SHIPPING

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17532, 25 January 1919, Page 6

SHIPPING

MASKS 03? THE MOON.

- . <j, SHIPPING TELEGRAMS.

INTERCOLONIAL.

CUNARD WAR LOSSES

OVERSEA. VESSELS.

GERMAN , SHIPPING.

January. "

Newnxxra „ „ ... _. .„ 3 7.54 p.m. First quarter ,_.__._ ... 9 10.25 p-m. PnUmoou „ _ „ .„ „. 16 8.14 p.m. Last quarter „, 24 3.52 p.m. THE STJN. - Bises tD-aay at 4.55 a-m.; sets at 7.45 pjn. Rises to-morroiv at 4.56 a.m.; sets at 7.41 p.m. /. THE WEATHER. ■ ' Jannary 24 8 a.m.: Wind wost, ligUt; fine. /Noon: Wind N.W., tresli; otoudy. 5 p.m.: Wind N.W., light; dull, cloudy. \ ' 8 a.m. Noon. 6 p.m. \ Shermoincter ... _. ._ _ Mar., 67; min., 42. ] HIGH WATER. January 25— . . a.m. p.m. At ' Taiaroa Heade ._ „ „ „ 8.14 0.40 At Port Chalmers „. „ „ ... 3.51 10.20 .'■ At Ihinedin „ „ _ _ _. 10.24 10.50 "January 26-7-At Taiaroa Heade _ _ 10.5 10.30 At Port Chalmers ._ „. _. ... 10.45 11.10 At Dunediri ... ._ ... .„ ... 11.15 11.40 WEATHEB. FORECAST. (Paa USITBD PRESS ASSOOIATIOH.) WELLINGTON, Juiroaiy 24. The follovring is the official weather forecast:— ITesent indications are for southerly breezes, veering to increasing northerlies, the weather warm and haiy, but cioudy and unsettled conditions are likely to follow generally. The barometer has a rising tendenoy, but is due to fall everywhere , shortly. ■ ; ' - ARRIVALS. •Kahika, e& (11.45 eon.), 1148 tons. Edge, from Westport. Union Steam Ship Company, agent. Kotare, 3.8. (0.45 a.m.), 11l tons, Moomby, from Lytteltan. Keith. Ramsay, agent. • Kokiri, s&. 9(.15 p.m.), 1214 tons, from iWestport. Union Stepim Ship Company, egent. „

AUCKLAND, January 24.—Arrived: Emanate (10.15 a.m.), from Newcastle; Ameiil Cecille (5.30 p.m.), from New York. Sailed: Mauktrra (0.35 a.m.), for Vancouver; Buahin© (4.10 p.m.), for "Wellington. WELLINGTON, January 24—Sailed: Kent (12.45 pan.), foi London, via Panama. G-RjaYMOUTH, January 24.—Arrived: Xowhai (5.35 a.m.), from Port Chalmers. LYTTELTON, January 24.—Arrived :* Mararoa (11 a.m., from Wellington.- , FREMANTLE, January ' 23.—Arrived: Devon, frami (Wellington.

, The Kjahika arrived at Dunedin about noon yesterday, ooal laden, from Westport. She will' complete her discharge at Port Chalmersj and then undergo survey and overhaul there. • .'

■ The Kittawa left Wellington at 7 a.m. yesterday for Westport, where ehowill load for Bluff and Dunedin. , The PutiM is due at Dunedin on Tuesday to load for Timaru, Lyttelton, and Wellington.

The Kotare will be despatched to-day for Blufi and Inyercargill.

: The Monowiii is to leave Auckland this afternoon for Napier, Wellington, 'Lyttelton, and Dunedin, -where she is due on Thursday. The Breeze, will probably arrive here on Sunday from the north, and will sail the next day for Wanganui, via ports. • Tlio Kiaram-u ia due to arrive at .Dunedin on - Monday, coal laden from Westport. l Tho Honolulu Chamber of Commerce has endorsed a nine million dollar loan for tho improvement and extension of Honolulu's harbour- to provide facilities for catering for shipping tonnage after the -war.

