SHIPPING.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14322, 12 October 1910, Page 4

SHIPPING.

PORT- OF TLMARU TliO flagstaff of Tiniaru is situated in East longitude 171 deg. 15 min. sec., South, latitude 44 deg. 23 xrnn. 11 sec.

-High, water, 8.50 a.m.: 9.23 p.m. Sun rises, 5.1-5 a.m.; sets, 6,1 i P a pMoon a.m.

ARRIVED.—Oct. 11th. Lizzie Taylor, ketch, (5 p.m.), it tous, Petersen, from Hayelock. Belford Mills Co.. agents. SAILED.—Oat. 11th. Nil.

EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Pukaki, s.s., from Lyttelton. to-day. Breeze, s.s., from Oamaru. to-day. Storm s.s., from Oamaru, I'riday. Wanaka s.s. t from Oamaru. Saturday.

Corinthic. s.s., from Lyttelton. Sunday. Komata, s.s., from Oamaru. ilondav.

Kaiapoi, s.s.. from Lyttelton. early. Taviuiu s.s.. from Oamaru. early. HALS. Pionee, from Auckland, November l!0th Afghanistan, s.s.. from Lcnaon, via. ports, November 30th. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Breeze, s.s., for Lyttelton, Thursday. Pukaki. s.s., for "Westporc direct, Friday. Storm, s.s., for L3'tte!tc-n. I'riday. To-day a holiday there ill will be no »ors at tiie wharves.

Tile, Tysor iiner Xomoaua ktt Y\eilington early yesterday ait-emuon iur London, via Las i'almas. 'iiiree large oversea vessels, ike itaka:a. Kia Ora, and Utaki, art*, to ducK at I'crr- Chalmers.

The coastal steamer Stcrm, due here on Friday nest, is bringing 2'JUO cases kerosene, t-runsliippici ex uie Highland Monarch, irem Duuidiu.

The s.s. Breeze, due here to-day, is to lead 2UO tons produce for Wellington. Nanier and Gisburnc.

The s.s- Pukaki did nun le.'.ve L\ttelton yesterday morning a.- expected, but cleared there last evening ior this port. She proceeds direct- irem here to West-port on Friday next. The Shaw Savill und Albion Company's steamer Ilaaigatira was bus.ly engaged yesterday landing !i:r assorted cargo of general me-ciiaudise irotn Home ports. She is esKi-.t t to be desptched from Timaru en sutarduy evening for Brisbane direct. The locally owned ketch Lizz'.o Taylor arrived in the oiiing vosteruay nftemon, and came into poit shortly after 5 p.m. She brings a full cargo of timber from Havelook. The output of coal from Westport during September amounted in 6-5.713 tons, and the export was 01.903 tons. The mean high water on the bar was 20 feet 9 inches.

It will be a conspicuous feature of 'the new triple screw iiner Rctorua that she will have a sea-speed of 15 knots, which will be half a knot faster . than the Ruahine, the fastest vessel of the fleet.

Captain J. Beighton, of ihe Squall, lias been transferred to the Pukaki ill a similar capacity, and Air Morrison, chief officer of the Atua, takes temporary charge of the Squall. Mr Fester, late of the Wanaka, joined the Atua as chief officer. Mr Tanner, of "Tanner's Ark"' repute. was a passenger by the Ulimaroa to Melbourne, where he is going in connection mill his invention of a "governor 7 ' for the prevention of "racing" of steamers' propellors. The object of his trip is to convince the superintending engineer of the Hud-dart-Parker Proprietary of the effectiveness of this invention, in which event it is understood, it wll be fitted on the Ulimarca. ! An interesting account -of the breaking of a. slow sailing r'-cord is reported. The vessel concerned is a sixty-year-old schooner known as the Loduskia, and the passage was from Grand Marian (X.8.) to Boston. This is usually , a seven days' trip, even fur recognised slow craft, but it took the Lcduskia just fifty-two days to do it. The passage works out at about five miles every twenty-four hours, and when ihe schooner reached port she was found to be leaking like a sieve and her crew thoroughly exhausted—not by tne sailing feat, but through a combination of worrying fits as to--when the vessel would reach port. The mystery of the fate of the Canadian whaler J .T. Duncan, which- left Halifax seven years ago and Las never been heard of since, was solved in a dramatic fashion by the German steamer Pallar.za, which recr-ntlv arrived fct Philadepiiia from Hamburg. While steaming at full speed the Pallanza struck a whale, and nearly cut it in two. The whale was impaled on the steamer's bows, and died after a terrific struggle. Nine sailors began to chop the carcase away ('says the 'Express's' corresnondent"). when a harpoon was found imbedded in the wlm'e with, an iron band stamped J.T.D.. 1902." Captain Fendt. of the Pallanza. looked up the records, and --crichided that the harpoon must have Belonged to the -T. T. Duncan, tTi ■ crew of which, after harpooning the monster, probably were b?a t""n in the subsequent strug(de. in which the whale sank the little vessel. -

