SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 19 November 1901, Page 4

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE

A log raft (says an Exchange) is being put together in Puget Sound, which will comprise 14,000000 ft of timber, and which will ba about 650 ft in length. It is intended to tow it across the Pacific to Japan. The American ship Erskine M. Pheleps has made one of the most wonderful runs in the history of American shipping. During the voyage from New York to Anjer Head she averaged 250 knots a day for twenty-six days. The best run was 300 knots and the poorest 200 knots daring the twenty-four hours. One of the four large steamers built at Nagasaki for the Nippon Yusen Kaisha, the Itachi and Oura Maru gave the builders a loss, the Kaga Mam came ouo square, and the Iyo Maru left a profit. When shipbuilding materials can be produced at the Government foundry at Wakamatsu, vessels will be built more cheaply in Japan than in Great Britain. The timber-carrying trade between the Northern port and Sydney (say the Wellington "Post") has been practically killed by the Commonwealth tariff, and shipowners are puzz'ed to know what to do with vessels that were formerly employed in the works. At a dinner on board the North German liner Kronprinz Wilhelm, while on the passage from Bergen to Leitb, in the course of her trial cruise on September 9th, Prince d' Arenberg, president of the Siez Canal Company, proposed the toast of the North German Lloyd Company, and Herr Plato the president of the latter company, that of the former Prince d' Arenborg, in the course of his speech, promise J that the Suez Canal would bo s'.eadily deepened and widened in order to make it passable oven for vessels of the de.iiens'ons of the Kronprinz Wilhelm. A diver examined the stranded barque Antiocco Accamo on Monday. J[o was ab'o to got under tho forepart of the vessel and rna'io a thorough examination, but abaft the main hatch tho sand is piled up, and ho could only examino the side plates, He found tho port side waß uninjured, but on tho starboard sido sc-vcral plates havo been started. Temporary repairs will bo elf.cted, and an attempt made to pump out tho vessel. Captain Monti blames defective charts supplied by the Admiralty for the disaster. According to one ho obtained tho day beforo sailing ihe barque was three-quarters of a mile GUS- - any danger indicated.