ":.-ft''"''-': ft- '■-.' ■ TO DEFAET. Froni Wellington.—Kaikoura (N)Z.S.), No-' reamer 3. Ruapehu (N.Z.S. Co.), November '■:.H7,7: -07: ft ■:'■'„' "'.,:', :--' ..-.■'.. HOMEWARD BOUND. .•"■' Rakaia "(N.Z.S. Co.), Bluff, September 14. Indraghiri., (Tyser),ft September 14. Banffsbu*. (Shire).' Port Chalmers, September 15. Rangaft: tira'ft(S S;-and: A., Co.), Wellington, Septem--* ber 29 ' Duke of Devonshire (N.Z.S. Co.), 1 Per.: Chalmers, :Qctobeit;l. Hawke's Bay, ; - r _j October, 6..\ft ft, ,:,,:. '''.'■ : m 700: - SHIPPING- -TELEGRAMS! : '=: -«- | "' ft-AUCKLAND, October' 25,^Sailed-:- Ovalau, ■'; ' for Rarotonga.' :."■'■';'■■ •'. ■•' '"' '-~".- -ft ft ! -WELLINGTON,; ..October.,: 25..— Arrived:. ■ Brunner, iirom'We's.port ; Rotorua,; from LylV telton;. .Wainui, from West Coast, Nelson, and "Picton.^—Sailed:ft Rotorua, if or Picton and Nelson. ■ . ■ ' . BLUFF, October 25.—Sailed*. Tarawera, s.s., ft for Melbourne. .Poherua, for, Sydney. , ; '*":'''..:';.'' ' -'.-■ ' ;.' !,■****- **" - 7-The s.s: Invercargill, from Timaru, arrived yesterday;i morning,, and sailed again in the ft afternoon1 for Invercargill. . . ! . : i':;The Colonial Government steamer Tutanekai Bailed for. Wellington yesterday, ft 7The Huddart-Parker Company's s.s. Elinga- , jnite-sailed shortly after noon: yesterday for Sydney, via" Auckland. •'."'-. -The s.s.: Penguin comes here on Sunday, and • leaves on - the 6th prox. for Melbourne to take .' up: her. rtinning in the Tasmanian coastal 7 .-trade. .."'*'7'! '• ' '.'■'-' ' '-■.'■ ■■ " ' ■ ■-,'

JA block of traffic on the,railway has delayed the despatch of the sections of the new steamer ;fo"r LakeiTe Anau.. ".Part'has gone,, but the railway authorities have declined,to accept any more" consignments till the block is cleared. Consequently, the completion of, ; the steamer, will; be. delayed, but the Dunedin Foundry-Co. E—ll hope :to have her completed for the tourist season.- \ , • ft '_•

.'The -sis.-Mararoa will be floated out of the graying dock to_ay and taken alongside the George street pier to complete preparations'for service. Her.saloon and;other compart—tents will be thoroughly attended to, and she wiil leave for Sydney, via the East Coast, on Tuesday, . November 1.

• The Union. Steam Ship. Company's. Rotomahana ia being prepared for active service. Sheft goes'; into commission again on Friday under the command of Captain Manning, with Mr Dewhurst as chief, and Mr Tate as second officer.'.- The Rotomahana will be engaged in the express service between Lyttelton and Wellington.',,' " .-..

..Captain ; Hoigh, late of the barque Laira, has been "appointed to the command of . the barque Auriga, of this port. She is now discharging" cargo at Auckland, and'from that port Captain Hoigh proceeds to "the .Friendly Islands foload copra for the United Kingdom.

, The ship Earl of Dalhousie, which arrived at San' Francisco on-August 19 from. Newcastle (N.S.W.); reported that on AugUs't'6, in lat. 42.38 N., long.-146.26 W., she sighted a derelict ship about 1000 miles off the northern coast of California. ,The vessel was a wooden'one, with iron knees. .The timbers aud planks were visible. She stood about 10ft out of the water, and about the same in the water line, drifting S.S.W. A new steamship was launched on the Ist lilt, by Messrs R. and W. Hawthorn, Leslie, and Co., of Hcbburn-cn-Tyne, to the order of Messrs Turnbull, Martin, and Co., of London, for'-their Australian '_■ and New Zealand trade. Sh'e'iis called the Morayshire, and is '420 ft long, 54ft beam, and 32ft deep;"is specially fitted for carrying frozen meat, and has.powerful duplicate refrigerating machinery. A large insulating space,'having a capacity of 230,000 cubic feet, is provided in the holds forward of the machinery, space, leaving all the after holds, available for general cargo. The machinery consists of a set of triple expansion engines capable "of: indicating upwards of 3000 horsepower, with three large single-ended boilers working at a pressure of 1601b per square inch. 'A timely'rescue of a distressed crew was effected by the P. andO. R.M.S. Rohilla on her recent trip to the East. , Advices received state that the Rohilla was passing through the China Sea, when a vessel was observed in a sinking condition.' She, proved to be the old Cunard steamer Triniciad, which, had been chartered by the Gern-KD Government to iake 4000 tons of coal to Ki.b-Chau. The Trinidad was caught in a typhoon, and, was, so much damaged that the crew abandoned her, when the P." ahd O. ;Rohilla arrived on the scene, ft

