SHIPPING.

Timaru Herald, Volume XC, Issue 13288, 17 May 1907, Page 4

SHIPPING.

PORT OF TIMARU.

The flagstaff of Timaru is situated in East Longitude lTLdeg. 15min. 13sec.; South Latitude 44deg. 23min. 41sec.

Hi"h water, 6.32 a.m.; 5.59 p.m. Sun lists, 7.28; sets, 4.09. Moon rises, 11.16 a.m.; sets, 3.22 p.m.

ARRIVED

Nil. SAILED. Nil. IX HARBOUIt. Baron e —Kassa. EXPECTED ARRIVAL*. Lizziu Taylor, daily. Waipori. s.s.. to-morrow, s.s.. on Monday. 'faviuni, s.s., on Monday. Koonya, s.s.. early. Wanuka. s.s.. on .May 22m1. Kaikoura, ?.s.. on May 25tli. Delphic, s.s.. at end of month. Shipping business was very quiet vaster dav.

BARQUE IX DISTRESS.

Per Press Association,

IXVERCARGILL. May 16.

The Miltonburn. a four-masted steel barque, bound from Hamburg to the Gulf of California with coke, put in at the Bluff to-dav. She left Hamburg on November sth, "and like the Falls of Halladale some three years ago, tried in vain to make a westerly passage via Cape Horn, and had ultimately to come tast-about. She is now.lSldays out, and has lost her back stays and chain plate. Captain Benson decided to put in for repairs and provisions, and will probably remain a few days. The barque is a fine vessel of 2499 tons nett register, capable of carrying 4200 tons, and is owned by Shankland and Co.. of Greenock.

UNDER GENERAL AVERAGE.

Per Press Association,

IXVERCARGILL, May 16.

It is stated that consignees of the cargo f>f the» ship Stefano Rozeta have" been under the general averages called upon to iw.y 75 per cent, of the landed value of their consignments before delivery, and that the majority refused to do so. Whatever balance is left after the sale of the *hip and the payment of contingent exlienses. will be paid pro rata to the consignees.