SHIPPING.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18465, 28 January 1922, Page 8

SHIPPING.

PHASES op . THIS UOOH. JIBUABT. Pbst quarter w ... », Btk 9.84p.m. _ “ Z I „ 14th 3-8 lastiluirteA «. ... - - 20th 5-JO p.m. New moon M M ... ... 28th U.lB a-m> THE BUN. Bom today at 8.0 a.m.; seta at 7M paa. i. at 6.3 an.; (eta at 7.40 pjaTHE WEATHEB. January 37.—Du1l and threatening; moderate north-east wind. 8 a.m. Noon. 5 p.m. Barometer -- _ _ 29.90 29.90 39.88 Thermometer _ _ _ Min., 83; max., 66. HIGH WATEE. Jarinary 38— At Taiaroa Heads At Port Oh aimers _ At Dunedin *•« 4.13 January 39 , , .. AfcjTaJaw Head* - - - ~ ' »•** At Sort Chalmers 'At ‘Dunedin M - 4.34 4.84 ‘ ''l-.' WEATHEB BEPOBTB. ’ (Pan Dhitbd frsss absociatiow.) .< WELLINGTON, January 37. BVihowlng aro tho official weather reporta at 4 p-m.,: - ■ , Bar. Thor. Weather. Cape Mann - N., light 39.77 76 Overcast ■Eatoril ... « W„ light 29.73 74 Cloudy Manukari H. _ S.E., fresh 29.75 68 Overcast Auckland _ N. 8., light 29.76 73 Overoust Taomnga. ■' •BJI, fresh 29.80 ‘67 Bain dishorn a.'.. _ S.S.W., fresh 29.83 62 Enin Napier, va. •*. Chhn 30.00 02 Drizzle Oaitlopolnt _ 8.8., Ught 29.96 63 Cloudy - .Wellington S., breeze 29,96 61 Drizzle Nejr.Plymonth 8.E., fresh 39.78 70 Overcast OapeEgmont... 3-E., fresh 29.79' 67 ■ Cloudy 'Wangithni E., fresh 29.88 67 Gloomy Farewell Spit.. 8., freeh , 29.90 65 Cloudy Gape Foutyrind w, light * 29.88 78 Cloudy , Greymoflifli 1 S., light 29.82 80 Pine Stephen Island 8.E., fresh 39.94 65 Olondy OapaGampbell S.E., fr#sh 30.00 60 Showery Kalkoura N„ light 39.99 63 Overcast Akoroa lights N. 8., fresh 30.03 65 Overcast Kuggfia ... K, fresh 29.93 68 Olondy Blnfl.l. _ _ 8., light 29.88 59 Olondy '•» , - WEATHEB POBEOAST. / too following is the official weather forecast:— “ Bweent indications Are for moderate to strong •wterly winds, squally at times,t. and backing to northerMe* 1 soon. Tho weather will be cloudy to ' cvqtonsfv,generally, with . drizzling rain in parts. ,Th*' barometer is unsteady, and will be falling ft£imi 1 snortly-*' # ARRIVALS. '»•*? January 27. ’ Storny-s.*.(A3O p.m.), 40S toms, MTiachiaij,,irwro Wanganui, vie porta.; Tapley and Co* 3 agents. t 7 \.,;t y DEPARTURES, h , ' January 27. . Kafevpo, aa. (11.45 a.irs), 1521 tom, Corby, for Auckland, via porta. Union Steam Ship . Company, agent. Johp,**. (10 p.m.), 839 tons, Hawick, for .Wangfl3jui, '7ia porta, K. Ramsay and Co., agents. . TELEGRAMS, v AUCKLAND, January 27.—Sailed: Ornri ($.40 p.m.), for Wellington. > . WELLINGTON, January/ 37,—Arrived: Wahine (7J5 a.m.), from Lyttelton; Corinfia (5.26. aja.), from Lyttelton; Wangoratta(B4o a.qju), from' Auckland; Gale (9.60 a.m), from Lyttelton. Sailed: . Wiltshire (4.56 p.m), for London; Karori (5.55 p.m), for Nelson; •Corinna (8.5 pm), for Nelson; Wakatu (6.20 .p.m.), -vfor./Kaikoura; Westmoreland (6.20 ' p -rih)/ fqy,-.J/yttelton; Wahine (7.50 p.m.), for Lyttoltan;, Gale (9.10 p.m.), for Wanganui. HjLOEF, January 27. —Sailed; Wingatui (7.80,’p.m.), for Dxmedin. SINGAPORE, January 28.—Sailed;' Goalpoftv; for Australia. 901/>N,’ January 26. —Arrived: City of Hdnkow, from New York; Australpeak, from " Glasgow. ' ■ TABLE BAT, January 25. —Sailed: Demosthenes, for Melbourne. KARACHI, January 25. —Sailed: Yoseric, for 1 ; Melbourne. DUNKIRK, January 26.—Arrived; Port Pirie, from Brisbane. LONDON', January 24. —Arrived: Oetorley, from'j Sidney, via porta.——January 26.—Arrived : Boimah, from Brisbane; Mahia, from Picton. . * AVONMOUTH, January 23.—Arrived: Essex, from Wellington. ~ , , HULL, January 26.—Arrived:, Port Hacking, from Melbourne. o ■ ■ The John,!,which arrived here from Wellington on Thursday evening, left last night lor Wanganui, via Oamaru, Timaru, end Wellington. The Storm arrived her© yesterday afternoon from Wanganui, via Wellington and,,, is scheduled to leave to-day foe Timaru, v Lyttelton, 'Wellington, and Wanganui.-.,.,, .’a •'A.