SHIPPING.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17940, 20 May 1920, Page 4

SHIPPING.

phases os , ibb mooh. _ „ Hay. Full moon _ „ _ _ _ ra si.i 7 p.m. I-eat quarter ... _ _ _ _ _ n 6.21 p.m. New moon ... _ _ _ ~ _ je 6.56 p.m. First quarter „. „ .„ _. ,„ 35 8.37 a.m. THE BTOT.! Blses to-day at 7.33 a.m.; sete at 4.36 p.m. THE WEATHBR. May 19—8 a.m.: Wind S.W., light; rain. Noon: Wind 3.W.; fresh; line. 5 p.m.: Wind S.W., light; fine. 8 a.m. Noon. 5 p.m. Barometer _ „ _. _ 29.40 2U.35 29.30 Thermometer _ „ „ Hax., 46; min., 35. .HIGH WATHB Kay 20— a.m. p.m. At Taiaroa Heeds ...„_„ 4.3 4.33 At Port Chalmers — „. ™ ... 4.43 5.13 At Dunedin „. „ ._ ... 5.13 6.43 WEATHER BBPOBTS. (Fm Uirb Pan* ahoousim.) WELLINGTON, May 19. The following are the wo&thtr reporte st 4 p.m. :— Ear. Ther. Weather. Cape Maria „ N.W., fresh • 23.69 60 Squally Baesell ... „ W., freah , 20.64 62 Cloudy Manukaa H. _ W.S.W., m-g. 29.68 54 Overcast Auokland _ W., fresh ' 29.60 61 Showery Tauranga „, S.W, fresh 29.57 67 Pair Gisborne... «. N.W., breeie' 29.40 60 Fina Napier ™ _ S.W., light 29.45 59 Fine Oastlepoint „ N.W., light 29.39 63 Showery Wellington ... N., light 29.37 53 Fine New Plymouth 8.W., fresh 29.44 60 Showery Oiipe Egmont— W., fresh 29.45 60 Fair Wauganui .„ W.N.W., fresh 29.42 56 Fair Farewell Spit.. W , ., fresh 29.40 52 Cloudy I Onpe Fonlwind 5. W., fresh 29.37 49 Showery Greymonth ... S.W.,frefih 29.40 52 Overoost Stephen Island S.W., iresh 29.40 51 Clondy Oape Campbell S.W., light 29.45 55 Fine Kfiikouro _ N.W., light 29.43 62 PinoAkarca light... S.W., light 29.33 47 Fine Nuggete S.W., light 29.20 47 Overcast 81nf1... ._ „ W.,ireeh 29.07 60 Kain WEATHER FORECAST. - The following are tho official weather eummaTy »nd forecast: —" Unsettled conditions have • prevailed generally, with strong and equally wesfc-sonth-weet winds, and rain in many parts ot the dominion. Snow has been reported on some o( the high country in the South Island. The at- j moepherJo pressure is still very low, especially in the eonth. Present indications arc for high sonth-west winds and cold, boisterons weather, with heavy showers generally, and snow on the higher levels. The banJmeter will rise everywhere soon." SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. AUCKLAND, May 18.—Arrived:. Ihumata (2.15 a.m.), from NVwcastle; Mapourika (6 tkxa.), from Gisbomo. May 19.—Arrived: lonio (8.85 p.m.), from Southampton; Wfcangape (8.55 p.m.), from Makatea. Sailed: "Waiheino (7.25 p.m.), for San Francisco. "WELLINGTON, May 18.—Sailed: Kauri (9AS p.m.), for M«lboTirne; Mokoia, for Lyttelton and Ihmedin. May 19.—Arrived: TVa&ine (7.10 α-ni.), from Lyttelton; Stella (9 a.m.), from Dunedin; Putiki (9.20 0.m.), from Napier; Poherua (12.50 p.m.), from "Westpart; iloereW (6.30 p.m.), from Sydney. Sailed: Ngahere (7.10 a.m.), for Greyinonth; Hinemoa (10.80 a,m.), for northern lighthouses; Karamu (3.40 p.m.), for Gieymouth; Canadian Importer (5.5 p.m.), for Auckland; Wahke (8.10 p.m.), for Lyttelton. To Sail: Westralia (9 pjn.), for LytteltOb.

