SHIPPING.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 13713, 30 September 1908, Page 4

SHIPPING.

" PORT OF TIM ARCThe flagstaff of Timarn is situated in rr<~* Longtitude s I7ldeg- lomin. 13sec.; Kouth Latitude 44<leg. 23min. 41feec. High "water. 5.34 a.m.; 5.57 p.m. ' San rirses. 5.47 a.m.; &eis. 6.10 ji.in. -Moon rises, 7.55 a.m.; s*ts. 10.49 p.m. " PHASES OF THE MOON. Oct- 3 —Fii®fcqnarter T 5.44 p.m. Oct. 10 —Full moon, 8.33 a.m. Oct. 17—Last quarter, 3.d p.m. Oct 25—New moon, 6.17 p.m. . ARRIVED. September 29—Comma, s.s., 1279 ton*. Cameron, from Oamaru. September 29—Storm, s.s.. 405 tons, Captain - Wood, from Oamaru. ■ SAILED. Nll expected arrivals. Kotuku, s.s., about Friday. Otterbura, s.s., early, Charles F. Crooker. barque, early. Indravelli, s.s., early. Turakina, s.fi-y" October sth. " Kia-Ora, s.s., next week. Waitemata, "s-s-- Bert Monday. IMPORTS. In the Corrnna, ~23 ro«r tN.M. and A. Co., agents}. McKibbin, Tvrrell, Reid and G ny, C. F.C_ii. • Harold, O'Meeghin, . Ogden and Taylor. T. Buxton, Logan, W.. Maeon, * J. L. Wilson, and- Co., S.C. . Shoe Co./Jt.Z. Hardware Company, J- Fitzsimmons, Neil's Dispensary, Vlekers and Co.. Priest- arid Holdgiie, TJ.S.S". Cornpuny, Morrison Bro#-V ~3- A- Allan, Dawison. Turnball and Co. The Kia-Ora-. b due r from Auckland ■ and Wellington next week. j The Waitemata is expected on Monday next to load cargo foe Auckland." The 6.9. he 'here on Fridayfroapt Duoedin.* r - - The s.s- arrivedfrjHa : tbe,south yesterday morning, to. load 90 t<jn» of pro-, duce for WarigftnuLTbe Corinnar-arrived afc "9.50 : arm. -yes-* terday, and- after- discharging - 23- tons of general cargo g«&t a wayJasfci evening for north, Plymouth, 85 and, a little for Lyttdtoo. ; The Union Gompany'# chartered, steamer OtteHiurn arrived at WeUirigtofi' at inidnight on- Sunday from Newcastle. The which has a large cargo of coal, is due . at; LyUelton on TJroreaay. and will r afterwards come on to Timitru and Oamaru to finish di6cfiarging. : - The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamer Tarakina, from London, via way ports and w <«ipectsd to arrive here shortly. The Turakina is to load in/tnzni at? Timarn j t Port *6ba|mers.* Bluff, Lytteltoo and Wellington, dnd will leave the last-mentioned 'port finally for London, via way. portsj, on October 22nd. For many years the Shaw,, Savill and Albion Company and the * White Star Company have had an ocean-track to which their commanders have been instructed to adhere from the Cape of Good Hope to New Zealand, and from New Zealand round Cape Horn. At the -time this track was, started,, the New Zealand. Shipping. Company and others were afikea to join, but- they; preferred a more aoodterly route as saving distance;, they had,in fact, a track of tbeirown. Lately if "was suggested more thaii .this should Tie'.pv»> efld t-h'afc an alisojufefy uniform •"laws" right round the. London to London, should be traversed, and so include the North and South Atlantic as well as the §outh Pacific and Southern i Oceans.lf this the New'Zealajpd Shipping ' Company has joined, , eo. that iiow ■the ships of the three lines, mention**! will folldw identical coursed botili to New, Zealand and from it. The 'more, northerly route which will be followed south of the Cape.and of Capet Horn will give greater freedom from cold and ice,, though the distance will he' slightly increased. There is also -the supreme advantage that ( U. there isany breakdown or'raisnap "of any description, a following et«4m?r* -irill always be'able to pick up a'"lame duck," and.boats can wait at a certain spot in the-, full knowledge iliat help is. coming.