SHIPPING

Southland Times, Issue 17654, 11 February 1916, Page 4

SHIPPING

PORT OF BLUFF. SAILED. February 10—Theresa Ward, 9 tons, Hamilton, for Port Chalmers. Harbour Board, agents. February 10—Murihiku, 396 tons, McNeilage, for Port Chalmers. Harbour Board, agents. The dredge Murihiku, convoyed by the tug Theresa Ward, left Bluff yesterday for Port Chalmers, where the dredge will be docked for overhaul. Several changes in connection with the East Coast service are announced to take effect at an early date. For a long time past it has been evident that the passenger trade from South Island ports could be served practically with the ferry steamers, and that by far the greater number of passengers came from the North Island so far as the East Coast trade was concerned. In consequence of this and other matters, the announcement is made that the Te Anau and Tarawera will be gutted at Port Chalmers -as soon as circumstances will permit, and transformed into cargo steamers to run in the Auckland-East Coast-Dunedin service, leaving the passenger trade from the South Island to northern ports to be maintained alternately each fortnight by the Monowai and a Huddart-Parker steamer. Another change to be effected will be to withdraw the Rosamond from her running between North Island ports and replace her by the Arahura, The latter vessel, leaving Auckland on Saturday, will call at Gisborne and Napier, and return to Auckland on Friday. EXPECTED AT BLUFF. Paloona Melbourne... .Feb. 16 Kotare ......Dunedin Feb. 16 Invercargill .Dunedin Feb. 16 Wlmmera .Melbourne... .Feb. 18 Kotare Dunedin Feb. 23 Invercargill Dunedin Feb. 23 Invercargill Dunedin Feb. 30 Kotare Dunedin Mar. 1 -Paloona Melbourne... .Mar. 8 Invercargill Dunedin Mar. S Kotare Dunedin Mar. 8 Wlmmera Melbourne. —Mar. 10 Kotare Dunedin Mar. 15 Invercargill Dunedin Mar. 15 Kotare Dunedin Mar. 25 OVERSEA SHIPPING. DUE AT WELLINGTON. Steamers. From Left. Due. Niwaru .... London Jan. IS Mar. 27 Kumara .. London Jan. 5 Mar. 1 Himutaka .. London Jan. 17 Mar. 12 Arawa London Jan. 2ft Mar. 15 Tongarlro .. Liverpool Dec. 6 Feb. 14 Devon Liverpool Dec. 18 Feb. S Zealandic .. Liverpool Dec. 21 Mar. 8 Opawa Liverpool Jan. 7 Mar. 18 Otaki Liverpool Jan. 23 Apr. 2 Baron Ogllvy New York Jan. 13 Feb. 27 Talawa .... New York Nov. 14 Feb. 14 Port Augusta New York Nov. 25 Feb. 6 Waiwera Montreal Dec. 1 Feb. 12 Waihemo ... ’Frisco Jan. 23. Feb. 26 LINER FREIGHTS RISING. FORTUNES FOR NEUTRAL OWNETRS. Higher cargo freights for the liners seem likely to be very general as from the beginning of the New Year-freported the London Times of 21st December). Not only are the Australian and South African rates to be raised, as we pointed out yesterday, but the New Zealand freights and the rates homeward from the Far East are also being advanced. A movement is also on foot to raise the Indian rates. The rises in the Australasian and South African rates are described as averaging between 20 and 25 per cent The Australasian freights have not been altered since April, and it is maintained that since then working costs have risen by quite 25 per cent. Apart from increased costs of labour, coal, and stores the actual cost of providing tonnage has risen enormously. Every time the Government requisitions a liner, the owner has to go into the market and pay to replace her by another at prices far above what he receives from the State. To-day all the liner fleets contain a large amount of tonnage chartered in this way. For vessels which could be secured before the war at about 3/6 a ton deadweight per month, 30/- fa pow quoted. These time-charter rates move more or less in agreement with the voyage rates. Yesterday there was further slight advance to 120/- a ton in the grain freight from the River Plate to this country. Just before the war 12/6 was accepted for the voyage to the United Kingdom. There can be no doubt that, though there is unevenness, owners of cargo steamers, after allowing for the 50 per cent, excess profit tax, are now earning larger profits than could ever have seemed possible to them in their happiest dreams. And the fortunes being made by neutrals who have no excess profit tax to pay must be prodigious. By a few months’ trading the original cost of many a cargo steamer can now easily be covered. The British Government has, Indeed, proved a magnificent friend of neutral shipowners, for its methods of requisitioning tonnage have placed the mercantile navies of all neutral countries on such a strong financial basis as they have never been before. They are not losing their present opportunities for increased trade, and British owners fully expect that a stern time lies ahead. (By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright) SYDNEY. February 10. Sailed —Kauri, for Wellington. SAN FRANCISCO. February 10. Arrived —Wai marine. WELLINGTON. February 10. Sailed —Riverina, for Sydney. SEVA, February 10. Arrived —Atua, from Sydney. SYDNEY, February 10. Bailed, 10 p.m. —Moeraki. BARQUENTINE ASHORE. MELBOURNE, February 10. The. harquentine Senorita. bound from Auckland to Melbourne, timber laden, grounded during rough weather on a reef lialf-a-inile inside Point Lonsdale. The caw remain aboard, awaiting the arrival of tugs. tPer United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, February 10. Arrived —Huerina 19 a.iu.), from Lyttelton; Mararoa (S.IO a.m.), from Lyttelton; Indrapura (3.10 p.m.), from Auckland, Gisborne, and Napier. Sailed —Rotorua (5 p.m.), for Lyttelton; Riverina (5.40 p.m.), for Sydney; Ngatoro (5.15 p.m.), for Greymouth ;Mararoa (7.55 p.m.), for Lyttelton. LYTTELTON, February 10. Arrived —Unice (2.15 a.m.), from Knipara; Wootton (2.50 a.m.), from Nydia Bay; Maori (6.45 a.m.), from Wellington. Sailed —Aratapu (9 a.m.), for Kaipara, Maori, for Wellington. To Sail —Wootton, for Wanganui. KAHU DISABLED. (Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, February 10. Gisborne reports to the Chief Postmaster that the steamer Make was going south witii the steamer Kahu In tow. Presumably the latter is disabled. THE WEATHER. SUMMARY AND FORECAST. WELLINGTON, February 10. The following is Mr Bates’ summary for the past 21 hours:—North-westerly gales with considerable rain occurred in and about Cook Strait during Wednesday night. Changeable and showery conditions have been reported in many parts, but fair to cloudy weather with moderate to strong west to south-west winds have predominated to-day. Forecast; —Present indications are for variable breezes, south-easterlies predominating, and weather changeable. Expect mild and fair to cloudy conditions generally, with scattered showers. The barometer has a rising tendency In the south, hut is likely to fall, especially in the north, after from 24 to 36 hours.

TIDES.--FEBRUARY 11. Bluff Invercargill Riverton . ■ •. 7.24 a.m. S.04 a.m. 6.24 a.m. 7.52 8.32 6.53 p.m. p.m. p.m.