SHIPPING.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume IV, Issue 1066, 12 July 1917, Page 6

SHIPPING.

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PHASES OF THE MOON. JULY. Full moon 5 9.11 a.m. Last quarter .. 11 11.42 p.m. New moon .. .. 19 2.30 p.m. First quarter .. .. 27 t">.lo p.m. MOON. Moon rose to-dav P.rW a.m., sits 11.18 a.m. TIDE. To-day, 10.17 a.m.. 10.42 p.m. To-morrow, 11.8 a.m.. 11.34 p.m. sirs. Sun rose to-day 7.32 a.m., sets 4,"7 p.m. PORT OF LYTTELTON. ARRIVED. THURSDAY, JULY 12. TAINIT (2/. a.nO, 128 tons. D. Bonner,] /rom Wellington. MAORI (RJIO a.m.". 3!12 tons. Manning. I from Wellington. STORM iS.4O a.nrO, 4(C, tens. Cowan, from | Wauganui. SAILED. WEDNESDAY. JULY 11. POHF.RUA (0.15 p.m.i, 117.". tons. Scott, for Westnort. I MARAROA 10.-.O -p.m.), 2*>!'B tons, Camrron. for Wellington. CYGNET (10 p.m.'. 121 tons, Murray, for; Kaikoura. NOTES. Japanese shipbuilders cannot hone to ofTer serious competition to the United States so long as Japanese builders arc dependent upen America for l>oth raw materials and finished steel, according to a Tecent statement of Tsutsumi, head of the Japanese Department of Communications, •ays the "Commercial News." The statement reads. In part: "II is not reasonable j for any other nation to see menace in the i progress of Japanese shipbuilding, for the ' reason that the industry here is confronted with a weakness which cannot easily be , remedied. The Japanese shipbuilders them- ; .selves have no confident outlook on the . future. Japanese shipbuilders here have | many points in their favour, it is true' Their workmen are not «i efficient as the workers in the West, but labour costs less, j The big drawback, however, is their utter dependence upon foreign countries for raw i materials. The annual supply of steel or Iron materials does not rise above 50,000! tons, whereas the business wants more • than 200,000 tons a year of steel materials." ' According to officers of the American I eteamship Justin, of the Garland line,: which arrived on the Sound from Shanghai ! last month, China nipped German attempts j to destroy German war-bound vessels in j Shanghai so successfully that China now ' has a (the litll? fleet of German seized" ves- j wis ready for sea. says the "Commercial ! News." At Shanghai they al-o have an ■ Austrian freighter, the China right under j the guns of one of their own cruisers. It Is declared by members of the crew of the . Justin that Chinese authorities did not wait to work out the legal points when they saw ' a break v. i'li Germany w:>s coming, but a crew of Chinese soldn rs rushed the German vessels, with the result that they un-1 earthed the time bombs arranged in the | cylinders of the vessels before any damage was done. The quick work on the part of j the Chinese saved these vrv>c!», >■> lliey are' now ready for i;m>.