SHIPPING.

Taranaki Daily News, 12 January 1916, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT OF NEW PLYMOUTH. ■ WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1010. 't, PHASES OF THE MOON. ' JANUARY. V s—New Moon, 4 22 p.m. 12—First Quarter, 3.4 p.m. 20—Full Moon. 8.0 p.m. 2S—Last Quarter, 0.12 p.m —THE TIDES. High water to-day at 2.7 a.m. anil 2.110 p,ui.; to-morrow, 2.35 a.m. and 'l.lfl p.m. THE SUN. The sun rises to-day at 4.-13 a.m. and sets at 7.17 p.m.; to-morrow at 4.4: i a.m. and 7.17 p.m. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Corinna, from South, to-day . Rarawa, from North, Friday.

ARRIVED. Jan. 11. —Rarawa, s.s., 1072 tons. Bark, from Onelmnga. Passengers:— Mesdames Brodie, F.yre and child, Knox, Waller (2), Richardson, McQuinn, Patterson, Dalton, Ford, Hoxwell, Chalmers. Pearce, Waller. Hannah and two children, Thompson, MeMullen, For' gucse, Mueller, Kittar, Johns, William soil, Fearless, Cave, Geddes, llofflin; Messrs Watson, Hampton, Caimew, Sheriff, Bellringer. Thompson, Ogle, Baildon, Norton, Martin. Watson, lllalr, Dalrymple, Cray, Thompson, Rev. Chit'tv, MofVlin. Pearce,. Patterson, Barlow, Davies, Mallifield, IPeterson, ITolrlen. Captain Maxwell,. Waller, Scott, ■Tamieson,. Kittcr, Hannah, Capt. Toixiera, Thompson, McMullar. For«iiese, Brown, Brewster. Parker, MfCormick, Bewley, Young, Keatlcm, Eraser; 27 steerage.

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ARRIVED. Wellington, -Tan. 11.—Arrived, at LI-*! a.m., Manuka, from Sydney, THE BARAWA. The Rarawa brought 104 ions of general cargo from Onehunga yesterday, including 2-1 tons of manure. 24 tons soltar. 14 tons of sugar and 1 f ton? o\ cement. AN UNCHARTED REEF. Pome additional particulars relative to the American schooner O. M. Kellog, lost whilst 'bound to San Francisco from Fiji, have been received. , They show that the disaster occurred thirteen days after leaving Samoa on a submerged coral atoll, known as Maro Reef, lying in ITOdeg. 4.1 mill. XV. and 2.ideg. HOmin. X. Her presence near Maro would be explained by her heating far north prior to taking the north-east trades for San Francisco. Tn his "Los 1 of the Kaalokai," Captain F. D. Walker, a wellknown island trader, describes the reef. 'lt consists of a circle of coral boulders just awash —not an inviting place in bad weather." he says. "We were getting on nicely, when it suddenly came to blow. The current ran to the northwest about three knots an hour. Still, we hung around 'in the interests of navigation.' As the sea got heavier, vie lay to during the night, and at daylight we tackled it again. Ouv object was to discover an entrance, and if there existed an anchorage inside. Ail (lav we were plunging into the sea, but it was evident Providence did not want us to know about tlie place. As we felt disinclined to dispute the wishes of Providence, we left and started for Laysay again. I think it is always bad weather at Maro Reef. In the winter, when the heavy westerly seas, which roll like mountains, set in, the Maro Reef must be a truly magnificent spectacle. So sublime! Tf only it could be viewed from a balloon."

SHIP MANOEUVRING APPARATUS A successful demonstration of an invention by Dr. T\. Ito. manager of the engine works of the Mitsu Bislii Dockyard and Engine Works, Nagasaki, which enables the master of a steamer to navigate and control the vessel entirely from the bridge, lias been given at Nagasaki. The demonstration was given on board the salvage steamer Oura Mam, and the Nagasaki Press states that, instead of giving instructions to the officers in the engine-room when the master wished any alteration to i)c made in speed, or for starting or stopping the engine, I lie master did the work himself by means of the device under trial, which is termed the "ship manoeuvring apparatus." The trial lasted three hours, and the invention did all that was claimed for it. Dr. Ito was granted a patent by the Japanese Government on January IS, IAI2, and patent rights have been secured bv him in Great Britain, the United States and France. The declared object oi the apparatus is to enable the captain or navigator to manipulate the ship from the bridge—at his own will to move, turn, or stop the principal engine. Hitherto the navigator has had to give orders to the engine-room staff 'by means of the engine-room telegraph, the engineer in charge acting in aurordance with the instructions given from the bridge. Dr. Ito's invention abolishes the cngineer-iu-eharge as well as the telegraph, tlie navigator being able to regulate valves or reverse engines himself. An important saving of time is thereby effected, as the engineer has to look carefully at the telegraph indicator before o'ueying the command from the bridge.