SHIPPING.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16209, 6 December 1926, Page 5

SHIPPING.

ARRIVALS Saturday, December 4. Huanui, aux. ketch (7.3.0 p;m.), 126 tons, Thomsen, from Auckland. DEPARTURES. Saturday, December 4. To Arolia, aux. sell. (5 p.m.). 156 tons, Johnson, for Napier. The Wainui leaves Auckland at 10 o'clock to-night for Tokornaru 'Bay and Gisborne, and will be tendered here for inward passengers on Wednesday morning. She sails the same evening for Napier, the launch for outward passengers leaving the Kaiti side at 7 p.m. (meantime). The Ivahika is expected to leave Dunedin to-night for Oamaru, Timaru, Lyttelton and Wellington to complete loading produce for Napier and Gisborne. She is due‘here on December 14. The Otaki is due at Gi's borne on Friday to load frozen meat, dairy produce, and general cargo for London. The Aorangi, from Sydney,' via Auckland, Suva,-and Honolulu, is due'at Vancouver on Friday. Tho Niagara was duo at Auckland today from Vancouver, via Honolulu and Suva, and sails to-morrow for Sydney.

The Makura left San Francisco on December 1 for Papeete, Earotonga and Wellington, .and is due at the lastmentioned port on December 21, sailing the same day (or Sydney. The Tahiti, from Sydney, leaves Wellington to-morrow for llarotonga, Papeete, and San Francisco, and is due at the American port on December 24. The Wainui will leave Auckland on Monday, December 20, and arrives at Gisborne the following Wednesday, sailing that evening for Napier. She will be despatched from the Tlawke's Bay port oh Thursday evening, Decemb* 23, and leaves Gisborne for Auckland on the morning of Christmas Eve, arriving at Auckland on Christmas Day. The following week thei Wainui will omit Napier from her itinerary. She will leave Auckland on Tuesday," December 28, arriving at Gisborne on Thursday' morning, and sailing the same evening for Auckland, which she reaches on Sew Year's Day. The Coronation, which was discharging coal here on Saturday, sailed again that afternoon for Auckland. The Huanui arrived from Auckland with coal on Saturday evening. After lying in tue roadstead since Friday morning, the Pakura was berthed last evening, and is to sail at 5 p.m. today for Wellington, where fihe loads again for Napier and Gisborne. The Parcra is due from Tokomaru Bay | to-fliorrow„ with coal from Westport and Greymouth. She proceeds heuco to .Napier with wool. The To Aroha. sailed for Napier on Saturday evening with wool. The Putiki, with coal from Auckland, is due here about Thursday. The. Awahou arrives from AuckTancl, via Tokomaru Bay, on Thursday. Sh-> returns to Auckland later. The Tjroa was due from Auckland and Hicks Bay to-day, and will probably sail again foil Hicks Bay and Auckland to-morrow night. The Gunbar is on her way from Napier to Auckland, where she loads for all Coast bays and Gisborne, avriving here towards the end of the week. TOWAGE OR SALVAGE? There, nro many tug 'masters and others who imagine that, • when a steamer has met with trouble, what j would in the ordinary eourse of things | be. a. towage, automatically becomes a. salvage, and should be paid for accord-' 1 ingly. The owners of the steamer Sol-1 la.sia have recently had this experience. While approaching Saldanha Bay, the bolts .<of the vessel's tail shaft coupling carried away, and, it being impossible to cany out the repairs at sea, the captain "senti a wireless, message to the ship's agents at Capetown, asking them to ' despatch a tug or a whaler to tow her in. The agents got into touch with the. port, captain at Table Bay, and an agreement was made that a tug should be sent to find the vessel and tow her to Table Bay, £6 per hour to be paid between 6'aim and 6 p.m., and £9 per hour between 6 p.m. and 6 a.m. The vessel was toWed in, but the officers and erew of the tug claimed £SOOO for what they alleged to be salvage services, they contending that they were not bound by the towage contract entered into by the owners,; the South African Railways and Harbors Administration. The case came before Mr. Justice Gardiner in the Supremo Court at Capetown on September 23, and the claim, was dismissed with costs. His Lordship holding that there was no such degree of danger to the tug ns to render its services salvage services, -but, ho added, even if the services of the tug were as alleged, her owners had received in the circumstances sufficient, remuneration, and the owners of the Sellasia could not be made to pay more than what was reasonable, for the assistance which they had received. TELEGRAPHIC SHIPPING London, December 4.—Arrivals, at London, Port Brisbane; at Dunkirk, Port Darwin; at Vancouver, Baron Pensacola and Anglo-Cblumbia; at Colon Port Bowen, and Rotorua; at Buenos Aires, Waikawa. Departures, from London, Corinthic and Remuera; from Curacao, Kotorua; from Galveston, Bronnoy; from Honolulu, Aorangi, for New Zealand, Passed Perith, Cbeldale and Hobson's Bay. Sydney, December 6.—Arrived, Tbalutta, from Auckland. Auckland.—Arrived, at 11.30 a.m. yesterday, Awahou, from Gisborne, via ("oast bays; at 6.30 p.m. Wainui, from Gisborne. Napier.—Arrived at 9.50 a.m. on Saturday, Kiritrma, from Gishorne. Napier.—Sailed at 6.30 a.m., ILJ.LS. Dunedin, for Auckland; arrived, at 6.30 a.m., Tainui. Auckland: Arrived, at 2.30 a.m. today, Toriganro, from Ixmdon. WITHIN WIRELESS RANGE. Auckland. Raitoke, UJirharoa, Devon, Tofua, Hinemoa, Marama, Dunedin, Otaki and Dewey. Chatham Islands. —Port Ifobart,, Fo'reic, Chincjia, ' Cragness, City of Windsor, Me.roo, Canadian Spinner and Mataroa. Wellington.—Wahine, Maori, Tamahine, Arahura, Canadian Scottish, Iris, Maunganui, Port' Melbourne, Futon, Willesdon, Tainui, Maunganui, Wingatui, Ruahine and Turakina. Avfarua.—N. T.' Nilson Alonso, Sir James Clark Ross, C. A. Larsen, Maheno, Oliva, Karetu and Tutanekai.

WEATHER REPORT Fine weather was general throughout j the North Island this morning. South- ! westerly breezes, light to fresh, ficfe \ blowing north of the East Cape, with nor'-westerlies further south. The barometer bad risen since Saturday, and temperatures this morning were somewhat higher, Auckland recording 63 degrees, Tauranga 70, Taupo 55, East Cape 59, Napier 66, Wanganui 59, Wellington and Opotiki 61. Rough seas were reported at Cape Palliser and Gisborne; moderate to smooth elsewhere. Wairoa report.—Light southerly wind; rough sea; bar unworkable. WEATHER FORECAST The indications are for westerly winds, moderate to strong, freshening and veering by west to north. Expect warm and sultry weatlier, with increasing hazeand cloudiness for a change. Barometer falling; seas moderate; tides good.