SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 13 November 1901, Page 4

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

Return of the Corinna

The Corinna returned to Westport yesterday morning, from Hobart. The zigzag passage across to Tasmania, in search of the Monowai, was very dreary, especially as early in the voyage Captain Lobb came to the conclusion that the steamer had been picked up. Two days after the Mokoia found the Monowai the Corinna was at a point where she would have sighted the missing vessel. The Corrinna left Hobart on the return trip last Wednesday. On Saturday she experienced a tremendous southerly gale.

Doable Mast Lights. In view of the recent inquiry at Lyttelton attending the collision oft the Northern Heads between the Tyser steamer Indradevi and the schooner Lily, it is interesting to note that many expert shipmasters anticipate that the adoption of the compulsory double masthead light will result in a diminuation in the number of collisions occurring at sea at night. There can be no doubt as to ihe utility of the double masthead light. The first one must be placed on the foremast, at least 15 feet lower than the second, which should be on the mainmast. Therefore, on a vessel steaming straight ahead the second light would appear directly over the first; on a vessel crossing the line of view, from left to right the second light would appear on the left of the first or lower light, and on a vessel crossing from right to left the second light would appear on the right of the first light, German Naval Mutiny.

The news has leaked out of a serious case of mutiny aboard the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, Prince Henry’s flagship which was suppressed by the arrest of a subaltern officer. This officer, it is said, protested against the alleged ill-treatment of certain stokers and engineers by the first officer, and had thrown overboard certain parts of the engines. That on some of ohe German ships of war insubordination is rife is generally admitted* When the ironclad Brandenburg left Kiel for Dantzig to participate in the manoeuvres some breech-pieces were thrown overboard, rendering several guns useless. The culprits were not discovered. The whole crew refused to turn traitor and were accordingly severely punished.