SHIPPING.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2582, 17 August 1909, Page 4

SHIPPING.

EXPECTED ARRIVALS.

.Ripple, South, August IS. Monowai, South, August 18. Moura, Auckland, August IS. Victoria, South, August 21. Monowai, Auckland, August 22. Tarawera, Soutli, August 25. Wiinmera, Auckland. August 25Waikare, South, August 28. Tarawera, Auckland, August 29. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Monowai, Auckland, August 18. Moura, South, August 18. Victoria, Auckland, August 21. Monowai, South, August 22. Tarawera, Auckland, August 25. Wiinmera. South, August 25 Wai’kare, Auckland, August 28. Tarawera, South, August 29. The Ripple is expected to arrive from South to-morrow. The Union Co.’s Monowai is the mail boat from South to-morrow morning. The Tuatea leaves the wharf with outward passengers at 9.30 a.m. The Union Co.’s Flora is expected to leave Auckland to-morrow evening, instead of this evening, for Coast ports, ■Gisborne, Napier, and Wellington. The Federal-Houlder-Sbire liner Morayshire, which left Wellington last Sunday week for Avonmouth and West of England ports, took the following cargo from New Zealand: —9037 quarters beef, 12,036 carcases mutton. 35,632 carcases lamb, 8036 crates rabbitsj 105 crates meat, 2 carcases veal, 465 sacks cocksfoot, 1892 sacks peas, 22 casks casings, 529 sacks grass-seed, 18,869 casks oats, 500 sacks sand, 168 bags ore, 18 tons bark, 201 bales flax, 16 bales rags, 26 dumps tow, 1756 cases preserved meats, 23,360 feet timber, 6 hales rubber, 99 casks tallow, 20 cases honey, 17 packages general. An Australian exchange states that a little before the Federal-Houlder-Shire liner Everton Grange arrived at Melbourne, the passengers presented Captain R. D. Taylor with a silver cigar case as a token of their appreciations of his efforts to promote their comfort and well-being throughout the long voyage. The new' regulations aifecting the carrying of deck cargoes on scows engaged in the intercolonial trade, which .were gazetted on Thursday, have been received with general satisfaction among scow-ow r ners in Auckland. The well-known scow Zingara, which visited Christmas Island recently with an expedition party, has already been chartered to load a cargo of sawn timber at Tairua and Mercury Bay for Sydney. Captain. W. Robinson, who took the Zingara to Christmas Island, has been re-appointed master of the vessel, which was to leave Auckland on Saturday for Mercury Bay and Tairua to commence loading. The Zingara will be the first deck cargo scow to make a trip from New Zealand to Australia. She is said to be an excellent sea boat.

So many and wonderful are the many appliances on ships nowadays that the familiar story of the sailorman at sea in a storm who, serene in his consciousness of ample sea-room, pious--3v ejaculated “God help the poor folks sit home to-night!” is not without point. In a few years, perhaps, those who trust their persons to the mercy of the deep may be in a safer position than their brethren on shore, and travelling on a vessel may be a more humdrum matter than travelling on a street car. Meanwhile, however, the dangers of the sea are very real, as one may see by reading the cables. Last year, says a writer in the “Century,” a thousand ships or more were lost": the year before the sea took nearly the same toll. To the tourist assurance of safety lies in the fact that it is the sailing vessel, with its dependence on the fickle wind, that largely makes up this tremendous loss. Cargo steamers voyaging on unfamiliar coasts nearly complete the disastrous _ roll. 'When all is said, however,, it is in the personal equation that the truer elements of safety at sea must always lie. It is the skill, courage, and devotion to duty of those in charge of the ship ■that finally 'count; and fortunately very few English shipwrecks are without some tales to tell of splendid heroism and devotion. The piloting of the steamer Everton Grange, drawing 26ft lOin of water, to a berth in the Yarra—a record •draught for the river—was referred to ■at a "meeting of the Melbourne Harbor 'Trust on the 26th u!t. by Commissioner Sinclair, who inquired as to the Trust s attitude with regard to the risk of bringing such a. large vessel up the Yarra. Commissioner Sinclair asserted that Pilot Fearon, who was in charge of the Everton Grange, was the only pilot in the world who would have attempted to berth such a large vessel in the river, with less than 2ft of water between her keel and the mud, and to the disadvantage of river traffic. Commissioner Strong, the acting-chairman, pointed out that there was a depth of 27ft available for navigation in the stream with a full tide of 2|ft. As the Everton Grange was brought up the river on a high tide there was no danger attached to the pilot’s action. “The more of these large vessels that come up the river the better,” remarked the .chairman.