SHIPPING NEWS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2522, 16 July 1902, Page 58

SHIPPING NEWS.

SHAW, SAVIL-Ij, AND ALBIOX COMPANY'S FLEET. The following shows the approximate movements of the company's steamera: — Mamari. — To sail from Lyttelton for London on July 26. Delphic— To sail from Wellington for London on July 26. Waiwera. — Left London on June 2 for Auckland; due there on July 28; to sail from the colony end of August. Gothic— Left Plymouth on June 7 for Wellington ; due there on July 21 ; to sail from Wellington on August 14. Aotea. — To sail from London end of June for Port Chalmers ; due there about August 24- ;■ aaila from the colony about end of September. Karamea.— To sail from London on July 3 for "Wellington; due there about August 25 ; sails from the colony in October. Kumara.— To sail from London end of July for Auckland. Athenic— To sail from London on July 31 for Wellington ; due there on September 21 ; sails from Wellington in November. Raugatira.— To sail from London for Port Chalmers end of August. Maori.— To sail from London for Wellington on August 28. Matatua.— To sail from London for Auckland end of September. Tokomaru.— To eail from London for Wellington on September 25. THE NEW ZEALAND SHIPPING COMPANY'S FLEET. The following is the latest approximate time-table of the movements of the New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers: — Papanui.— Now in Lyttelton; will sail for London on the 10th inst. from Lyttelton. Waimate.— Now in Wellington; will sail for London on the 12th inst. from Lyttelton. Ruapehu.— Left London 24th May; is due at Wellington on the 10th in«fc., and leaves that port for London on the 31st inst. Rakaia. — From London, via Australia ; is due at Auckland on tJie 20th inst., sailing *g*iu from the colony some time in August. — Left London 3rd June; is due «t Port Chalmers- about the 7th August, and ■will sail in August for London. Whakatane. — Left London 21st June ; is due at Wellington' about 13th August, and will nail early in September for London. • "Wakanui.— Left London 3rd July; is due At Auckland 25th August, and will sail in "■©etob&r for London. Pararoa.— Leaves London 19th July; is due in the colony about stf» September, and will sail in October for London. Turakina. — Leaves London 16th August ; is due about 2nd Octoßer, leaving again in Rimutaka.— Leaves London 15th September; is due about 2nd November, leaving again in December. We mentioned some time past that a syndicate had been formed at Port Chalmers for sealing purposes, and that the brigantine Enterprise had been secured for that purpose On Thursday we were informed by one of the projectors that Messrs Callan and Gallaway, solicitors, reported the formation of a limited liability company for the purpose of working the vessel. The aim in view is to give employment to several expert stevedors, who, owing to the obstructed state of shipping work at Port Chalmers for some months past, have been prevented from getting a fair living. Every one of theee men is a respectable citizen, and when leaving Port Chalmers they will carry with them the best wishes of the residents for their ultimate success. The traffic was brisk in the Victoria. Channel on Saturday. First, the Pass of Balmaha was towed up and berthed at the Viotoria wharf at 11 a.m.. followed by the Blenheim, which was berthed at the Rattrty street wharf at 2.45 p.m. The s.s. Warrimoo followed, and was berthed at the cross wharf at 2.50 p.m., while the s.e. Te Anau lefc. at 3 p.m. The- following are the shipping statistics for tho T>aet week: — Arrivals — Upolu, s.f , 700 tonsf Talune, s.s, 1370; Pukaki. s.s., 917; Janet Nicoll. s.e., 496; Mokoia. s s., 2154 ; Blenheim, ship, 1055 ; Pass of Balmaha, ship, 1433; Te Anau, s.s., 1028; Warrimoo. ss.. 2076; Mararoa, ci., 1381; — total, 12,610 ton=. Departures — Elingamite, » p 1675 tons ; ,Cor!nna, s s., 820 ; Invercargill. s s.. 123 ; Janet Nicoll, s s., 496 ; Mokoia, ?.s.. 2154: Pukaki, s s., 917; Te Anau, s.s, 1028; Warrimoo, s.v, 2076; Upolu, e.s., 700 ; -total, 99°4 tons. Beginning with the first of next y-r, the Russian Government will institute a plan of subsidy for ite merchant marine that is, to say tho least, unique. It will ad\ance SO per cent, of the cost of building vessels. repayable in 20 years with no inteicst. Insuring two-thirds of the finished property at 2 per cent., the owner must insure oiifthird. If Russian fuel is used, the Government will pay for it, on conditions providing for a minimum cargo out and homeward bound. This scheme comes into effect in 1903. No fewer than seven new steamers are announced for the P. and O. Company. The Sardinia has just been launched; Mie is 6700 tons register, and 4500 horsepower, and is intended for the great company's Eastern service. Two other steamships, the Moldavia and the Mongolia, are in course of erection, and their advent in Australasian waters may be looked for at no distant time. They are twin-screw steamers of 10,000 tons and 11,000 effective horse-power. Contracts have been placed by the P. and O. Company for four more steamships of the samo class. The Tyser line steamer St. Fillans, from New York, consigned to Messrs Hick, Swift, and Co., via Auckland, Wellington, and Lyttelton, k due at Port Chalmers on Thursday first with some 600 tons of cargo. Depression in the British shipping trade continues (says a London despatch to the I New York Tribune), and freights which , commenced to fall more than a year ago, ■ I are now so low as to be almost unprofitl 1 nble. Prices for building new steamers have

