SHIPPING.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17659, 24 June 1919, Page 4

SHIPPING.

'v PHASES OV THB MOO*, Kret quarter _ s 11.52 p.m. rS, — ~ — ~ ~ 14 3.58 a.m. •N ... ... .„ „ „. 21 6.3 p.m. ;1 \ ■ Netfmoon _ 28 8.23 a.m. THB SUN. . Bises to-day at 7.55 a-m.; seta at 4.25 p.m. THE WEATHEE. Juno 23.—8 a.m.: Wind S., strong; squally. > Noon: Wind S., strong; raining. 5 p.m.: Wind S.| strong; equally, Ba.ni. Noon. 5 p.m. Barometer ... 23.JX) 29.10 29.12 Thermometer ... _ ... Max., 42; inin., 38. HIGH WATBtt. June 24- a.m. p.m. At iamroa Heads ... 11.15 n.i 6 At Port Ohalmeis . ... 11.5 a At Dunedin — _■ 0.25 WEATHEB BEPOBTS. U*ITAD rsisa AS*OOIATIO*.) WELLINGTON, June 23. . following are tho weather xoporta ab I p.m. v, „ Ear. Ther. Weather. f°ssell W., fresh 29.50 55 Squally Manukau H.... \V., fresh 25.3G 43, Slioivory Xauranga ... W., fresh 29.37 53 Overcast gisborne N.W., breeze 29.23 54 Fair Napier .. ... W.,.light 29.18 5S Pair ... S.W., light 29.17 59 Showery Wellington ... S., light 29.1G 51 Overcast i New Plymouth W., fresh 29.25 54 Eain Cape Egmont... W., ircsh 29.25 52 Cloudy Wangunui ... W.N.W., IreSh 29.15 52 Pair Farewell Spit.. W., Ircsh 29.30 51 Cloudy Oape Foulwiml S.W., light 29.22 49 Cloudy . . Greymouth ... Calm .' 29.30 47 Pair , Stephen Island S.W., light 29.15 47 Cloudy Oape Campbell ' S., light 29.16 50 • Overcast Kaikoura ... S.W., Iresh 29.17 55 Ham Akaroa light... S.W., fresh 29.21 45 Kaln £!. u «8 cta S "> B al ° 29.-40 42 Showery ' — S.,towb 29.40 4G Showery WEATHEB FORECAST. • ' Th® following are tho ofhciil weather summary and forecast:— ■* Boisterous conditions have been . experienced generally, and heavy rain has fallen in many parts of the country. Tho atmospheric pressure has increased in the south since Sunday, nn( l high westerly winds have since ohanged to southerly. Present indications aro for southerly .■ winds, strong to a gale, and very cold, squally * 1 weather. Heavy showers are probable generally, on 12)0 h'Sher levels in the South •Island. Tho barometer should rise last everv- ; where soon." ARRIVALS. Maungumii, B .s. (11.10 0.m.), 7527 tans, WorraJl, from the United Kingdom, via Panama. Imperial Government, agent. Man&roa, sj3. (3 a.m.), 130 tons, Al'Neilago, from Lyttelton. Tapley and Co., agents. Kotaro, e.6. (8.10 p.m.), 147 tons, Mumby, from Stewart Iskvnd. K<iith Ramsay, agent. SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. AUCKLAND, June 23. —Arrived: Waimana . ' (9.5 sun.), from London. WANGANUI, June 23.—Sailed: Esther, American schooner, for Fiji. WELLINGTON, June 23.—Arrived: Port ■' Chaimers (4.45 a.m.), from Auckland; Kolciri (8.30 a.m.), from Dunedin; Houto (7.30 p.m.), from Dunedin. Sailed: Wlhakatano (10.5 a-m.), for New Plymouth; Maori (7.45 pjn), . for Lyttelton'; Mokoia (9J.0 p.m.), for the south. SYDISiJiY, Jmto 23.—Arrived: Inga, from New Zoalaaad. The Mokoia, from-Auckland, via Napier, reached Wellington, at 6.20 p.m. on Saturday, and was due to leave last evening for Lyttel> wn and Dunedin. The vessed is due here 1 to-morrow, and should leave 011? the return journey to Auckland! on Friday. The Kokiri reached Wellington ftorn Dunedin at 9 a.m. yesterday, «uid is expected to ' leave to-day for New Plymouth. She will thence proceed to Westport to load fox Wel- * lington. . Storm ie due here on Wednesday from Wanganui, via way ports. The Koromiko woa expected to leave Auck- ; land yesterday for Wellington and Lyttelton, and thence for Timaru and