Shipping News.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue XXXXV, 7 December 1903, Page 2

Shipping News.

PORT OF HEW PLYMOUTH. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Raj-;aiwa, from Manukafu, on Monday. Takapuna, from Manukau, sn Tuesday. Kotoiti, from South, on Tues- ' day. Kanuva, from Manukau, on Wednesday. Uotoiti, from Manukau, on Thursday. Takiipuna, from South, on T.hursday. * Karawa, from Mobul.lu, cn Friday. Takapuna, from Manukau, oil Saturday. SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. Gisbome, Dec. 6.—Arrived, Marere from Napier, at 4.30 p.m. Wellington, Dec. s.—Sailed, Kara;mea for Timaru, 4.40 p.m. Sydney, Dec. s.—Sailed : H.M.s. Archer and Karrakatta, for New Plymouth. The Takapuna reached Onehunga from New l'lymouth at 7.10 a.m.on Sunday. The liarawa left Onahunga for New Plymouth yesterday at 4 p.m. „The .regulations providing what ships' boats and rafts have to carry are amended as follows :—Sufficient water for three days' supply at one pint per day for each person Ihe boat is certified to carry ; limejuiea tabloids, 4bz for elach person ; chocolate, five days' supply, allowing 1 oi. iter day for each person ; plasmon jelly, made with 75 per cent, of plasmon powder added to 25 per cent, of . gelatine, and kept in air-tight tins containing one pound each, five days' supply, allowing |oz per day for etich person ; plasmon biscuits, made with VI per cent, of plasmon and 73 per cent, of wheat flour, five days' supply, allowing 4oz per day for each person, or ordinary biscuit for a similar period, allowing lilt> par day for each iwrson ; matches : six blue lights 12 tish-diooks and t-hrae fishing lines* The water shall he kept in air-tight metal tanks or in proper apd shall b|k kept in such part of the boat as may lie approved by the surveyor. Each water vessel shall have attached to >t a dipper or other approved means of getting the water out without waste, and when tanks are used they shall have screw tops 3J in inside measurement, each top to have screw tops {in deep and Jin in diameter. The ' rules also provide that the boats of vessels employed solely in the Home trade need not be provided with limejuice tabloids, chocjbrate, and plasmon jelly, and need only be proTided with water and biscuits for two and a half days, but if i:ot provided with limejuice tabloids, chocolate and plasmon jelly, then they shall carry three and a-half ■days' supply of biscuits. EXPECTED ARRIVALS IN WELLINGTON. tf •» Ocean-going steamers— Toko mar u, left Londop Oct.. via Capetown and Holjart; due 18th Dec. Kaikoura, left London 9th Oct., via Australian ports and Auckland; due about 3oth Dec. Star of Ireland, left. New York 12th pet, via Australia and Auckland ; due about 30th Dec. Everton Grange, left New i Y.ork 30th Sept., via Australian ports and Auckland. Sailing Ships.— Alice, left New York 7th July. Montgomeryshire, loft Liverpool 15th July. Firth of Olyde, left «asgow 18 July, via Port Chalmers. Bessfield, left Glasgow 19th Aug.