SHIPPING

Southland Times, Issue 17733, 10 August 1917, Page 4

SHIPPING

TIDES.—AUGUST lo! BluS 7.25 a.ni. 7.55 p.m. Invercargill .. 8.05 a.m. 8.85 p.m. Riverton .. .. 0.25 a.m. 0-55 p.m. BLUFF HARBOUR. There were no shipping movements at this port yesterday. The Hinemoa arrived at Dunedin on Wednesday evening, and was to sail yesterday for southern lighthouses, Bluti, and West Coast Sou nils. Commander Hooper, of the Amokura, is in charge owing to Captain Bollons's illness. The Kotare reached Dunedin on Wednesday morning from Stewart Island, and jailed yesterday for Bluff and Invercargill. ACCIDENT TO LIGHTER. (Per United Press Association.) WANGANUI, August 9. The lighter Dorset was outward bound with a full load of 450 quarters of beef. It was practically dead low water. When crossing the entrance she struck, knocking her propeller off causing a leak. line seamanship was shown by Captain Conner, of the Thistle, in rescuing the passengers and crew. The signals of distress were unobserved at the pilot station, also by a passing steamer.... ANOTHER P. AND 0. LOSS. THE MOOLTAN SUNK. A cable message from Melbourne, published on Ist inst., was in the following terms; —“The Navy Office learns that a steamer was. sunk in the Mediterranean. The passengers were landed. The steamer carried mads.” . - Australianpapers show, that the steamer referred to was the P. and 0. Company 6 Mooltan, built in 1905 by Messrs Caird and Co., •6t Greenock. The Mooltan left Sydney on June 9, and Adelaide on June 14, carryyjg.cjads, which, closed, in Sydney on June. 12. The; passenger list of the steamer was a large one, but the majority of the passengers were booked only to intermediate ports. The list included 300 army nurses, but they were most fortunately landed at Port Said prior to the disaster. The cargo, which was a most valuable one, comprised the following:— -pieces beef, 412 bags frozen sundries, 15,798 ingot bars of copper, 3949 bars lead, , 35S bags of wolfram, 125 bags molybdenite, 75 cases of meat extract, 13 cases of wool fat, 10 bales of wool -samples, and a quantity of sundries. THE WEATHER SUMMARY AND FORECAST. WELLINGTON, August 9. Mr Bates’ weather report: The cyclonic disturbance is now probably centred about the Kermariecs. There were strong southeasterly winds, mild in the north, with considerable rain in the north and cast coast districts of the North Island, but the weather improved to-day. The barometer rose fast in the north during the night, but has fallen steadily elsewhere. Present indications are for moderate to strong southeast to south-westerly winds northward of Farewell Spit to Kaikoura, variable breezes with freshening northerlie.s will prevail elsewhere. Expect unsettled and showery conditions in the north and past coast districts, and increasing cloudiness elsewhere, the barometer rising temporarily in the north but falling in the south.