SHIPPING.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16591, 14 January 1916, Page 4

SHIPPING.

MASKS OP THE MOOH. JAWUA.BY. 'Wmmtm ■ ... 5 4.15 p.m. Fta* quarter ". 1 .. '. 12 5-?„p.m. VBllmoaa 20 7.59 p.m. LMtqauter ™ . 28 0-5 P- m - THE SUN. ' Biaes to-d*y it 4.38 a.m.; sets at 7.63 pan. THK WEATHER. Jsnttsry 13.—8 a.m.: Wind S.W., light; fine. Hoon: Wind N.E., light; raih. fi p.m.: Wind U, Mgbt; fine to dull. 8 a.m. Noon. 6 p.m. 20.41 29.58 29.62 Thermometer 55 fio 67 HIGH WATEK. 3aaaarT 14— ajn. P jn * At &iam» Heads ,10-3 10.27- : At Port Chalmers 10.4S }}•*, At I>uaedia 11. 11.07 WEATHER EEPOHTS. [FBI BXITMD FniSS ARBOOIATtO*.) WELLINGTON, January 13. Dm toQowlng are the weather reports at Wind. Bar. Ther. Weather. o>peHnl»„ 8., fresh 30.04 67 Hazy BuaeeJl .„ „ J2., light 29.92 76 Wne Hannkaa H_ 8.W., Iresh 23.91 63 l^ne Auckland S.S.W., light 20.510 70 Fair Isoraogs _ W., light 29.85 72 Fair But, Ompe _ S., light 29.80 73 Cloudy Stabotno 8.E., fresh 29.81 70 l'air Kapler „ S.W., freeh 29.82 71 Fine Wellington ... N., breeze 29.77 67 Fair New Plymouth N.W.. light 29.90 68 Cloudy o»pe Egmont— 8.W., light 29.90 69 Cloudy Vang nil 111 w., breeie 29.90 G9 Fair ■Farewell Spit.- W., fresh 29.83 65 Fine OreymouUi W., fresh 29.85 62 Cloudy \ Stephen Island W.Jresh 29.85 62 Hazy 'Cape Campbell N., fresh -'9.72 68 Cloudy Kaiknara Calm 29.76 75 Fair Akaroa light... N.W., light 29.65 75 Fine Nuggets™ „ W., fresh 39.48 63 Gloomy Blnfl „ „ W.N.W., fresh 29.51 56 Drizslo WEATHEB FORECAST. The following are the official weatfcer summary and forecast:—" An atmospheric depression passed Vapidly in the south last night, and accounted for rain in various parts of the dominion, llie '/weather has improved to-day, exoept in southernmost districts, where the barometer is still-con-siderably below normal. Moderate to strong northwest to south-west winds have ruled. Indications 'are for westerly and Bouth-westerly winds, moderate to strong generally, but squally at times in and southward of Cook Strait. Fair weather . is probable in northern and east ooust districts, . and changeable conditions elsewhere. W!th scattered showers. The barometer is unsusady in the south, but ia due to rise further everywhere MOD." 5 arrivals. Weetralia, s.s. (6.30 a.m.), 2884 tons, Bates, from Auckland, via East Coast ports. : "Huddart, Parker, and Co., agents. Passengers : Misses Warren, Lee, Shearer, Hutchinson, Thomson (2), Neville (2), Davey, Hendriok, Smythe (2), Cledon, Nelson (2), Mesdames Patrick and two children, ; Moody, Hopkins. Reed. Messrs Patrick, Gdlespio, Dr Moody. Campbell, Abbott, M'Corran, Cooke (2); and 20 steerage. Mokoia, s.s. (7.30 a.m.), 3502 tons, Brown, from Melbourne, via Hobart and Bluff. ' Union Steam Ship Company, agent. Passengers: Misses Priest, Robb, Bookey, Ash, Fry, Turner, Yandell, Cowley, M'Ewing, M'Gilvary, Roth, Mesdames Todd, Powell, : Gumming, Bartholomew, Moss, Messrs Brown, Forster, Gale, Todd,, Bartholomew, Mannering, Smith, Ginn, Grubb, Klenenam, Rev. Byne, Dr Heywood. Kotare, s.s. (8 a.m.), 11l tons, Ilanning, frcftn Bluff. Keith Ramsay, agent. DEPARTURE. I . Kowhai ,s.s. (11 a.m.), 792 tons, Nicholas, ! for Bluff. Union Steam- Ship Company, agent. ' SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. \ .AUCKLAND, January 13.-Arrivcd: Canopus (2 p.m.), from West port. , ; GISBOIINJ2, January 12. —Arrived: Corinthic (11 p.m.), from Port Chalmers. . WELLINGTON, January 13.—Arrived: Manuka (9 a.m.), Mararoa (9.45 a.m.), and i Victoria (10.15 a.m.), from Lyttelton; Kaiapoi (3.30 p.m.), from Edithburg. Sailed: Century (5.15 a.m.), for London; Manuka (6.25 p.m.), for Sydney; Mararoa • (7.50 p.m.), for Lyttelton. 1 • 1 LYTTELTON, January 13.