Auckland. > acoount of the bad) weather experienced at Bluff over the "week-eiud the has been delayed, and is now expected to leave to-day. Heavy weather hag been experienced along the west coast during the past week, and reports from Greymouth stated that a strong ; fresh was running in the river yesterday, while a heavy sea was beating on the bar i xh,ero was no prospect that the bar would ■ become workable later yesterday afternoon. The Kaiapoi has been bar-bound at Greymouta since last Tuesday, and tho Kamo ; since Thursday. The bar at Westport was also unworkable yesterday, and the Karamu, , which, was outside Greymouth on Saturday, , is now lying outside Westport waiting till sbe can enter m order to secure bunker coal. , Ihe .Rosamond reached Gisborne at 10 a.m. yesterday, and was expected to leave last , for Wellington, Timaru , Gamaru, , Napier, and Gisborne. ' ' th c u e^ Vy g ? le - blowin g at New . Plymouth on Saturday the Poherua waa un- ' wJ? leave. She was expected to get away yesterday for Greymouth,-where she will load oocl for Gisborne and Napier. 1 I"°' KKnona reached Wellington at 1.50 P-™,- ° n Saturday from Auckland, and is due to leave to-day for Westport, where she will load for the return trip to Wellington. :v Tihe four-masted barque Elginshire, which | completed loading at Sydney three we4ks ago, has undei hatches 45,331 bags of wheat. She 1 tfaient United Kingdom or the ConI' t pr6V 4 nt "imping in America S^P pm g has estabI • ald fSency, known as j , ervico where crews can be t . obtained for vessels. There is no cost to tte 1 el mt, an - -,- t ¥ establishment is run a t cost. The initLal charge will be 10s per but this will be considerably «- I-, duoed as soon -as possible. n.t T q^^t amer T»? W ? s "^ onte ®' whiai called ■ ° n 2 ?> flle9 tho Portuguese rteutsclex Tf a ™it of the Nordt ydl a f d was as the P +t VTOr days she waa Principally anployed m the company's services between . • Bremen and the East, with an occasional T}? 1 . Australia and America. The Tras-os. llontes ]9 a steel twin-screw steamer, regi&teang 8965 tons gross and 5034 net. SCHOONER FORRESTER. The American four-masted schooner Forrester arrived and anchored in the stream at Port 1 Chalmers at 4.30 p.m. on Sunday. Subses quent to the usual 24 hours' quarantine she vme admitted to pratique, and will probably Dunedin about 8 a.m. to-day . e I< ? l 7^ s > er , 13 carrying 20,000 cases of motor epint in her holds and 120,000 feet of Oregon pin© as deck oargo. Heavy 5.W.. winds experienced between the Kermadec Islands and the New Zealand coast • acooont for « delay in the arrival of the vesscd. THE ISLAND STEAMERS. ~ Papeete for Auckland, via + Co£ ? rida y> and ® expected rJ ea th® New Zealand port on Julv 2 (i, 1J T' T fr . om , «a routo for the Friendly Islands and Samoa, reached Suva at 11 a.m. on Satiuday, and was ex2?°ted to leave for Levuka, Apia, Vavau ' Haapai, etc., yesterday. The vessel is finally , expected to leave Suva for Auckland on ,• July 4. THE WAIMARINO. OJe Union Company's freighter Waimarino With a large general oargo, was due to leave Auckland yesterday for Sydney. THE WAITOMO. .: According to advice received from the Waiomo, the vessel is expected to reach Auckland, from Calcutta, Singapore, and Samarang early this morning. ' THE WAIMANA. The "Waimana, with a draft of returning men and a large general cargo, reached ! Auckland from the United Kingdom, via .. Panama, at 9 a.m. yecterday. The vessel will .V wacharge her cargo at