SHIPPING.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2270, 15 August 1908, Page 2

SHIPPING.

arrived. FRIDAY. AUGUST 11. •Iliumtaka, s-s. (4 a-iu-), “885 t-'iw Greemstreet, from Napier. SAILED. FRIDAY, AUGUST 11. Regains. s.s. (0 p.m.), 584 tons Sinai's, for At estport. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Fanny, Napier, this morning. Alokoia, South, t«-night. Alonowai, Auckland, to-morrow. i Waikare, South, August 19. Moana, Auckland, August 19. Haupiri, Coast and Auckland, curly Kereru. early. Zingara, Auckland, early. . Kaeo, Auckland, early.

PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Alokoia,Auckland} to-night. Alonowai, . Auckland, to-inorrow. Waikare, Auckland, August 19. Moana, South, August 19. The We6tport Coal Co.’s Regains completed discharging her cargo yesterday, and sailed lor estport in the eVening. The N.Z. Shipping Co.’s Itrnnit.ixa arrived in the Bay from Napier early yesterday morning. She will load over 400' bales of wool and a quantity of tallow at this port. Messrs Richardson and Co.’s Rum was prevented from leaving Namier on Thursday night, and flic s.s. Fanny 'arrives this morning in her place. The UjS.S. Co.’s Alokoia arrives from South this evening, and resumes her voyage North later. Present ■arrangements are that the launch will leave the wharf on arrival of the Mokoia, and again nt 7 p.m. with outward passengers, The U.S.S. Co.’s Monowai returns from Auckland to-morrow .afternoon and sails South in tho evening. Outward passengers leave the wharf at 7 o.m. meantime.

’The U.S.S. Co.’s Haupiri was due to leave Auckland yesterday for Coast ports and Gisborne. It is stated that Italv is taking the lead in building sea-going steamships with .hulls made of concrete. The materiil was first used in 1800, when a small boat was exhibited at the Paris Exhibition by & Frenchman named Lambot, but it was not until IS9G that the matter was taken up again, and then an Italian named Gabellini, construcfe'd several concrete vessels' of about 120 tons, some of which are still in use on.ltalian rivers. Some years later the Italian Government ordered an experimental boat built of concrete, and as the result of tests several other similar vessels of about, 120 tons have been built for tho Italian Government. The frames and longitudinal beams are made of concrete reinforced with round bars of iron, and the skin consists of a single or double layer of concrete stiffened with-nett.;ng, and made perfectly smooth and water-tight by an external coat of pure cement. The boats cost almost nothing for maintenance, are fireproof, and cost about half as much as iron vessels of the same capacity. An Italian engineer, Signor d’Adda, his also submitted proposals to the Italian Government for the use of concrete armor on warships, and a series of trials to test tho resisting power of reinforced concrete is to bo made. Before leaving Port Chalmers for Sydney Heads recently, the A. and A. liner Stephanotis had to 6ign on five firemen to replace deserters. In the latest ’‘Gazette” are notices to mariners regarding weather forecast signals, which replace signals gazetted in 1899. The signals will be exhibited in tho North Island on the lighthouses at Cape Maria Van Diemen, Till Till and East Cape, and in the South Island at Cape Campbell, Cape Foulwind, Farewell Spit and Nugget Point lighthouses. The Marine Department proposes to establish storm-warning signals at Stephen Island and Centre Island also.