SHIPPING.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18340, 2 September 1921, Page 4

SHIPPING.

PHASES OP THE MOON. Saptbmbbr. Nowmoon 2nd P- m - First quarter 9th 3-9 p.mPull moon ... .;. 17th 6.50 p.m. bast quarter 25th 8.48 a.m. • THE SUN. Rises to-day at 6.43 a.m.; sets at 6.34 p.m. ■ - THE WBAXHBB. September-* 1. —Fine in the morning; some showers in the afternoon; fresh south-westerly breeze. t 8 a.m. Noon. I n.m ' Barometer 30.03 30.08 30.12 Thermometer ... Min.,34; max., 80. HIGH WATER. September 2 a.m. P-™-At Taiaroa Heads 2.16 2.41 At Fort Chalmers 2.86 3.31 At Dunedin 3.26 3,81 WEATHER REPORTS. - ‘ ■ (Tbb Dsiriu Paass aiiociatiov.) WELLINGTON, September 1. Following art in* uuicial we&luer report* at 4 p.m. :: ‘ Bar. Tber. Weather. Cape Maria ... 3;, fresh 30.09 B 8 Squally Russell S., fresh 30.01 61 Cloudy Manukau H. ... S., breeze 29.98 63 Cloudy Auckland ... S.W., fresh 30.09 B 5 Fair 41'auranga ... S.W., fresh 29.85 50 Fair Gisborne S.S.W., iresh 29.91 62 Fair Napier S., light 29.95 60 Fair ■ Castlupoinb ... S.W., light 30.00 60 Fine Wellington ... 8., breeze 30.04 64 Fair ’NewPlymouth S.,.light 29.96 54 Fine Oape Egmont... S., light 29.98 51 Fine ■Wanganui ... S.W., light 29.08 65 Fine :Fatewell Spit.. N. 8., breeze 30.00 60 Hazy ; Gape Ifoulwind S., breeze 30.03 63 Cloudy Greymoutlh ... S., breeze 30.01 62 Fine Stephen Island W., light 29.99 47 Fine Cape Campbell S.E., fresh 30.03 49 Cloudy Kalkoura ... S.W., fresh 30.06 48 Overcast Akaroa light... S.W., fresh 30.00 49 Gloomy , Nuggets... ... S.W., fresh 30.01 45 Rain Bluff W.S.W., br. 30.06 48 Showery WEATHER FORECAST. ■ The following is the official weather forecast : “.Present" indications are for moderate to strong southerly winds, -with changeable and showery conditions., ■ The glass is unsteady, with a rising tendency.” DEPARTURE, Thursday, September 1, Kamo, s.s. (4.15 p.m.), 1236 tans, Edge, for Groymoulh, via porte. Union Steam Ship Co., agent. i; SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. . i AUCKLAND, September I.—Arrived: Cornwall (3.50 a.m,), from New York; Katoa (7.25 flijcn.), from Wellington. Sailed; Wingotui. (4.15 p-m.), for Bluff. WELLINGTON, September I.—Arrived: Wootton (2.30 a.m.), from Lyttelton; Maraloa (7 a.m.), from Lyttelton; Kurow (7.10 ».m.), frorq Lyttelton; Calm (9.5 a.m.), from Wanganui; Invercargill (9.15. a.m.), from Wanganui; Huia (9.15 a.m.), from Wanganui; Opua (1.15 p.m.), from Lyttelton; Kini (3.40 p.m.), from Lyttelton. Sailed: Dorset (4.15 a.m.), for Lyttelton; Karamu (5.5 a.m.), for Dunodin; Calm (6 p.m.) and Mararoai .(7-65 p.m.), for Lyttelton; Invercargill (8 p.m.)) for Havelok. • WESTPORT, September 1.-Soiled: Malai■ia (4.15 ’ p.m.), for Melbourne. OaMARU, September I.—Arrived: Kamo (0.45 p.m.), from Dunedin. LYTTELTON, September I.—Arrived: Maori (7.35 a.m.) . and Baden Powell (7.5 a.m.), from Wellington;, Orepuki (7.20a.m.), from Greyraouth. Sailed: Maori (8.25 a.m.), for Wellington. BLUFF, September I.