TO-DAY'S SHIPPING.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11955, 14 March 1917, Page 2

TO-DAY'S SHIPPING.

POET OF "LYTTEI.TON. HIGH TIDE. . MARCH. a.rn. P-m. Wednesday . 11 T.S 1 ) 3.1? Thursday . 15 S.4i 'J.I2 Friday . i<! 3.1'.: K'.tl Saturday . 17 Jo.&/ 11-9 Sunday ' . IS 11.35 PHASES OF THE MOON. d. b. va. Eint quarter. i 4 14 a.m. Full moon . 9 9 2h a.m 1/ast quarter .17 0 3 a.ro. A omoon . 2"! i 45 p.m First quarter 3t) 10 6p.ra. TO-DAY'S ALMANAC. Sun toso, 5.58 a.m.; sot?, 0.31 p.m. Muoii rises, 8.57 p.m.; sets, 11.14 a.m. ARRIVED. March It, S.iO a.m. —Mararoa, b.s., Horn, from Wellington. Passengers—-5250 salooa and steerage. Union St-earn Ship Company, agents. March 14, 10.10 a.m.—Storm, s.s., 405 tons, Cowan, from Tianaiu. A, H. Turn bull and Co., agents. March 14, 10 a.m.—Eunice, auxiliary screw three-masted schooner, ISO tons, Sproule, from W&nganm. Chriaichurch Moat Company, agents. SAILED. March 13, 0 p.m.—Maori, e.g., 3399 tons. Manning, for Wellington. Union Steam Ship Company, agents. March 13, midnight.—Opouri, s.s., 571 tons, I'oaraon, for Greymouth. F. E. Sutton and Co., agents. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Orcpuki, a.®., from Wellington, this day. Riverina, s.s., from Sydney, this day. Monowai, s.s., from Dunedin, this day. larawera, 5.0., from Auckland, thia day. Ki&tawa, s.s., from Westport, March 15. Maori, s.s., from Wellington, March 15. Mararoa, s.a., frora Wellington, Kaitangnta, s.s., from Newcastle, March 17. Maori, from Wellington, March 17. T> roeze ' 3 B "> ' rom Dunedin, March 17. Maori, s.s., from Wellington, March 17. Victoria, a.a., from Sydney, March 17. Mararoa., b.b., from Wellington, March IS. Waipori, s.c., from Auckland, March 19. Maori, a.s.. from Wellington, March 520. Manuka, s.g., from Sydney, March 521. Mararoa, s.s., from Wellington March 21. Corinna, s.s., from Dunedin, March 21. Maori, s.s., from Wellington, March 22. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Riverine, s.a., for Sydney, this day. Monowai, h.h., for Auckland, this day. Mararoa, s.a., for Wellington, this day. larawera, s.s., for Dunedin, this day. Cygnet, s.s., for Kaikoura, thia day. Vvakatu, s.s., for Kaikoura, this day. Oropuki, a,#., {or Wellington, March 15. Aoromiko, s.b.. for Auckland, March IG. •Maori, s.c., f<j r Wellington, March 15. Mararoa, s.s., for Wellington, March 16. -Breeze, a.s., for Wangania, March 17. Maori, s.s., for Wellington March 17. \ ictoria, for Dunedin, March 17. Calm, s.a., for Wanganui, March 19 Mararoa, s.s., for Wellington, March 19. Maori, g. s . ( f or Wellington, March 20. Manuka. 5.«., for Sydney, March- 31. Mararoa, «.g., for Wellington, March 21. vonnna, s.s., for New Plymouth, March 21. Victc-na, s.s., for Sydney, March 21. Kaitangata, a.s., for Newcastle, March '22. M&oi:, a.s., for Wellington, March 22. UNION STEAM SHIP COMPANY. Tne Kittawa passed Stephen's Island early this morning*. »b.ho cliouid be licrc Into tonight. Tho Mar ax on tviii be the ierrv steamer this evening. THE BARQUE HARYAIID. (Boston " r;joU>."> The rejuvenated barque- Harvard, looking as spick and apan as when new, is anchored m tiie harbour ready to start on her iir»t voyage m years us a fquare rigger. More than £1)000 wu3 spent in restoring- the ve-'-el Irom a coal barge. Tho Harvard was recently so.id.tor 125,000 dollar* (£-25,000) to the federal Transportation Company o: New Vork, who will got, back nearly four-fifths of j the purchase money on her lirat trip She ! has been chartered to load -2300 tons of acid : phosphate at Houston, Tex., for Hottordam, f" a °ljar.<! a ton, which means a total traight revenue of 92,0U0 dollars. Ihe Harvard; wa« built as a f hip at Brun.swick, Me. in 16t3, and was named Sam Shoinoltl 11. Thou she was converted into a i/arque and renamed. Eight years later she wag sold to the New England Coal and Coke Company and was to a barge Several months Richard 1. Green bought the vessel for 30,(W dollars, and the work of restoration was begun. in her earlv da-s a * a T , 3lll £ sho lvas <"igaged in the trade to Lio r ar Kftst, arc! hud a rorord of many fruit paßaages. Later ahc wai in service between Ij obi on iina tho River Piute. Some venrs- j ago, while returning Irom Buenos Aires "with ! a 1,000,000 dollar cargo of wool she became j dismasted. Captain liergmau refused offers j of assistance, determined to save the owners the tremendous salvage that would have been demanded. Jury masts v.ere rigged ond | sails were stretched wherever they would j ! draw. Mrs Bergman was of groat assistance ! to her husband in navigating the vessc-l. ( After days of anxiety, the dismantled veesal finally reached Delaware Breakwater. INYERCAR,fiILL PURCHASED BY JOHNSTON'S. J Ever since the first announcement, says tho Wellington " Poet," that the coastal ateainer Invercargill was to be told, to a Wellington firm, speculation lias been rife on the waterfront as to her purchasers, but nothing official iva? known until the announcement that Messrs Johnston and Co., the well-known Wellington shipping agent 3, had purchased her for the Wellington-Wan-g-amii Service, which was formerly carried on by the old Stormbird. The Invercargill is a atcel vessel of *224 tons gri>3s, built and engined by Qihoaid, M'Oneen and Co., of Dnnediu, in 18S5, and has been for many years trading between Dunedin, Bluff and Invercargill in tho interests of the Invercargill Shipping Company. Oaptain Wahlstrom, of the Putiki, loft for the south last evening io take charge of the vessel for her new owners. Simultaneous with this announcement comes the news that tho steamers Putiki and Huifc are to b» aold by public auction fhoitly. jFSTHSONAL. Captain R. Smith, of Auckland, who recently took thfl ex-Union Company's steamer Warrimoo to Chinese waters, returned to Wellington yesterday by the Riverina Irom

