IN PORT.

Grey River Argus, 22 April 1911, Page 3

IN PORT.

Kowhai. Tlie Alexander is due from Wellington via way ports to-night, and sails on Monday for Wanganui direct. The Kaitoa left Picton yesterday for Westport and Gery and is due tonight. Mr Andersen, second mate of the tlolmdale, who is away on holiday leave, is being* relieved by Mr McQueen. Mr Bold, cEief officer of the Araniira, and Mr C. H. Frost, chief ofhcer of the .Kini, intend taking a holiday trip to England. lhe Defender •, is due on Sunday iiom Wellington, via Ficton. lhe Ennerdale is due on Sunday from Lyttelton and loads timber for Melbourne. ihe ' Waipori is due to-day and loads timber for Sydney. . The Kotuku on arrival loads coal and timber for Lyttelton. 'The Koonya is due to-moirow morning- and loads coal for Bluff arid Dunedin. Sir A. H. McDonald, late of the Pukaki, is now chief officer' of the Koonya, and Mr lies, of the latter vessel, has transferred to the Flora as effief officer. The barque HjofSis, 11 days out from Lyttelton arrived in the Westport roadstead yesterday and was towed by the tug? Mana up; to the crane wharf. She Had a trying trip through Cook Strait, narrowly being driven ashore. The first mate, Mr Tobiason, is in comamnd, Captain Fredrioker, who had gone ashore ill at Dunedin, dying on Tuesday night. The ibarque was flying; the flag at half mast. Occasionally there appears a great wave sweeping across the calm suiface of the ocean in the fairest weather and when no wind is blowing (says an exchange). There' are few perils of the sea to be more drended than such a wave. Fortunately these are very rare, yet more than once a ship has. encountered one. The cause of these singular waves is believed to be a disturbance of a volcanic nature at the .bottom of. the sea. Volcanoes exist in the ocean as well as on land ; in fact, nearly all the volcanoes known are on or near the sea-coast. It is easy to see that an upheval at the sea bottom may s;un a billow at the surface of the u;iti,r, when we remember that huge waves have been sent clear across the Pacific Ocean to San Francisco by volcanic shakings on the earth on the borders of Asia.