—Arrived: Port Bowen (1.30 p.m.), from Port Chalmers. PORT KEMBLA, September I.—Arrived: . Kumata, from Hobart; Eastern Planet, from Melbourne; Elginshire and Wairuna, from .Whangapo. Sailed; Joan Craig, for New .-Zealand. HULL, August 31.—Arrived: Eastminster Abbey. Sailed; Guayatecas, for Melbourne; Havre, for Auckland. SUEZ, August 31.—Arrived: Mantua, Pori Natal, and Port Chalmers. Passed La® Palmas: Port Sydney. Passed Lizard: Karamca. The Breeze is due at Dunedin to-day. She 1 will sail to-morrow for limuru, Lyttelton, Pioton, and Wdnganui. The Whangape will sail from Melbourne this afternoon for Auckland, via Newcastle. The Katoa is expected to leave Auckland to-morrow evening for Dunedin direct. She -will load here about Wednesday for Auckland, via ports. 1 The Calm is due here to-morrow morning, and will sail the same day for Bluff, Timaru, Lyttelton, Wellington, and Wanganui. Tho Island steamer Flora left Raratonga at noon on Wednesday, and is due at Auckland next Thursday. Tho Waipori ia expected to leave Auckland on Friday for Wellington and Dunedin. The Wingatui was expected to leave Auckland last .night for Bluff, Oatnaru, and Timaru, ,to , load again for Auckland. ,f ThW Kpwhai left Wellington at noon yesterday for' Groymouth to load for Wellington, The Karamu loft Wellington yesterday for Dunodin to load for Wellington, via Oamaru and Timaru. The Island steamer Tofua left Apia at 10 ?.m. on Tuesday for the Friendly Islands, 'iji, and Auckland. The Rakanoa sailed from Westport on Wednesday ni|ht for Auckland. Tho Komata will leave Westport to-day for Wellington. The Kaiapoi will leave Greymquth to-day for Melbourne and Adelaide. She will iPad at the Latter port for Auckland. The Kamo left Dunedin yesterday afternoon tor Nelson, Now Plymouth, Westport, Qreymouth, via Oamaru* and Timaru. The Koronui will leave Napier to-day for Dunodin, where . she will load on Monday for Gisborne and Napier, via ports. The Paloona was to leave Melbourne yesterday for Dunedin direct. She is due here on Tuesday, and, after discharging her Dunedin cargo, will proceed to Lyttelton and ■Wellington, and will return to Melbourne, via Bluff. . The Kaitangata, from Newcastle and Sydney, is duo here to-day. From here she will proceed to Timaru and Lyttelton to complete discharge. The Wanaxa loft Sydney yesterday for Bluff, Dunedin, Lyttelton, and Wellington. , The message from the lighthouse keeper at Farewell Spit, announcing tho safe passage the barque Invernoii, was received ... by Jit A,.' J. Allen, of Vogel street, and not by 'M-epsra, Tapiey and Co. ' The .' Berwickshire was despatched from Sydney pn the 20th ult. with wool and general cargo for Liverpool and Manchester. The steamer Cherbury, ex Sakkarah, 4631 i tons, is ‘on her way to South Australia, under charter to load 8000 tons of flour for Egypt. This will be the last shipment of the Egyptian Government flour contract from Australia. •*

