SHIPPING NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 110, 7 May 1903, Page 2

SHIPPING NEWS.

P PORT OF NEW PLYMOUTH. 1 Thuesday, May 7. BAILED. TumDAY, May 5. Orsti, s.s., for Westport. Union Compirv, Agents. EXPECTED ARVIVAIB Napuhi fiom Manuksu to-^ar. Botoili trom Manukau on Friday Taka;una from Sooth on Friday Upoln, from Sooth, on Sunday Mpapuhi from Manukau, Monday Takapuna from Manukau, on Tuesday Rotoiti trim South on Taosdav ■ Ngapahi, Trom Manakau, on Thursday % PORT OF WAITARA, SAILKD.' Jfaj 6.—furakina for Wellington. BHIPPISG TKLKGRAM& i -.. • _ h : Aviv;: >. t" V,'i:i.unoton. May 6. £-■■■' Takapuca, f oui New Plymouth, at 4 a.m. " „ Athanic frcm L< It !>n at 7.15 a.m. K 4 " OaEHOXGA, May 6. I - Hotolti from N(.w PI mouth at 8.45 a.m. Js*- Sanfkakcisoo, May 4. l--" Eonoma from New ZcVand at 4 p.m. I" SAILED, fr • Waitara, May 6. i e- Turakica for Wellington at 4 a.m. P."" Wellington, May 6. Tomo.na, s.s., for London, at 7.15 a.m. O Jeaseiie for Auckland at 3.35 p.m.j'" Spit, May 6. is Bta* of Aus'.ra'ia for Wellington at 3,40 g. On'bhcsoa, May 6. Hgapuhi for New Plymouth at 4.45 p.m. Westpobt, May 6. " Gertie, M., for >-'ew Plym»uth, at !;. 6.60 pm. -

<*" The Tilikum, t'lo four-ton canoe in which f, Ohptain Yeas is making a round-the-world I I voyage, arrive 1 in Wellington on Monday M'rniDg. At Lyttclton Captain Vosa shipped as mate Mr. H. B. Bncktidge. This gentlemen baa hvJ a varied career of adventure'as teaman, pearl fisher, prospector, trooper, and fx lorer. He servsd some time in the Mew Guinea Police Force on the Fly Birer, prospected in the interior of Australia, and fought on the Tugela, for which he leorind ame lal with six clasps. Returning to London, wiure ha first enlisted, he joined Scots Moor ted Patrcl and served with that corps. At Cipetwn be joined the Antarctic exploring ve«el Dscovery and after spending fifteen moatts in the Antarctic, returned by tile relief chip Horning to liyttelton, where he j dried Chptsdn Voa. - Three tide-gauges were recently imported bj the Marine Deportment. One of them is to be placed at New Plymouth, another at IT Hap'er, anl the third at the Blnff. The I- gauges, whuft are of the latest Admiralty . pattern, will be in cbatge of the local Harbour Boardj. , On December 21'-h last (says the ton Post\ when bringing ont the s.s. Kapiti i. bom.Glssgow to Wellington, Captain Abram y dropped a bottle, containing bis New Zea1' land addres>, overboard in latitude lOdeg.! :. SOmia, N, lo (.itude 60deg. lOmin. E. The' ; _ aequl of this act has just come to Oaptain . Abram i< a letter received from Lieutenant ' l W. Hudaleitone, 8.1. H., Marine Transit' -pirt Officer to the Somaliland FieTd Force, pr. Lieutenant Huddlestoae, who writes as folpj low*, show* that the bottle travelled about |&. 800 miles"( The bottle was picked up by EE, One of my Somali boatmen, and brought to K Bb lam Eora yon will be interested to »,rlaar this, ai it was picked np on the beach m;, (or lather, jast be'ore it reached the beach, | Ji latitude 5 'e?. I9min. N., longitude 48deg. . SOuic. K., a place called Diga Point, gv. Oboia, where <he British are landing an ex•V pedition against the Mad Mullah. What g ~ makes it more interesting is that it should i bava besn picked np by a Somali and handed ae—one of your own cloth. Had it landed a week later or a bit earlier, yon wodd nerjr have known the fate of it Hr * eo« b'.T, a? th's is Italian territory. . . . E-I wi 1 s?n th's information totbe HydroSf, graph'c Office, for the landing of the battle fe shows the Irejd cf the current daring the gp '- north-eat monsooiC