SHIPPING.

Timaru Herald, Volume C, Issue 15290, 6 March 1914, Page 6

SHIPPING.

PORT 01? TIMARU. Sun rises 5.51 a.m.; sets 6.37 p.m. Moon rises 2.48 p.m.; sets 11.4 p.m. High water, 9.35 a.m.; 10.3 p.m. ARRIVALS.—March sth. Nil. DEPARTURES.—March 6th. Nil. VESSELS IN PORT,. Nil. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Taviuni, e.s., Chatham Islands, this _ , dayJohn, s.s., Dunedin via Oanuiru, this day. Breeze, s.s., Dunedin via Oamaru, Saturday. Joan Craig, s.s., Lyttelton, Sunday. ■Waipon, s.s., Westport, Monday. Petone, s.s., Oamaru, Monday. Pakeha, s.s., Wellington, early. Orari, s.s., Lyttelton, early. Matatua, s.s., Dunedin, early. Clan Maclaien, s.s., Dunedin, earljy. Clan Macdonaid, s.s., Dunedin, early. Surrey, s.s., Bluff, March 26th. Lizzie Taylor, ketch, Nydia Bay, to sail. (Waitemata, s.s., Newcastle, to sail. John Hardie. s.s., New York, via way ports, sailed February 24th, due about May 30th. Opawa, s.s., London via ports, sailed February 12th, due about April 15th. Tannerfels. s.s., New York, via ports, to sail March. iWftiwera, s.s. London, via way ports to sai'l, April 3rd. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. John, s.s., 'Wellington, Wanganui via Lyttelton, this day.' Bieeze, s.s., Wellington, Wanganui via Lyttelton, Saturday. Petone, s.s., Napier, ' Gisborne via Lyttelton, Monday. Joan Craig, Auckland, Monday. THE FERRY SERVICE. The following vessels leave Lyttelton for Wellington on the arrival of trains as under irom Christchurcn:— This day, Maori, 7.40 p.m. Maitai, 10.40 p.m. Saturday, Wahine, 7.40 p.m. NOTES. The Breeze will now load here tomorrow. The New Zealand Shipping Com. pany's steamer Ruapehu left Wel'iington for London via way ports at 4.30 p.m. yesterday. Yet another Craig Jiner, the iron barque Joseph Craig, has just been purchased by the Huddart Parker Company from J. J. Craig, and Co., with the intention of converting her into u coal hulk. The Joseph Craig, which is under command of Captain Airey, is bound from Newcastle to Auckland. Tho vessel was formerly known as the Dunblane. She was built in 1878 by D. and W. Henderson, Glasgow. The Joseph Craig is a vessel of 751 tons gross, and. 694 tons net. Her principal dimensions aire—Length 187 feet Bm. beam 31 feet, depth 18 feet Bin. It is stated on good authority that a white occulting light will shortly be substituted for the present red one on the lighthouse at Otago Heads. The present light is a continuous one, and an alear weather is visible at a distance of some 18 or 20 miles. The new beacon will not be risible at any greater distance, as that is a matter _ which depends upon elevation, but will be more easiLy picked up in thick and foggyweather. An incandescent mantle is also to be substiuted for the present oil wick, ami this will give a more powerful light and one of greater penetrative power. The new light will l , of course, burn the oil in a vaporised form, and. may be regarded as a distinct improvement from a _ mariner's point of view. With the new light which the Harbour Board proposes to erect oa Hayward Point and the one referred t.> above, captains should experience . comparatively little difficulty in approaching Otago Heads at night.