SHIPPING.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17425, 20 September 1918, Page 4

SHIPPING.

PHASES OF THE MOON. September. New moon _ 5 10.14 p.m. First quarter 14 2.32 a.m. Full moon __ 21 0.31 a.m. Last quarter ™ 27 4.9 P-m. THE STTN. \ Rises to-day at 6.8 a.m.; Eets at 5.57 p.m. , THE WEATHER. _ September 19.—8 a.m.: Wind N.E., light; fine. Noon: Wind N.E., fresh; fine. 5 p.m.: Calm; 5 . clear sky. 8 a.m. Noon. 5 p.m • , Barometer. ... „. ... ... 30.42 30.18 30.06 Thermometer Mai., 00; mill., 44. HIGH WATEE. September 20— a.m.- p.m. At Taiaroa Heads .„ „ 1.51 2.14 At Port Chalmers ... 2.31 2.54 At Dunedin 3.1 3.24 WEATHER REPORTS. (Pan Usit*u Pr*3s Association.) WELLINGTON, September 19. The following are the weather .reports at 4 p.m.:— Bar. Ther. Weather. Capo Maria ... S.E., fresh 30.41 54 Fine Russell S.E., fresh 30.34 59 Cloudy ManukauH.... S.S.W.,m. g. 30.34 51 Fine Auckland S.W., fresh 30.34 54 Fine Tauranga ... S.W., Iresh 30.31 58 Fair Gisborne S.S.W., m. g. 30.35 43 Cloudy Napier S., Iresh 30.38 53 Fair - Castlepoint ... S.W., breeze 30.40 48 Showery ■Wellington ... S., breeze 30.42 51 Fine , New Plymouth S.E., fresh 30.38 51 Fine . Cape Egmont... S.E., fresh 30.35 52 Fair Wanganui ... S., light 30.4G 55 Fine Farewell Spit.. N.W., light 30.43 53 Fine Cape Foulwind S.W., light 30.45 54 Cloudy • Greymouth ... W., light 30.45 48 Cloudy Stephen Island W., light 30.42 47 Fine Cape Campbell W., fresh 30.40 50 Fine Akaroa light... N.E., fresh 30.42 55 Hazv Nuggets W„ light 30.31 45 Cloudy Blufl S.W., breeze 30.19 57 Cloudy WEATHER FORECAST. The following are the official weather summary and forecast:—"The barometer has risen, and now stands above normal everywhere. Southerly winds have decreased, and an improvement has taken place in the weather conditions to-day. ■_ Present indications are for decreasing southerly winds, veering shortly to freshening westerlies in the south and jn Cook Strait-. The weather will be fair and cloudy generally, bnt unsettled m Southland. The barometer will have little movement, but expect a ialling tendency soon in the south. SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. A.UCKTiAN'jJ, September 19. —Arrived: To Anau '(3 p.m.),, from the south. Sailed: Monowai (noon), for Wellington, Lyttelton, , and Dunedin. Passengers for Dunedin.: Misses Sandford, Dormer, Killen, Ashby, Mesdemes Donald, Bain, Fitchett, Ward, Andrew, Messa-s -bain, Andrew, and Dean Fitchett. LxTTELTON, September 19.—Arrived: Maori (8.50 sum.), from Wellington. .■I •> .: ■ The Kaiapoi is loading produce at Timaru for Auckland. ,-^ 10 Tarawera left Auckland on - Tuesday night for Sydney. The Poherua will complete her loading at i Greymouth to-diay for Oamaru and Dunedin. The Burns Philp steamer M&kambo, which * went ashore on Lord How Island in J.uly, has resumed her running in the Island trade. The Calm is expected to arrive here on Saturday to load for Kroaru, Lyttelton, and WanganuL The weather improved on the West Coast yesterday, and the bars at Westiport and r~ - Greymouth were negotiable. A start was made at Port Chalmers yesterday stepping the lower masts of the hulk County of Aaglesea. g Kittawa, is due at Port OliEiJiners thi? morning to discharge the balance of her coal . cargo from Wefftport. Later she will load at Dunedin fox the West Coast. ■.. The Maori was delayed on Wednesday ... night by a southerly gale, and did not re&ch Lyttelton yesterday till 8.50 a.m.—about two f. hours late.

lie Amerioan four-masted schooner "W. H. Talbot has turned up at a port in the Philippine Islands after a very protracted voyage of 122 days from Sydney. Last trip the schooner mode, from Sydjiiey to £aanboangQ, | the time occupied was only 32 days. The tonnage of ships launched from Tapan- ;• ese yards in 1914 was 136,000; in 1916 it reached 300,000, and in 1917 increased to 450,000. The authorities consider that in view of this tendency it is not difficult to reach an output of 600,000 tons a year. On September 1 the_ steamer Bethangu -was ' ■ launched at an American shipbuilding yard. The Betlianga is the latest wooden steamer ordered by the Commonwealth Government i" in America to take the water. _ An important statement was recently made in the Western Australian Legislative Assembly when Mi E. T. Kollinson (State Attor-ney-general) said the Government had; decided to lease a site in North Fr-emantlo to the "Western Australian Shipbuilding Company for its scene of operations. In deciding'that no blame was attributable to any person for the stranding and subsequent total loss of the barque John Murray \ oil a reef off Maiden Island on May 22, the Court of Marine Inquiry congratulated Captain Or. E. Vaughan, master'of the vessel, on having conducted himself like a man "who could only have been a sailor, and a British sailor at that." The court also referred to " the excellent seamanship of the crew. It found that the wreck was caused by an abnormal westward set of three miles an hour, much exceeding any suggested by the sailing directions, in which the maximum current previously recorded was given as 56 milea • in 24 hours.' In their report, dated August 5, Messrs John Dunn, Son, and Co., of New York, write: —" During the last month there, have been practically no sailing vessels ■or steamers on which shipments could be made. : ( There are several vessels listed as chartered which have been reported in this way for some months back, but as none of them has , . yet put in an appearance it begins to look as if they might never load. One steamer cleared in July and one is expected to clear ' in August. Two sailing vessels—the Kensington and the Fahrwolil, —which cleared about May 1, were detained by the Government on account of their being Finnish vessels, and it is only within, the last two weeks that these vessels have been able to actually' get away from New York. It see me pretty clear that Germany has had the upper hand in Finland, and the United States Government has been holding a large number of these Russian-Finnish vessels until satisfactory guarantees were given that these boats would not be used in any way to help the enemy, i : The delay of these vessels lias been extremely unfortunate, but apparently could not have V been foreseen by anyone. The charterers of the vessels had received permission from the Government to load them, and there was no reason to suppose that there would be any hold-up after they were loaded. The Woodburn, now loading for Sydney, is another one of these Russian-Finnish vessels, but it is not expected that there will be any delay in her case."