- . , The • Kakapo ; which has jusft been - te-’' left Dunedin yesterday with a yquajrtily of general cargo for Auckland, via ’■Lyttelton, and Wellington. The Breeze, from Lyttelton, is duo here ' this evening, and is expected to Sail on Monday for Timaru, Lyttelton, Picton, and Wa'ngunui ■ /The .Calm, which is at present undergoing overhaul •at Port Chalmers, will probably be.txeady -to resume running in the coastal service early nest month. ■The .Wingatui, which is due. at Fort Ohalmoira , torday from Bluff, will be placed, In drf' dock’ fOr ipainting and "Cleaning. Sh«t will "comb 1 up’’ Dunedin on Monday to load for Auckland;-'via East Coast porta, and is ext peeled to sail on Tuesday. .. Tho Kamona, from Westport, via Oamaru '' should . reach Port Chalmers . to-morrow, and ' will come to Dunedin to discharge her coal cargo. She is scheduled to leave on Tuesday . for Westport and, Groymouth, via Timaru The, -Woucuna, which went down to Port. yesterday morning, .was placed in to undergo overhaul. She ia ex- ' to sail next week fox Newcastle to lorid' for the Pacific Coast. ; ■ which is duo at Bluff to..mcßstovr afternocm, is expected to reach Dunedin .-oh;.Tuesday to discharge part cargo. ( She is scheduled to leave Dunedin for Lyt- • tolton to complete discharge and load ror ■ Sydney. ■ The Paloona, 'which is at present undergoing overhaul at Port Chalmers, will come , up to Dunedin on Tuesday morning to load general cargo. ' Tho Rahika, which is due hero to-morrow from Wellington and Nelson, will load at this port for Wellington; Nelson, and New Plymouth..-, t . • The Anchor Company’s new steamer Titofci (has boon launched at Glasgow, and ia expected to,anil for Kelson, via Panama, about the middle of February. Thd/;Uliiparca, which is expected to leave : Sydney-., to-day for Wellington, is duo at. the 1 northern / port on February 1. She is scheduled to leave tv/o days later on the reftiru VJoytfgo. ■ THb New Zealand Shipping Company’s liner. ~ Rimutaktv will probably got away from Dun- ' edin to Timmxu to-morrow to continue looding for London. She will also call at Lyt- , tolton and Wellington, and is scheduled to ' leave the last-named port finally on February 10. . , The 'Whito Star liner Gallic is timed to leave Napier to-night for Wellington, where .she is duo the following day. Her departure for London, via Capo' Horn, has been arranged' for February 4. The Shaw-Savill liner Arawa is to leave lackland to-day for Gisborne and Wellington, the latter of which ports she is expected' to reach on February 2- The Arawa 13 ,to. sail, at daybreak, eoveiydays later for Southampton and. London, via Panama. The Joan Craig, from Newcastle, via Wellington;, arrived at Lyttelton ,on Wednesday ' to "discharge a full cargo of hardwood, part i of which is for the Lyttelton Harbour Board. The ■ Opua, was docked again at Lyttelton obt/Wednesday, a slight defect having been - found, inr hex bull. She should be ready for .' boot; next . week. ‘ Owing to the opening of the port of WoiItokdpd,. Hawke’s Bay (states-an exchange), the'-Richardson steamer Awahon is to be employed for some weeks conveying railway iron and supplies from Wellington to that import. Meanwhile the East Coast bays’ ser;7 vice os far as Napier will be run by the -Mako. "WAIKAWA FROM SAN FRANCISCO. Tho trans-Pacifio cargo steamer Waikawa, . from' San Francisco, arrived at Auckland at, ■ 8.80 p.m. on Monday. The vessel is ex--1 pepted to leave Auckland on Tuesday night for Napier and Wellington, where she is due ' : aborqt the end of the week. . ' - l.' WAIOTAPU FROM SYDNEY The iirans-Facifio cargo steamer Waiotapn i froth . Sydney arrived at Port Angeles on Janu■Ary .13, and Vanoouvcc on January 21. , The vessel .sailed againcu the 23rd inst. for Powell r'lfijwr.. ,'Ooewn Falls, and San Francisco to rV,complete loading for Auckland, Napier, Wol-Itogton/'-New Plymouth, Adelaide, Melbourne, /and' Sydney. ‘ PORT -LINCOLN FROM NEW YORK. ; - From New York the Port Lincoln 'is due at ’" Auckland on February 1 and is expected at 0 on February 6. Tho vessel will ■'-then, go to Melbourne and Sydney to com|iplet© ;discharge. . -Ttajfiheei. , The i/ort Obalmers, which has loaded ot Auckland and Napier,, is to continne loading i. : fori NcV Ifbrk and Boston at Wellington on January 30/ From there the vessel will pro- ., Lyttelton to complete, and will sail 'vis February for New York and London, via Cape Horn and Montevideo. . ■ 1 - ■—— - WIRELESS RANGE. »•* /following vessels were expected to be range of the under-mentioned wireless "''Btaitoao tost night:—Awaaiui: Canadian 1 : PlS&ei. Tahiti, Mtmhkft, Torrey, EaJtangata, Ip' 1 /