Auckland, Wellington Lyttelton, and Port Chalmers, and ia due here about July 8. TJdJU ARAWA DELAYED. Word has been received locally that loading ... operations on tha Arawa at Wellington have teen dl Jayed on account of bad weather. The vessel is mot expected! to leave for London uni3 daybreak on Thursday. . OIL CARGOES. Two laarge American schooners are now en route from San Francisco to Dunedin witli cargoes of caoe oil for the Vacuum Oil Com • PQ-ny. The first of these is the Lily, which left- the Oalifomian port on April 19, and is now over 60 days out. The seoond is the : Alvena, whicu left San Francisco on May X, , and is doe here about the end of this month, v The Australian. Government steamer Australange, which left New York on May 14 for ... Lyttelton and Dunedin, is a full cargo of oaso oil for the Vacuum Oil Com- ■ pany. She is expected to reach Lyttelton at too end of fihiq month. TEASELS FROM EGYPT. Three veesels ore to leave Egypt in the - 1 tear future with troops. The transports are the Ulimaroa, which will leave about June v 24, the _ Pilsna, an ex-German steamer not , ehown in Lloyd's Register, and wihich will " leave about June 30, and the Innsbruck, a steel twin-screw steamer built in 1914, and owned by the Austrian-Lloyd Company, and • which will leave on or about June 20. The tonnage of tie last-mentioned v»eesol ia aot given, in Lloyd's.

THE HORORATA. Word lias boon rocoived by tho New Zealand Skipping' Company to tlio effect that tho Hororata, en routo from Wellington to Loudon, left Newport Nowa on Juno 9, THE NEW OTIIIA. An arrival at Auckland last Wednesday morning was the A. and A. chartered stccunor Otira, which dropped anchor after a 31 days' passage from New York. The Otira is a war production, launched. from ILarland arid Wolff's stocks. She ia a vessel of 7955 gross tonnage, twin-screw, and designed to develop 14 knots. There was nothing extraordinary in connection with, tho vessel's baptism in the waters of tho Atlantic and Pacific, though engi.no troublo prevented her from keeping to her time-table. Belfast was left on April 17, and fair weather being encountered New York was roached on the 27th of the same month. She loaded and left that port on May 15, and reached! Panama eoven days later. Sho bunkered at Panama, and cloared that port on May 23. Favourable weather again prevailed' in tihe run across tho Pacifio until Sunday, Juno 8, when a succession of heavy gales wore encountered, lasting for four days. Trouble with one of the engines put it out of commission' for a while, and whereas she had previously averaged 13 knots lier speed decreased to an average of 11 knots from Panama to Auckland. Having been completed after the closo of hostilities, the Otixa has never worn the coat of dazzle-stripes appropriate to war-tirde, but sho bears every sign of having been built to trick the U boat. Viewed from right abeam she might almost be taken for a doublc-ondor." Her cruiser stern lias the same profile as her bow, the poop and forecastle are identical, and her masts and short derrick-polos . aare arranged symmetrically. Both funnel and masts are vertical. The only thing that breaks the precise symmetry of .the vessel's outline is tho bridge, but even this 33 balanced to some extent by a house abaft the funnel. Taken as a whole, the ship is not such an extreme example of deceptive construction as tho War Opal, which recently visited Dunedin, but die represents some of the latest British ideas on tho subject.