The importance of boys, being regularly apprenticed to the sea is ono of the great questions of .the day, and after the launch of the Gloriana early in September Sir B T. Gourley, M.P., in response to the toast "Success to the Gloriana,"' said that Sir Christopher Furness, the chairman of the British Maritime Trust, the owners of the new steamer, although comparatively a. young man, had built, bought, and sold more ships than any man in the world, the. tota'. "being about 700. Referring, to the . -ierchant Shipping 'Bill, Sir Edward said he hoped the apprenticeship question would receive the earnest attention of the shipping community. The lads should be properly housed on the vessels, and thoroughly educated in all branches of seamanship, navigation, and sobriety. In the old days apprenticeship was compulsory, and tho great bulk of the boys became not only officers, but masters and owners of vessels. The apprentices were, until the ijclvent of steamers, really the foundation of, and the cause of, their present commercial supremacy. Their seamen were placed in charge Of ships and valuable lives, and the. better they were educated in the work of mercantile navigation,, the safer would be the vessels. The scheme being for the. strengthening of the naval reserves, he thought the nation should bear.the ehtirj*' cost of the outlay involved. Mr John Sanderson, who also spoke, said that, as » sailor and shipowner, he had always advocated provision lor apprentices, and insisted upon.it inhis own vessels. If all the other shipowners -would take the same view, there would be no heed for the Government to interfere, ■*

During the hurricane which swept over New Caledonia at the early part of this year, several ships, whilst engaged .loading at the coast port of Tcliio, were driven ashore. On of these was the Falls of Garry, a well-known Glasgow clipper. The ship was abandoned as a wreck, and duly sold at auction. The purchasers of the wreck recently had a survey made of the vessel, with a view to salvage, and the outcome has beeu that they intend to take stops to float the vessel. Mr Dan Sheehy, of Sydney, is interested in tho venture, and .he purposes leaving Sydney for Noumea, with a g.-ur. of men and the necessary .appliances, to start salvage operations. Should the' vessel l;c floated, she will probably be brought to Sydney for docking. Admiral Dewey has notified shipmasters that the lights on Corregidor Island and at the mouth of the Pasig were restored recently, and that the obstructions in the Pasig River have been removed so far as to give a practicable channel of 15ft depth at high water, ft Work, according to latest advices, was still going on for the removal of wrecks from the river. Tho Agent-general for Tasmania, has notified the Premier, that he is at the present time in communication with the Secretary of State for the Colonies with respect to the Imperial Government assisting Tasmania in the direction of providing a graving dock for the port of Hobart.

The Auckland Collector of Customs has received a notice to warn shipmasters that the red buoy off Punipuni bank; Tauranga Harbour, has been carried away.

The new Auckland-built steamer Kapanui obtained a speed of UJ knots at her preliminary trial trip. ,

The immense importance .of reducing the amount of uninflammable material about a warship was strikingly apparent in both the war between China and Japan and that between Spain ancl the United States. The newer American ships have their woodwork rendered non-inflammable by treatment with chemicals after, a process worked out by Bradley ancl Currier, New York. Several demonstrations of the efficiency of this process have been made in Europe. One, in which two buildings identical in design, and construction save that one was built of treated and the other of untreated wood, were erected-.behind the Tate Gallery, Millbank. Equal quantities of wood shavings and firewood having been placed in each and fired, the treated building came through the ordeal with flying colours, whilst the other was rapidly reduced to ashes'.

« SURVEYING CRUISE OF H.M.S. PENGUIN.

Letters received from H.M.S. Penguin contain particulars,of the sun-eying'cruise of the ship among the islands. The officers' have finished the survey of the Vavau group, and are now busy with Haapia group, Lifuka being their headquarters. A party of, 21 officers and men are camped on the island of Haafeva, also a tide party at Lifuka. The group being large, and all the islands flat,: necessitates a greater amount of work than usual, as masts with spars and bamboos have to be erected from 70ft to 90ft high for' the purpose of hoisting observation flags, which are usually placed on the hill tops. Whilst a party was erecting one of these masts on a small sandbank, the spar suddenly fell, I—locking down two men, one of whom was rendered unconscious. The steamboat at once took them on board, and made all possible speed to, the ship, when it was found that one man,'. Peel, was- slightly bruised, whilst the other, named Nicholas, had sustained concussion of the brain, remaining unconscious for five hours. Another incident of the cruise is thus referred to:—"On one of the islands the natives'watched the boat's crew putting Up a black flag. After leaving the island in the: dusk it was found:that the background wa3 too dark to: distinguish it clearly. The boat returned, when a white flag was substituted. The natives, not having seen the change, were completely .mystified in the morning and attributed it to witchcraft." The Penguin, is expected at Sydney about January next, preparatory to paying off. .