SHIPPING.

Southland Times, Issue 16692, 22 March 1911, Page 4

SHIPPING.

TIDES—MARCH 22. Bluff .. 5.54 a.m. 7.13 p.m. Invercargill .. 7.34 a.m. 7.53 p.m. Riverton .. 5.51 a.m. 6.13 p.m. BLUFF HARBOUR. There were no shipping movements at this port yesterday. - EXPORTS. Ex Warrimoo —143 nail-sacks oysters, 235 cases trozen fish. 300 sacks oats, GO sacks grass-seed. Ex. Moeraki—43 sacks trozen tongues, 645 cases pres, milk, 30 horses. 4!) sacks oatmeal, 103 sacks grass-seed, 13 haltjacks gravel. 350 sacks oats. The X'.M. and A. Cb. adtise ;—The s.s. Arawa arrived at Wellington on Monday night. Passengers by the Tarawcra yesteruay, cargo Dy the Manuka on Thursday. It is announced that a new shipping company has been formed. The capital is set down as £13,000, divided into £1 shares, and the subscribers are : Messrs R.' L. Scott, Andrew Swanston, D. Reece, T. W. Reece, J. Greig, W. H. Price and the Marlborough Timber Company. The new company will be called the Opoun Shipping Company, Limited, and its objects are to acquire from lime to time steamers tor carrying general merchandise. The gentlemen mentioned are well-known in Christchurch in connection with the limber trade. The Xew Zealand Shipping Company s large cargo steamer Kaikoura arrived at Auckland on Sunday morning from London and Capetown, bringing the largest cargo which lias ever left London by one vessel for a Xew Zealand port. The cargo consists mainly of the usual lines ot merchandise, i ©tailing 9546 tons, and including 335 tons of explosives from Capetown. The explosives are a portion of the cargo salved from the steamer Aotea, which was recently stranded at Capetown. About 160 tons of the explosives will be landed at Auckland, while the balance, some 75 tons, are tor Wellington. The bulk of the cargo is for Auckland, 600 tons being .for Wellington. The previous record cargo landed at Auckland was by the X'ew Zealand Shipping Company's steamer Paparoa, which landed in March of last year 5700 tons. It is understood that the steamer Cranley, now en route to X'ew Zealand from X’ew York, win take the loading berth in X’ew Zealand under the auspices of the X’ew Zealand Shipping Company in place of the Knight ot the Garter, which was stranded recently at Bluff, and is now at Dunedin pending completion of arrangements as to re- • pairs being effected. The Cranley is due at Lyttelton about March 35, and after discharging her cargo there, she will go on to Port Chalmers, at which port she will load under the new (lag. With the laying of the keel of the Europa, the biggest ship in the world, now under construction, comes the news from abroad that the gross tonnage of all the ships dying the Hamburg-Ameri-can Line dag has passed the 1,000,000ton mark, or, to be correct, 1.033.453 tons. For years the Hamburg-Amencan Line has held the tonnage tor ships sailing under one house Hag. Some idea of the enormous size of the Europa may be gathered from the order which has been given for 2,000,000 ft. of Oregon tir to be used for decks alone. For months this lumber has been drying near Portland, Ore., before being shipped to Germany. Special care is taken to provide only clear, vertical-grained wood. A cable message has been received stating that the repairs to the Union Company's liner Aorangi at San Fiancisco have taken longer than was expected. The vessel was expected to leave San Francisco on Monday for Wellington, via Papeete and Raratonga. and is due at Wellington about April 13th. It has now been arranged by the Union Company to exchange the running of the Aorangi and Maitai. This is consequent upon the prolonged delay of the Aorangi at San Francisco for repairs. The Aorangi will thus leave Wellington on May 3rd for Auckland and San Francisco, via ports, while the Maitai will remain 'n X’ew Zealand waters till May 31st, on which date she is fixed to sail for San Francisco. It is not unlikely that during her period of idleness in the Dominion the Maitai may be sent to Port Chalmers for overhaul. U. CO. STEAMER MOVEMEX’TS. Monday, March 27th—Manama arrives from Melbourne and Hobart about 5.30 a_m.. and leaves for Sydney via X'orth on arrival of 1.45 p.m. train from Imercargill. Monday, 27th March —Mokoia arrives from Dunedin about 5.30 a.m., and leaves for Hobart and Melbourne on arrival of 2.35 p.m. train from Invercargill. DIRECT SHIPMENTS TO BLUFF. The following are sailings from London for Bluff direct : Feb. 6 —Shaw, Savill & Albion boat. April 6—N’.Z. Shipping Co.'s boat. —From Liverpool.