SHIPPING.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume VI, Issue 1787, 5 November 1919, Page 6

SHIPPING.

PHASES OF THE MOON. NOVEMBER. Day. b. m. First Quarter .. 1 1.13 p.m. Full Moon .. ».. 8 11.5 a.m. Last Quarter .. 15 3.11 a.m. New Moon .. .. 23 2.50 a.m. MOON, loon rose to-day 3.30 p.m., sets 2.41 n.«u. TIDE. To-day, 0.50 a.m., 1.15 p.m. To-morrow, 1.41 a.m., 2.8 p.m. SUN. Sun rose to-day, 4.34 a.m., sets 6.35 p.m. PORT OF LYTTELTON. i ARRIVED. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4. jg p.m.), 123 tons, fhomnson, from Wellington. CYGNET (6.50 p.m.), 124 tons, Murray, from Akaroa. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5. 'MELBOURNE (4-30 a.m.. in stream), 1739 tons, Lloyd, from Newcastle. MARAROA (10.10 a.m.), 2598 tons, Irwin, from Wellington. . WAITEMATA (12.10 p.m.), 9000 tons, Showman, from Timaru. SAILED. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4. WOOTTON (3 pjn.), 150 tons, Larsen, for Wellington. .. MANUKA (8.35 p.m.), 4505 tons, Clift, for Wellington. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Calm, Picton, November 6. Karii, Wanganui, November 6. Koromlko. Newcastle, November 6. Moeraki, Wellington. November 6. Wootton, Wellington. November 7. Canopus, Westport. November 6. Kamona, Greymouth, November 7. Remuern, Wellington. November 9. Mokoia, Djnedin, November 11. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Invercargill. Wellington, November 5. Wakatu. Kaikoura, November 5. Cnlrn. Dunedin, November 5. Kittawa, Bluff, November 6. Orepukl, Greymouth, November 6. Storm. Dnnedin, November 6. Moeraki, Wellington, November 7. Waitemata. Auckland. November 8. Mokoia, Wellington, November 11.

VESSELS IN PORT AT NOON TO-DAY. Manuka, No. 3 wharf. Cygnet, No. 3 wharf. Wakatii. No. 3 wharf. Invercargill, No. 4 wharf. Kittawa, No. 4 wharf. Orepuki, No. 0 wharf. Ngatoro', No. 7 wharf. Melbourne, Gladstone pier. SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. AUCKLAND, November 4. Sailed—Arahura (5.30, pm.i, for East Coast; Makura (10 p.m.), for Sydney. NOTES. The Melbourne h»rthed at 11.20 a.m. from the stream after being passed as a clean shin. The Kittawa is now engaged at the discharge of a full general cargo from Auckland, including the portion which was originally intended to be shipped by the Mokoia. The vessel is to leave here tomorrow afternoon for Bluff, and, when finished there, will proceed to Greymouth. The Mokoia had a large amount of cargo to discharge and load at Wellington. She was expected to leave there yesterday evening direct for Dunedin, from which port ■he is to sail on Monday next for Lyttelton, en route to Auckland, via Wellington and East Coast ports. The intercolonial steamer Moeraki is due here to-morrow morning from Sydney, via Wellington, and will be dispatched on Friday on the return trip. The Waitemata had been booked to leave Timaru at 10 o'clock last night for Lyttelton, but it is presumed that she was delayed at loading by the rain. The Te Anau, from Gisborne, is due at Wellington^to-day to load for Dunedin. The Koromiko, from Newcastle, with a full cargo of coal, is expected to reach Lyttelton to-morrow. The Karamu, fully consigned with general cargo shipped at Dunedin and Oamaru, is due at Wellington to-morrow. The Wootton, with a full cargo, left Lyttelton yesterday afternoon for Wellington, and is due back here on Friday. The Invercargill ha* been set down for sailing this evening for Wellington, laden with general cargo. The coastal steamer John came off the •Wellington patent slip on Saturday, to comfilete her overhaul afloat. She. has been imed to sail to-morrow for southern ports. The Orepuki, which has completed an extensive overhaul at Lyttelton, is loading for Greymouth. for which port she will sail either to-morrow or on Friday. The Blackball Company's steamer Ngakuta left Greymouth on Friday last for Sydney and Newcastle with a load of timber for distribution at both ports. The collier Melbourne arrived in the stream early this morning, with a cargo of cool from Newcastle. The Union Company's Island steamer Talune, which has made her final passenger run in the Western Pacific, lias been timed to leave Auckland to-day on a special trip to Suva for sugar for the Colonial Sugar Company. The Waitemata, from Timaru, arrived shortly after noon to-day to complete her loading for Auckland. She is expected to sail about the end of the week.

PERSONAL. | Mr D. Bohertson has signed on the Kamona I •s second officer, relieving Mr C. B. Atkinson. Mr L. 0. McCnllum has joined the Manuka as fifth engineer. Mr J. Neale, traffic manager at Wellington for the Union Company, is acting manager for the company at Westport during the absence on holiday leave of Mr E. S. A. Pearson. OVERSEAS VESSELS. The Shaw-Savill liner Mahaua arrived at Fremantle on Sunday from the United Kingdom with Australian troops. She will come to New Zealand to load for Home. In place of the Western Sea, the U.S. and A. liner West Cavanal is to sail from New York for main New Zealand and Australian ports. . The Koromiko, en route from Newcastle, has sent a radio message to the effect that she will arrive at daylight to-morrow. The New Zealand Shipping Company's liner Orari, which arrived at Gravesend on Tuesday last from Wellington, is to load in Canada next month for New Zealand ports. The City of Madras is now engaged at Wellington putting out part of her New York cargo. She should reach Lytteltou towards the end of the week. The Port Elliot, after loading frozen meat at Wellington, will probably sail to-day for Gisborne. She is to return to Wellington •bout November 16, and has been fixed to •ail three days later for Loudon, via Panama. The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamer Hororata is to lenvc Wellington nt daybreak to-morrow for London, via Panama. The Shaw, Savill steamers Karamea and Tropic have been delayed at cargo operations ut Wanganui by bad weather, so that their sailing dates arc indefinite, at present

The New Zealand Shipping Company's liner Remuera, which is at present engaged at the discharge of part of her Home cargo at Wellington, is to leave on Sunday for Fort Chalmers for a like purpose, and, in due course, will •visit Lyttelton. The same company's liner Waimate, in continuation of her voyage from Bluff to ■Egypt, left Bombay on October 28. The Whakatane left Bristol on October 22 for Montreal, to take the loading berth for New Zealand. Lloyd's annual review of shipping states that at the end of June the largest tonnage was building that has ever been recorded, amounting to 4,760,623 tons, of which 2,033,319 tons were building In the United Kingdom. Lloyd's classifies 1151 vessels, totalling 3,801,221 tons, constructed during 1918-19, of which the United States constructed 470 vessels, totalling 1,883,759 tons; the United Kingdom 579, totalling 1,285,036; Japan, 70, totalling 355,304 tons; and Can- ; ada 70, totalling 199,941 tpns. Only 20 ferroconcrete vessels are classified. Lloyd's has appointed a research committee to test the suggestion that a fluid cargo makes a ship sluggish, and also to test a ship In which the plates are electrically welded Instead of riveted.