SHIPPING.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2606, 14 September 1909, Page 4

SHIPPING.

EXPECTED ARRIVALS.

Fanny, Napier, to-day. Waikare, South, Sept. 15 (night). Monowai, South, September 15. Moura, Auckland, September 15. Victoria, South, September 18. Monowai, Auckland, September 19. PROJECTED DEPARTURESFanny, Napier, to-night. Waikare, Auckland, Sept. 15 (night) Monowai, Auckland, September 15. Moura, South, September 15. Victoria, Auckland, September 18. Monowai, South, September 19.

The TJ.S.S. Co.’s Flora left Auckland yesterday for Coast bays, Gisborne, and. south. , . The U.S.B. Co.’s Moura returns from Auckland on Wednesday afternoon, and leaves for south in the evening. The U.S.S. CoJs Kaituna returns from Newcastle, via Auckland, about the end of the week. The U.S.S. Co.’s produce steamer •'hlaitarjgata left Bluff at 11 a.m. on Saturday in the usual run to Auckland. She should arrive here about the end of the week. Messrs ltichardson and Co.’s Fanny arrives from Napier this morning, and returns via Boat Harbor in the evening. The New Zealand Shipping Co.’s R.M.S., Turakina arrived at Plymouth on Saturday from New Zealand. It is not generally known, says an English paper, that the British Government pays an annual subsidy of over . : 150,000 on the big Atlantic liner Lusitania, to have the privilege of adding' her to the navy in time of war. As a transjiort she could carry a goodsized army, while as a scout ship or commerce destroyer she would lead them all. Her crew of 900 men, like the crews of most of such linens, belong to the ltoyal Navy Reserve. The fact that in ten years England pays as much in subsidies as the total cost ol the liners is urged as evidence that it would he a better policy for the Government to build the steamers, and lease them for enough to pay the interest on the investment. The Lusitania can mount a number of suns, which, with mountings, are stored at Liverpool ready to be installed at short notice. Advice by the mail states that the New Zealand Shipping Company has placed an order for the construction of a passenger and cargo steamer of about'll,ooo tons register with Messrs Denny Bros., of Dumbarton. She is to be an improvement on the s.s. Ri.ahine —launched last month—and instead of having triple-expansion engines, will have a combination of turbine and triple-expansion engiK-s, as in the case of the s.s. Otaki. Nv information as to when the ne’.v vessel will he delivered has been made known. The assumption that the Panama Canal will be opened in the near future invests with considerable • interest the question of ■he ab litv of the Suez Canal to pay dividends (says an exchange). The early history of th<| Suez Canal covers a .gcod cany romantic circumstances n .connection with the financial foundations of the work; but the canal has now lapsed into the community of commercial conveniences. Its circumstances are nowadays to be set forth in balance-sheets and reports couched in the formal phrases of the business world. Nevertheless, notwithstanding the somewhat smaller success of last year compared with the foregoing one, the cana: rose well above the average ‘ siness j reposition. The decline was due co the operation of the general economic crisis and the paucity of the Indian crops. The total receipts for the year were £4,459,638, a decrease of £345,102; the balance of receipts over expenditure was no less than £2,663,122. This result permits a net dividend of 141 francs per share to be made, equalling 28 per cent. The minimum depth was 29$ feet, bufi where the new dredger had been operating a depth of 39$ feet had been secured. It is intended, in order to meet the steady increases being made in the size of vessels, to carry the width of the canal to 146 ft, and the minimum depth to 36ft. The total number of vessels using the canal last year was 3795, aggregating 13,633,283 net tons, out of which 8,302,802 tons was British. When , the barque Jessie Niccol arrived at Invercargill from Macquarrie Island last Saturday, Captain McBryde reported that the vessel had rather a trying experience. She left New River for the Macquarries on July 29, and on August 7 she met a hard gale from the west, the vessel shipping a great deal of water. At 4 p.m. the same day she was hove-to under close reefed topsails, when a huge sea struck her bow and earned away the starboard bulwarks. At 4.30 p.m. another sea. broke on the quarter, and washed the compass overboard, and oil bags had to he used to calm the waters. On August 8 they sighted the Macquarries, rounded the south end of the island, and came to anchor at 2 p.m. on the following day. The sea having gone down, the lifeboat was launched, and she put off in charge of fthe head. man. Here McKibbin, the hermit, was found a picture of health. The beach being unworkable, no communication was held with the boat’s crev* on the island till August 12, when island stores, ‘etc., were landed. After they had put all the cargo out, together with men, dogs, and baggage, the wind came in from the east ward at 5 und it was thought best to slip the anchor end chain and put to sea. Hard gales continued up till August 18, then moderate S.W. winds, which continued for six days. As the vessel was getting further to the north, with little hope of getting back, it was decided to run to New’ Zealand, and New River was reached again on September 3BY TELEGRAPH. TPer Press Association.! CAPE MARIA, Sept. 13. Kaituna, from west, passed east at 10.45 a.m. AUCKLAND, Sept. 13. Arrived —Squall (6.30 a.m.), Gisborne, via Tologa Bay. Sailed Squall (6 p.m.) for Gisborne, via Tologa Bay; Flora (8 p.m.), for Gisborne via East Coast bays; Mokoia (10 p.m.), tor Sydney. NAPIER, Sept. 13. > Arrived —Tarawera (6 Ja.m.), from Gisborne. pICTON> gept . 13 . Arrived —Holmdale (11 p.m. on tho 11th) from Gisborne. ■ CHRISTCHURCH, Sept. 13 The Turakina arrived at Plymouth „„ September , 3 Arrived—Moana (6.40 a.m.), from Hobart, with an English mail.