SHIPPING.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16979, 16 April 1917, Page 4

SHIPPING.

PHASES OP THE MOON, V. Arnii* •Tmn.moou ... „ ... s 1.10 a.m. got quarter „ 15 7.42 a.m. /.flew moon _ „ _ 22 1.31 a.in. '-Slrsi quarter _ _ o<j 4.53 p, m , THE SUN. Rises, to-day at G. 50 turn.; sots at 5.2G p.in. THE WKATIIEH. April 14.—8 a.m.: Calm and dear. Noon: Culm and dear. 5 p-m.; breeze, light; aloar. _ ' 8 u.m. Noon. 5 p.m. Barometer _ _ 29.46 20.54 29.60 Thermometer _ _ CO CG U-l April 15.—8 N",W. breeze, light; clear. Noon: N.W. breeze, light; clear. 5 pan.: N.W. breeze, light; overcast. , 8 a.m. Noon. £ p.m. parameter 29.65 20.58 29.6G Tharmameter _ _ _ (JO ci 62 HIGTH WATER. tt , a.m. p.m. At Taiaroa Heads 10.y 10.38 At Tort Chalmers _ _ ... .„ 10.13 HJB Ab Dunedin _ _ „ u.ig n^ B ARRIVAL. April 15. ' Corinna, as. (4.10 p.m.), 1271 tons, Elders, from New Plymouth.—Union Steam Ship Company, agent. Calm s.s. (9.30 p.m.), 890 tons, Braidwood, from tho north. Keith Ramsay agent.

SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. LYTTEI/TON, April 14.—Arrived': Tara■wcra (11.15 aan.), from' Dunedin; Mararoa ' Wellington. Sailed (April )/-*' (0.30 a.m.), for Port Chalmers. OAMARU, April 14.—Arrived: Kjui (7 / a.m.), from Dunedin.

' i ° orirLna ' wllicll Now Plymouth at ' • ou Friday for Duiuxim direct, t. arrived hero lato yesterday afternoon. (Sho ij. is to leavo to-day lor Oama.ni, Timaru, Lyt■':l Nelson, and Now Plymouth. < J-ho Kahika loft Picton on JSaturday for \ Onehunga. •, The Kamo loft Groymouth on Saturday for Lyttelton and Dunedin, and returns j from hero with produco and goneral cai-go i for Lyttelton and Auokland. ■! ; , The Kamona loft Groymouth on Saturday 1 for Wellington. Tho Karamu -left Wellington on Saturday i' lor Auckland, whcnco sho* will return to f. Timaru, Oamaru, and Bluff. ' ■. '^ Q Calm reached tho harbour last night, tout at an oarly hour this morning had not ! oomo up to Dunedin. _ Tho Kowhai is to bo loading timber at (Greymouth to-day for Lyttelton and Dunedin.

Tho Government stoamor Hinemoa is expected to leavo Wellington to-day* on her periodical visit to southern and West Coast lighthouses. Sho phcxild reach Dunedin about the end of this week. Tho Kini sailed from Oamam- on Saturday morning, and is duo to leavo Timaru today for Wellington, Westport, and Greymouth.

Several moro Teasols -well known in Austrahan waters recently changed owners. r Tho vessels ineludo tho Norwegian steel barque Alcidos, 2492 tons register, which Mr X' J; Hennokpen, of Risor, dispAsed of to the Slribsakter Norcg (T. Sunt and T. M. Holt), of Chnsbanio,; the steel baiouo Launston, 2133 tons regisfcet built by Mesesrs Workman, Clark and Co. at Belfast, m 1892, and sold to tho Hudson Bay , Company (Salo and Co., London), iby Messrs Jt-ggar, Forrester, and Parker; the ship Amsdale, which was built in 1899 at a cost ' £33,268, and realised £65,000; also tho Japanese steamer Shinko Main, «x Woodf°rd, which realised £19,000 m . Slay, 1914 v find has now changcd owners at £150,000 '

FRENCH SHIPBUILDING. ,? n , spite of tho various difficulties French Bhipujuilders are faccd with, thorc wero 140 000 tons of new construction on hand in that ■' at tho end of 1916. At Dunkirk : tho Chargeurs Rouiiis had two cargo vosi eels of 9000 tons building, and Messrs Dena-in . : Anzm ono of 2000 tona At Havre tho ■Ohargeurs Roania had ono cargo boat of ,9000 tons; tho Chcmin do for do l'Etat one ; passenger boat of 1800 tons, and' two cartro t iboats of 8000 tons. At St. Nazairo tho . had a vessel of j. -60,1)00 tons, and threo other passenger boats ■completing, and ono cargo boat of 6000 tons building; tho Chargouis Rounis had ono ( cargo boat of 1800 tons, and tho Churgours t.lOuost one of 2800 tons. At Marseilles r ono paeasenger boat of 15,000 tons was com. •Fo r ° Sud-Atkintiquo. ono of 12,000 tons for tho Febro Lino, and T . '; senger vessel of 9000 tons for tho M.M ■. !;«Ono cargo boat of 8000 tons was buildin«■lor tho Chargeurs Reunis, and one of 3800 < . for , MoSs ts Fraissinet, as well as some ; >■&) vessels of under 500 tons each.