SHIPPING.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18898, 26 June 1923, Page 6

SHIPPING.

PHASES OP THE MOON. June. Last quarter .. .. •• 6th 8.49 p.m. New moon ~ .. ~ .. 15tb 0.12 a.m. First quarter ... .. ... 22nd 8.16 a.m. Pull moon .. 23th 0.34 a.m. THE SUN. Rises to-day at 7.54 a.m.; sets 4.25 p.m. THE WEATHER. June 25.—Showery and cold; light southerly wind. 8 a.m. Noon. 5 p.m. Barometer ... .. .. 29.40 23.35 29.30 Thermometer .. .. Min.,34; max., 41 WEATHER REPORTS. * (Fsb TJains Press associaticst.) WELLINGTON, Juno 23. Hie following are the official weather report! at 4 p.m.;— Ear. Tier. Weather. Russell S.W., Iresh 29.63 60 Squally Manukau H. ... W.S.W., flesh 20.61 60 Overcast Auckland ... S.W., light 20.55 55 Showery Tauruuga ... S.W., Iresh 20.43 58 Pair East Cape ... W., fresh 20.28 50 Cloudy Gisborne S.W., light 29.37 50 Pair Napier S.W.. m. gale 20.38 52 Fine Castlepoint ... H.W., light 20.30 48 Cloudy Wellington ... S., breeze 20.-10 50 Pair New Plymouth W., fresh 20.45 52 Showery Cape Egruout... 8.W., fresh 20,46 47 Showery Wanganui ... W„ flesh 20.45 50 Fair Farewell Spit.. W., fresh 20.35 48 Fair Cape Poulwind S.W., light 20.40 -15 1 iue Creymouth ... S., light 40 46 line Stephen Island S.W., breeze 20.40 47 Cloudy | Cape Campbell S., light 20.43 50 Hazy I Akaroa light... ,S.W..galo 20.33 45 Overcast j Nuggets S., light 20.41 43 Burn j Bluff.., F'., breeze 20.45 45 Showery j WEATHER FORECAST. j The following is the official weather fore- - cast;—Present indications are for westerly to southerly winds, strong to a gale; cold and clamp weather, with heavy showers probable generally, and snow in many parts of the country. The barometer is unsteady. j HIGH WATER, ! June 26 At Taiaroa Heads 0.14 1 • At Port Chalmers 0.04 1.20 At Dunedin 1 — DEPARTURE. June 23. Canadian Banger, s.s. (1.30 p.m.), 5752 tons Purvis, for Lyttelton. H. L. Taplej and Co., agents. SHIPPING- TELEGRAMS. LYTTELTON, June 25.—Arrived; Kahika, (6.50 a.m.), from Creymouth. Sailed; Mararoa (6.-15 p.m.), for Wellington. MELBOURNE, June 24.—Arrived: Gabriella, from Creymouth. The Kini, from Napier, is due tore about Friday. She is timed to sail on Friday fo Oamani, Timaru, Lyttelton, Wellington, pier, and Gisborne , _ , The Gale, from Lyttelton, is due hero on Thursday, and is to sail on Thursd y , Timaru/Lyttelton, Wellington, and Van„amThe Breeze, from Lyttelton, is due her© tomorrow, and is to sail the same day for Timaru, Lyttelton, Picton, and Wanganui. The Wanaka is due back here to-morrow from Bluff and is to sail the same day lor Lyttelton, Wellington, and Auckland. The Opihi is due here about Saturday to load for Oamani, Timaru, Lyttelton, Wellington. Nelson, and New Plymouth. , The Karon, from Creymouth, via Lyttelton, is duo bore to-day, and on complct l ng d. - charge of her coal cargo, she will be docked at Port Chalmers for survey . The Kuiow is to sail to-day for Oamaru, havf Savill, and Albion Lin©steamer Matakana? with a large cargo of New Zealand produce, left Wellington on Thursday for LonDalgety and Co. t-o+rh Kira with explosives ex the jjevon, • from Auckland, via Wellington and Lyttelton is sheltering at Port Levy awaiting for a favourable wind to enable her to continue 3ier voyage to Dunedin. HOERAKI DUE ON SUNDAY. Tho Union Company’s intercolonial paa- I senger steamer Moeraki is to leave Melbourne to-day for Bluff and Dunedin. She is due her© on Sunday, and is to s / 1 ™, y for Lyttelton, Wellington, and Melbourne. H»THE SOUTHERN CROSS. Tho Melanesian Mission steamer Southern Cross is expected to return to Auckland ■shortly fronAer cruise in the South-western Pacific. No a-dvice has been receded of her movements sine© June 2. THE PORT CHALMERS. The Commonwealth and Dominion Line steamer Port Chalmers, en route from London to New Zealand, cleared Norfolk on June iq She is bringing cargo for Lyttelton, Eon cLlmera, and iNew Plymouth. She is duo at Lyttelton about July 13. THE PORT HUNTER. Messrs J. W. Swift -and Co. advise that the C and D. Line steamer Port Hunter lett . London on May 4 for Melbourne Sydney, and Newcastle. On completing dischar D o at | the last-named port she will come to iNew , Zealand to load for London, via New York and Boston. She is due at Bluff about July , proceed to northern ports to com. , plete loading. j THE ARAWA. j Messrs Dalgety and Co. advise that the I 01 Savill and Albion Line steamer j Arawa, from London, via Auckland and Naniei is duo hero about July 6 to discharge Home cargo. The vessel will be berthed at Dunedin to load general cargo, and -she wilt subsequently go to Port Chalmers to load frozen meat and dairy produce. She will continue loading at Timaru Lyttelton Gisborne, Wanganui roadstead, Picton, and Wellington. and is to leave Wellington on July 31 for London, via Montevideo and lenenffe. VESSELS REPORTED. Tho Union Company’s largo cargo steamer Westmeath, which sailed from Auckland foi , London on May 17, arrived at Montevideo on June 13 and sailed the following day for “Federal Line steamer Westmoreland, en route from Liverpool to Auckland. VVel- - lington. Lyttelton, and Dunedin, arrived at Colon on Monday (Juno 18). She is due at Auckland about July 13- . I The New Zealand Shipping Company s steamer Waimato, en route from Montreal and Newport News, is reported to have cleared Panama on Juno 18 for Sydney, Melbourne, and Adelaide. . The Shaw. Savill. and Albion steamer Waimana, on route from Wellington to New York Boston, and London, sailed from Colon on Juno 18. She left Wellington on May 04 , | The New Zealand Shipping Company s steamer Kaikoura. cn route from Auckland to London, cleared Las Palmas on Monday week She sailed from Auckland on May 2. training ships and profits. Efforts have been, made in tho past to run trainin'' and exhibition ships at a profit, but*the results have never been satisfactory to tho promoters (remarks an English fehip- j ping Journal). However, this does not seem | to have discouraged enterprise in this diroc- i tion, and tho American papers report that Mr Asa G. Candler, jun,, has purchased the i former army transport Logan, 71(31 tons gross, built in 1892, and is going to have her reconditioned at a cost of about ,£200,000, for use as a cruising soaool ship. It is proposed to take -about 400 youths on a trip round the world, lasting about 270 days, and the vessel for this purpose is to be fitted with recoption rooms, library, laboratories lounge rooms a gymnasium, dormitories, a hospital, and a recreation space, while in addition to the ordinary roasters, there will be on board surgeons, doctors, dentists, and nurses, an athfetic director, an orchestra leader, and a bandmaster. If the statements m the papers are correct, the scheme savours of thoroughness, but, unless the fathers of the 400 youths are prepared to pay luxury fees, it is difficult to imagine how Mr Candler is going to coma out square, _ I ‘ CATERING FOE- IMMIGRANTS. ! Immigration, it would appear, is proving a lucrative proposition to oversea shipping companies trading to Australia. The Federal Navigation Company, which has hitherto confined 0 its attention chiefly to the cargo-carry-ing trade, has now resolved that certain units of its fleet plying to Australia shall bo equipped for passenger service. The first of these vessels, the Suffolk, arrived at Melbourne on Juno 12 from Liverpool with ’ several new settlers. Tho steamer is a wellknown oversea freighter, but since her last vovage she has been converted to a passenger

