SHIPPING.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2175, 3 September 1907, Page 2

SHIPPING.

SAILED. MONDAY, SKI’TEMBEE 2. Kotare, s.s. (11.30 a.m.), 09 tons, Campbell, for Whangoroi. EXPECTED AItKIVALS. llaupiri, Auckland, to-day. Tarawera, Napier, T\ ednesdnv. Miowera, Auckland, Wednesday. Atlienic, from Lyttelton, Friday. Moura, Napier, Saturday. Victoria, Napier, September t. Talune, Auckland, Sunday. Zcaluudi i, Auckland, September 11. FItOJECTED DEPARTURES. llaupiri, Napier, to-day. Tarawera, Auckland, Wednesday. .Miowera, Napier, Wednesday. Moura, Auckland, Saturday. Victoria, Auckland, September 7. Taluno, Napier, Sunday. Zealandia, Napier, September 11. Tlio Haupiri is expected to arrive this morning, and it to sail later for Njapier. . ~ , The Sheepfarmers Irozen Meat Co.’s Kotare left for Whangarei yesterday for a load of timber for the company. The finding of flic Court m the Woollahra inquiry is perhaps all that could have been expected from the evidence given (says “R.N.R.” in the New Zealand Times), and the fact of the lamentable death of the unfortunate mariner .who (as in the case of all shipmasters who meet with trouble) is held as being personally ■responsible for the wreck. The only moral to he drawn is that the casualty emuhasises the fact that Cook Strait,' in the narrowest portions, and .in that area confined between Cape Campbell, Cape Palliscr, the Brothers, and Capo Terawbiti, is a locality in which . even slight errors of judgment may be attended with disastrous results. For navigation conducted in steamers it is not the nicest place in this world. With its swiftlyrunning tides, and sudden changes of wind and heavy gales, which are often accompanied by dirty, thick weather, it is a locality which for sailing vessels may be classed as “frequently dangerous.” Every stranding which is attended with loss of life generally suggests the erection of yet another lighthouse. Though Cook Strait is; in a way, fairly lighted yet, in view of the increasing traffic, it is perhaps nearly time to consider whether the narrowest part should not be lighted on the eastern shore as well as on the west, and Commander Drury’s advice of over, fifty .years ago acted on by placing a lighthouse on Cape Terawhiti. By Telegraph. . WELLINGTON, September 2. The steamer Ruapehu, which left Plymouth on August 10th for Wellington, continued her voyage from Capetown last Saturday. AUCKLAND, September 2. Sailed—Mokoia (8.45 p.m.) for Sydney. BLUFF, September 2. Arrived—Monowai (3.30 p.m.) from Hobart (English mail).