SHIPPING.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19041, 11 December 1923, Page 6

SHIPPING.

PHASES OP THE MOON. Decembsb.

THE SUN. Rises to-day at 4.17 a.m.; sets at 7.45 p.m. THE WEATHER. December 10.—Steady rain; light to moderate south-west wind. 8 a.m. Noon. 5 p.m. Barometer .. .. 29.80 29.90 30.00 Thermometer .. Min., 46; mas., 55. WEATHER REFOKXS. (Per United Press association.) WELLINGTON, December 10. The following are the official weather reports

WEATHER FORECAST. Following is the official weather forecast: Present indications are for moderate to strong westerly winds. Expect warm and humid conditions with fair to cloudy weather generally, but showery on the West Coast aud southern districts. The barometer has little movement. HIGH WATER. December 11 — a.m. p.m. At Taiaroa Heads .. „ .. 5.5 5.33 At Port Chalmers .. .. .. 5.45 6.13 At Dunedin ~ .. .. 6.15 6.43 DEPARTURES. December 10. City of Naples, s.s. (4.15 p.m.), 5739 tons, Johnston, for Melbourne. Messrs Turnbull, Martin, and Co., agents. Corinna, s.s. (5.15 pun.), 1319 tons, Prosser, lor Oamaru, Union Steam Ship Company, agent. SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. AUCKLAND, December 10. —Arrived: Kaikoura (3.40 a.m.), from New York; West Nilus (3 a.m.), from San Francisco; Makura (6 a.m.), from Sydney; Dorset (10 a.m.), from Napier; Trevithick, from Galverston. WELLINGTON, December 10.—Sailed: Calm (5,5 p.m.), for Lyttelton; Kaitangata (6.5 p.m.), for Auckland; Maori (7.50 p.m.), for Lyttelton. LYTTELTON, December 10.—Sailed: Mararoa, for Wellington. OAMARU, December 10. —Arrived: Corinna (11 p.m.), from Dunedin. BLUFF, December 10—Sailed: Breeze (6 p.m.), for Dunedin; Moeraki (10 p.m.), for Dunedin. MELBOURNE, December 9. —Arrived; Waipori, from Greymouth. PANAMA, December B.—Arrived: Cornwall, from Liverpool; Limerick, from London. HALIFAX, December 8. —Arrived: Canadian Constructor, from Auckland. LONDON, December 7. —Sailed: Port Sydney, for Auckland; Port Chalmers, for Melbourne. .The Corinna sailed yesterday evening for Oamaru, Timaru, Lyttelton, Wellington, Nelson, and New Plymouth. The City .of Naples left yesterday afternoon for Melbourne and Sydney, where she will complete discharge of her New York cargoThe Komata is to. sail this evening for Oamaru, Timaru, Lyttelton, Wellington, Napier, and Auckland. The Storm, from Lyttelton, is due here this evening, and is to sail to-morrow for Timaru, Lyttelton, and 'Wanganui. The Gale, from Lyttelton, is due here on Friday, and is to sail on teat day for Timeru, Lyttelton, Wellington, Picton, and Wanganui. The Calm, from Lyttelton, is due here tomorrow, and on completing discharge, will dock at Port Chalmers for overhaul. The Breeze, from Bluff, is due here today to load for Timaru, Lyttelton, Welling- , ton, and Wanganui. The Waikawa left Newcastle on Saturday with a coal cargo for Port Chalmers. The Holmdale, from Wellington, which is dim here on Thursday, is to sail on that day for Oamaru, Timaru, Lyttelton, Wellington, and Wanganui. The Tofua is to leave Auckland to-day for tho Western Pacific Islands. The Kaiapoi, with timber from Hobart, is due here at noon to-day. Tho Karori, from Auckland, via Wellington and Lyttelton, is due here on Friday. She will proceed to Bluff and will return to punedin to load for Auckland, via ports. The Government lighthouse steamer Tutanekai left Bluff on Friday morning for Deg Island, Centro Island, West Coast Westport, and Wellington. The Ngaknta is to leave Ancklond on FriJay with cargo for Wellington, Lyttelton, and Punedin. , The Union Company advises that on Saturday, December 22, two steamers (the Wahine and Mararoo) wijl leave Lyttelton for Wellington. CARGO FROM NEW YORK. The City of Dunedin will sail from New York at tho beginning of January, for Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton, Dunedin, Melbourne, and Sydney. She is due at Auckland early in February. """ 1 THE PAKEHA. The S.S. and A. liner Pakeha left Wellington on Wednesday for Auckland and Napier to complete Homeward loading. She is to clear finally from Napier on December 18 for London, via Montevideo and Tenenffe. ATHENIC LEAVES BALBOA. Cabled advice states that the White Star liner Athenic, en route from London and Southampton to Wellington, Lyttelton, and Timaru, left Balboa on Sunday, xvecefnber 2. She will be due at Wellington on December 24. MAHBNO TO REPLACE MANUKA. The Union Company’s steamer Maheno, which is laid iip at Wellington, will replace the Manuka in the Sydney-Wellington and Sydney-Auckland services, leaving Wellington in January, whilst the Manuka undergoes annual overhaul. THE ERROLL. The' steamer Erroll is to load on the New Zealand coast for Dunkirk, London, and Hull. The steamer is due at Auckland on and will subsequently load at Namier and December 13 from Newcastle to lift wool, Wellington. - HURUNUPS LOADING SCHEDULE. The Federal liner Hurunui left Adelaide on December 2 for New Plymouth to commence loading for New York, Boston, and Coast ports of Great Britain, She was duo at New Plymouth on Sunday, and will subsequently visit Wanganui, Napier Wellington, Gisborne, and Auckland. It is intended to despatch the vessel from Auckland at the end of December. THE MIDDLESEX. The Federal Line steamer Middlesex, which loaded for London at Auckland, sailed on Sunday for Tokomaru Bay, Napier, Picton, and Wellington for further loading. Shfe will subsequently return to Tokomaru Bay to complete, and will be despatched tidm there for London. LING NAM ARRIVED CALLAO. Messrs Hnddart-Parker (Ltd.) have been advised that tho steamer Ling Nam, which left Wellington in October, arrived at Callao on December 4. She will proceed from there to Iqniqne, Papeete, and Wellington, being due at Wellington about the end of December. CARGO FROM FRANCE. Advice has been received that the next Compagnie des Messageries Maritime® steamer to leave France direct to Wellington will be the El Kantara. She is to leave Dunkirk on 30th instant, Le Havre January 4, 1924, Bordeaux January 9, and Marseilles January 22, ’ and cornea via the Panama Canal and Papeete, and should arrive at Wellington 51 bout March 25. CAPTAIN E. STOTT RETIRES, Captain E. Stott, who recently retired from the position of marine superintendent for the Union Steam Ship Company at Auckland, was presented recently with a combination solid oak tantalus and cut-glass holders and card equipment from tho masters and officers'of the Union Company. The presentation was made at the Mercnant teivce Guild by a deputation of masters, including Captain E. Crawford, A. E. Barlow, and A. H. Davey, with whom was Captain Henderson, president of the guild. Captain Crawford, on behalf of the master® and officers of the company, spoke in eulogistic terra® of Captain Stott’® services as marine superintendent.

