SHIPPING.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2418, 5 February 1909, Page 4

SHIPPING.

SAILED. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4. . Wa.r-rinioo, s.s. (4.45 a.mv), ■*3529 tons, R. E. .Smith, for south.. 'Passenger in addition to thoe. already published :—For Napier < : Misses Keefe-, J. Aislabic, Sweet l ;-Messrs DonaMsOn, Eraser, Carson, Brown, Hickson, Newman, Smith, Reed on; Masters Hume, S. Smith, A. Branson. For Lyttelton: Miss Dolenian; Masters Dolenian and McPherson. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Victoria, South, Feb.. 0. Waikare, Auckland, Feb. 7. Monowai, South, Feb. 10. AVinuncra, Auckland, Feb. 10. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Ahctoria, Auckland, Feb. 6. Waikare, So-uth, Feb. 7. Monowai, Auckland, Feb. 10. AVimmera, tSonth, Feb. 10. VESSELS IM PORT. Haere, scow/ Tramp, scow.

The U.S.S. Co.’s AVarrimoo, which arrived from Auckland oil Wednesday night, sailed again for south early yesterday morning. The U.S.S. Co.’s Flora left Auckland vesterdav evening at 8.30 for Coast ‘.ports, Gisborne, Napier, and Wellington. Messrs Richardson and Co. are .expected to despatch one of their steamers 'from Napier to Gisborne to-cla \, arriving here to-morrow morning. She wif probably bring a shipment of rams. _ „ . r , , ■Messrs Huddart, Parker and Co. s Victoria will arrive on Saturday morning early from .south, and leave later for Auckland and Sydney. The U.S.S. Co.’s AVaikare Heaves Auckland to-morrow afternoon for Gisborne and southern ports, and wilii arrive here on Sunday afternoon, continuing her journey again in the evening. . , The next boat to arrive liore to load frozen meat willl be the Shaw, Savili and Albion Co.’s Pakeha, about t>e lOtli or lltli, to load 20,000 carcases of mutton. The barquentine lEmpreza, now in port at Sydney, has been fixed to load coal at Newcastle for Kaipara. Sound signals in foggy weather are notoriously deceptive and misleading, and masters of vessels approaching dangerous waters in thick weather have at times been puzzled to fine the warning signals, which become inaudible without any apparent reason, only to he heard again more distinct.! than ever \ few minutes or so later. Realising the difficulty thus presented, the (Board of Trade, has issued the 'following direction to mariners : “Sound is conveyed in a very capnci-' ous way through the atmosphere. Apart from wind, large -areas of silence. have been found in different directions and different distances from the signals, in some instances even when in close proximity to the sound signal. The. mariner should not assume (1) that the is out of. ordinary hearing distance because he fails to hear the sound; (2) that because he hears a fog signal faintly that lie. is at a great distance from it; (3) that he is nearer it because he hears the sound plainly; (4) that the distance from the intensity of the sound on any occasion is a guide, to him for any future occasion; (5) that the fog sign-all has ceased sounding because he does not hear it er cn when in close proximity.’/, BY TELEGRAPHSYDNEY, Feb. 4. Arrived —Lord Derby from AY (tilingtoll‘ MELBOURNE, Feb. 4; Sailed —Moeraki (Feb. 3), for I>ll ‘ fL AUCKLAND, Fob. 4. Arrived —Waikare &2Ao p.m.)from Gisborne.