SHIPPING

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20292, 28 December 1927, Page 8

SHIPPING

PHASES OP THE MOON.—SUMMER TIME. Dkcembee. Last Quarter 16th 12.34 pm ' New Moon . • 24th 4.43 p.m. First Quarter 31st 11.52 p.m. THE SUN.—-SUMMER TIME. Rises to-day at 5.18 a.m.; sets at 9.1 ?.m. THE WEATHER. December 27. —Dull and overcast. Light variable winds. 8 a.m. Noon. 5 p.m. Barometer .. . . 29.90 29.94 29.94 Thermometer .. .. Min., 50 ; max., 63. WEATHER FORECAST. Following is the official weather forecast; A widespread depression is developing over the Tasman Sea. Moderate to strong east to north winds may be expected, chiefly over New Zealand and the eastern Tasman Sea, with moderate seas in New Zealand waters and rather rough to rough in the Tasman Sea extending eastwards. The weather will be cloudy, warm, and sultry, with rain developing, more especially In the northern districts. Thunder may be expected in places. HIGH WATER.—SUMMER TIME. December 28 — a.m. p ’™‘ At Talaroa Heads .. .. 6.41 7.7 At Port Chalmers .. .. 7.21 747 At Dunedin 7.51 5.17 EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Coast*], and Intehcolonial. Karetu, Newcastle, Sydney, to-day. Gisla, Wellington, Lyttelton, Dec. 29. Canadian Seigneur, Timaru, Dec. 29. City of Lyons. Wellington, Lyttelton. Dec. 29. Kaitangata, Westport, via ports, Deo. 29. Holmdale, Wanganui, Wellington, Doc. 30. Cumberland, Wellington, Lyttelton. Dec. 30. Waipiata, Auckland, via porta, Dec. 31. Storm, Wanganui, via ports, Dec. 31. Hororata, Wellington, Tlmaru. Jan. 3. Manuka, Melbourne, via Bluff. January 4. Calm, Wanganui, via ports, January 5. City of Winchester. Wellington, January 5. Kamo, Auckland, via porta, Jan. 5. Breeze, Wanganui, via ports, January 6. Katoa, Auckland, via porta, Jan. 6. Gale, Wanganui, via ports, January 7. Progress, Port Waikato, via >orts, Jan. 7. Port Denison, Wanganui, Jan. 9. Tairoa, Newcastle direct, Jan, 9. Huntingdon, Wellington, Lyttelton, Jan. 16. Walltoualtl, Sydney, via ports. January 17. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Rlmutaka, Lyttelton, Napier, to-day. Gisla, Melbourne, Sydney, Dec. 30. Kaitangata, Bluff, December 30. City of Lyons, Hobart, Launceston, Dec. 30. Holmdale. Wanganui, via ports, Dec. 30. Karetu, Sydney, via porta, Deo. 30. Canadian Seigneur, Wellington, Dec. 31. Cumberland, Bluff, Jan. 3. Storm, Wanganui, via ports, Jan. 3. Waipiata, Auckland, via ports, January 4. Manuka, Melbourne, via ports, January 4. Athenlo, Pioton direct, January 4. Oreti, Invercargill, Fort Craig, Jan. 4. Calm, Wanganui, via ports, January 5. Breeze. Wanganui, via ports, January 6. Kamo, Bluff, Jan. 6. Gale, Wanganui; via ports, January 7. Kahlka, Gisborne, via ports. January 7. Katoa, Auckland, via ports. Jan. 7. •Progress, Port Waikato, via ports, Jan. 7. City of Winchester, London, January 9. Hororata. Wellington. Napier, Jan. 9. Port Donison, London, via Panama, Jan. 11. Walkoualtl, Sydney, via ports, January 19. OVERSEAS STEAMERS FOR OTAGO. Gisla (due December 29).—Left Montreal October 23 for Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton, Dunedin, and Australian ports; arrived Auckland December 14. City of Lyons (due December 29). —Left New York November 5 for Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton, Dunedin, Hobart, Launceston, and Port Plrie; arrived Auckland December 7. ■ Canadian Seigneur (due December 29). — Left Montreal October 27 for Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton, Timaru and Dunedin: arrived Auckland December 13. Cumberland (due December 30).—Left Liverpool October 30 for Auckland, Welling ton, Lyttelton, Port Chalmers and Bluff; arrived Auckland December 8. Huntingdon (due January 16).