SHIPPING.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13838, 25 February 1909, Page 4

SHIPPING.

PORT OF TIMARU. The flagstaff of Timaru is situated n East longtitude 171deg. lomin 13 sec, South latitude 44deg. 23min 41sec. -High, water. 6.44 a.m.: 7.10 p.m. Sun rises, 5.42 a.m.; sets.'7.o p.m. Moon rises, 11.12 a.m.: sets. 9.50 p.m PHASES OF THE MOON. Feb. 27—First quarter, 2.19 p.m. ARRIVED. -Nil. SAILED. Nil. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Corinna. s.s., ta-day. Turakina. s.s.. -to-day. Komata, s.s.. to-morrow. Pnkaki, s.s.. to-morrow. Waihora, s.s.. on Saturday. Wanaka, s.s., about March 3rd. The s.s. Pukaki is clue here tomorrow. The s.s. Waihora has been yet again delayed at Lyttelton, and will not arrive* here till Saturday. The s.s. Koniata, which is at present discharging coal at Lyttelton. is expected- to arrive at this port to-mor-row morning, to discharge the balance of her cargo. The s.s. Corinna left Wellington at 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon for Timaru. •tnd should be here this afternoon. She lias-65 tons of general cargo, and after discharging loads for Dunedin, and sails early this evening for that port. A Belfast eorresoondent of n Home paper telegraphs that it is authoritatively stated that Messrs Harland and Wolff have received an order through Sir Donald Currie to build a steamer for the Union Castle Mail Steamship Companv. which will be the largest jn their service.' The new steamer will be one of over 13.000 ton?, and is for the South African mail service. Early in the new year the construction ot the mammoth White Star liner Olympic will be commenced, to be followed bv her sister ship, the Titanic, both vessels being intended to eclipse in size, passenger accommodation and decoration anything .afloat. In addition to these and other large orders which occupy every available slip, the engineering" department is at present engaged in"designing and constructing the huge engines and boilers for the latest British battleship of the Dreadnought class. (By Cable.) LONDON, Feb. 23. Arrived, Arawa, Star of England, and Glendhu, from Wellington. Sailed, Kia Ora, for Auckland; Ruapchu. for Lyttelton; La Kemba, ior Wellington* "* _ , „„ ADELAIDE. Feb. 23. " Sailed.. Emerald, for the Bluff. FRUITLESS SEARCH. Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, Feb. 24. The Kaikoura correspondent of the '"Press" telegraphed that the Cygnet (Captain, Murray) put into Kaikoura at 12.45 to-day. after a fruitless search for the derelict reported to have been seen off the Kaikoura peninsula. The Cygnet spoke the Amokura and the Falcon, which had both been searching unsuccessfully, and Captain Murray was of opinion that the missing, vessel had probablv drifted north through Cook Straits. -