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Kajtobs, and Maieno. Auckland: Sosnerset, Oniri; after 0.80 a.m., Tofuo. Awerua: H.M.B. Yerooioa, Waikouaiti, 'Wingatui, City of Edinburgh. Wellington; Rawatiri, Ngaio, Maori, Wahine, Eaiapoi, Clan Alpine, Tairoa, Waikawa, Karori, Gallic, Port Chalmers, Westmeath, Wiltshire, Westmoreland, HJM.S. Chatham, Opawa, Kaikoura, Axahura, Wanar ka. Chathams; Fort Linooln. TAHITI FOB SYDNEY. , The Tahiti, which arrived at Wellington on Saturday lost from San Francisco, via Papeete and Rarotonga, left for Sydney on Tuesday. She took the following passengers:—First saloon: Misses L. L. Cook, Saxton, Paradise, Moore, M. Cowie, L. Edwards. Mead amen E. K. Temple-Perkins, E. M. Bell and two children, Mrs Bells and two children, J.. C. Saxton. T. Gill, Six P. Proctor, Messrs 0. D. Saxton, S, F. Udy, E. E. Pickles, A. B. Allen, T. Pamplin-Green, RK. Huggins, E. A_ Templo-Perkins, A. E. Adams, Gregson, C. S. Dennison,. R. E. Wood, D. L. Melville. H. Brady, E. D. Read, T. Gill, H. L. Clark. Second saloon: Misses N, Condon, Ei Ryden, J. 0. Green, L. Riggins, Atkins (2), Coster, Meedamos S. B. Pitt, Atkins, J. M. Pike and two'children,. Oostin, Messes J. M. M’Kelliget, S. B. Pitt, J. O’Brien, Nelson, Frowin (2), W. J. Westeman, EL J. AngelL N. Power, Atkina, J. M. Pike. Rev. R. Cordiner; nine steerage. FIJI TARIFF. Pull British preference is given to Australian goods in, the new schedule of Customs duties which boa been adopted by the Fijian Legislative Council, copies of which have been received by tho Federal Ministry (states tho Sydney Shipping last of December 29). In most instances tho rates imposed on goods imparted from Groat Britain, or any of the dominions or colonies of the British Empire, are one-half of those charged against articles from foreign countries. -The new rates will become operative from the beginning of the year. An ordinance accompanying the schedule requires that before goods are admitted as being the produce or manufacture of the. British Empire proof must b© eub--mitted of their origin, and no goods shall be accorded the preferential rate unless at least. 25 per cent, of the cost of the finished article is the result of labour within the Empire. - / TURNBULL* MARTIN, AND ’ CO. Messrs Turnbull, Martin, and Co. advise the following movements of vessels: — Tho Somerset, from West Coast ports of tho United Kingdom, is doe at Auckland early to-morrow morning. The Leitrim, from Liverpool, via ■ Panama, is expected to reach Auckland .about Febrncry 16. After calling at Wellington and Lyttelton, tho vessel is duo here about 'February 15 to discharge and load for Liverpool, Manchester; and Glasgow. • " ' The Sussex, from Australian ports, is duo here at the beginning, of March to load for Boston and New York. Shfi will also call at Auckland, Napier, Wellington,, and - Lyttelton. ' ; The Orari, from New York, is duo at Wellington this afternoon from Auckland. She fa expopted to soil on Tuesday for Lyttelton and Port Chalmers to complete discharge. She has, about 480 tone of general cargo from Norfolk i (Virginia) for this port,, and . about 250 terns, of Montreal cargo., •: . ■ LIGHTHOUSES.* Oh the subject of lighthouses the Public Works Statement contains the following: The erection of the automatic fog signal on Tiritiri Island was completed, and the fog signal handed over to the Auckland Harbour .Board. The necessary apparatm for automatic lighte on the Ninepins Rock, Gableend Foreland, and Mercury Island Passage arrived during the year. The tower for the Ninepins light has bee®.' received, and the , erection of the light-tower!is now ip hand./ Daring the year the. Wigham light, in Holensvilte River, Kaipara Harbour, has been .replooed By an automate acetone light. As East Cape Island has become dangerous as a site for the lighthouse, a., new site