SHIPPING.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LX, Issue 143763, 11 April 1912, Page 6

SHIPPING.

THURSDAY, APRIL 11. 1912. PORT OF NEW PLYMOUTH. DIARY. 1912 Water. Rise. Set. High Sun Sun April. 11— -Thursday ... 4.11 6.26 5-94 12— Friday ...... 5.26 6.27 3.33 At Wauaro the tide is In minutes earlier than the above figures for New Plymouth, while at Opunahe it is high water 15 minutes later than at New Plymouth. ARRIVED. April 10.—Flora s.s., 1273 tons, Williams, from southern ports. SAILED. April 10.—Flora, s.s., 1273 tons, Williams, for Westport and Greymouth. April 10.—Rarawa, s.s., 1072 tons, Norbury, for Onohunga. Passengers;—Misses Townsend, Anderson, Paget (2), Fraser and Sunnan; Mesdames Stewart and child, Petersen, Porrv, Todd, Sunnan, and Dredge; Messrs. Gillies Colbeck, Paque, Hampson, Anstiss, Sinclair, Sharland, Snowball, Pearce, Johns, Stewart, Wood, Townsend, Perry, Todd; 15 steerage. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Rarawa, from North, Friday. Corinna, from South, Friday. Opouri, from South, Saturday. Corinna, from North, Sunday. SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. ARRIVED. Onehnnga, April 11.—Arrived, at 9.10 a.m., Rarawa, from Now Plymonth. Melbourne, April 10.—Arrived, Corinthic, from London. London, April 10.—Arrived, AngloMesican, from Wellington. SAILED. Sydney, April 10.—Sailed at 7.30 p.m., Victoria, for Auckland. Melbourne, April 10.—Sailed, Moana, for Bluff, via Hobart. London, April 10.—Sailed, Akiara, for Auckland. THE CORINTHIC. The Corinthic arrived at Melbourne on Wednesday and landed 165 passengers. Four hundred and ninety-two passengers are proceeding to New Zealand. THE REGULUS.: Thet-Regnlus is duo here today from Westport with 500 tons of coal and a quantity t>£ coke, THE FLORA. 'After discharging 440 tons of general cargo, the Flora left for Westport 1 last night. THE CORINNA. The-'Corinna is to leave Wellington about 4 this afternoon for this port : with. 400 tons cargo, and should ar-rive-'to-morrow morning. THE OPOURI. The Canterbury owned steamer Opouri is expected to arrive here on i Saturday morning from Lyttelton, via i iPicton. She has about 200 tons of -produce for this-port,-and sails hence • to Greymouth. - UTra Rarawa carried 8 heifers, 170 ; calves-mud 60 sheep to--Onohunga last 1 night. THE LARGEST BRITISH-BUILT SHIP. Tho Belfast correspondent of the Daily News writes: A striking indication of the keen competition amongst the great shipping companies is forthcoming in the announcement that the White Star Line have ordered from Messrs. Hariand and Wolff, of Belfast, a vessel which will be the largest British-built ship in the world. The giant liner is to measure 882 ft. 6in. over all, with a beam of 93ft. 6in., and a gross tonnage of 47,000. She will thus be a foot broader and 2000 tons heavier than the Olympic and Titanic. The new liner, which will be propelled by the now familiar combination of reciprocating engines with a low-pressure turbine, will be remarkable for its first-class passenger accommodation. During the next two and a half years a small army of men will he engaged in building and fitting out tho great liner, which will cost about £1,500,000. One-third of this sum will be spent iix wages. TO STOP ENGINES RACING. A young New Zealander, Mr. ‘A. C. Robertson, has just perfected an instrument for preventing marine engines from racing (says an exchange). An instrument of this kind has been engaging the attention of the best engineers in the world, and up to the present nothing has been, successful. Mr. Robertson’s instrument has been before several well-known engineers in New Zealand, and they declare that it w-ill prove one of the greatest of benefits to marine engines, slaving the wear and tear on the engines, the breaking of shafts, and losing of propellers, which occur in heavy seaways. The principle of the machine is to replace the lost resistance which the blades of the propeller have whilst immersed in the water, but which they lose as soon as the blades come out. In heavy weather the engineers have to put a man on the throttle valve and shut off steam as soon as the blades are coming out, so as to save the racing of his engines. The whole ship vibrates, and heavy strains are brought on all the machinery. “With the instrument attached all this is completely eliminated, and the engine always runs at its ordinary revolutions at all times in all conditions of weather, the full power of the engine being available, a thing up to the present considered impossible. The machine is purely automatic in its action, and yet very simple in its construction. The great feature in the ‘ working wf the instrument is the fact that steam to the engine is never shut off whilst the engine is working, and yet it is impossible for tho engine to exceed its set number of revolutions. A very successful trial was made on the steamer Wairoa, at Auckland, during a storm, the engine being run up to its limit without the slightest acceleration in tho engines and without vibration of the boat.