SHIPPING.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14324, 14 October 1910, Page 4

SHIPPING.

PORT OF TDIARU Tiio flagstaff of Tiinaru- is situated in East longitude 171 deg. 15 min. 19 sec., South latitude deg. 23 min. U sec. High water, 10.51 a., in. ; 11.27 p.m. Sua rises, 0.12 a.m.; sets, 6.20 p.m. Moon rises, 0.49 p.m.; sets, 3.-2 : ARRIVED. —Oct. IStK i. Breeze, s.s., (10 a.m.), 552 tons, A. Cowan, from Uumaru. D. C. Jurnbull and Co., agents. SAILED—Oct 13th. "Breeze, s.s. (6.15 p.m.), 522 tons, A. Cowan, ior Lyttekon EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Storm, s.s., from Oamaru, to-day.; 1 "W'anaka, s-s., from Oamaru, xojaorrow. Kaiapoi, s.s., from Lyttelton, iomcrroiv. Corinthic, s.s., from Lytteltcn, Sunday. IComaut, s.s, from Oamaru, Monday. N.Z.G.S. Amokuraj from the north, Monday. Taviiini, s.s., from Oamaru, early. Afghanistan, s.s., from London, via ports, November 30th. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. H3I.S. Pioneer, from Auckland. October 24th Strom, s.s., for Lyttelton, Wanganiu to-night. .W-auuka, s.s., for Napier, Gisborne, 'Auckland, to-mcrrow. Kaiapoi, s.s., for Dunedin, Monday. Putaki, s.s., for .Westpori, direct to-night. Rangarira s.s., for Brisbane, direct, to-morrow.

The iS> w Zealand Shipping. Company's steamer liiinutaka which left Auckland for London oil August :27th, arrived at Plymouth on Tuesday, after a passage -of 45 days.

The s.s. Storm is especced liere from the soutli tins morning to land case oils and general cargo, and to load 100 tons produce fcr V/anganui. The sjs. Breeze arrived from Oamaru yesterday morning. and after landing a small quantity of general cargo, and loading produce for Wellington, Napier and Gisbome, sailed via Lyttelton early in the evening.

The ketch. Lizzie Taylor, now UScharging a timber cargo iroin Havelock, r.'ili commence taking in produce for ■to-ni-orrov.- Kioruing, and. is expected to sad early dur.iig the coming week. The Ne-.v Zealand flipping Company's steamer Ruahine iVum London Via Plymouth, and G;-.;vto,vn, arrived at Hobart at 3 a.m. on W, diifsdav. H-M.S. Pioneer is espied at" Timaru_ on inst. fru:.i Atn-kland, and is expected to sail cn 31st- inst. for Oamaru and Duuedin. She v.-;ii leave New Zealand in January for Sjdney. Captain Tate is still in command of fte Pukaki. Captain J. Beighton who Jyas to have taken charge of the Pukaki at Lyttelton, has been temporarily appointed master of the Rcsamond, la place of Captain J. G. "Watson, who came ashore at Wellington on Tuesday on sick leave. Work on the turbine steamer Maori, Which is undergoing an .overhaul at Port Chalmers, is being carried on day and night, with a view to having her readv to resume running in the ferry sernco from Lytteltoir on.-Satur-day, the 22nd inst.

A crack was located in the* plntel nana of the Flortrs rudder at ton oil Monday morning, and a, gang of repairers worked throughout the afternoon, until nearly eleven o'clock in order to permit ths vessel-io 1 get away thd. same night*. Ixr connection With tEa'fenkenng of ships in the harbour* -at Cap<* fences have? been received stating teat coal lias been so mncli reduced tSiflrf? the Best? TsataT coa.l caif now be delivered 21s per tori on board. Iff is anticipated that many seamers, including thoso of the-German lines, Jrill coal tg.iTeneriffe.,

_ A cnrioTtS instance oover-carrying JCccurred the* other dav, when, so great was the - hurry a steamer round, that, notwithstanding that the Vessel was actually discharging in London from Australia, the owners decid- . Ed that they could not wait to nnload the last remaining: parcel, some 50 tons of pig lead. They sent it round , in. the steamer tio Liverpool, putting it out there, and dispatching it to London by train. =

The Acting Vice-Consul for Denmark at Hobart (A! r Johannes Jensen) has had his attention dtrawn to a statement made by Captain Davis, of the steamer Wauchope, to the effect tlat he could not understand why so little notice had been taken of the wreckage washed up on King Island bearing the name of the Princess Mnlie. a Danish barque, which called off Sydney Heads on February 26 last. *nd was ordered on to Smoky Bay, South Australia, where she never arrived.

A Hohart message states that all vessels are keeping a sharp lookout for the Stratnaim: also for the barque Esther, which is 34 davs out from Brum to Adelaide.

, Jleiibourne syndicate which bought the steamer Papanui has resold her to Sir James Paterson for £4425. M. Mishanovitch, a ship-owner of Buenos Aires.. has ordered in Scotland new tonnage at a cost of £250000.

OUTLOOK K Apart from naval work, the German shipyards arc at the tiiae largely occupied in iiu- "production of liners of considerable tonnage. The biggest of the vessels t-j suifer doby will be the 4-3,000 ton turbine stearic:* which is bain;; built at the Hamburg yard of the Vulcan Company, oi Stettin, for the Hamburg-American Lao. Xou less interesting is the t-.jn

motor liner, which liUjlmi and. Voss have in hand for the owners. Most of the big Gorman steamship companies have imers oil tiie Btocks. Some ox them ; ay that the orders were given out because prices" were cheap, rather tlian because there was immediate need ct new ships. Ba that iis it may, it means tUslccitturn cf plans in their case, as in that the steel trade.

JAPANESE COATPETITION. The United States is hacoming a little alarmed at the position which Japan is acq airing in the carry.:.;.; trade of the Pacific. Even there", as in so many other parts or" the globe, the American iiag now counts far" very little. The Japanese advance is put down to the discreet and generous u.-e of subsidies, and no doubt State aid is responsible for a god deal. Something, however, is attributable to the energy of the people. By dint of foresight and indiherence to immediate results, tho Japanese have become

serious rivals even of the British shipbuilder. When a yard lite that of tho Mitsu-Bishi. at Nagasaki, can turn out a 14,000 ton steamer capable of doiiip 21 knots, and has a special department devoted to marine turbines, it is difficult to see how a period is to b-~ put to its progress. It is interesting to state that when the Mit-su-Bishi enterprise was S">t afoot over half a century ago, Dutchmen employed, and machinery tras imported from Holland. It wan not till 1553 - that a wooden steamer iras bailt. The present development may be snict to date from the t-erniiiu-v- ---, taon of-the CMna-Jagafl - ;V£ajx_S|9at»

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bers of die company's staff were despatched to various European shipbuilding centres to learn foreign methods of construction and organisation, and a number of .British experts wero engaged as technical advisers and directors. This in due course pared the way of independence. The Mitsn-Bi-shi enterprise is oue of the few which can _ boast an experimental tank fcr ship* models. All that exist can be counted on the fingers of one hand.