SHIPPING.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 69, 26 June 1916, Page 7

SHIPPING.

PORT OF NEW PLYMOUTH. MONDAY, JTJXE 2(5, 1910.. ~ PHASES hr TRE MOO V JUNE,| 1916. : '■ '' 2,V.-I—La' it Quarter. 053 am. '^tf*—New Moon, 10.30 p.m. p SVrfn THE TIDES.. v„<j . y( />iv>av '■!/ ; ■ .£» {f\ | f" : water to-day at'3.3B'a.m. and 4:lo ! 'il'.m:']' ty-morrow, at 5 a.m. and oVteVp'niV" l"{] I '' ! THE SUN. The sun-rises at 7.24 a.m. and sets at 4.36 p.in. ; to-morrow, rises at 7.23 a.m. and sets at 4.37 p.m.^ EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Rarawa. from North, Tuesday. I Rarawa, from North, Friday, Karu, from Wellington, about Tuesday. The Corinna arrived at New Plymouth from Nelson at II o'clock in Saturday, and discharged 1100 tons of general cargo, and sailed in the afternoon for rJunedin direct. The Ngatoro arrived from Wanganui and Wellington at 7.30 on Saturday morning and discharged 210 tons of cement and general cargo. She sailed at 12.20 p.m. for Greymouth. JAPANESE TRADING VESSEL LOST. PUCHT OF THE CREW. '. On the morning of Friday, May 26, there was some excitement among the natives of Onenca. one of tho Lau Group, in the Fiji Islands, when o. Japaneso came walking through the town saying "Missionary!" Missionary!" He was the captain of the ketch Congho, of 14 tons register, with a crew of five Japanese, which left Tulgai, in tilt Solomons, on March 28. They made southerly for the New Hebrides, which were sighted, and then the course was altered for an easterly one. For seven weeks they did not sight land, although they must have passed very close to Tonga. They decided to run back in a northwesterly direction, and at 1 o'clock on Friday morning, May 26, the vessel struck the Omenta Reef. They missed the big lonely Argo Reef by a mile or so.

All the five men were very weak and could hardly walk when they landed. An extraordinary feature (states the Suva, correspondent of the Sydney Daily Telegraph) was that the "Japs" .were trying to sail by means of an (Admiralty chart of the whole Pacific Ocean. On this the islands of the South Sea s can hardly be found 'amidst the numerous figures and names.