SHIPPING

Southland Times, Issue 20523, 27 June 1928, Page 2

SHIPPING

PORT OF BLUFF.

ARRIVED. —Tuesday, June 26 Karetu, &s. (G. M. Ruxton) 3210 tons, from Timaru, at 2.15 p.m. SAILED. —Tuesday, June 26 Poolta, s.s. (Captain A. Kane) 1675 tons, for Westport, at 2.45 p.m. VESSEL IN PORT. Karetu, s.s. EXPECTED ARRIVALS Cumberland, Dunedin, to-day. Waikawa, Vancouver, June 30. Canadian Challenger, Halifax, July 3. Taranaki, London, July 3. Northumberland. Liverpool, July 6. Kartigi, Melbourne, July 7. Waikouaiti, Timaru, July 10. Paua, Wellington, July 24. Rotorua, Wellington, August 1. Port Napier. London, September. Somerset, Liverpool, September 28. Canadian Challenger, Montreal, October 20. Sussex, Calcutta, October. Mataroa, London, indefinite. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Karetu, Sydney, to-morrow. Cumberland, coastal ports, June 28. Calm, Dunedin, June 30. Waikawa, New Plymouth, July 2. Canadian Challenger, Wellington, July 4. Taranaki, Hawkes Bay, Napier, July 6. Northumberland, New Plymouth, July 10. Kartigi, Dunedin, July 7. Waikouaiti, Melbourne, July 11. Paua, Wellington, July 25. Rotorua, London, August 4. Port Napier, September. Somerset, September 30. Canadian Challenger, October 21. Sussex, October. Mataroa, indefinite. GENERAL NOTES. The Britannia sailed for Stewart Island at 9.15 a.m. The Poolta, as. (Captain Kane) sailed for Westport at 2.15 p.m. yesterday. The Karetu, sjs., arrived from Timaru at 2.15 p.m. yesterday. She has 90 tons of coal for discharge and will load 1000 cases of fish, 180,000 feet of timber, milk, tallow and hemp for Sydney direct. She will leave on Thursday. The Oreti is expected at Invercargill today from Port Craig and will in all probability sail to-morrow for that port once more. The Cumberland which sailed from Dunedin at 4 p.m. yesterday, is due at Bluff to-day. It is expected that she will clear this port to-morrow evening after loading for London, Antwerp and West Coast of the United Kingdom ports. The Waikouaiti is expected back at Bluff towards the end of next week to load for Melbourne and Sydney. The Canadian Challenger is now due at Bluff on Tuesday next to complete loading and will sail on Wednesday for Wellington and Auckland.

The Calm is expected to arrive on Saturday to load general cargo when she will sail the same day upon completion of discharge for the usual ports. The Waikawa which arrived at Lyttelton at 11 a.m. on Saturday is expected to clear that port to-day for Dunedin and Bluff, due here on Saturday and sailing later for New Plymouth.

The Rotorua is scheduled to load at Bluff on August 1. It is now reported that the Shaw, Savill and Albion Company’s motor vessel Taranaki which arrived at Lyttelton on Sunday, is due at Bluff on Tuesday next to discharge general cargo after which she will proceed to Hawkes Bay and New Plymouth.

Messrs J. G. Ward and Company, the local agents for the Huddart Parker Line, advise that the Ulimaroa will sail from Auckland on July 13 and from Wellington on July 27 for Sydney.

The same company also advise that the Somerset will replace the Tongariro which is scheduled to sail from Liverpool on August 18 for Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton, Dunedin and Bluff, due here on September 28.

The Kartigi is expected to sail from Adelaide to-day for Melbourne from which port she will sail on July 4 for Bluff. She is due at this port on July 7 and upon completion of discharge will proceed to Dunedin, Lyttelton, Wellington and Wanganui.

The Port Napier which is expected to sail from London on July 18 for New Zealand ports, will make Bluff a direct port of discharge, being expected to arrive here about the middle of September. Carrying general cargo for discharge at Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton, Port Chalmers, Bluff and New Plymouth, the Northumberland is due here about July 6.