LYTTELTON, May 19.—Arrived: Maori (8.10 a.m.), from Wellmgton; Bemuera (10.10 a.m.), from Wellington; Mokoia (12.3S p.m.), from Wellington; Eahika, from Greymotith. i——Sailed: Maori, for Wellington. MELBOURNE, May 18,—Arrived: Paloona, from Wellington. ■ ' SYDNEY, May 19.—Aniv«l: Manuka (9.45 p.m.), from New Zealand. WBSTRAMA POSTPONED. The Weetralia, whioh -was to have left here for Melbourne, vie Bluff, on Saturday, has now been delayed until Monday. •" ■»■■ \ The waterside -workers hove been holidaymaking since noon on. Tuesday. "Work will be resumed tliie morning on the Kotare and Stormy and on the oversea steamer Otaki at the Victoria -wharf. Three arrivals are expected at Dunedin today. The Kaitana is due from Oamaru t-o put out the balance of her Westport coal, and the Mokoia ia doe from Auckland, via. the usual East Coast "ports. The British Imperial Oil Company's Steamer Havre ehould aleo arrive to-day with a oargo of oils from Singapore, via Auckland, 'Wellington, and Lyttelton. Gollin and Co. are the local agents. The MberaM is adieduled to leave Wellington to-night for Sydney and Hobart. ! The Miokoia, which is due at Dunedin today from the north, ie timedl to rail on Saturday for Auckland, via East Coast porta. j The Monowai ie fixed to leave Auckland today for Dvmedin, via parts. The Kotare will probably be despatched today for Blufi, and the Storm for Wanganui. The largest shipment of grain ever brought to Auckland in a single vessel arrived at Auokland from Melbourne last Saturday by the New Zealand Shipping Company's steamer i Orari. The cargo, which is principally wheat, consists of 111,541 Backs, equal to about 10,000 j tons.

The claim that the passage of 44 days from San Francieco to Aucldand by the schooner Northern Chief, is aTecord, is questioned by Mr T. Henderson. Hβ etatee that the record for thia run is held by the barque Alice ' Cameron, 347 tone, which did the journey in' i SI days in 1866, -under the command of the' Jate Captain Wearing. The schooner Neva, 90 tons, did the same trip in 43 days in 1863. , Both these vessels belonged to the Circular : Saw Line. The round trip of the Alice Came- i ron occupied only 106 days, including a etay of 20 days at San Franciaco. ■ o DA'RTFORD AT PERU. , The TJnion Company's barque Daxtford arrived at Btem, Peru, last month, after a 60 days' passage from Newcastle. The vessel •will load nitrates at South America for Australia. •PBINZ EITHL FEIEDRICH. DESTROYED BY FIRE. Tie etoamer Dβ Kalb (formerly the Gorman eteamei Piinz Bitol Friedrich), which wae at anchor in the Hudson River, has been / burnt out. The hull hue been beached at Spnyten Duyvil. The Dβ Kalb is a vessel of 8797 tons gross, end wna built in tho Vulcan yard at Stettin in 1904. She was formerly well known us the Norddentecher Lloyd eteamer Ptinz Eitel Friedrich, and, at the outbreak of war, was at TeingUu, China. She was fitted out there ae a raiding vessel, and her first victim was the British eteanuor Oharcas, which she capered and sank off the Chilian coast between Valparaiso and Coronel in the first week of December, 1914. She efterwarde captured the British barque Kildalton,- which she sank, and

the French bniquo Jean, with which vessel she proceeded to Easter Island. After coaling from the Joan's cargo ehe sank hor <m« landed her prisoners of w:ir, which consisted of nearly 60 English and French Bailors taken from the two barques. Tho vessel theu left EnsrUsr Island and apparently commenced operations in the Atlantic In January she sank tho .French barques Jacobeen and Pierre Loti, tho Euseian barquo Isabel Browne, tho American ship William P. Fryo, and in February tho British barque Invorcoo, tba French eteamer Floridc, iuict the British eteftmexe Mary Adft Short and Willorby. She arrived at Newport News about -March 11, 1915, for repairs, and on April 7 of that yoar the ooimnandei was notifiocl by tho United States Govorninon-t thai the Prinz EiteJ. Friedrich roust leavo t3ie United States territorial waters by 4 o'clock on April Bor ba interned. On April 8, 1916, the vessel was interned at Norfolk (Virginia), and on tho declaration, of war between tho United Sta-tee and Gernwvny she waa eoizod and employed 1 by the United States navy oe a troop transport.