SHIPPING.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14321, 11 October 1910, Page 4

SHIPPING.

PORT? OF TULARU Thfi flagstaff of Timaru is situated la East longitude 171 deg. 15 min. 19 sec., South, latitude 44 deg. 23 min. 11 sec, HigE water, f>.3l a.m.; 10 p.m. Sun rises, 5.17" a.m.; sets, ti.lti p.m. Sloon rises, 9.31 a.m.; sets. 1.4 a.m. ARRIVED—Oct. 10 th. Corinna, s.s., (d a.m.), 1271 tons, Oacmeron, from Oamaru. N.AI. and A. Co., agents. SAILED—Oct. lUth. Corinna, s.s., (7 p.m.), 1271 tons, ■ Cameron, for Lyttelton. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Pukaki, s.s., from Lyttelton, to-day. i Breeze, s.s., from Oamaru. to-mor-row. Kaiapoi, s.s., from Lyttelton, Thurs--1 day. Storm s.s., from Oamaru, Friday. Taviuni s.s., from Oamaru, early. Komata, s.s., from Oamaru, Monday. Wanaka s.s., from Oamaru, Saturday. Pukaki s.s., from Lyttelton, tliis ! week. * Lizzie Taylor, ketch, from Havelock daily. Kaiapoi, s.s., from Lyttelton, this Treek. Komata, s.s., from Newcastle, via • ports early. N.Z.G.S. Amokuxa, from tt? north, early. Corinthic s.s., from Lyttelton, Mcndav. H.JI.S. Pionee, from Auckland, November 20th Afghanistan, s.s., from London, via 1 ports, November 30th. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Breeze, s.s., for Lyttelton, Thursday. TELEGRAPH NOTICE BOARD.

BLUFF.. Oct. 10. Arrived—S.2o a.m.. Warriinoo, from Hobart with, an. English mail

The s-s. Kaiupui now at Lyttelton, is expected at Timaru on Thursday next. .

The s.s. Komata, at present bound from Newcastle to Oamaru, is expected to arrive in Timaru about Monday next. She lauds 1500 tons if coal. 3(il.i tons of manure and 30 tons of timber. Owing to a delay in the north, the coastal steamer Storm will not arr.vo here tilt Friday next, to load for WV.uganui. The s.s. Coriumi arrived from Oui'.aru early yesterday morning. and landed general cargo, including transhipments ex Hauroto. Empire Transport and Otaki. Ait?r loading p.» duce for northern ports she left for Lyttelton in the evening. The s.s. Pukaki is expected to leave Lyttelton at 3 a.m. to-day • for Timaru, and is due about o o'clock this evening, to land a large quantity w coal and timber.

The Union Company advise that owing to delays on the West Coast, the movements of the s.s. Taviuni are uncertain, and it is improbable she will be here on Friday. The Government training ship Amoknra returned to "Wellington from the Scttnds on Friday morning. Sue will leave in the course of a few days for the Southern Islands.

The Federal Honlder Shire liner Nairnshire, which arrived Home on "Vvednesdav last, has been fixed to load at "West Coast of England ports. for Australia and New Zealand, and is to be despatched finally from Liverpool on December 20th. The Shaw- Savill liner C'orinthic was expected to leave Wellington yesterday for Lyttelton, to discharge the remainder of her outward cargo. As soon, as the discharge is completed she proceeds to Timaru, Lyttelton, Auckland and Wellington- for homeward loading in the order named, and is to fce despatched finally from Wellington for London on the 3rd November. Captain W. Stevens, of the Mokoia, reported to the Marine Department that on September 23rd. when in lat. 19 deg. 30 min., and long. 154 deg 19min., owing to a false alarm of "Man overboard!" a lifebuoy was thrown over the side. Captain Stevens states that it will be of interest to scientific bodies if the buoy is picked up later on, as it -will show the set of current between Tahiti and Rarotonga and the neighbouring Pacific. Although the Paparoa Coal Company originally intended the barque Adderlv to he" converted into a hulk for their own use they have now disposed of her to the U.S.S. Company for the same purpose. Negotiations were closed within the last few days, and the vessel will be dismantled and fitted up as a hnlk inside a few weeks. A REMARKABLE OCCURRENCE. The American-owned schooner James Eolph was in her day one of the bestknown vessels on the Pacific Coast. However, on August 2, when outward bound from San Francisco, she ran aground on Point San Pedro, and has terminated her seagoing career. Apart from the recollections recalled by the mention of her name, it is not unlikely that her end will hve in the memories of many for a long time, for with it is associated one of the most- remarkable, but not altogether unusual, occurrences yet known on the Pac-Uiu Coast. It seems that the James Rolph went ashore in a favourable uisitum for salvage, but with tides and owing to delay "was carried further inshore. This did not have any effect on the salvors, who. notwithstanding the extra work and difficulties entailed, were condent of getting her oif the oast again. Thev were not long in being awakened to the full extent «t the task, however, for an /-xanuiiation prepa'ratorv to work commencing was being made when it was d.seovertd that the schooner had settled down right over and across the -bones" oi another vessel, i.e.. the old Dumbarton the ribs of which were tightly around her, and which had gone ashore- six years previously during a dense fog. Tin's discovery altered opinions considerabiv. and Has resulted in the abandonment or salvage work, the owners bein-j: contented to leave the"Rolph" in "her position until the elements cause her to break up._ As the two vessels lie an almost perfect cross is formed.

THE BRITISH SAILOR. It is a matter for congratulation that the dependence of our shipping upon foreign seamen continues Xi> '•,- less marked. In 1905 the --British persons'' employed numbered 180.492. and --foreign persons"' 39.i11. In 1908. the latest year for which returns are available, the numbers were respectively 1D6.8;J4 and 3-1.735. There were IIi.OOO more Britishers, that it to say. uud 3000 fewer foreigners. From the point of view of percentages the position is more satisfactory than in any year sincf 1595. There has. it is true, been an increase of 700 in tinnumber of lascars and other Asiatics employed, comparing 190,? with 1905. hut it is quite clear that the foreigner has been in the main sunplantcd by the Britisher and not by the las'-ar ur the Chinaman. It was the hitter, it was supDOSed. who was in particular toaking headway in British ships. ■\VTien the supptv of British seamen 'was still decliirng if ""s f'x. fashion to blame tbe itiode~n ': y. It was averred that the youth o: C'r-.-.r Britain toow lack the instinct, and and tbe prospect of life ashore more A» a matter of fact, t^'t

belief is shown to be without foundation. A Newcastle correspondent refers to a ioc;il oivncr who liiis forty !MV;: on his. Hooks waiting t:> ii<> to sea when the chance offers. The Shipping Federation, which has worked unceasingly to furnish the merchant navy with Hoy sailors, reports that it is inundated with applications. There is. therefore, nu lack of raw material. The difficulty is to iind vacancies on shipboard where is can be moulded into shape.—Loudon 'Telegraph.'

A ROUGH VOYAGE. Fer Press Association. WKSTPORT. Oct. 10. The Gorman barque Martha Boeklialni. in ballast, 56 days from Buenos Ayres to Westport. had a very Tough trip nearly all the way, with hail, sr;ualls. gales, hurricanes and terrific seas. On September 10th Captain Bren was swent from the poop deck Hv a ir.-rat wave, but managed to save b.iir.se 1 ? V.y oafr-hing hold of a life line. Tim ship's rail and other deck fittings were smashed. She loads coal for Yno. Caroline Islands