SHIPPING.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18675, 3 October 1922, Page 4

SHIPPING.

PHASES OF THE MOON. , „ October. ull Moon 6th 12.28 p.m. iast Quarter 14th 9.25 a.m. lew Moon 21st 1.10 a.m, 'irst Quarter .. .. .. 2Sth 0.56 a.m. r THE SDN. Rises to-day at 5.10 a.m.; sets 6.12 p.m. THE WEATHER October 3. —Fine; moderate northerly ’ind. 8 a.m. Noon. 6 p.m. larometor 30.09 30.11 30.12 ■hermometer .. .. Min., 50; max., 61 WEATHER REPORTS. The Dominion Meteorologist (Mr D. C. Sates) supplied the following at 9 a.m. yes2rday: ' Bar Thcr. Wthr Vellington—N., b .. 30.31 61 B C Hcymouth— E„ b .. 30.23 52 B Christchurch—S.W., 1 .. 30.27 51 O ’imam—Calm .. .. 30.28 10 B C >ann.nt—Calm .. .. 30.29 56 BC Dunedin—N.E., 1 .. .. 30.;$:) 64 BC Hlecnstown—Calm ~ 30.28 53 B C vuggets—..S.W., 1 .... 30.29 54 C . Sluff—N.W., 1 .... 30.19 56 OF Wind.—L, light; hr, breeze; f b, fresh ireezo; m g, moderate gale; g, whole or icavy gale; w, gale of exceptional ©verity. ’Weather.—B, blue sky, bo the atmosphere lear or heavy; C, clouds, passing clouds; J. drizzling rain; F, foggy; G, gloomy, lark weather; H. hail; L, lightning; M, wsty; O, overcast, the whole sky,-covered nth thick clouds; P, passing showers; Q, qually; R, rain, continued rain; S, snow; thunder; U, ug.y, threatening appearncc; Z, hazy, WEATHER FORECAST. (Per United Press Association.) .WELLINGTON, October 2. Following is the official weather forecast: ’resent indications are for variable winds, rith moderate to strong easterlies to norherlies predominating, The weather will >o mild and hazy -generally, but unsettled n. the northernmost and southernmost disricts. There will bo cloudiness, increasing verywher© shortly. The barometer is nnitcady, with a falling tendency. HIGH WATER. Dctober 3 a.m. p.m. At Taiaroa .. 0.27 12,48 At Port Chalmers .. .. 1.7 1.28 At Dunedin 1.37 1.58 DEPARTURES. October 2. _Kakapo, ss. (2.45 p.m.), 1521 tons, Cnowks, for Westport direct. Union Steam ihip Company, agent. Comma, s.s. (4.10 p.m.), 1319 tons, Edge, cr Cantata. Union Steam Ship Company, igont. Breeze, s.s. (11.5 p.nj.), 653 tons, Robertlon, for Oamarn. H. L. Tapley and Co., igents SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. AUCKLAND, October 2. —Arrived: Papaei (3 p.m.), from Wellington. NAPIER, October 2.—Sailed: Kini (5 >.m.), for Dunedin. WELLINGTON, October 2. —Arrived: xamona (2.45 a.m.), from Greymonth; vomata (3.3 a.m.), from Westport; Moeraki 3.40 p.m.), from Sydney. Arrived: Katoa 5.20 p.m.), and City of Dunedin (6.55 p.m,), rom Auckland-—-Sailed; Dorset (5.20 p.m.), or Lyttelton; Maori (7.50 p.m.), for Lyttelon; -Waihora (8,35 p.m.), for Lyttelton; “aim (5.30 p.m.), for Wanganui. LYTTELTON, October 2—Arrived: - John 9.20 a.m.), from New Plymouth; Storm 7.45 a.m.), from Westport;.-—Sailed: Koroniko (6.43 a.m.), for Napier; Mararoa (6.45 i.m.), for Wellington; Wakatu (8 p.m.), for Saikoura. OAMARU, October 2.—Arrived: Corinna 10 p.m.). from Dunedin. BLUFF, October 1. —Arrived: Joan Craig 11 a.m.), from Newcastle; Wltangapo (11.10 i.m.), from Dunedin. SYDNEY, October 2.—Arrived: Manuka 5 a.m.), from Wellington; Kaitangata, from Melbourne. MELBOURNE, October I.—Arrived; Paliona, from Bluff; Canadian Traveller, from Auckland, LONDON, October 1. —Arrived: Surrey, rom Brisbane; Ruapehu, front Wellington. COLON, October I.—Arrived: Otaki, from Mew Y’ork. The Corinna left Dunedin yesterday aftertoon for Oaruam, Tintaru, Lyttelton, Welingtbn, Nelson, and New Plymouth. The Kamo, ftom GreymouUi, via Timaru ind 4 Oamaru, is due here on Thursday. After discharging a quantity of coal, she .