SHIPPING.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 13715, 3 October 1908, Page 4

SHIPPING.

. PORT OF TIMARU. - The. nagstaff of Timaru is. situated in East Longtitude lTldeg. 15mm. 13scc; South Latitude 44deg. 25min. 4leec. High water, B.l* a-m.; 8.«6 p.m. Sun rises,. 5.41: a.m.; s? f «s. 6.1 A p.m. Moon rises, £s7.*jh- ; ae.teV 1° V m - PHASES OF THE MOON. Oct. s—First quarter, 5.44 p.m. Oet. 10—Full moon, S.oo a.m. QtC IT—Last quarter, 5.5 p.m. Oct 25—New moon, 6.17 p-m. ARRira>. Sept. 2-Koonva, e.s;, 1091 tor*, from &a * ditt - SAILED. Sept 2-Koonva, »•*.. 1031 ton?, for. Weffinjrton and West Coast ports. ARRIVALS. KJjtnku, 6-s., to-day. Otterfmrn, ■-»-, ««'?- , Charles F. Crooker, banjue, early. IndraveHi, ».«.,-early. Turakina, a*., October sth. KiarQra, »J., next weekWaJtemata, ».*.. next Monday. IMPORTS. la the Koonya .(X.31. and A Co., ageots}, 6* tons. Cooßignce U.i->. Company, Kernohan, McCahon, Og«kn and Tarlor, R. Wilson and Co., C.F.C.A.. Field, and.Co., Uas Comiuury, Bandrnpp'F.-os-» R» Rodgere, Booth. Me-. Donald awi' Co., Skeates and Bockaert, A. - Xafckr, S-C. .Woo Hen Company. J. Workman, . Penrose, Raddiffe, Kercber, U.F.S. Dfepawuy, E=d*y» GiU»«. Gud«D, A. Davidson, W. Harold, Bowie and Co., T. Soffivan, Priest and Holdgate, A. McDonald, J.-Meehan, Chwholm, Wade and Co- F: Kartoa, Collins and Co., J. Deaos,' Crawford, Thomas Bros., >.. Z. Hardwaro Company,' T. Buxton, Js.£. Shippnix Company, O-Bnen and Beton. pjknwton' Briscoe and Co.. N.Z. bjwtsu Compmiy, J. W. South; and Hedge Bros. The WaiJcmaU.w expected ,on Monday from the Blmt, to Joad - for Auckland, Napier and 'GJsborne. ' „ , What & asserted lobe a world* record in coaline was achieved at Durban on Asgnt 10, when 2200 tons of coal were placed on the KenOworth Castle in eight worKsmfi^bjotiis* The-jKoboya arrircd ytßteiday with 64 too* ofgeneral cargo from Dnnedm. .She took hosa Timarn for Wellington 180 tons, for Nelson 5 tons, for Pkton 120 torn, for Westport 26 tons, ant) lor <Arey-momh-52 tons. - r It is reported that the Zealand Shipping. Companv, Limited, London, ha 3 cobtracted with Messrs Wm. Denny and Bros., Dumbarton, for the construction of a large steamer for the frozen meat The White Star steamer Delphic left Port Adelaide recently with the largest consignment of wheat sent away from Sooth Australia in'one vessel. It comprised 61,927 bags.' equal to 7CS7 tons. The previous Australian record is 60.0G0 bags, taken by the Indradcvi from .Sydney in 'January. 1907. One of the ocean-going destroyers' building; for the British Xavy is named Maori, {she is designed for 33 knote; is turbine emrined, and will carry 85 tons of oil fueL Her builders art Messrs Benny. tnosti appropriately, the, firm having built nearly all of the ..Union CbmparryV •Maorinamed steamers. ' . The steamers Olympic and Titanic. which are about to be built for the Whit" Star Line, will each be £O,OOO tons, and irul wet toother £3,500,000 The:e immerse White Star liners will \vt 84CH. in length—nearlr 80ft.. longer than the Canard liners Mauretania and Lusttaina —and will be 78ft in breadth. Both turbines and reciprocating engines are to bVs supplied, and a speed of not let* than 21 knots w to be guaranteed. Advices received % the Marine I)e partment report that the Government Heamer ;Hinemoa was at Waipapii on Wednesday and had gone on to Centr* end Stewart Islands. Her visit to Stewart Wand is for the purpose «f taking bearingp- for the light, which is to If* erected at - Patecson's Inlet.- fine -*» expected to leave the Bluff finally on Friday for the West Coast sound*, and will, in addition to her routine work, search the small bays ajid inlet* in the hope of finding some trace of the mining Loch Lomond. PENGrrN-GERTTE COLLISION. Per Press -.Association. WELLINGTON. Octob.r 2 At the Magfeterial enquiry into ths recent collision in Cook Strait between the. steamers Penguin and (k-rtie. C. A. Peareon, second engineer of the Gertie, and J. W. Watson, chief mate of the -Oertie. gavtThe latterjraid the action-o! the Penguin's master in porting bis helm and running between the beacon and the headland was, to his mind, tho raow of the colUßton. *F. R. Gaobe, second of- : ticer of the Penguin, who. was on the bridge when the collfeion occurred, said if tbf captain of the Gertie had marboarded hj» helm instead of porting it, the would have cleared the Penguin. He had rbi impression that tlw Gertt>*s captain had last his head. Captain R. Stewart, who was master of the Penguin -when the collision took place, f.iid he could not remember having said tin- collcrioo would not have occurrc<l had he been on the bridge. The enquiry will be- resumed to-morrow. H.M.S. PIONEER. Per Press Association. OHIUSTCHURCH. O-jtolwr 2. H.M.S. Pioneer. tliml-cl;M<» pnitccted cruiser. Conirnawkr Millrr. arrive<l at Lyttelton about 1 o'clock thi* afttrn.wm from Jjvdney. The Pioneer, which h'tw recently tradergone a thon>ugh overhaul in Sydney. fc« txpectcd to remain at I.yft. !t"n for about two month*, in oru- r to enablthe Royal Naval Reserve men t» go through "their annual training.