Shipping News.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLV, Issue 251, 15 December 1903, Page 2

Shipping News.

PORT OF NEW PLYMOUTH. ® : ARRIVED. ' Dec. 1/1. —Rarawa, s.s., 1100 tons, Norbury, from Onehunga. SAILED. 1 Dec. 12.—Takapuna, froc One- t hunga. Dec. 14.—Sailed, Rarawa., s.s., 1100 tone, Norbury, for Onehunga. 1 Passengers Mesdames Creamer. 1 Syiue and family, Atkinson, Misses 1 Mason, Castles, Govett, Messrs Lindsay, Watts, Creamer, Beaver, Brodie, Finnston, Pikatt and child, Goodson, Lucena, Walker, Kstaile, Atkinson and nine steerage. Cargo. —lB cattle. Winks ; case han ElBacon Company ; 5 do. and 25 boxes lard, Stratford Bacon Company ; 8 packages, New Zealand Express Company ; 9 sacks hides, Barraclough. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Takapuna, from Manukau, toflay. Hotoiti, from South, to-day. Rarawa., from Manukau, on Wednesday. Rotoiti, from Manukau, on Thursday. < Takapuna, from South, on Thursday. Rotoiti, from South, on Thursday. Rarawa, from Manukau, on Friday. Rotoiti, from Manukau, on Saturday, Corimra, from South an Sunday. Rarawa, from Manukau, on Monday. Takapuna, from. Manukau, on Tuesday. Rotoiti, from South, on Tuesday. SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. Wellington, Dec 14.—Arrived, Walmate, s.s., from Timaru, at 8.20 * Bluff, Dec. 14,—Sailed, MoaraWi, for Hobart, at 5 p.m. The TftJcttßUwa and Rotoiti will tranship passengers and cargo on arrival here to-day, the former returning to-nig£vt north and the latter aaillnft Ibr Wellington at mid-day.. The Rotoiti left Nelson at 4 p.m. yesterday for New Plymouth. Th« Takapupa sailed at p.m. yesterday from Onehunga for New Plymouth. S s Gertie left Westport for New Plymouth at 5.30 p.m. yesterday. The Takapuna, for New plymouth, passed Manukau Heads at 5.30 D.m. yesterday. Th» U S.S. Co.'s twin screw eargo steamer Aparima left Calcutta the 2nd instant for New Zealand ports with 5,270 tons cargo. She ft due i hi aibjout 3rd J'aiitiary, and after discharging there she will proceed South. ... Captain Hull, of the h «f reported to the Marine Department that the beacon light on Jackson s Head, at the entrance to Queen Charlotte Sound, has gone out. The department has arranged to have the light re-lit as soon as the weathei permits of a landing being made. The new lighthouse on Kaihunangi Point is reported by the West Coast steamers to be working very satisfactorily. The new light is in charge of Mr W. Colley, late of the Manukau lighthouse. The sixteen Chinese and eleven Malays who constituted the crew of the Petrrana, the steamer which stranded at Port Nepean (Victoria) on Nov. 28, had a harsh experience of the hospitality the Commonwealth Government extends to shipwrecked aliens. The terms of the Aliens Restriction Act are so rigid that it was impossible to send the men adbore, as would have been done in the case of a white crew, and consequently they liaid to' be kept an board a tug for two days. The agent then mario arrangements to take the men out in a hujjc to a spot in the bay, from which they could not swim ashore, but the necessity for this was averted by trajisfeiring the men to the Kasuga Maru, which was about to - sail for Singapore. The objectionable feature of the affair is the fact that there is no provision in the federal law for such caiies 'as this—which may arise at any time.

Mr A. Macindoe, chief engineer of the Wakatare, has been transferred to the Northern S.S. Co.'s Rarawa. The Government contribution to the cost of the surreys of the coastline and harbours of New Zealand made by H.M.S. Penguin was £2500. Simultaneously with the work ■dope by the surveying ship, tha chief surveyors of the colony have been making land surveys for the purpose of computing the latitudes and longitudes of the coastal trig stations as derived from the new determination of Mount Cook, Wellington. These have been plotted on the Admiralty charts, and maps have been prepared showing, by comparison with the AidmiraKy charts, tbs coastline as derived from the land surveys. Hie work, as applied to the whole colony, involved the computation and checking of 754 arid the readjustment of the coastline cm 51 charts.

Tk« Tafanaki Freezing Works Co.— The s.s. Athentic will be the next ffteamar for dairy procuce, leaving Wellington on Dec. 10th, and will be followed by the s.s. Rimutaka on Deo. 24th. The closing days at the Moturoa Freezing Works will be as follows for s.s. Athentic, Wednesday, Dec. 2 ; for s.s., Rimutaka, .Wednesday, Dec. 16th, at 3 p.m. EXPECTED ARRIVALS IN WELLINGTON. Ocean-going steamers— Tokomaru, left London ißth Oct., via Capetown and Hotfart; due 18th Dec. Kaikoura, left London 9th Oct., via Australian ports and Auckland; due about 3oth Dec. Star of Ireland, left New York 12th Oct, via Australia and Auckland ; dde about 30th Dec. Everton Grange, left New i York 30th Sept., via Australian ports and Auckland. Faparoa, left Plymouth 9th Nov., via Capetown and Hobart ; due about 28th Dec. Whakatane, left London 2nd Nov., via Capetown, Hobart, due about 3rd Jan.