fallen considerably, and in many instan.-es are fully 20 per cent, under the highest figures obtained in 1900. Second-hand vessels have depreciated to a greater extent, and the supply of new and second-hand steamers is much in excess of demand. A great number of old liners and merchant > steamers have been sold to British and Continental buyers to be broken up, and many thousands of tons will probably be disposed of before long for the same purpose. The following are the shipping statistics for the past week: — Arrivals — Nile, s.s , 20 tons; Herald, s.s., 356; Monowai, s.s., 2137; Tarawera, s.s., 1269; Waikare, s.e., 1901; Corinna., s.s., 820; Upolu, s.s., 700: Westralia, s.s., 1819; Zealandia, s.s., 1736; Janet Nicoll, s.s., 496 tons:— total, 11.254 tona Departures — Moura, s.s., 1247 tons; Mamari, s.s., 3583; Invercargill, s.s., 123; Santa, Chiara, barque, 659; Blararoa, s.s., 1381; Monowai, s.s., 2137; Tarawera, ss., 1269; Westralia, p.s., 1819; Corinna, s.s., 820;— total, 12,718 tone. The following is tho outward Dunedin cargo taken by the s.s. Mainari from Port Chalmers on the Bth for London :— 14,435 crates rabbits, 2 do hares, 100 bales wool, ■ 62 do rabbitskins, 25 casks tallow. 43 cto pelts, 34 cases brandy, 15 do and 6 casts sundries. . . i The Right Hon. W. J. Pirrie. rhanman of the Harland and Wolff .Shipbuilding Company at Belfast, gave evidence before the Committee on Subsidies of the House of Commons on July 3, and holds the opinion that stibsidies do not help British shipping, and if given merely as a bounty increase. ' inefficiency and invite retaliation. He j speaks as one having au thoi ity, for the great shipbuilding firm of Harland and Wolff, with • which the American combine has entered into an arrangement, owes much of its success to his influence and ability as junior partner. The career of the. firm dates back to 1859, when Mr E. J. Harland, at that time manager of R. Hickson and Co.'s shipbuilding yard, purchased an adjoining yard. Mr Gustaf Wolff joined him in the following year, and tho business prospered, but it was not until Mr Pirrie joined tho ' firm in 1874 that it came to the front in the shipbuilding trade. When both the senior members of the firm were ♦"returned as M.P.'s for Belfast the control of the business was left to Mr Pirrie, and he has made it what it is to-day. The works now cover something like 100 acres of ground at Queen's Island. Between 10,000 and 12.000 men, women, and boys are employed by the firm, the wages bill amounting to £12,000 a week, and it is no | exaggeration to say that about 60,000- people in the town are dependent upon this gigantic enterprite. In 1897 the firm established a world's record by building 10 vessels, representing a tonnage of 84,200. Last year Harland and Wolff totalled 98,000 tons out of a total of , 1,400,000 launched from British yards, j All the vessels of the White Star i line were built by Mr Pirrie' b firm at a coat of more than £7,000,000. In no instance was there a contract between the ' builders and the company. Each vessel was built in accordance with a mutual understanding upon commission terms. According to a London paper, this conception of business has resulted in orders pouring in from abroad. " Strength, capacity, and speed," says the samefpaper, " are the words which mark the ideal "of Mr Pirrie' s modern • Atlantic liner." Some of his vessels mark ejx>chs in shipbuilding : his latest triumph —the Celtics — is the largest vessel ever built, surpassing in size the Great Eastern.