SHIPPING.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 16017, 2 January 1923, Page 5

SHIPPING.

ARRIVALS. Saturday, December 30.

Tutanekai, s.s. (5.15 p.m.), 811 tons, Carrington, from Wellington. Awahou, s.s. (8.15' p.m.), 407 _ tons, Nairn, from Waikokopu and Napier. Sunday, December 31.

Port Hunter, s.s. (5 p.m.), 8423 tons, Cortell, from Auckland. _ DEPARTURES. Tuesday, January 2. Tutanekai, s.s. (12.15 p.m.), 811 tons, Carrington, for Gable End Foreland and Northern lighthouses.

The Arahura Was to be dispatched from Auckland at 4 o’clock this afternoon for Tokomaru Bay and Gisborne. The steamer is posted' to Ire tendered here at 4 p.m. (meantime) to-morrow with one'launch only for inward'and outward passengers. The ship proceeds on to Napier to-morrow night. The Wanaka, which left here on Saturday, reached Auckland’ on Sunday afternoon. She has a quantity of Southern p l'oduee to discharge. The produce steamer Kini was expected! to leave Napier to-day for South Island ports to re-commCnce loading for Gisborne (and Napier, ... . The' Bo den 'Powell is do. leave Napier to-night fot: Gisborne with shingle.. She is doe hero in ' the morning,-and! is ex* fleeted 1 to sail again to-morrow night for Napier. - / The Tiroa is to ,go an 'the slip, at'Auckland to-morrow and.. should -leave on Thursday, for Coast. Bays and 1 -Gisborne; The topsail schooner Elsie Mary, may sail from Gisborne to-night for Auckland. • • _ 1

The C. and D. Lino steamer PartHunt Of. arrived from Auckland at 5 p.m. on Sunday. She is expected' to 'Complete loading.and sail tO-morrow night for Tokohkiru Bay. A description of the Port Hunter, which is-a'-new-'vessel, has' already appeared l in.-these -coluihns, The Awahou-made Gisborne oh'Saturday night frotir Waikokopu and! Napier. She was working cargo to-day, and’ is to sail at 3 a.m. to-morrow for Tolaga- Bay, Tokomaru Bay, and Auckland. The Ripple arrives from Napier m the morning, and is to sail at 4 p.m. to-mor-row for Wellington. An unexpected arrival at Gisborne on Saturday evening was the Government steamer Tutanekai, which left Wellington last week on a cruise of the Northern lighthouses. She is to call at Whangara Island, in connection with the erection of a lighthouse there, and came to Gisborne to embark some carpenters. The vessel resumed her voyage to-day. The Tutanekai has been equipped with the new wireless direc-tion-hnder, invented for the purpose of aiding navigation in thick or foggy weather.

The order placed with Messrs Vickers, Limited, for a new 20,000 tons steamer for the Orient Mail Line, has been greatly welcomed at Barrow, where the cessation of naval construction following the decisions of the Washington Conference ha s caused an unprecedented amount of unemployment. Many skilled workers in the engineering andl shipbuilding trade have been idle over a very long period, and the order for this new vessel —which has been secured in face of the keenest competition—will go far towards ameliorating the lamentable situation of recent months. The liner, which is to lie built to> the most modern specifications for first-class passenger steamers, will be fitted, as regards propulsion, with turbines driving through single reduction gearing, and the will be arranged' for oil fuel. The Barrow works of Vickers, Ltd., have in the past been the cradle of some 1 of the finest and most famous naval and mercantile ships the world has seen, and it may be taken for granted that the new lineT will be worthy of the builders and of the Orient Steam Navigation Company. Reese and Company’s coastal steamer Opihi, while en route from Whangarei to Lyttelton with 460 tons of cement and a quantity of general cargo, ran into rough weather off Kaikoura. The heavy rolling of the chip carried' away the derrick rests between the second! and third hatches, letting the four long derricks loose. A s they banged! together, two of them were smashed in half while a third wag sprung. The vessel wa6 then hove to and, with the assistance of all hands, the derricks were soon secured'. FATE OF THE ORTERIC. SYDNEY, Dec. 21.—The steamer Orteric, of the “Bank” Line, which went ashore on the Pacific Coast last week in a fog, is a total wreck.. Cable advice to this effect was received in Sydney yesterday. The Orteric, which was under charter to load lumber at Pacific Coast ports for Sydney and Melbourne, bad called at Sail Francisco for oil fuel, and after leaving there for Eureka to start loading, ran on the rocks on Fish Point, 70 mili’s north of ’Frisco. The crew was saved. She was a steel screw steamer of 6696 tons, built by Messrs W. Doxford and Sons, Limited, of Sunderland, in 1919. ;

TELEGRAPHIC SHIPPING. London, Dec. 30:' Departures, for Auckland, Trekievc; for Bluff, Athenic. Sydney, Jan. 1: Sailed yesterday, for New Zealand, Waihemo, with a volunteer crew.

Auckland, Dec. 31: Arrived l at 9.15 a.m., Arahura, from Gisborne; at 4.40 p.m,, Wanaka, from Gisborne; at 7 a.m. to-day, Niagara from Sydney. Napier: To 6ail at 5 p.m.. Ripple, for G isborne.

WITHIN WIRELESS RANGE. Auckland: Ulimaron, Cape May, Navua, Kaikorai, Waitemata, Waitomo, Arahura, Canadian Conqueror. Wellington: Maori, Wahine, Ngaio, Manuka, Wingatui, Hertford, Waihora, Maungnnui, Jfutanckai, Tairoa, . Rimutaka, City of Newcastle, Port Victor. Chatham Islands: Westmoreland, Port Elliott.

WEATHER REPORT. Fresh south-west breezes were reported this morning at Cape Maria, Tiritiri, and Napier, fresh westerly breeze at Auckland, southerly breezes at Gisborne, Wellington and Cape Campbell. Passing showers were reported at Auckland; elsewhere the weather was fine. Temperature readings at 9 a.m.: Cape Maria 67, Auckland 6Z, Tauranga. 64, Gisborne 70, Napier 71, New Plymouth 63, Wellington 67, Cape Campbell 66. STATE OF SEA.

Rough seals were running at Capo Maria, Auckland and Castlepoint, moderate at Tauranga and New Plymouth smooth at Gisborne, Napier and Cape Palliser. WEATHER FORECAST.

The indications are for variable and moderate breezes, but westerlies prevailing. Expect warm and humid conditions. Barometer unsteady, seas moderate, tides good. ,