on the mainland has been decided upon, and the transfer of the lighthouse from, 1 the island to the mainland will be undertaken this year, MOEBTON BAY AT MELBOURNE. £1,000,000 COMMONWEALTH SHIP. , The Moreton Bay, the first of the five Commonwealth Government steaqjgnips of the “Bay” class to reach Australia, ■ berthed at Port Melbourne New Pier yesterday evening, in the .presence of a large crowd of interested spectators, many of whom were there to meet friends and relatives tstates the Melbourne Argus cf January 13). The steamer, which represented in round figures £1,000,000, made an impressive and stately entry 1 with her escort- of tugs, and as she slowly -emerged from the murky haze which covered the smooth water into tho soft glow of the evening light, even those who had no expert knowledge of ships were able t<> admire her lines and" general appearance. DESCRIPTION OP VESSEL. The Moreton Bay is. of the shelter-deck type, and was built ‘ under special survey to class 100 A 1 at Lloyd’s. She has been built to comply with the Australian Navigation Act, the British Factories Act, the British Board of Trade regulations, and the,-requirements of tixa . Convention for the,, Safety of Life atSea, ’ The steamer has one funnel pud,two pole moats; .and has a smart and graceful appearance. There are - six ; decks* and the hull is subdivided into 11 compartments by means of 10 watertight biilkheads, nine of which extend to “B” deck, thus ensuring that tho rteamcr will remain afloat with any. two. adjacent compartments open 'to the sea. There are six > cargo bolds, four 'of which have been insulated for the carriage of refrigerated cargo, os well as the ’tween .docks up to “C” deck. • With tho exception of six special oabina for 12 passengers arranged in the officers’ house at the, forward end of “A” deck the accommodation is arranged for one claw passengers, two, four, and sixberth cabins being .. provided on “C” deck. forward and aft of the, machinery spaces' for about 700 passengers; Cabins in a number ‘of compartments are portable. The cabins are comfortably furnished. The dining saloon is on. “B” deck, at the forward end of the bridge, and is tastefully furnished and decorated. . It is capable of seating, at one time about half the number of passengers carried. A largo smoking-room and social hall have been provided; each of which has a sheltered verandah ot tho after' end. A dining saloon and a smoking room are provided at,tho forward end-of the officers’ house for -the :uso of saloon passengers and. the captain and, officers. The panelling and decoration of the public rooms are handsome and attractive, but nothing ornate or elaborate has been introduced. At the extreme after end of “B” deck, and completely isolated, two large infectious hospitals are arranged, on© for males and on© for females, and several hospitals with an. operating room are situated on a lower-deck. A large laundry is fitted at the end-of on® of the upper decks, and a dryingroom and an ironing-room. The crew are accommodated in roomy cabins under the forecastle deck, and tho firemen; in a large deckhouse on the boat deck. For the rapid working of cargo 22 steam winches have been provided, and on© 35-ton , steel derrick is fitted to the foremast for working No. 2 hatch. Smaller derricks . arp fitted for the , working of the others. The boat equipment consists of two motor launches, six 80ft lifeboats, six 28ft ordinary lifeboats, and two 20ft lifeboats. Tho main propelling. machinery consists of two sots of turbines, tho developed .shaft horse-power being about 9000. Tho designed speed fully loaded on service is 15 knots. The boilers are arranged to be‘fired, cither with’coal or oil fuel. Tlio auxiliary equipment -is complete, tho total number of auxiliary engines in the machinery spaces being about 300. A workshop equipped with lathe, drilling machine, and grinding machine, which are motor-driven, it. fitted to make the ship independent of shore ' aid for minor repairs. The steamer has a length overall of 548 ft 9in, and a designed normal draft of 29ft Din. Her dead weight at this draft is. about 12,000 tans.