SHIPPING.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2143, 27 July 1907, Page 2

SHIPPING.

EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Zealandia, Napier, to-day. Raupiri, Auckland, to-morrow, Waikare, Auckland, to-morrow Wanaka, South, July 31. Victoria, Auckland, July 31. Talune, Napier, July 31. Mokoia, Auckland, August 3.

PROJECTED DEPARTURES Zealandia, Auckland, to-day. Waikare, Napier, to-morrow. Victoria, Napier, July 31. Talune, Auckland, July 31. Mokoia, Auckland, August 3.

The Iluddavt, Parker Co.’s s.s. Zealandia arrives from southern ports euriy this morning, and proceeds to Auckland and Sydney. The launch leaves the wharf at 6 a.m. and 10 a.li. The following have booked passages: —Misses Blampied, Clare, Wood, Zachariah, Mrs. Gaudin and infant, Messrs. Clare, Dent, Franklin. Quinn, Trafford (2), Martin, Runciman, Gaudin, Hepburn, Bidgood, Bell, Masters Hanning and Stillman., _ . The Union Co.’s s.s. Waikare arrives from Auckland on Sunday afternoon, and proceeds south during the evening. . . The Union Co.’s s.s. Haupin arrives to-morrow via the coast ports. She proceeds to Wellington. The Union Co.’s s.s. Squall leaves Auckland to-day for Gisborne, via Tolaga Bay, and proceeds to Napier. A letter* in a recent issue of the Mercantile Marine Service Reporter, from a -shipmaster in Japanese employ is worth careful notice. He sny« that the scarcity of junior officers may shortly extend to the “Land of the Rising Sun,” but he warns any* Englishman against- accepting offers winch may* be made to secure their services. “The Japanese merchant navy,” he says, “is no service for a British officer; they merely want to get British officers to fill up the places they are unable to fill with their own Japanc.se officers, and also to act as an advertisement, more or loss, in order to obtain European patronage in passengers and cargo.” The life, the letter continues, of a Biitisli officer in Japanese ships is not an enviable one by any means. A little later on the correspondent expresses regret that England should have been hypnotised by Japan. “Yoi. will find that Englishmen, or othei foreigners, who have resided in Japan many years, and had employment under them and had business relations with them, have never been hypnotised by the Japanese, because they know them to some extent:” All of which is put forward as a prologue to the filial warning to youngsters to avoid Japanese service. We have to admit that there is nothing Very new ill this (says an English papier), -but, unfortunately, the events of the past few years have permitted the real state of affairs to be overlooked. It is not at all unlikely that experience will eventually show the world San Francisco not to have been so very wrong after all in its anti-Jap crusade.

By Telegraph. SYDNEY, July 26.

Arrived —Miowera (3 p.m.); Manure.wa, from Mercury Bay. Tile latter experienced a heavy gale on the New Zealand coast, and jettisoned rOOOft of her deck cargo. MELBQURNE, July 26. Arrived—Jessie Craig, from Thames; Hazel Craig, from Whangarei. FREMANTLE, July 26. Arrived —Steam tug Teravvliiti, af ter a rough passage from Leith. AUCKLAND, July 26. Arrived—lndian Monarch, from Sydney

NAPIER, July 26. To sail —Zealandia (8.30 p.m.), fo Gisborne.