—Left Liverpool November 12 for Auckland, Welington, Lyttelton, and Fort Chalmers; arrived Auckland December 21. . Sussex (due January 15). —Left Calcutta December 8 for Auckland. Wellington, Lyttelton, Tlmaru. Dunedin, and Bluff, via Penang and Singapore; due Auckland January 3. Port Caroline (due January 17). —Left London December 3 for Lyttelton. Dunedin and Bluff: due Lyttelton January 13. Canadian Prospector (due January 20). — Left Halifax November 25 for Auckland, Wellington. Lyttelton, Timaru, and Dunedin; due Auckland January 9. Waihemo (due January 20). —Left Samarang December 17 for Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton and Dunedin; due Auckland January 7. Hertford (due January 24).—Left Liverpool November 26 for Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton, Port Chalmers, and New Plymouth ; due Auckland January 4. Min (due January 24). —Left New York December 4 tor Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton, and Dunedin; due Auckland January 9. Cydonla (due January 25). —Left Montreal November 25 and Sydney (Cape Breton) November 30 for Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton. Dunedin, Sydney, and Melbourne, via Newport News; due Auckland January 14. Manchester Merchant (due January 28). —l«ft New York. December 16, for Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton, and Dunedin; due Auckland January 16. Arawa (due February 7). —Left Liverpool December 13 for Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton, and Dunedin; due Auckland Jam) ary 20. FOR NORTHERN PORTS. Kerston Miles, left Port Arthur (Texas) November 23 for Auckland, Wellington, and Australian ports; due Auckland, Decomber SO. Ruahine, left Southampton, November 25, for Wellington and Auckland; due Wellington December 31. West Tagus, left Los Angeles, December for Auckland and Australian ports; due Auckland January 2. Walruna, left San Francisco December 10 lor Auckland and Wellington; due Auckland January 5. Tainul, left London December 8 for Wellington and Auckland ; duo Wellington January 16. West Ek-jon left Los Angeles December 11 for Auckland, Napier, Wellington, and Lyttelton; due Auckland January 6. PACIFIC WAIL SERVICES. Aorangl left Auckland December 20 for Vancouver, via Suva and Honolulu; due Vancouver January 6. Niagara left Vancouver December 11 for Auckland and Sydney, via 'Honolulu and Suva; due Auckland January 2. Tahiti leaves Sydney December 29 and Wellington January 3 for San Francisco, via Papeete and Rarotonga; due San Francisco January 20. Makura leaves San Francisco December 28 for Wellington and Sydney, via Papeete and Rarotonga; due Wellington January 16. SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. AUCKLAND, December 27. —Arrived : Kamo (12.25 a.m.), from Wellington; Tofua (2.35 p.m.), from Fill; Ulimaroa (5.30 p.m.), from Sydney. WELLINGTON, December 27.—Arrived : Maori (7 a.m.), from Lyttelton. Sailed: Hororata (6.45 a.m.), for Timaru; Port Fremantle (7.5 a.m.), for Gisborne: Maori (7.50 p.m.), for Lyttelton. LYTTELTON, December 27.—Arrived : Wahlne (6.35 a.m.), from Wellington. Sailed: Wahlne (8.25 p.m.). for Wellington. SYDNEY. December 27. —Arrived : Marama (5.10 a.m.), from Wellington; Maunganui (5.15 a.m.), from Auckland. The Union Company advises that the Waiotapu. from British Columbian ports, was due at San Francisco on December 25. The vessel will proceed ' ’ ’ ice about December 31 to complete lo ig for Auckland, ■Wellington. Melbourne, and Sydney. The Norfolk is to leave Napier to-morrow for Waikokopu, Tokomaru Bay, and Auckland to complete loading. She Is timed to sail from Auckland on January 7 for London and West of England ports. News has been received that the steamer Mesopotamia sailed from Makatea Island last Sunday with a full cargo of phosphates for discharge at Auckland. The steamer Ikala has been chartered to load genera! merchandise at St. John, New Brunswick, for New