passengers, third class only, and new settlers will provide* the principal class of passenger in the voyages to Australia. The cabins are chiefly of the four-berth type, and a feature of the accommodation is that it is provided amidships and forward. Ample promenade space is allotted on the boat, forward, :nid promenade decks. The Suffolk is the forerunner of other units of the fleet which are to be similarly equipped. The steamers Dorset and Essex are now in the hands of the shipbuilders for this purpose, while it is probable that the Northumberland and other vessels will also bo similarly altered shortly. - ■ , , , , ■o* WITHIN WIRELESS RANGE. The following vessels were expected to be within range of the undermentioned wireless stations last night:—Auckland: Canadian Spinner, Cumberland, Flora, Hauraki, Howra, Makambo, Marama, Middlesex, Niagara, Fort Augusta, Tofua, Waihemo, Wairuna, Kaimanawa, Kekerangu. Wellington : Wahine, Mararoa, Ngaio, Waihora, Manuka, Tutanekai, Katama, Orowaiti, Koromiko, Kaituna, Ulimiiroa, Port Kembhi, Rimutaka, Waitemata, Wanaka, Chatham Islands: Fort Auckland, Matakana, Cumberland. THE LEVIATHAN, OCEAN WHITE ELEPHANT. Soon tho world’s second biggest vessel will be seen in British waters as a passenger liner running from New York to European ports. This is the Leviathan, formerly tlio Vaterlnnd, of the Hamburg-Amorican Company, which was seized by the United States in port in 1917, and, after having been used as a troop transport, has been refitted to enter the passenger service of the United States lines. Reconditioning of tho enormous ship (which is 907 ft long, 100 ft beam, and has a gross tonnage of 65,634, compared with the White Star liner Majestic’s 66,402), was estimated at 7,000,009 dollars. It has actually cost tho United States Shipping Board, which could find no company willing to take her off the Government's hands, 6,500,000 dollars, or, say, £1,800,000. Altogether since she was taken away from the Gormans the expense of tho Leviathan to the country has been £2,000,000, notwithstanding that for ,faur years tho huge bulk lay idle in the North River, a mass of internal mat, decay, and debris, inhabited by rats to such an extent that tho watchmen put aboard could not live in her, and were forced to seek quarters ashore. Scores of cats were requisitioned to light the plague of rats. They were never seen again after being released on the decks, and not a scrap of leather or any other material or substance that hunger could drive the rats to eat was left aboard. Poison gas had to be employed before a crew could man her to take her down to Newport News, Virginia. There, with no fewer than 1000 firms contributing, tho ship has been transformed into a veritable palace, even sur. passing in luxuriousness the appointments and accommodation which originally made her the most sumptuous vessel afloat. The Vaterland was completed only two months before the outbreak of war. She was interned in Now York, and afterwards seized by the United States Government. Aftar having been employed as transport she was; valued by tho United States Shipping Board at £1,401,000. It cost £170,000 to convert her from a liner to a troopship, and £700,003 to convert her engines for oil-burning and make her ready for passenger service again.