FROM SAN FRANCISCO, The Union Company advises that the Wairuna left San Francisco on Sunday, December 2, for Lyttelton, Dunedin, Melbourne, about December 29 to commence dischargand Sydney, via Papeete. Due at Lyttelton ing, she is due here about January 3. WITHIN WIRELESS RANGE. The following vessels were expected to be within rang© of the undermentioned wireless stations last night:—Auckland; Canadian Miller, Erroll, Kauri, Kent, Manama, Montrose, Trrfusis, Veronica, Waihora, Wanaka, and Kawatiri. Wellington: Maori, Maraj-aoa, Ngaio, Ordwaiti, Tahiti, Ulimaroa, Manuka, Tutanekai, Katoa, Sir James Clark Ross, Rimutaka, Moeraki, Kaitangata, Knrori. Port Denison, Waipori, Kaiapoi, and Kaimanawa. Chatham Islands; Nil. THE MOERAKI. The Union Company’s intercolonial passenger steamer Moeraki, from Melbourne, via Hobart, arrived at Bluff at 3 n.ra. yesterday. Due hero at 9 a.m. to-day, to disembark passengers and to discharge cargo, she is to sail at 5 o’clock this evening for Lyttelton, Wellington, and Melbourne. FROM COAL TO OIL. CONVERSION OF RUAHINE. FIRST TRIP WITH NEW FUEL. Tho advantages of the oil-burning liner, from tho passenger’s point of view, were discussed in Auckland on Tuesday (says the New Zealand Herald) by Mr William Elliot, of Mountain road, Auckland, who arrived at Wellington by tho Ruahine on tho previous Sunday. The Ruahine is tho third unit in the Now Zealand Shipping Company’s fleet to bo converted from a coal to an oil-burner, her latest voyage being her first with tho new fuel system in operation. “ The Ruahine was always a clean ship under the new system,” said Mr Elliot. “The absence of tho grit and dirt deposited everywhere when coal is tho fuel was especially noticeable at the fuel depot at Colon. Every traveller knows the racket and dirt and discomfort inseparable from tho oldtime coaling. But all that is eliminated with oil, which is taken aboard in a pipe, without most pepole being aware even that the chip is being bunkered. The saving m stokehold manning needs no emphasis.” Even the cooking on the Ruahine was done with oil fuel, continued Mr Elliot. Unfortunately, the cooks had no previous experience with the new apparatus, and the table suffered for a few days. However, tho galley was soon as pleased with the new fuel as the engine room and passengers had not long to complain of the cooking. Commercially, tho most impressive result from the Euahinc’s conversion was the great improvement in her steaming time. For days she averaged between 330 and 350 miles, as against 260 to 280 miles with coal fuel. During 25 days’ good weather the average speed °was 14 knots. But for unfavourable weather at the beginning and end of the journey a fast trip would have been assured. it was, tho average throughout was 13 knots, and it was anticipated this would be improved on the return'journey. The company’s aim with its oil-bumers, said Mr Elliot, was ultimately to provide a 32-day service between New Zealand and Southampton, via Panama. That, of course, would be an important advance on the present 33 to 49-day service, and would be equal to the present mail service via North America.