Zealand and Australia. The German steamer Kerston Miles, en route from Port Arthur, Texas, with a full cargo of case oil, cleared Balboa on December 2 for Auckland, where she la due about December 30. The vessel will unload 35.000 cases of oil at Auckland, and the remainder of the cargo at Wellington. Townsville, and Rockhampton. The oil tanker O. A. Knudsen, which sailed from San Luis on November 29, arrived at Wellington last Thursday night, and berthed at Miramar to discharge over 11.000 tons of crude oil i;.to the Union Company's tanks. , , The Waikawa lefr Westport last Wednesday night for Vancouver, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. She is due at Vancouver on January IS. , . , An expected arrival at Auckland early next month Is the German steamer Passat, from Galveston (Texas), via Australian ports. The vessel left Galveston on September 2V, and cleared Barbadoes on October 10, Durban on November 8. ami arrived at Fremantle on December 7. She is to go from there to Geelong and then on to Aucklal Cargo discharged from the Maunganui at Auckland last week included transhipments ex the following steamersSaikoh Maru, lllimaioa. Sonoma, Hautraan. Mishima Maru, Ilea Maru, Orraara, Paiebang, Talplng. Haimon Maloia. Time. Regina d'ltalia, Esperfnce Bay. Magdeburg, Maheno, City of Sparta Oronsay. Elmshorn, Osterley, Macamba. Corrlmal. 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The Tymerlc Is now unloading hardwood at Wellington ’ from Western Australia. Afterwards she will bunker at Westport before going to South Australia to load wheat for Europe. The Shaw-Savlll steamer Matakana is to leave Auckland on December 30 for Gisborne, thence Napier and Wellington to complete loading. She la expected to clear the latter port finally on January 12 for London, Avonmouth, Glasgow, and Liverpool, via Panama. THE MELBOURNE STEAMER. The Union Company advises that the Manuka is timed to leave Melbourne tomorrow for Bluff, Dunedin, Lyttelton, and Wellington. She is due at this port on January 3, and will sail from Wellington on January 7 for Melbourne. KARETU FROM SYDNEY. The Union Company's freighter Karetu left Sydney last Friday afternoon with a large shipment of general cargo for discharge at Dunedin, Lyttelton, and Oamaru. The vessel should arrive In the Lower Harbour this afternoon. COBINTHIC HOMEWARD BOUND. Cabled news received by the Shaw-Savill Company states that the liner Corinthic left Colon on December 20 for Southampton and London. , The vessel left Wellington on November 27. PORT CAROLINE LEAVES PANAMA. Cabled news received by the C. and D. Line reports that the Port Caroline, from Lcndon, cleared the Panama canal on December 20 for Lyttelton, where she is duo on January 12. The vessel will also discharge at Port Chalmers and Bluff. THE CITY OP WINCHESTER. The Shaw-Savill Company reports that the City of Winchester will now leave New Plymouth to-morrow for Timaru and Port Chalmers, to complete loading. The vessel is now scheduled to sail from Port Chalmers for London on January 3. '* NILE FROM TEXAS. The steamer Nile is reported to have reached Colon on December 18, en route from Galveston, Texas, to Auckland. The vessel is bringing a cargo of sulphur, of which 4250 tons will be unloaded at Auckland and the remainder at southern ports. She is due at Auckland about January 14. PASSENGERS BY BALLARAT. The P. and O. liner -Jallarat, which arrived at Sydney on December 22 from London, brought the following passengers for New Zealand:—Miss L. D. Cotton, Miss Mabel Harvey, Miss M. E Morgan, Mrs C. M'Kay, Mr Robert Brown, Mr James Miller, Mrs L. Harper, Mr D. H Neele, Mr J. Wilcox, Mr M. J. Wilcox, Mr J. Cleland, Mr R. Baker, Miss A. Barnes, Mrs H. D. Bell, Mr H. H. Tombs, Mrs B. Tombs. NEW MOTOR PASSENGER SHIP. The new motor passenger ship, ordered by the