SHIPPING.

Southland Times, Issue 18851, 17 June 1920, Page 4

SHIPPING.

THE TIDES. —JUNE 17. Bluff 2.05 a.m. 2.27 p.m. Inver. argill . . 2.43 a.m. 3.07 p.m. River on 1.03 a.m. 1.2. p.m. THE SUN. Sun i ises to-day S.OO a.m. Sun rets to-day A.35 p.m. * PORT OF BLUFF. SAILED. Jure 16—Theresa Ward, 103 tons, for Stewnrt Island. Harbour Board, agents. ARRIVED. June 15—Theresa Ward, 195 tons, from StewjiTt Island. Harbour Board, agents. Be 'ore the war a beginning had been made with the work of equipping some of the more isolated lighthouses round the Australis n coast with small wireless plants, but during the years of war they were dismantled. Now they are to be restored, and it is intended that eventually every "at-tend)-d” lighthouse shall have some means o£ communication with the outside world. For some of them wireless otters the only means. Tf e White Star Shipping Company has deck red a profit of £1,746.000 for the year, desp te the increased working costs. A small Marconi wireless plant (or ships’ lifeboats was recently exhibited at the Sydney International Motor Boat Exhibition. This apparatus is intended to be fitted into the Lifeboats of passenger and other vessels, to enable shipwrecked people to call for aid, insit ad of drifting aimlessly and dangerously on the high seas, or instead of being manKmed on some desolate island. It has been decided to reserve an area of 100 acres at Durban for the storage of oil fuel in bulk. When the depot is completed the port of Durban will be prepared to supply ships with either coal or oil fuel in tny quantities. It is reported that the Sydney Ferries (Lt'L) intends to add three more steel steamers to its already big fleet. These vessels will have a carrying capacity of at least 2000 passengers, with a good turn of speed, and will probably be used for the Noith Shore and Mosman’s services. The ex-hospital steamer Marama, newlyreconditioned and specially equipped for the tra 15-Pacific mail and passenger service, lea ;es Wellington to-day for San Francisco in place of the Moana. The Raranga, which sailed from Liverpool on April 17 for Australian and New Zealand ports, arrived at Adelaide on May 31. She should arrive in New Zealand waters about Jute 2S. The Tahiti which has been converted into an oil-burner, left San Francisco on .Tune 9 ior Vancouver. The vessel has been renovated throughout. She takes up the Matura’s running in the Vancouver-Auck-lard Sydney mail service, leaving the Canad an port on June 16 for Auckland, Honolulu, and Suva. Captain D. Todd is in command of the Tahiti. ’The steamer Whakatane, en route from Auckland, left Newport News on May 29 for london. The vessel left Auckland on April 11. The liner Kia Ora left Cuba on June 2 Vi' hj a cargo of sugar for Sydney, where sh; is due about June 23. After discharge th? Kia Ora will come to Nerw Zealand to load for England. The Poverty Bay Farmers’ Meat Company’s steamer Admiral Codrington sailed from Wallaroo on May 22 for the United K ngeiom with 51.70S bags of wheat. In at dition to her wheat cargo she loaded a large quantity of produce at Gisborne and Y eilington for England. SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. (Per United Press Association.) LONDON. June 15. Passed the Lirard—Whakatane; passed L shant—Sussex. Sailed, for Auckland—Port Alma. SYDNEY, June 15. Arrived (from New Zealand!—Kaituna md Karori. NEWCASTLE, June 16. Sailed—Kama, for Wellington; Westmoreland and Whangape. CHRISTCHURCH. June 16. Arrived—Maori (7.30 a.m. i, from Wellington; W’ootton (10.30 p.m.), from Wellington. Sailed —Wahine (4.55 a.m.), for Wellington; John (12.5 a.m.l, for Wellington; lonic (4 p.m.), for Port Chalmers; River - jna (5 p.m.), for Wellington; Zealandic (5-5 p.m.), for Port. Chalmers; Maori, for W eilington. DUNEDIN. June 16. Arrived—Kotare (3.15 a.m.', from Port i?raig; Tarawera (3 p.m.’, from Sydney, •ria Bluff. WELLINGTON, June 16. Arrived—Wahine (5 p.m.i, from Lyttelton. Sailed—Wamine (10.25 p.m.i, for Lyttel- i ton; Port Hacking (9.55 p.m.i, for Lyttelton. THE WEATHER. WELLINGTON, June 16. The Dominion Meteorologist reports:— The weather has continued fair, though cloudiness has increased generally since yesterday. Little change in atmospheric pressure has taken place, and easterly breezes have predominated. Present indications are for easterly breezes, backing to increased northerlies; barometer falling everywhere soon; cloudy to overcast conditions are likely to prevail shortly, with xain following in many parts of the eountry.