PORT OF LYTTELTON.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume IV, Issue 1160, 30 October 1917, Page 4

PORT OF LYTTELTON.

ARRIVED. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30. CYGNET (1.20 a.m.), 124 tons, Murray, front Kaikoura. WAKATU (5.10 a.m.), 137 tons, Wills, IrSTn Kaikoura. MONOWAI (9.20 a.m.), 3433 tons, Drcwette, from Wellington.

NOTES. Captain Marcicl, Superintendent of Mercantile Marine at Lyttelton, has received the following telegram from Mr G. Allport, Secretary for Marine:—Advise shipmasters sailing in Cook Strait that there are two cable buoys off Terawhiti one ofT Karorl Rock south 88 degrees east Terawhiti north; other Karori Rock south 53 degrees east, Terawhiti north 15 degrees east, bearings magnetic. The new Victorian Customs launch which ts being constructed by the Department of the Navy is now approaching completion, and it will probably be launched in the course of a few weeks. All the other Customs launches are driven by steam, but In this case Polar-Diesel engines, supplied by Messrs Gardner and Waern, will furnish the motive-power. The work of a Customs launch is necessarily of an intermittent character, and with steam the greater part of the fuel is consumed when the furnace fires are "bartked up." The Diesel engines use oil fuel, however, only when they arc at ■work. They can be started in less than a minute, they save an attendant, and the department estimates the saving of fuel that ■will be effected by their adoption at no less than 90 per cent.

SAILED. -MONDAY, OCTOBER 29. OREPIKI 14.25 p.m.), 527 to is, Dcwhurst, Tor Greymouth MARAROA (6.40 pjn.),2598 t mis, Cameron, for Wellington VESSELS EXPECTED AT LYTTELTON. Vessel. From. Appro*, date. Mararoa Wellington Oct. 31. Calm Wellington Oct. 31 Breeze Dunedin Oct. 31 Tarawera Wellington Nov. 1 Monowai Wellington Nov. I Hinutangl Wellington Nov. 2 Mararoa Wellington Nov. 2 Mononai Wellington Nov. 3 VESSELS TO SAIL FROM LYTTELTON. Vessel. For. Approx. date. Monowai Wellington Oct. 30 Mararoa Wellington Oct. 31 Wootton Wellington Oct. 31 Calm Bluff Oct. 31 WaJtatu Kaikoura Oct. 31 Monowai Wellington Nov. 1 Tarawera Gisborne Nov. I Mararoa Wellington Nov. 2