! The Union liner Manuka is expected to ■ ;,leave Wellington on Monday afternoon for -■Sydney direct. ;.;. The Moeraki was timed to sail from Wel- ;' lington last. evening for Sydney, in the ; event of her securing a full crew, : . The Kaiapoi reached Greymouth at 5.30 :: »jn. yesterday from Lyttelton. She will : load a full cargo of timber for Melbourne. , The Kokapo will probably be released from qwsoaafcino at Sydney to-day.

'. A. message from New York states that 15 ships, aggregating 206,769 gross tons, were lost by the Cunard line N during the period of the war. Of these, all except two ves-sels-were classed as war losses, having been sank by torpedoes or mines. The Campania and Ascania were lost through acci-' dents. The Urgest of the vessels was the Lusitania, torpedoed on May 7, 1915. The ■Anchor Line, a subsidiary of the company, also lopt heavily, eight ehips, including the 14,340-tbn Tuscania, falling victim to tho German • sea, depredations, the total ton»a<*e loss of thia line being 65,488.

The E.M.S. Makura cleared Auckland shortly after midnight on Thursday for Suva, Honolulu, and Vancouver. She is due at Vancouver oa Febrar.ry 11. ' •,_ The mail eteamex Moana is to leave Wellington on Monday for Riurotongia, Papeete and Son Francisco

The Tahiti is to leaveJPoft Chalmers to,d«.y far Wellington, where she will complete her loading for Liverpool. ■The Federal-Shire liner Kent, which has been loaded .at New Zealand porta by the New Zealand ShiprpiSg Company, sailed from Wellington about roon yesterday for London via Panama,

»The Union Company's barque Dartford f-'^Sk? 111 Vancouver last Saturday, bound for Wellington.

The Northern Colonial Bureau, Ltd., in ■ Hamburg hue issued a pamphlet' entitled ••German Shipping Before, During, and Aftex the War," which contains valuable statistics. The Carman merchant marine amounted to 5,459,296 gross register tons on ~ January 1, 0914. Shipowners have thus fai ' durect and indirect losses of about 800 ships with about 2,900,000 gross register tons, or more than 50 per cent. - If the ships still lying in neutral harbours ai-e counted as lost as a precautionary measure, about two-thirds of the entire German merobant marine would be done away /with. comparison with these • ordered German steamship companies during the war ja of interest-— Of the leading companies the Hambur— Amenta lene « buOdmg the Bismarck, with '2r'J^s ; ■ * terbme ■ steainer Tirpitz with 32,000 tons, .and fee otfeer ehipf o 32,000 tons each in Hamburg yards. Near Br <?inen, nine steamers are being- built, of which four, with a cargo capacity of 18,000 tons each, wiU be the largest freighters in the world. The Flensburg- yard ia building three large passenger and freight boats' while two other steamers of 13,000 tons each »« u Teoklenberg, GoestemundT is building two Reamers of 17,006 ■ tona each for the Panama Canal service. The Hamburg-South American Co. has four cargo steamers being built at various yards aatfe from the Cape Polonic, an improved Bitser ship of £h© Cap Trafalgar (18,000 tons) sunk. The North German 'Lloyd is insSdmg two large liners, Columbus and HJndenburg, of 35,000 tons each, and two more ships of 12,000 tone each, The African In* «? dmS ?* th ° BaMa Line it ond the Kosmos Line 10 steamers, ranein? from 9000 to 13,000 tons. • rangingAccording to the above the loading lines •». budding about 950,000 ton., nl-togetW which 13 not uewSy enough to IM >looe 4e losses of Q» German merchant marine W •ing the war. It was thereto© necessary to encourage now construction by K overam«mtVl metres. This pwpo*, L*w the reconstruction 'of *e mtfrme -xooenily by .the