SHIPPING.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16148, 28 February 1918, Page 8

SHIPPING.

* PORT OP LYCL'ELL'ON. f ARRIVED —February 27. Storm (2.30 a.m.). from Dunedin. Mararoa (9.40 a m.), from Wellington. SAMLED—February 27. Canopus (4.45 p.m.), for Wcstport. Mararoa (7.20 p.m.), for Wellington. Cygnet (9.45 p.m.), for Kaikouia. Storm (7.50 p.m.), for Wanganui, SHIPPING NOTES. The Wootton is expected to arrive liere tomorrow from the Sounds with sheep, and i 3 timed to leave this port in the evening for Wellington. Tlie. Cygnet sailed last evening for Kaikoura with general cargo. After discharge she will proceed to Tarakohe to load sheep for Lyttelton. Tho N.Z. Refrigerating Company's ateamor Mana will probably leave Wellington on Saturday for Lyttelton. Mr W. A. Cairns has joined the Maori as third engineer. Mr Charges Madden, purser on the Pateena, has gone ashore on sick leave. The Kini will load coal at West Coast ports this week for Lyttelton. The Kamona wa® timed to leave West-port last night for Lyttelton. The Government steamer Hinemoa, which was due back at Wellington yesterday after visiting Somes Island, Pencarrow Heads lighthouses, and Cape Palliser, will probably sail early next week on a voyage to tko southern lighthouscE. CAPTAIN PHILLIPS'S GREAT RECORD. VANCOUVER, January 20. Captain J. D. S. Phillips, commander of a Canadian-Australasian liner, has a record for continuous service which is unique in the annak of seafaring and which is absolutely unapproached on the Facific, and only equalled by senior masters in tlie At'antic service. Captain Phillips has been twentyfive years on tlie run between Vancouver and Australia, and when he reaches Sydney this time he will have completed li 2 round trips. Estimating tho distance for the round voyagi to be 15,430 miles, it will bo 6een that th.3 popular commander has done 1,882,462 milc3 and is still going strong. Taking into consideration the coaling trips to Vancouver Island, another ten thousand miles can b3 added, and he holds the record for a deepse<i master in Tespcct to trips through the Narrows, for he has been through 488 times. Capttfin Phillips is a seaman born. and bred, for ho first saw the lignt of day ou his father's ship, the John Duthie, which was anchored, in Sydney Harbour. Henco his name, John Duthie Sydney Phillip?. Hj served his time aboard tlio fine sailing ship Port Jackson, atid this splendid windjammer carried emigrants from England to Australia when young Phillips was serving his apprenticeship. It was on June 16tli, 1893, that ho first entered the Vancouver service, coming here as an officer of the Warrimoo, and he has been on the run ever siiioe. Ho was commander of tho oid iron steamer Aorangi for years. She left Vancouver ior tho last tiin© on January Ist, 1910, and was placed in another service. Capta;n Phillips, however, kept oitjhis route, and through all the length of his sorvice he has never had a serious accident. FROM AMERICA. The following passengers have arrived in New Zealand from Amcrica and the Islands: —Saloon: Dr. Davis, Messrs C. D. Shaw, T. Iverson, W. Bethune, Matthews, Estall, Mesdames A. Young, Davis and child, Ambridge, Ayson and two children. Third-class: Messrs Rogers, Nielson, Keeley, Chevalier, Stevenson, Dan!, nart, Wong i J in, five Island natives, Mesdamea Nielson, Bafcchelor, Misses Batchelor (4). SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. DUNEDIN, February 27. Sailed, Monowai (3.15 p.m.), for Auckland. Passengers for Lyttelton—Aliedames McLucky, Kinvig, Metcalfe and infant, Downe3, Urquhart, Smith, Cardo and intant, Misses Kinvig, Wildermoth, Messrs -Dickie, London, Callaghan, Metcalfe, and Montgomery.