— April 29—X’airnshire. due July 20. July 22—Kent, due October 12. Oct. 14—Drayton Grange, due Jan. 4. (Per United Press Association). AUCKLAND, March 21. Arrived —Kent from Liverpool via Melbourne and Sydney ; Waiapu (nux. schooner) from Wellington and Gisborne Sailed—Cranley for Wellington; Victoria for Southern ports; Cl; n Menzies for London, via Monte Video; Haupiri for East Coast bays, Gisborne, Napier and Wellington. CHRISTCHURCH. March 31. Arrived—H.M.S. Cambrian from Timaru. Sailed —Ruahine for Port Chalmers and Timaru ; Maori for Wellington. I.)UX’EDI.V. March 31. Arrived —Breeze from X’orthern ports; Moeraki from Melbourne; Putaki from West Coast. Sailed —Invercargill for Invercargill; ilonowai for Auckland. NEWCASTLE. March 21. Arrived —Koromiko from Wellington. FREMANTLE. March 31. Arrived —Orvieto from London. THE WEATHER. WELLINGTON. March 21. Weather at 1 p.m. ; Cape Maria Van Diemen—Wind. X’.E. fresh; bar. 30.05: llier. 73; sky, overcast; sea. moderate. Russell—Wind, E. fresh; bar. 30.03 ; then. 74 ; fair: rough. Manakau Heads —Wind, X'.E. breeze ; bar. 30.00; titer. G4; overcast, showery; smooth. Auckland—Wind. X’.X'.E. breeze ; bar. SO.00; ther 74; overcast, showery. Tauranga—Wind. X’.E. breeze; bar. 30,17; ther 73; fair; moderate. East Cape—Wind, X’.E. fresh ; bar. 30.17; ther. 71: cloudy; considerable. Gisborne—Wind. X’. light; bar. 30.12; ther. 75; tine: smooth. Port Ahuriri —Wind. X’.E. light; bar. 50.06; ther. 74; fair; smooth. 'Keliington—Wind, X’.X’.W. fresh; har. 30.03; ther. 68; fair. Castlepoint—Wind, X’.W. breeze; bar. 30.05; ther. 70; tine; decreasing. X’ew Plymouth Wind, X’.W. light; bar 30.07; ther. 73; fair; smooth. Wanganui—Wind, X’.W. light : liar. 30.00; ther. 70; fine anil hazy: smooth. Farewell Spit—X’ot received. Cape Foul wind —Wind. X. fresh; liar. 30.04; ther. 69: fair: rough, Westport—Wind. a. b.reeze; bar. 39.05; ther. 75; fair; moderate. Cape Campbell—Wind. N.W. -fresh ; bar. 29.94: ther. 69; cloudy; rough. Kaikoura —Wind. X’.E. light : bar. 29.75: ther. 69; fine and hazy: smooth. Port Chalmers —Wind. X’.W. breeze ; bar. 29.49; ther. 70; overcast: smooth. Nuggets—Wind, X’.W. fresh; har. 29.4 1; ther. 75; misty ami gloomy; rough Bluff —Wind, X. moderate gale ; liar. 29.42; ther. 67; cloudy; rot gii. Cape Egmont—Wind. X’. light; liar. 30.07; ther. 72: fine: moderate. Stephen Island —Interrupted. Akaroa Lighthouse—Wind, N.W fresh; bar. 29.59; ther. 77; hazy; moderate. Summary and forecast Warm and hazy weather with increasing cloudiness has prevailed, and a falling barometer everywhere. 29.12 inches being now recorded at the Bluff. Northerly winds have increased, and gales have been experienced in Foveaux Strait and parts of the South Island. Rain lias fallen in several places. Present indications are for rain and stormy weather generally. Higli northerly and westerly winds will probably prevail, changing shortly to southerly in the Southern districts. The barometer trill probably fail in all parts of the country. XA PI Kl! HARBOUR. FURTHER EX’Ql’l RIFS. X’APIER, March 21. The following motion was carried unanimously at a meeting of the Napier Harbour Board to-day : "That in order that doubts of the origin of the sand bar referred to by Messrs Maxwell. Williams and Mason's report and in Mr George Nelson’s harbour proposals, should be cleared up. and in order that the likelihood or otherwise of any channel dredged through such sand bar being wholly obliterated in heavy weather be given a scries of pracical tests, the Board considers it desirable to charter a suitable dredge for three or six months for the purpose of dredging out a sufficient channel to show what effect heavy weather or floods would have upon it. and that the Secretary be instructed to- obtain all information by next meeting as to the terms on which a dredge can be obtained in the Dominion and how soon.”