SHIPPING.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2576, 10 August 1909, Page 4

SHIPPING.

p ' SAILED. ? : MONDAY, AUGUST 9. ‘ • Rum, s.s. (noon), 65 tons. Nelson, for Napier. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. .Flora, South, to-day. Tarawera, /South, to-morrow. ' Victoria, Auckland, to-morrow. * Moura, • South,;’August 14. ; Tarawera, Auckland, August 15Monowai, South, August 18.-, Moura.) Auckland, August 18. Victoria, South. August 21’. Monowai, Auckland, August 22. Tarawera, South. August 25, W immera, Auckland. August 25-

PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Flora,' Coast and Auckland, to-day Tarawera, Auckland, to-morrow.' , Victoria, South, to-morrow. Moura, Auckland, August _ 14. Tarawera, South, August 15. ; , Monowai, Auckland, August <lB. Moura, South, August 18. "U Victoria, Auckland, August 21. Monowai, South. August 22. Tarawera, Auckland, August 25. ■Wimmera. South. August 25

The U.S.S. Co.’s Flora is duo to ar-, rive from Napier this morning, and to sail again later for Coast ports and Auckland. The U.S.S. Co.’s Tarawera arrives from South .tormorrow morning, ..and sails later fori Auckland. fp- : A The , Huddart-Parker Co.’s Victoria is > due to arrive to-morrow afternoon from Auckland and Sydney. She leaves again during the evening for south. Messrs Richardson and Co.’s Ruru completed her discharge yesterday morning, and, sailed at noon for Napier. The'U.S.S. Co.’s Wanaka is expected to‘ arrive from, Napier and southern ports on Thursday, with a quantity of produce for this port. It is reported that Captain Andrew Anderson, who for some years past has been Marine Superintendent ■; .at- Wellington, for the U.S.S. Co., has been appointed to. a similar position ,at Sydney, in succession to Captain Sinclair. It is understood that Captain E. Stott, of the Moeraki, has been appointed to the Wellington-position.. Members of the Wellington Shipwrights’ Union are still talking of the undocking feat of H.M.S. Powerful and are desirous that particulars should bo made known (says an Australian exchange). The big cruiser went into the dock with only 4in of water over the blocks, but. as the naval authorities would not permit her id be refloated at night, she had to be undocked on an indifferent morning tide.- She was towed out of the Sutherland Dock only an inch and a-kalf clear of the blocks; that is, there was only that much 'water between her keel and the block, and when the dock was subsequently pumped out it was found that not one block had been displaced. * ' • Captain Fleming (marine superintendent at Auckland), Captain. Atwood (assistant superintendent), Captain Clayton (Lloyd’s surveyor), and Captain Mclvinlay (an authority on scows) have furnished a report to the Marine Department regarding the question ,of certain classes of scows being allowed to carrv deck cargo in the intercolonial trade. "As a result of their report a regulation has been framed, and will shortly be gazetted, allowing scows, after “inspection bp the surveyor, to carry on deck sawn or' baulked timber, provided such scows have centre-board keels and have no hatches. Hitherto this has been allowed only to scows trading on the coast. It is"understood by an exchange that a new steamer is to come out for the Canterbury Steamship Company. Mr. W. Anderson, chief engineer of the Storm, went Home by the lonic to fetch her out to- New Zealand. At Wellington the growing. use of Morse signalling by vessels is being more and more recognised ashore. -An apparatus has been placed on the wharf and one is to he equipped at the signal station on Beacon Hill. The apparatus is extremely useful, especially as a very large and ever-increasing number of vessels carry signalling gear. At Lyttelton, so far, no official recognition of the system exists, but a good deal of signalling goes on between vessels and private people. The outlay for apparatus is only slight, and the Morse code is easily learnt; and it is probable that an installation of a signalling lamp at the Heads and one at the inner harbor would be found well worth while.

Referring to the great depression lately felt in New Zealand in shipping circles, and more severely felt in the North Island than in the South, a writer” in the Sydney “Commercial News” holds out hope for the future. He says that there is going to be a greaterarea under wheat crop in New Zealand than there has been for years. The wool clip is going to be a. record, one,and it only wants the price of frozen’ produce to brighten up, and the season 1909-10 should bo one to gladden the hearts of the shipping and producing community generally.