Tho new Japanese steamer Venice Maru, ,da her, maiden voyage, arrived at Sydney recently'from Muroran (Japan), after a passage of 28 days, and was berthed to load, a ‘ cargo of wheat for the United Kingdom or Continent.' Tho Venice Maru is owned by til© Kawasaki Kiscn Kaisha Co., of Kobe, who are reported to control about 600,000 tons of shipping. - Advice received in Sydney recently report® that tho steamer Forngarth was burnt at sea. The crew were saved. The Ferngarth left New York on August 5 with ca»e oil for Melbourne, Adelaide, and Fremantle. The Ferngarth, built in 1911, ia a steel screw steamer of 4629 ton® gross, and 2899 tons no* register. On May 10 the American schooner John and Wihthrep arrived at Sydney from Groymemth' with a cargo of timber. Sho discharged, and shortly afterwards her captain and crow were paid off. Since then she has bean lying idle, but it was announced a few i day© ago that the vessel had been sold. She is now awaiting registration. In the Western Australian Legislative Assembly, the Minister controlling shipping

stated, in reply to a question, that the not aggregate earnings of the Government motor ship Kangaroo, from the time the vessel was purchased to June 30, 1920, was £275,522. The old steamer Glauous, which hod been laid up in Melbourne for some weeks, has been put into commission again, and has been sent to Newcastle to load a coal cargo for Noumea. The idleness of the vessel was caused by the embargo upon oversea and New Zealand cool shipments, but with its removal the vessel's trading has been resumed. F. 0.8. CONTRACT. Attention has been drawn to an action which came before Mr Justice M'Cardie, m England. The question was raised: “When did property in goods pass under an f.o.b. contract?” Plaintiff, a leather manufacturer, of Sheffield, sold to defendants a quantity of bolting f.o.b. Liverpool. In due course the defendants tent shipping instructions to tho plaintiff, and the goods reached the buyer’s shipping agents in Liverpool, who were to plaoe them on board at the seller's coat. Owing to shipping misfortunes, and to a strike, the goods remained unshipped for nearly three months, and the plaintiff was unpaid. His contention ■was that he had done all that he could to perform his obligations, and that the defendants had failed to name an effective ship. The Judge held that in the case of f.o.b. contracts, where there was no special agreement, the property and the risk in goods did not pass from the seller to the buyer until the goods were actually put on board. Therefore the plaintiff was not entitled to recover the price of goods.

PACIFIC TRADE AGENCY. In addition to ensuring effective means of trading with the Pacific Islands, it is c.aimed that the Commonwealth Pacific Trade Agency, which was established in Sydney early this year, will make a profit of £19,000 a year, which will bo transferred to tho Federal Treasury. This profit is obtained by charging a small commission on tho business transacted. Mr W. C. Harvey, who is in charge of the agency, is visiting Melbourne, and recently conferred with the Acting Prim© Minister (Sir Joseph Cook). It is the intention of Mr Harvey to visit Babaul at the end of the month. He wil 1 assist members of the Expropriation Board while in New Guinea, and gain, first-hand knowledge of business affairs in the territory. The new sehetne is said to be working with greater efficiency than the previous one. Before the formation of the agency the work of tendering fox tho supplies for the islands was entrusted to four business firms. It has now been found that when tenders are called by the agency the prices are much below those demanded under the old scheme., In addition to the revenue to the commonwealth, the savings to the traders in the islands are also considerable. Allegations that the agency is controlled by one of the largest shipping companies trading with tho islands ere held to be disproved by the fact that this company has failed to obtain tho tender for some -of the leading commodities over which it previously had a monopoly. Mr Harvey states that a preferential tariff for products entering _ Australia from Papua and New Guinea is desirable if the trade of these valuable possessions is to, bo retained for Australia. Already the countries of the East are endeavouring to obtain a hold on the market. WITHIN WIRELESS . RANGE. The following vessels were last night within range of tho wireless stations mentioned:— Auckland: Marama, Pakeha, Wingatui, Easterner, Hanna, Waipori. Awanui: Kauri, UlLmaroa, Manuka, Waimarino, Kawatiri. Awarna: Kaitangata. Chatham Islands: Port _ Lyttelton. Wellington; Miapourika, Maori, Mararoa, Wnitomo, Kurow, ship France, Dorset, Durham.