THE DIRECT STEAMERS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 12601, 3 March 1903, Page 4

THE DIRECT STEAMERS.

The Rakftk wilod for London, via Monte Video and Tencriffs. from Lyttelton at 5.45 n.m yesterday. Pas»ajei«: Missefl A. and 15. Inget. R. Whineray, A. M. iVts-cH. Mesda'niw ,Holt, Whim-ray, Mreitn I?. >T. Aingar, • J. : B*rry, J. Whinoray, E»eel*i Masters E. and S. Whineray. The bawjue Silvcrstream, which arrived off the heads on Sunday afternoon, has been ordered up to Dunedin to load wool for London. She will bo lowed irfo Pott this mo'fninjr,"and anchor in ik» powder groiuid in the meantime.

: The Rimufeka is expected to reach Port . Ohalmeß from the north'on Sunday next to load cargo for London. Tho Janet Nicoll was to leave the Bluff yesterday afternoon for Port Chalmers, and ehould a.vrivo at the latter port to-day. ' A brißsintino \r.is reported 15 miles N.E. off tho Iwr.ih yesterday afternoon, stajiding in. She. is supposed to be the Carin, from Auckland, l Tho s.s. Mokoia, from Melbourne, was to leave the Bluff far ' Dunedin either litft evening or this morning. Steady progress is now being mado with j tho work" of loading the barque Akaroa I with wool, and she is expected' to get a*ay for London about the beginning of next week. After being donned and painted, tho s.s. Manapouri was fleated out of the graving dock yesterday morning, and berthed at tho George street pier to eomplc-to her overhaul. j The f.s. Warrimoa dicdarged and took in ' cargo at Port Chalmers ymtcrd.iy, <uid left the Bowcn pier in the nfU'rncon for Mel- j bourne, via the Bluff and -Hcbart. j 'Hie f.s. Gracchu? arrived at Durban on ! Februoi'y 18, after a Etnart run of 20 days' from Melbourne. j I The Waikaro went down to Port Chalmors yesterday nfUmoon for tlio prapotc of being docked for elcamivr and painting. Sho leaves Port CluJmcrs tliis afternoon for Sydney, via Enst Const ports and Auckland. . _ Thn s.s. Aotea 13 rcpidly getting clear of her Dunedia eorgo r.t tho ccosji steamers' pier. She is expected to' l«i.vo' Port Clir.l- j mors on Wcdcceday for Lytl«lton. I The Austrian'navy, fs said, to po.-,;rss the fastest battMii'i in Uia woi-'d of her size. On her trial trip the Ilupsburg, built by the Stabibmcaito Teci!ico, ■at Trieste, I sieo.mfd 39.62 knob in the hour, the oco- ' tract havini; only stipulated 18.5 knota. The . Hapsbiirg i? a veftwl of 8340 tons displaceniMit, 14,000 horse-pdwoi , , and has an armn- : mwit of 43 guns. _ f The flsg of' tho little steamer Tarewai, ; wcll-knowii on the ferry between Fort dial- : mers and Portobsllo, fcowtod at halfmast yesterday as a iKU'k of ro-speet to her j kls masto and owner, Mr E. M. Moss, who j (lied on the night of the Ist inst after a vrry j painful illness. Tin fiaft on the Harbour Board office at Dunedin wae also half-. msrfccl. j An entirely new style of fog signal, which gives the mariner \vs compass bearing just as well as if he could «-e it. hiw just been put into operation by llif C'snsdinn Government. It iV, situated at Fawn Pci'.'t, on Uia Eoutlicrn shorn of/tli-3 Gulf cf St. Lav.Tenc?, ■livectlj' soiilh of the mjtaii raid of AntiI .josta, a very important pnint' foT vessels j fioing io and from Qtiotec, as it marls tl|e I I principal Ircr.d from tho gulf proper into tho river. Th? sre to fc |;uard«l is about ISO degrsos and the peculiarity of tho signal is that instead of simplv sounding at regular ' interval it projeete into tho arc several distinctly characteristic 45dcg. apart, which round ona after [ho. other in rapid succs?eion, the sjrifs teinj repeated sboub oneo a minute. Thepn siyjals are Wast? ; from a very powerful piren, which can to hoard 15 or 20 miles under favourable conditions, mid they r.ro pvojected through. j megaphones each 10ft long. j ' I