—Arrived: Maori (7 p.m.), Ruahine (8.30 a.m.), and Himitangi (3.20 p.m.), from Wellington; Qygnct, from Kaikoura. Sailed: Breeze .(4.25 p.m.), for Oamaru. To sail: Maori, with 700 passengers, for Wellington. TIMARU, January 13. —Sailed : Storm i (5;4Q i>.m.) and Waitemata (8.15 p.m.), for •Dunedin. INVERCARGILL, January i3.—Arrived: • Invercargill (7.30 a.m.), from Dunedin. Sailed: Invercargill (6,30 p.m.), for Dunedin." ; SUVA, January 12.—Sailed: Waimarino, for San Francisco and Vancouver. SYDNEY, January 13.—Arrived: Katoa. from Auckland. Sailed: ' Ulimaroa (1 p.m.), for Wellington. NEWCASTLE, January 13.—Sailed: Maxoro, for New Zealand. THE DIRECT STEAMERS. SYDNEY, January 12. —Arrived: Jetbou, ■from New York. LONDON, January 12. — Arrived: Mimiro, from Wellington. , WELLINGTON, January 13.—Sailed: * Athenio (6 a.m.), for London. ». Tho Kotaro arrived here yesterday from Riverton and Bluff, and will sail to-day for southern ports. Tho Whangape will leave Westport on Saturday for Port Chalmers with a full ■ cargo of-coal. 'The Waitemata is due here to-day from . Timaru to discharge the remainder of her Eastern cargo. ' . The Katoa arrived at Sydney yesterday from "Auckland, and will return from Newcastle with coal for Auckland. ■ The Kaituna is due here on Sunday from Adelaide, and will sail on Monday for Lyttelton and Wellington. Tho Tarawera will be recommissioned tomorrow, and will sail on Tuesday for Auck- . land, via East Coast porta. The Mokoia reached hero caxly yesterday morning from Bluff. After discharge she will go down to Port Chalmers. The Corinna is due here on Monday from Wellington, and will sail the same day for New Plymouth, via ports. The Westralia arrived hero yesterday morning from Auckland, via East Coast ' ports, and will 6ail to-day on the return • journey. - The Paloona is due here on Sunday from 'Auckland, via way pijrts, and will sail on Monday for Bluff, Hobart, and Melbourne. Hie Kowhai left Port Chalmers yesterday morning for Bluff, and is due'back at Du&edin on Saturday. She will sail the lame day for Wellington. The steamer City of Norwich, now in yort at Sydney from Glasgow on time charter, is reported to have a freight of <68650 a month. Timber laden, the American schooner C. S. Holmes, 409 tons, Captain Backlund, has arrived at New Plymouth from Port Gamble (Puget Sound), after a smart passage of under two months. The French barque Bon Premier, the last sailing vessel to arrive at Newcastle in 1915, was recently fixed to load coal for the West Coast at 35s per ton, and thence to the Mediterranean with nitrate at 76s " per ton. ! > The New Zealand Shipping Company ad- . rise that the PSiparoa, after completion of ■» discharge of her Liverpool cargo at Dunedin, will load at Oamaru, Waitara, Wanganui roadstead, and Wellington. The vessel will sail from Wellington at the end of the, montlf for London, via Montevidco_ and Teneriffe. It is reported that tho Norwegian barque Cambusdoon, 1522 tons register, carrying 2750 tons doad-weight, and now in port at Newcastle loading coal for tho West Coast, has been sold for £9000. This vessel was , sold to Norwegian buyers in 1909 for £3825. The barque Bessfiold, 1235 tons, which was . , sold to Norwegians in 1910 for £2300 has lately been resold for £8800. Tho barque Killenna, 750 tons, sold in 1908 for £1550, is reported sold for £4000. The barque Ashmore, 1043 ton 6, which was sold in 1907 for £3050, has boen air.ll n sold for £5500. An event of more than passing interest, not only to seafarers, but also to a large number of Wellington citizens, whose business takes them to the waterfront, took place on Monday, when the harbour master (Captain J. E. Dawson) successfully berthed the largo oil steamer Baron Cawdor at the recently completed Thorndon