P&tea. ;:as«ed through Wellington yeaterda? on his way io liivercargill. At the lattei port CiiptiUii Tinney will take command o; ;fcc Prie?tir.ati drodtre recently purchased 05 the Patea Harbour Board. Captain J. A. Lobb is to take chart* of the Westport Coai Company's hulk Jubilee :'or her tow to Auckland. To-morrow morning the Canopus is exepe-cted to commence her trip to Aucklsnd with the hjiik in tw. Ur J. Ivacx, mate of tho Opawa, is shortly io jro into camp at Trontham. Mr R. ratterso::, superintending engineer for the Union Company in Wellington, ia a; present visiting; Auckland. SHIPPING NOTES. Tl;» Victoria is due io leave Au;ki&rd today t'nr Wellington, via ports. She Trill reach Wellington or. Saturday morning, and leave the sauip day for Dunedin direct. She wi'.l arrive :'n Lyttelton ire in iHuiedin on Wednesday. and leave the. same evening for Sydney. via, north-east coast i>orts. The au.viiia.ry screw three-masted schooner Eunice arrived from Wanganui this morning'. The American ship Dunsyre, which wa* recently sold to the Standard Oil Co::-.v any by Mayor James Rolph, jun., for £so,ft>9, arfivod at Philadelphia. lately, after completing a roinnrkably fast voyape from Caleta Buera. 'i.ii'i windjammer was only fifty days in making tho trip via the Panama Canal, which is c;:reptionaliy good time for a sailing' craft. The voyage frotn Christobal to Philadelphi* was made in twenty-two days.