SHIPPING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 142, 20 June 1904, Page 1

SHIPPING.

i'i PORT OF NEW PLYMOUTH.' *"-' • ' Vai3 MONDAY, JUNE 30, 1904. M$ water at "K>ew Plymouth—l.l2 "' jsi.jn. and 1.37 p.m. water at Wartara—l.37 a.m. aod 1.52 p.m. )gi«i r a.m., 5at.4.86 p.m. Moon—First quarter, to-morrow, •A 2,47, a.m, ft'; - " ARRIVED. '•' ; June • from Dunedin, Tia way ports. ••- ■"> ■ ■ ■ SAILED. *", juiis 18—Wainui for Onehunga. ;i . EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Rarawa, from Manukau, to-day. j Wainui, from Manukau, on WeduesHsy* ■■ ' I i(> from' South, on Wednes--<-G*y, - : I •". iKarawa, Irom Manukau, on ThursOay- !

c-i-j. TELEGRAPHIC SHIPPING. *•' Sydney 4 June 17—Arrived, Sono*Tbj» from Auckland, at 4.30 p.m, ; 'J>enguto, warship ; llararoa at 8,30 "*•■ J uuv 1 < • -UliWWßf"Sßtlxi jjrorth from Oamaru. * ■ j, Wellington,' June 19—Arrived, RoI'joiti from' New Plymouth, at 4.40 - jX-JJ- , Tin>aru ( June 19—Arrived, in har- > TSour, Waiiitate from Lyttelton, at 9 June 19—Arrived, Wainui from New Plymouth, at 11.5 a.m. Sydnay, June 18—Arrived, Somerset from Durban ; sailed, Mokoia for .Ifeyington, Melbourne, June 19—Arrived, EsBex from Liverpool. June 19—Arrived, Suffolk from New Zealand. ,Tbe .Corona's inward cargo totals about 690 tons. * The Rimu is. due this inomimj from 'Jiestport, with a cargo of coal. * "TJie Rarawa left Onehunga at 3.50 J,m.' yesterday for New Plymouth, "passing the Manukau Heads at 5.5. Advices received at Melbourne state "s*•* the North German Lloyd's ship Heraogin Sophie Charlotte made the voyage from MelWUrae to "Bremen in 76 days, beattog previous records by 6even days. SWfceatthe average to Cape .Horn tslßdagfc >A„m«ettng held at Hokitika on Frt,Q*s. »*«** resolved to issue a prospectus for a Westland Shipping t Pgmpany to carry on tho timber rfwie ibetwesn < Hokitika and East JJftast ports. It is contemplated to the Torganten or other vessel. Reports are also of a uxanxi company beine iWger way for the purcha9e of WW craft for the local trade A fSri-?S 0 ™ C, ° tbat tlie ' '■* So «th <W« W the curse-of our port, and <r?i-12"**** Wcssln S that could boStx',^^? a * ul w " uW to « flood higto fiWß*!.to sweep, the, spit away ai-< Jogether, so as to giro the water ai ,»traight run out to sea. 4!£ "° "py "heme of harbour works: *tach does not include the openinit * 4fi? J? T " eiA and narr °* entrance! Just below the, land-guard Muff i s i . Just money wasted. Nature is al-' y^3Sto ""Prove pur port,: •nil-tMe wiseacres 0 f the harbouri their professional advisers ax* always resisting her efforts.'' ' jA.correspondent of the Nelson sff?i?L con,p,aiaß tmtt th e P»°t 1« WmfeTlei to do Jiis duty attended' jBPK *y tw 9 rowers in an open tfcat. gently in a heavy sea the boat ' #7«B'Tipset, and the occupants' lives fOdaflgered, The writer. '•Shipmasttr asserts that the duties of the £ -SfiS P' lo t a»e the most hazardous : *fifit any pilot, is called upon to per-1 : form in the colony, and it suggested ' t*" that an oli-engina tender should be •©plied- 'ln the : interests of life, if not tot property."' -iFatea bar does not seem to bo in **ry ;good order now, The captain < of. the K*piti writes fo the Press : ! » fyrom ei-master of a ship's poiat \ OliViewit Cahhot very well be more i crooked. For a vessel that crosses the bu to work with safety, it is necessary to come sharp round the east•rn w.allv and what makes it more aangerous, the sea is on the vessel's <E°9 d f.%l and: very liable to cant her the wrong way, I have been tr««ing to Patea with the s.s. Kapitl• since she arrived from Glasgow, ■ and I liave never Been the channel in a worse condition. As to the actual width 1 of the Channel, in my time I have never hieard of any person takft« proper soundings to know the , .wldtfc of the channel, I have navigv , ttd. a good many. bars In my time , tort- never worked on a bar that , *■» never sounded from one year to « •Bother, except the soundings given by the steamers coming and going. I do not think any of the masters of t vessels trading to Patea just now ' win eohtradict this statement. What l» ntore. owing to the bar being ■ fy rery crooked, I could not go to sea .with the s* Kapiti to-day."-