Adelaide S.S. Company for the interstate trade will be built by Beardmore and Co. Ltd., on the Clyde. She will have a length of 430 ft, beam of 60ft, and a moulded depth of 30ft to the upper deck. Accommodation will be provided for 300 first and second class passengers, a speed of 16 knots Is expected. There will be five decks. For the comfort and convenience of travellers a large number of single and double cabins will be included. In'these cabins cot bedsteads will be placed instead of the ordinary bunks. Other features will be music and smoke rooms on the promenade deck, with verandag adjoining. WITHIN WIRELESS RANGE. The following vessels were expected to be within range of the under-mentioned wireless stations last night: Auckland.—Silver Shell, Nordbo, Valaria, Tofua, Ulimaroa, Kairanga. Wellington.—MWi, Wahlne, Arahura, Ngaio, Tamahine, Hororata, Fort Fremantle, Tahiti, Ruahine, Niagara, Norfolk. Awarua. —Sir James Clark Ross, C. A. Larsen, N. T, Nilsen Alonso, Karetu, Kaponga. " „ . _ A Chatham Islands.—Tonganro, Kerstea Miles, Mahia. LARGE RUSSIAN TANKER. At 'the Andre Marti yard, Nicolajeff, a 10,600-ton motor tanker is being built for the Naptha Trust, of Moscow. She „ will be equipped with two Sulzer-type engines built in Germany. They will each be of 1400 b.h.p., having four cylinders 600 mm., with a piston stroke of 1060 mm., the speed being 110 r.X'.m. DIESEL ELECTRIC TANKERS. It is understood that the Atlantic Refining Oomnany may shortly place orders for throe largo’ tankera to be equipped with Diesel ’electric machinery and that the contracts will be given to British or Continental yards (states the Motor Ship). It will be remembered that these owners ordered a 12,500-ton Diesel electric tanker from Scott’s Shipbuilding and Engineering Company a short time ago and that this Is supplied with Carels-Ingersoll Rand oil engines, the electrical equipment being manufactured by the British Thomson Houston Company. PERSONAL ITEMS. Captain S. C. Warner, the popular commander of the P. and 0. R.M.S. Maloja, which arrived at Sydney on December 5, is to retire when the vessel reaches London. He has had an interesting career, and was through three war campaigns. Including the South African War and the Great War. The death is reported of Captain John George, 0.8. E., of the Union-Gastle Mail Steamship Company, Ltd., which took place suddenly. A very popular commander, he was 63 years of age, and had been In the company’s service since 1889, when he joined the steamer German as Wurth officer. In 1902 he was given command of the Harlech Castle, and after sailing in various intermediate steamers he was appointed to the command of the mail steamer, Norman, in 1920. His last ship was the Arundel Castle, which he joined last year. For very valuable services he rendered while commanding the hospital ship Gloucester Castle during the war he was awarded the 0.8. E. Captain H. Strong, R.D., R.N.R., commodore of the Union Castle Company’s fieeu, has passed into well-earned retirement after 48 years’ service at sea. After two years’ training in the Worcester, and other seafaring experience, during which he gained his mate’s certificate, he joined the Union Line in 1887 as fourth officer of the Tartar. From that ship he passed to the Moor, the Arab, the Trojan, the Mexican, and the Scot, until in 1899 he was given the command of the Gaika in the intermediate service His first mail command was the Carisbrooke Castle, and since then he has commanded the Saxon, the Armadale Castle, the Edinburgh Castle, the Windsor Castle, and, lastly, the Carnarvon Castle. Captain Strong is a Younger Brother of Trinity House,, a member of the Company of Master Mariners, and a member of the London Committee of the Missions to Seamen. He will be succeeded by Captain W. F. Stanley, of the Windsor Castle.