NEW AUSTRALIAN LINER. On Tuesday, August '23. there was launched from the great shipbuilding yards of Messrs AVorkinaii. Clarke. asi! Co. a splendid liner ox l'J.oi-i tous d splacement. with which, the Ocean Steamship Company of Liverpool intend to inaugurate their ot service to Australia.

The Aeneas, as the vessel ~r.3 c:.r:stened by Lady P.eid, v.-as lcur-ched v.-itfc-out a hitch. She is reports the Dunedin ' "Star's 1 ' London correspondent, n twin-screw vessel, her chief dimensions being: Length, 509 ft over all: bennt. 60ft-; moulded depth. 40ft-. Her five decks promenade, central, upper, main, and lower —provide i"paco for about 300 passengers. in coir.rv::c/ious and very airy two, three. and fourberth cabins. The cabins *< :i the central castio dec*: are on •'tandem 7 ' system. Tho dining a spacious apartment-, is ni tho second deck. Throughout the liner i= ligh'.cd by electricity. ventilated by electric fan*, and heated bv an ♦-•xrellont system of radi-

ators and strain Sho has an v]>-to-date wireless teh-irrapbia apparatus, and every facility tV :r the handling of cold stora<ro stuffs and refrigerating plant of the latf-~t type. The space is divided into six holds. all of which can take the n;«-bulky artic]'"-?. such as motor car>. b\:!<vs. locomotive, and pnginei, whilst tho wim-he? arc capable of anything tip t ; > forty tons. The Aeneas i= fitted with two sets rf triple expansion engines, constructed by Workman. Clarke, and Co.. nr.d desitrnrd ?o as to crive the minimum v"brnt : on. The -Aeneas, ]i !_ p tlie TVhjt** Sr:»r lines in the Australian service. Trill or-lv earrv <mo class or T>a-.sonrers. and ih*

ptnglo fare tfl r- Tul from -Australia w : !I For Tl:'s sum fTio compniiy "SFoffl|§B .fa P?<3vW<* Pc-!oni»»ustT«tion arc! woara at T«t«>S enr.nl to ~ ! ren in tlie gpwmej rfoss t * +];.-> tiiaH ■itoatne , <!. Titjf: ■' ' tT ;: !'-J of the vrrJftem in flie sTi!i» ntr-1 -Si* «s» of Iffec;Te sna/-e nstidl!" re?r.rv f . f 7 , 'Class pnsserifcrs. Tlip.Apneas iril! lon/I t-f® gsgpEgg-.pgrt jIH

lie Fishguard. Site will sail 011 her maiden voyage on November 19. and Lor sifter ship, the Ancenous, which is now approaching completion, will follow on January 1. 1911. On the outward run the vessels of the new service are t > call at Las Palmas l'or fresh provisions, and at Cape Town to bunker. and the run to Adelaide is expected fci take thirty-nino days from Fisliguard. TELEGRAPH NOTICE BOARD. LYTTELTON. Oct. 11. Arrived, 6.20 a.m.. Corinna. from Timaru. Sailed, 10 p.in.. Pukaki. for Timaru. WELLINGTON, Oct. 11: Sailed, 1 p.m., Tomoana, for London.