-,111 load for Westport and Greymouth, via fimaxu and probably Oaticru, The Storm .from Lyttelton, is due at Dun><lin to-night, and is to sail to-morrow for rimant, Lyttelton, Wellington, and Waiganui. The Breezo left Dunedin last night for Damaru, Timaru, Lyttelton, Wellington, Pio;on. and Wanganui. The Calntj from Bluff, is duo here about Saturday to load for Oamaru, Timaru, Lyt;elton, Wellington and Wanganui. The Kini is now due here to-morrow from Napier, and is to sail to-morrow for. Damaru, Timaru, Lyttelton, Napier, and Giaiorne. The ' Commonwealth Government steamer Dundnla, front Newcastle, is at present discharging 45.80 tons of coal for tho New Zealand Railways at Auckland. Tho Holm dale went down to Port Chalmers yesterday afternoon, where she will lock for annual overhaul. She will come up to Dunedin about Saturday to load Damaru, Timaru, Lyttelton, Wellington, and Wanganui. (The Rira came up to Dunedin yesterday (iiternoon after completing discharge ofj her ixplosives at the powder hulk. She berthed a,I the Birch street wharf, where she dis•Jiqrgod general cargo, including a quantity of sugar. It is hoped to despatch her tonight for Auckland direct. The Whangape, from Dunedin, is expected to leave Bluff to-day for Sydney and Newcastle, where she will load for Lyttelton, Dunedin, and Bluff. The Katoa, from Auckland, via Wellington and Lyttelton, is due here about Thursday, and -after discharge, will load for Auckland, via ports. The Waikouaiti, which left Sydney on Friday with a largo cargo for Bluff, Dunedin, and Lyttelton, is due here on Saturday,

PALOONA, FROM MELBOURNE. Union Steam Ship Company advises that tire Paloona, which is to leave Melinjurne W-morrow fox Bluff, Dunedin, Lyttelton, and Wellington, is due here on October 10. The next trip will be from Melbourne, via Wellington and Lyttelton, thence Bluff. POET AUCKLAND. Messrs J. W. Swift and. Co. advise that the Port Auckland, from New via Panama, is duo at Auckland on -.Friday. From Auckland she will call at Wellington. Lyttelton, and Dunedin, to continue discharge. From, this port she will proceed to Australian ports, where she will complete unloading. THE PORT DENISON. Th? same company advises that the C. and J). Line steamer Port Denison, which left London on September 22 for this port direct, :1s duo her© about November 2. She will then !go to Lyttelton and New Plymouth to complete discharge, and commence Homeward loading at New Zealand ports. WITHIN WIRELESS RANGE. The following vessels were expected to be within range of the under-mentioned wireless stations last night:—Auckland: H.M.S. Chatham, Flora, Canadian Scottish. dian. Skirmisher, Navua, Montrose, Knrow, H.M.S. Laburnum, Makura, Government s.s. Tutanekai, Hermes, Kaitoke, Durham, Paparoa, - and Arahura. Wellington: Maori, Mararoa, Ngaio, Waikouaiti, Tahiti, Corinthic, Moeraki, Katoa, Iris, Kaiapoi, Dorset, Waihora, City of Dunedin, Waimana, Errol, Wingatui, Whakatane, Canadian Victor, and Waitemata. Chatham Islands: Port Auckland, Durham. Montrose, Waimana, Ruahine, and Mahia. COPRA PROM PACIFIC ISLANDS. The motor shjp Tosca, bound from Adelaide to the United Kingdom and Continent, is to'- load 6000 tons of copra at Tonga, Solomon Islands, and Eaba-ul. THE E. R. STERLING. Ths six-masted barqnentino E, E. Sterling, which has been laid up at Sydney since November 23 last, was docked #t Sydney recently for cleaning and painting, preparatory to proceeding to Newcastle to load a. cargo of coal for San Francisco. The vessel wilf be under the command of Captain Ray Sterling. CALIFORNIAN FRUITS. The Union Company’s steamer Waiheroo is at present loading at Vancouver and -San Francisco for New Zeahiyl ports. Late in October the Waiotapn will also load for New Zealand and Australian ports. Both these vessels will bring shipments of new season’s Californian canned and dried fruits, LOADING FOR LONDON, The liner Whakatane left Tiraaru on Friday morning to complete loading at Lytle) ton and Wellington. The vessel is expected E. Wellington to-day, and should sail from tbeio on "Thursday for London, ,yia Montevideo and Las Palmas.

