SHIRRING.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15466, 10 March 1921, Page 2

SHIRRING.

departures. Wednesday, March 9Ulpple, s.s. (0.50 pm.), 413 tons, Carlsoli. for Napier. '■, . Thursday, March 10. Kittawa, s.s. (10.45 a.m.), 1253 ton 11 . Chadwick, for Napier. The- Kittawa has finished the discharge of her Gisborne allotment of coal. ThO vessel left this morning. for Napier there to discharge the remainder of her coat port Melbourne is due from Lyttelton to-morrow morning for Homeward Tbe Mako arrives from papier to-mor-row afternoon, and. After, landing P« ,s ' .sengers proceeds to Tolaga Bay to load wool for transhipment, to the Port* Molb°Mcssrs Clare and Clare, local agents for the Blackball’COaT Company, received advice this afternoon that the collier Ngakuta »does not go to Gisborne .• ■ this trip. The Ngakuta.is reported as-having left Greymouth last' night for Gisborne. The New Zealand Shipping . Company advise the movements of the following steamers: >The. Orari, Homeward bound; arrived at Panama bn ' March 1; tne Otaki also Homeward bound, arrived at Panama.-a day later than the Orari; the Gypawa sailed from. Lyttelton yesterday fdr-London.'' • _ The above company's new steamer Piako which left Liverpool on February 2 for' New' Zealand- -ports, arrived at Colon on March 2. The, steamer is bringing the following cargo: For Auckland, 2750- tons; for Wellington, 2550 tons; for Lyttelton, 1650 tons;...for, Dunedlp, 1000 tons; for Bluff 800 tons. - The Tircva. which arrived at lokomaru Bay yesterday afternoon. Is expected to be'-dispatched from there at . 3 p-m. today for Hicks Bay to load' for Gisborne. The. steamer is now do come direct to Gisborne; from Hicks Bay.- She is to load coal at this-port, ex the collier Ihumata, lor Tokomaru Bay. The schooner Maro.ro Is .discharging her cargo of hardwood,, poles at tiie town wharf. • The auxiliary, schooncy Fairbum arrived at Tokomaru Bay yesterday afternoon, and upon completion of discharge returns to Gisborne. Here she is to, load coal for Tokomaru Bay, ex the collier Ihumata. - V - • . ' iThe barque Rothesay Bay. recently announced to load hardwood at Hobart for Dunedin, has been diverted. The vessel left Newcastle with a .cargo of coal for New Plymouth. The- General Steamship Corporation started operating from Puget Sound to tbe west: coast of South (America with four steamers during April, 1920. This Beet, has been increased to seven steamers and during the period in. which this corporation has been in the trade all steamers have carried approximately 100 per cent, cargoes from Puget Sound.. •,In spite of the slump in shipbuilding, great progress is being , made tn tbe- construction of vessels fitted with internal combustion engines, and according to tho January issue' of “The . Motor . Ship” 44 new craft of this type are being built in Great Britain, whilst In other countries approximately three times as many are under construction. In Scandinavia, shipowners who had placed , orders . for steam ' vessels have in many cases given instructions for mo tors-to be installed instead of steam plant. In the same issue details are published of the second 14,-000-um .motor ship, -which, dyis .rbeen-, built for,' the",'filch/ Line,. and. particulars . are giveri* of One of the most-Important developments that has yet befen made in connection With marine internal-combus-tion engines.' This is' thc completion of the first commercial oil turbine that has ever been . constructed.: It; operates on heavy .oil. The.sfeace. occupied .!■},(Considerably less, and. If this ,tur&iiys|' i proves satisfactory it .is intended ii> manufacture it on a large scale, for Installation, In ocean-going ships. • •i.v ,' Built forty years ago, at Greenock, Scotland, as a yacht for Mr. Vaiiderbilt. the American millionaire, the steamer Sealark, now trading between'Australian ports,'has had a varied career. She:is a composite' Ship, h&Ving- a'n iron. frame arid a wooden, hull. -Her hull "is built of American- -elid and- teak. ’ TJfeo Sealark was purchased from.■''Mr; Vanderbilt by an Italian count, and later passed into The.hands of-Earl Crawford, who. renamed ■ her the Wanderer. The colmt made extensive cifaiSes in' the yacht to many parts of the world. This closed .her career as a yacht, and she' became a navy survey ship. Late! she came to Australia in a similar capacity. Nine months ago the Sealark was purchased by Captain J. It. Patrick, the chairman of .'directors of the Patrick • Sieamshlp Company, who converted her into a cargo steamer. The steamer's fittings are wholly of brass and copper. . : *(On the Pacific .Coast the fuel oil situation is causing extreme concern and is seriously affecting shipping, particularly an the Western- Canadian portion of the pacific littoral. The Vancouver..correspondent. ; of,th& Financial. Times, says that the latest development is the .impossibility of obtaining fuel oil-:'for the handsome steamer, the Canadian Highlander, jpst finished at the .Wallace- shipyards, for the Canadian Government merchant marine. The ship was' launched as an Oil-burner, and ran her trials as such, bm now she will have to be converted 'ipto coal, temporarily, at least. The Canadian-Pacific Railway Company' is changing its coast steamers to coal, and other companies arc contemplating some move, along these lines. .1 The Grand Trunk passenger steamers are safe until Jg.ne. as. oil-burners., and by that, time some .of the oil companies expect to be in *••• position -to supply .all oil'.requirements of British Columbia , through new contracts with the Mexican or Peruvian field. The supply from United' States wells Will probably continue to come in lesser voluble; ~( V; : MARAROA TO RESUME. "Information was received to-day by Mr. Beauchamp, manager of the Union Steam Ship .Co.**,'local office;;, to the, effect that the Mararoa l s fixed to sail from Auckland at noon-on .Tuesday next for TOkotharu Bay ana Gisborne. If the steamer arrives at Gisborne in- time on- Wednesday next she will be tendered upon anchoring with tho launch for .inward passengers. The launch, with outward passengers that day is 16 leave, the wharf fit T p.m; (meantime). The Mararoa afterwards proceeds to Napier, returning to Gisborne on Friday morning. i- TELEGRAPHIC SHIPPING. "‘London, March 9—Arrivals: At Hamburg. Australpeak; at Suez, Naldera and Chinese Prince; at Colombo, Marina. Revo; at, Port Natal, Militiades- Departures: For Fremantle, Kobllante; for Townsville,.. Canastota; for Wellington, Talnul. • r Napier.—Arrived "at 4-50 p.m. yesterday, Mako from Gisborne; at 8.10 a.m. to-day’ Ripple from Gisborne. To sail at 8 a.m.] 11th, Mako, for Gishorne. ./ 'Gi'A'rnomh.—Sailed at. 10.30 last night, Ngnkuta for Gisborne., i 't.v , : WEATHER REPORT. • Fresh south-westerly breezes prevailed bver the Dominion this morning, with fine weather. There were passing showers at Bluff. Temperature* records at 9 a.m. were: Auckland 05, Gisborne 01. Napier 08, Wellington 07, Christchurch 55, Dunedin 53, Bluff 54. STATE OF THE 3EA. “ Heavy seas were reported at Cape Maria, considerable at Russell, rough at Farewell Spit and Bluff, moderate at Tiritiri, Tauranga, and., Cax»e Palliser, smooth at Gisbdrne and*’Napier. WEATHER FORECAST, indications arc for southerly winds, moderate to strong. The weather will probably be cool and changeable, with scattered showers. - Barometer has a rls-' ing tendency. Sea rough, tides good