SHIPPING.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17217, 21 January 1918, Page 4

SHIPPING.

PHASB3 OP THH MOOS. ; lastquarter _„.„_.— 6 11.20 p.m. New moon „_.„„— 13 I°- 6 a - m - First quarter _._...._ ... 20 2.8 ajn. Foil moon _ _ 27 2.41 p.m. THE SUN. Bises"to-d*r at 4.50 sjn.; sets at 7.43 p-m. THE WEATHER. January IS-—8 a.nu: Wind S.K, fresh; rain. Noon: Wind R, light; oloody. 5 p.m.: K., nosh; fine. 8 a.m. Noon. 6 p.m. Barometer „„ _ _ 29.83 23.8G 29.84 Thermometer ... j— ... 55 60 63 January 20-8 ajn.: "Wind V?., strong; cloudy. Noon: Wind W M fresh; fine. 6 p.m.: Wind S.W., light); fine. 8 a.m. Noon. 5 p.m. Barometer — ~ — — 29.70 25.75 20.78 Itemoineter _ _. ._ 66 65 60 HIGH WATKU. Jantzaiy 21— ajm. p.m. At Taiaroa Heads _ ~ ... .- 3-50 10-20 At Port Chalmers - ~ - ~ 10.30 11.0 At Itancdia ._ „ ... -. 11.0 11.30 ' ARRIVAL. January 19. Patiki, S.S. (2.15 p.m.), 422 tons, Roberteon, from ISmaru, Keith Ramsay, agent. ■» SHIPPING- TELEGRAMS. WESTPORT, January 20. —Sailed: Poherua (1.35 a.m.), for Port Chalmers. GRETMOUTH, January 20.-iSailcd: Kittawa (1.35 a-m.), for Duncdin. LYT'JTELTON, January 20.—Arrived: Jlararoa ajn.), from Wellington. «» Advice has been received by tho Marino Department that a vessel bound fromWeetport 3to J?iji passed a quantity of wreckage early on the morning of December 27. The nosition of the wreckage was latitude 33 &., longitude 173 K However, the night was too dark for those on board to be able to state definitely of what tho wreckage consisted. It appeared to be about 40ft long and several feet high. The following passengers left Dunedin on Saturday: — Mesdames M'Kinnon, Lambio and child, Storey, Misses M'Kinnon (2), Coll, Masters Storey (2), Messrs Lake, Longden, Walkdcn, Foape, Wadham, Sinclair, MJlne, Nugent, Storey, Captain Brown; and 22 in tho steerage. The Rosamond is duo here to-morrow from Bluff to load for Wellington, Napier, and Gisborne. The Poherua and Kamona are to bring cargoes of coal to Port Chalmers from .WestooTt The John is expected here to-morrow from Wellington to load for Oamaru, Wellington, and Wangamii. The Storm is also due here to-morrow to take cargo for Wanganui and way ports. The vessel has been thoroughly overhauled at Lyttelton. The Kittawa should arrive about the middle of the week with, coal from Westport and Greymoutb. for discharge at Dunedin and OamartL

The Monowai has been, detained at Wellington by bad weather. She is due to arrive on Wednesday, and will leave again on Thursday. The Corinna will leave Wellington today for Timaru and Dunedin, whence she will sail on Thursday for New Plymouth. It was reported to £he North-Eastern Sea Fisheries Committee at York in November last that a Hull skipper has earned over £35,000 since the war began. Another has made £15,000 in two years, and the balance sheet of a firm of trawler owners shows that one skipper has been paid £8000 during one year. The report added that skippers had'earned all they received when the perils of the North Sea were remembered.

China is apparently giving material aid to the Allied cause. Oaptain J. S. Watson, salvage expert of the Hongkong Dock Company, in Victoria, stated recently that ships are being built at Hongkong and all principal yards in Chhja for British interests as j fast as they can be turned out. He says i the Hongkong Dock Company has six steel j ships, each of approximately 350 ft in length, on the stocks at Hongkong. While labour is cheap in the Orient, the steel shipbuilders there have many obstacles to combat, tho greatest of which is the shortage of steel. The Banco Ingles, off the South American coast, has been tho scene of a good many marine disasters. The Uruguayan authorities have recently issued a permit to a salvage- company at Montevideo to endeavour to salve the cargoes and machinery of the steamer Dargai, which became a total loss near the bank in 1914 (reports the Syren). A preliminary expedition reports that the steamer is itself beyond salvage. The hull is resting partly on a ledge of rock and partly on the hull of another steamer whose name is unknown. The cargo of tho Dargai consists mostly of eoal, with some packages of machinery and barrels of cement, most of which it is anticipated can bo salved. In the "shipping sales" in the September issue of Fairplay the sale was reported of sis steamers, aggregating about 30,000 tons deadweight, and averaging nine years of age, to Mr A. Monro Sutherland, for slightly over £11 per ton deadweight. This price marks a considerable fall in the value of tonnage much moro than would be justified by the sale of tho six steamers in one lot. When, however, the price is compared with what is being offered and paid for foreign tonnage, _ the comparison is almost ludicrous. For instance, in Sep-' tember last, a foreign steamer of 5800 tons deadweight, built in 1892, and overduo for her second No. 3 survey, was sold for £330,000. If the six steamers above referred to had been sold on the same basis and without taking any account of the fact that on the average they are 16 years younger, they would have fetched about £2,223,000, instead of about £430,000 or £4-40,000. «, TIMARU HARBOUR BOARD. Tho revenue of the Timaru Harbour Board for 1917 amounted to £26,959, as compared with £32,315 in the previous year. In the revenue amounted to £40,387, and in 1913 to £41,980—the latter being the record total. The receipts have necessarily been affected by the war, as a consequence of which the total net registered tonnage entered inwards fell from 419,200 in 1913 to 208,815 last year. Tho imports and exports totalled tons (a record) in 1913, and have declined each year since then. Last year they totalled 125,987 tons. ♦ MARINERS' LOSS OF EFFECTS. The maximum, amount of compensation ■ granted to masters, officers, and seamen who lose their effects on British merchant and fishing vessels through war risks depends upon the rating, and is according to (the following scale: — Merchant Vessels. Master ._ _ £100 0 0 Certificated officers, surgeons, pursers, wireless operators ... 50 0 0 Uncertificated officers and apprentices ... .- - 40 0 0 Carpenters - - 35 0 0 Ratings in. stewards' department above the rank of assistant _. „ 30 0 0 Ratings in stewards' department not above the rank of assistant _ 15 0 0 Boatswain, donkeyman, quartermaster, etc ... „ 10 0 0 Seamen, firemen, etc 7 10 0 Fishixg Vessels. Skipper _..._„ 30 0 0 Second hand ... _ 15 0 0 Engineman ... _ 10 0 0 Deck hand, fireman, cook, etc. 7 10 0