CANADIAN GOVERNMENT LINE. Messrs H. li. Tapley' and Co. have received advice of tho following movements of steamers: The Canadian Explorer, now in Australia, is due to arive in Auckland about October 30. The Canadian Scottish is due at Auckland from Vancouver about Saturday. The Canadian Conqueror left Montreal on September 9 and Sydney (Capo Breton) on September 20, cargo-laden for Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Dunedin, Lytlelton. Wellington, and Auckland. Tho vessel is due at Brisbane on November 1, Dunclui on November 23, and at Wellington on November 30. THE OLDEST •'■'TUP AFLOAT. The convict ship Success is at. present lying- at anchor in New York Harbour. This vessel was built in the year 1790 a.d., at Moulrnein, India, and is no doubt ";e oldest vessel afloat. She is in a wonderful etatri of preservation, probably due to the fact that she is bujlt, throughout, of solid Burmese teak, a wood that for resistenco to decay is hard to equal. After going over her one realises that she was built as a symbol of boauty and strength. Her solid sides are 2ft 6:n thick at the bilge, and her kelson 13 a solid teak bau'k of tremendous thickness, with -sister keelsons little less massive. In 1912 this vessel crossed the Atlantic under her own sail. She made the passage in 96 days. PACIFIC MAIL STEAMERS. Niagara, en route Vancouver to Auckland, duo October 13. Tahiti, en route San Francisco to Wellington, due September '2B. en route Wellington to San Francisco, due yesterday. Makura, en route Auckland to Vancouver, due October 14. THE ISLAND STEAMERS. The Union Company ■ report tho following movements of the Pacific Island steamers: Tho next despatch from Auckland for the Islands will bo the Navua, which will sail on October 16 for Fiji, Tonga, and Samoa. The Flora arrived at Rarotonga from Papeete on September 26, and sailed again the following day for Auckland, where she is expected to arrive on Thursday. MANUKA'S PASSENGERS. Tho Union Company's Manuka sailed from Wellington on Thursday for Sydney direct, and took the following passengers:—Misses Ritchie, Hilsby, Binbury, Beamish, Woodger, Milling, Law, Johnston, Patterson, Dawson, Bentham. Kilgour, Bounily, Brownlee, Hopkins, Little, D. and G. Honey, Thornton and Afmollsson, Mesdamcs Grea.g, Hamill, AVcodger, Cone, Roberta, Black, Hodgson, Chimott, Honoy, Banks, Sutherland, EiU'hio, Newcomb, Fitzgibbon, Burnett and child, Stanaway, Avern, Bruce, Schmoll, Rao, Brown, Caradus, Falcon, Rosengcld, Scott and infant. Messrs Flockhart, Hughes, • Elder, Abel, Harry, Kothwoll, Harwood, Freeman, Campbell, Nicklin, Seaman. Grant, Craig, May, O'Donoghuo, Aylir.g, Latham, Scott, Taplis, Martin, Roberts, Rosengeld, Wheeler Avern, Ritchie, Glasap, Burnett, Colby, Howden, Patterson, Moran, Bailor, M'Kinley, Moore, Caradus, Ramsay, Mouter, Woodger, Hewn, Goldup, M'Leod, Halloran, Norman, Falkincr, A. M'Lean, Kiordan, Jesson, Hutton, J. Riordan, Wright, Hamill, Shier, Syme, Howden, O'Shea, Hill, Ogilvie, Fen ton, Roberts, Avoni, Captain Wright, and 121 travelling third-class. THE SCHOONER HUIA. Daigety and Co. advise that tho' Nobel Explosives Company's auxiliary schooner Huia left Hobart on Tuesday, September 26, with a load of timber for LytteJton, whero she is duo about Thursday. Tho Huia, which is well known on the New Zealand coast, was recently fitted with pew engines, rendering her capable of a speed of nine knots, and at tho Bams time underwent extensive alterations and improvements, the total cost amounting to £12,000, she- is now regarded by well-known authorities as tho most up-to-date vessel of her class in the Southern Hemisphere. Sho will be engaged chiefly in conveying explosives from Melbourne to the magazine depots at Auckland and Dnncdin, while the ketch Rira, which is also to be equipped shortly with engines, will be employed on tho coast in tho transit of explosives from the two dcpot3 mentioned.. BATTENING TARPAULINS. A curious conflict of expert evidenco was disclosed in an Admiralty shipping, claim case, heard at tho Auckland Supreme Court, on the subject of locking bars used to batten down, tarpaulins over ship hatchways. It was maintained by a witness, Captain Adamson, marine surveyor of 40 years' experience at sea, that the locking bars were merely an innovation oi. the last 10 years, devised to stop pillago of cargo, but not to fasten down tarpaulins or to protect the hatchways. Mr H. P. Richmond, for the Importer' Protection Society, said that long ago the primary xtso of locking bars was to prevent pillage, but that was now a secondary consideration, and they were used to protect the hatches and cargo. "That was well illustrated in the ease of the Wiltshire," added counsel, "when the three hatches saved were so locked down over the tarpaulins and withstood the tremendous seas and prevented much damage to cargo." Captain Hood, in evidence later, said that locking.' bars were in use on ships since 1875, and it was one of his first jobs as an apprentice to assist to fasten down locking ''bars, which were used on most vessels, though he admitted, under cross-examination, by Mr Blair, that locking bars were not required according to Lloyd's rules.