SHIPPING

Southland Times, Issue 19394, 7 November 1924, Page 2

SHIPPING

PORT OF BLUFF. VESSEL IN PORT, Tur akin a EXPECTED ARRIVALS, Kahika, Greymouth, to-day. Hertford, Dunedin, to-day. Calm, Lyttelton, Saturday. Kawatiri, Dunedin, November 10. Kurow, Dunedin, November 13. Karamea, Port Chalmers, November 14. Port Chalmers, Dunedin, November 16. Moeraki, Melbourne, November 16.

PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Turakina, Dunedin, Saturday. Calm, Dunedin, Saturday. Kahika, Dunedin, Saturday. Kawatiri, Newcastle, November 13. Moeraki, Dunedin, November 17. Port Chalmers, New Plymouth, November 18. Karamea, London, November 18. NOTES. The Hertford is due to-day at Bluff from Port Chalmers to complete discharge of her Liverpool cargo. The Kahika is due from Westport via Greymouth this evening with 400 tons of coal, and is expected to proceed to-morrow for Dunedin where she will unload the balance of her shipment. The Calm has been delayed in the north by bad weather and is now due to-morrow from Lyttelton, after discharging and loading cargo, she sails to-morrow evening for Dunedin, Wellington and Wanganui. The Turakina is to sail for Dunedin tomorrow to continue her Homeward loading. The Kawatiri, from Newcastle and Port Stephens via Lyttelton and Timaru is due at Bluff on Monday morning with a shipment of poles for the Pcwer Board. She is expected to sail for Newcastle on Thursday. The Kurow left Port Stephens last Sunday for Dunedin and Bluff, and is due here next Thursday with 4.482 poles and 82 pieces of 6ig timber for the Power Board. At Dunedin she will load cargo brought from Sydney by the Waikouaiti, which was diverted from Bluff and arrived at Dunedin last Monday. THE MELBOURNE STEAMER. The Moeraki which left Bluff on Tuesday afternoon, is due at Melbourne to-morrow and is scheduled to leave again on Wednesday next for Bluff direct. She is expected at Bluff on Sunday week with passengers .mails and cargo, and sails the next day for Dunedin, Lyttelton, Wellington and Melbourne. KOTARE FROM MAORI BEACH. Messrs D. W. McKay Limited report that the Kotare is due at Invercargill early this morning from Maori Beach and sails tonight, after discharging timber, for Waikawa. ORETI DUE INVERCARGILL TO-DAY. The Port Craig Timber Company advise that the Oreti is expected to arrive at Invercargill to day with general cargo from Dunedin. COLLISION IN SUEZ CANAL. A DREDGER SUNK. LONDON, November 5. A telegram from Port Said states that the German steamer Hamburg, bound from Brisbane and Fremantle for Antwerp collided with a dredger in the canal. The latter was sunk in a siding. Traffic is not hindered. The damage to the Hamburg is unknown. THE MAHANA TROUBLE. FIREMEN SENT TO GAOL. (Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, November 6. Four of the Mahana’s firemen, Edward Creagh, William Nelson Baker, James Batten, and William Tucker, and a trimmer named Robert Pamplin, were charged at the Magistrate’s Court to-day with, on high seas, in New Zealand, wilfully disobeying a lawful command. Batten, Tucker and Pamplin were further charged with assaulting Charles Marmion, chief engineer, and Pamplin and Batten were also charged with assaulting Samuel Richard Loftus, the refrigerating engineer. Mr O’Leary, who prosecuted, said that when the steamer left the Wellington wharf on Monday afternoon three of the stokehold crew were missing. The chief engineer was interviewed by Batten, Tucker and Pamplin, who insisted that the ship should not go to sea. The Chief Engineer argued with them without avail, and was assaulted by Pamplin who hit him on the head from behind, Tucker hitting him on the jaw, and Batten being guilty of a minor assault. As the result the chief engineer was unconscious for a quarter of an hour. At the time of the assault Loftus, who came to the aid of Mannion was caught by the throat by Pamplin and thrown on the plates Batten assisting in the assault. The steamer anchored down the harbour and defendants not only refused to get steam on to shift her to a safe position, but intimated that they would obstruct anybody else doing so. On behalf of the defendants, Mr O’Donnell said the trouble in the harbour had been brewing ever since the commencement of the voyage. The men had been deprived of privileges which they regarded as their right by custom. For instance the stokehold complement had not been allowed ice water to drink in the tropics, but had to drink warm water. The trouble here culminated as the result of the chief engineer’s attitude towards the men. Mr Page, S.M., said that on the assault charge, which he regarded as serious, the men would be sentenced to three months’ imprisonment. For refusing duty they would be sentenced to fourteen days. For assaulting Loftrfe ItapJili,

would be fined £2, in default, seven days. Four others brought up on summons Jor refusing duty were each ordered to pay 9/6 costs. They were described as having been led by the five ringleaders. AORANGI’S FIRST TRIP. DUE AUCKLAND FEBRUARY 24. WELLINGTON, November 4. The Union Steam Ship Company's transpacific motor liner Aorangi will undergo her trial trip®, which are to extend over 1000 miles, early next month. She is to leave Glasgow on December 30 for Southampton, where a large number of passengers will be embarked. Up to the present 250 first-class passengers and over 100 secondclass passengers are booked, and a number are still negotiating. The new motor-ship will leave Southampton on January 2 for Kingston (Jamaica), whence she will proceed through the Panama Canal, calling at Los Angeles and San Francisco, en route to Vancouver. She is due at the last-named port on January 29. The sailing date from Vancouver in the ordinary course would be February 11, but it has been arranged to accelerate her departure by a few days, and she is now announced to sail on February 6. A call will be made at the usual ports—Victoria (British Columbia), Honolulu, and Suva, making her due at Auckland on the morning of February 24. She is to leave Auckland on February 25 for Wellington, being due here on February 27, and is timed to sail on February 28 for Sydney direct. It has been calculated that the total mileage of this cruise is 17,000, and that the minimum first-class fare works out at 2d per mile. TELEGRAPH REPORTS, COASTAL AND OVERSEAS. AUCKLAND, November 6. Arrived: Canadian Britisher from Wellington, West Nivaria from San Francisco. LYTTELTON, November 6. Arrived: Wanaka from Timaru, Maori from Wellington, Cygnet from Kaikoura. Sailed: Wanaka for Wellington, Canopus for Westport, Maori for Wellington. DUNEDIN, November 6. Sailed : Waikouaiti for Lyttelton, Hertford for Bluff. WELLINGTON, November 6. Arrived: Mararoa, Holmdale and Kaitangata from Lyttelton, Opua from Tarakohe. Sailed: Kaikoura for Glasgow, Breeze, City of Dunedin, Trelissick and Mararoa for Lyttelton, Holmdale for Wanganui, Opua for Napier.

THE TIDES. —Friday, Invercargill .. .. November 7. — 11.09 a.m. 11.38 p.m. Bluff 10.28 a.m. 10.57 p.m. Riverton 9.28 a.m. 9.57 p.m. THE SUN The Sun rises i to-day at 4.44 : a.m. The Sun sets to-day at 7.19 p.m. PHASES OF THE MOON. —Month of November.-* First quarter Nov. 4 9.49 a.m. Full moon Nov. 12 0.1 a.m. Last quarter Nov. 20 5.9 a.m. New moon Nov. 28 3.6 p.m.