The City of Batavia is scheduled to leave New York on July 30 for the four main New Zealand ports. The motor ship Maui Pomare was to leave Auckland on Saturday for Niue and Apia to load for Lyttelton, Wellington and Auckland. At present discharging Ocean Island phosphate at Port Chalmers, the Weir Line’s chartered steamer Indianola is fixed to bunker at Westport and proceed thence to Nauru to load phosphate for Auckland. MARINE JOTTINGS GREY RIVER BAR. Finality as to the choice of means for the removal of the edit bank at the Grey River Bar was reached recently when the Greymouth Harbour Board at its special meeting, decided unanimously to accept the plan submitted by Mr R. T. Stewart, of Dunedin. The chairman (Mr Steer) said he had carefully gone into the plans

and it seemed to him that the scheme submitted by Mr Stewart was the best. Continuing, he said that the plant was in Dunedin already constructed and waiting to give a demonstration there. Mr Stewart declared that his plant would be in work ing order three weeks after the Board had made up its mind. Captain Cox, who had also designed a device, stated that his scheme was not to meet a situation such as had at present arisen. Strictly speaking the appliance was not big enough to deal with the present emergency. In his opinion only a flood would clear the bar, or a scheme such as that submitted by Mr Stewart. It was explained that Mr Stewart’s scheme required 480 to 500 horse-power, to work the pump, which would discharge two hundred thousand gallons of water per minute against a head of 300 feet of water. There would be two nozzles, enclosed in a submerged steel cylinder, a branch pipe from which up to the atmosphere above the surface admitted air. The pressure in the cylinder induced the air to circulate round the jets of water as a sleeve, and this sleeve prevented the jets from mixing with the water through which they were projected against the material to be removed. The air sleeve was projected into the material, causing it to rise and dissipate in the current. TELEGRAPHED REPORTS. COASTAL AND OVERSEAS. (Per United Press Association.) Auckland, June 26. Arrived—Tekoa, 9 V a.m. from London. Sailed —Maui Pomare, 10.15 a.m. for Apia. Wellington, June 26. Arrived—Kennedy, 2.15 a.m. from Foxton ; Maori,. 6.55 a.m. from Lyttelton; Kaimanawa. 8.15 a.m. from Portland; Kaikorai, 9.30 a.m. from New Plymouth; Orepuki, 10.55 a.m. from Lyttelton; Regulus, 8.50 p.m. from Picton. Sailed—Canadian Challenger, noon for Lyttelton; Kennedy, 1 p.m. for Tarakohe; Kaimanawa, 6.30 p.m. for Lyttelton; Maori, 7.50 p.m. for Lyttelton; Orepuki, 8.35 p.m. for Nelson; Pakura, 10 p.m. for Napier. Lyttelton, June 26. Arrived—John, 3.20 a.m. from Port Waikato; Wahine, 6.40 a.m. from Wellington; Corinna, 10.45 a.m. from Timaru; Holmdale, 10.55 a.m. from Timaru; Kahiku, 12.15 p.m. from Wellington; Tainui, 8.45 p.m. from Bluff. Sailed—Tutanekai, 6 a.m. for southern lighthouses; John, 4 p.m. for Wellington; Katoa, 4.30 p.m. for Wellington; Holmdale, 8.45 p.m. fo? Wellington; Corinna, 6 p.m. for Wellington; Waikawa, 7.30 p.m. for Dunedin; Wahine, 8.20 p.m. for Wellington. Dunedin, June 26. Arrived—Waikouaiti, 11.55 a.m. from Bluff. Sailed—Port Sydney, 1.15 p.m. for Wanganui Roadstead. New York, June 25. Sailed—Port Bowen, for New Zealand. —Australian Press Association. Sydney, June 26. Arrived —Marama, 6 a.m. from Auckland; Meheno, 7 a.m. from Wellington.— Australian Press Association. Adelaide, June 26. Arrived—Kartigi from Greymouth.—Australian Press Association.

THE TIDES. —Wednesday, June 27— Invercargill . Bluff . .. 10.02 a.m. 10.27 p.m. . .. 9.21 a.m. 9.46 p.m. Riverton .. . , .. 8.21 a.m. 8.46 p.m. Oreti Beach .. . 8.30 a.m. 8.55 p.m. THE SUN. The Sun rises to-day at 8.3 a.m. The Sun sets to-day at 4.38 p.m. THE MOON. The Moon rises to-day at 1.1 p.m. The Moon sets to-day at 1.34 a.m. PHASES OF THE MOON. Full Moon .. .. .. June 3 11.44 p.m. Last Quarter .. .. June 11 5.21 p.m New Moon .. .. .. June IS 5 12 a.m. First Quarter .. .. June 25 10.17 a m.