breastwork. The Baron Cawdor, which has on board a forge quantity of ease oil from New York, h&9 the honour of being tho first "vessel of any size to berth at the breastwork, and is alflo tho first, steamer to discharge cargo there. It is interesting to note that tho Tnorndon breastwork is constructed entirely of ferro-corsercte, which is gaining such great favour in seaports all over tho globo. Duo at Wellington from London in tho course of r. few days, the liner Tainui has on board the following passengers:—Mr and Mrs D. Ardrey. Mr and Mrs A. F. .Bramley and Misa L. Bramley, Mr and Mrs J. Cunningham and Miss M. Cunningham, Mr and ; Mr* A. Ferguson, the Misses B. and H. Fergtawn and Master J. Ferguson. Mr and Ma S. Lynch, Mr and Mrs F. Noill, Mrs I. Bostty, Mjs H. Owen and Miss E. Owen, Misses A. Andrews, M. Carroll. C. Carter, A. Farrer, K. Gilmour, E. M'Eldowney, C. MIDa, C. Pillans, A. Stewart, M. Tait. the Rerv. V. Cumniin3, Lieutenant A. Jackson, St«ff-«ergeant 8011, Messrs G. Battv, F. Baxter, H. Blakiston, N. Campbell, C. Clulow, B. Harris, J Johnson, T. Johnson, T. Kerry. H. JSsmg, F. Leen, J. MTSdownej,

! A. M'Math, R. Matthews, H. Miller, G j Mills, D. Pemberton, H. Rainford, F Stophens, 0. Sykes, C. Tod hunter, J. Walker, C Waorn, S. Williams, Nurso E. Elliott. There are also a number of naval teserviste on board—viz., D. Baker, J. Benfield, W. Cassels, C. Chisholmo, W. Curtis, F. Dunn, H. Cloy, H. Hanson, H. Heaps, W. Martin, J. Moffat, J. Oxford, J. Riding, H. Simpson, J. Smith, H. Smith, R. Sullivan, D. Swan, A. Westwood, A. Woolman. Thero are over 200 passengers in the third class. Dr J. H. Alldoim is the medical officer. THE INDRAB AHA EL OP** UxtTKD Peiss Association.) WELLINGTON, January 13. The Indrflbarah is due hero this week-end from Sydney, and will commcnco loading here for London, after which she will go to Tokomani Bay. Gisborne, and Napier, returning to Wellington to complete her loading. PANAMA CANAL SLIDES. That slides similar to thoso which have recently occurred are likely to necessitate the closing of the Panama Canal to traffic during part of the rainy season for several yews to come is the prediction of Professor Benjamin Lc Rov Miller, Ph.D., who lias just returned to New York from a several months' tour of South aud Central America, -where ho studied mining conditions generally and mado a special examination of the slides at Gaillard and Culebra cuts. _ Professor Miller, who occupies the chair o. geology at Lehigh University, said, in discussing the slides: "One who has not been in the region can scarcely appreciate iho extent to which tho slildes extend. In the Culebra cut cracks have formed more than 1300 ft back from the canal, and all trio ground intervening is gradually moving toward tho cat. Macadamised roads, constructed where the earth was supposed to be stable, have been destroyed by the movement,' and scores of houses have had to bo moved to save them. The ground was cracked under the old Administration Building, and as it is in lino witn a great cliff formed by an enormous block of earth breaking off, there is no doubt that this building must be removed before very long in order to save it. Transportation companies intending to use tho canal should realise that they must not expect uninterrupted service for several years. During the dry season the canal may bo open, but it is certain to bo closed during the rainy season, when the earth is soaked with water and its movement toward' the oanal facilitated. If dredges alone are employed, as at present, tho canal may be kept clear during the months when rainfall is lightened, but for many years_ to come the rainy season is almost certain to cause such slides as to close tho canal for weeks or even months."