Last Quarter . ... .. 1st 9.39 p.m. New Moon .. . . .. „ 8th 1.0 p.m. First Quarter 15th 3.8 p,m. Full Moon .. , 23rd 7.3 p.m. Last Quarter 81st 8.37 a,m.

at i p.m.:— Station. Wind. Weather. Bar. Thor Cape Maria, S., Iresh, clondy ... 30.28 73 EusscU. S.W., light, cloudy 30.21 74 Manukau Hoads, W.S.W., light, fine 30.19 75 Auckland, W., fresh. fine 30.17 75 Taurunga, S.W., fresh, fine ... 30.13 79 Gisborne, lx, breeze, fine ... 29.75 78 Nnpier, E., breeze, fine ... 29.97 89 Costlepoint. W., fresh, fine ... Wellington, N., breeze, fair _ — 70 30.03 68 Kew Plymouth, S.W., light, fine 30.11 69 Capo Egmont, W., light, cloudy 30.15 72 Wanganui, W., fresh, fair ... — ... 30.12 75 Cape Foul wind, \V., fresh, fine 30.05 70 W., light, fair 30.11 77 Stephen Island, S.W., fresh, fine ... 30.10 65 Cape Campbell, N., fresh, fine 29.95 GG Kaikoura, S.W., light, overcast ... — B!) Akaroa Lighthouse, —overcast 30.05 58 Nuggets, S., fresh, overcast — 53 Bluff, W.S.W., breeze, overcast ... 39.97 5-1