SHIPPING

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 28, 26 February 1909, Page 2

SHIPPING

w 'PORT OE NEW PLYMOUTH. j I'"*"" HRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23. ■r jJt ' L PHASES OF THE MOON . D. H. M. S. ■- Pull Moon 5 8 122 p.ni. Last quarter 14 0 23 21 a.m. . New Moon ~ 20 9 29 13 p.m. First quarter 27 8 26 13 p.m. High water at New Plymouth unlay 0.47 a.m. aod 1.12 p.m.; to-morrow, 1.40 a.m. and 2$ p.m. Sun- rises this morning 5.30; to-mor-row 6..')1. Sets to-day U. 30; to-morrow 8.29. ARRIVED. Thursday.—Takapuna, «J., 1030 tons. from Onehunga.

SAILED. Laab Night.—Takapuna, s.s, 1030 tons, Crawford, for Onehunga. Pas- j scngers: Miss Kennedy, Mesdames Hill > and two children and Barnes, Messrs. J Hill, Barnes, Cross, Davie, Patson, auil Hastle. TELEGRAPHIC. Onehunga, Last Night.—Sailed; Rarawa, for New Plymouth, passing Manukau Heads at 5.40 p.m. Passengers: Misses Bedford (2), Willetts, Mesdames Moroghaa, A. Harrison, Messrs, Moroghan, A. '(arrison, Shields, Wadlow, Robertson, J. Taylor, J. Blake; and 10 steerage. Westptrt, last Night.—Arrived, at O.a p.m., Rosamond, from New Plymouth. Wellington, Last Night.—Sailed, at 1 p.m., Rotoiti, for Picton, Nelson, New Plymouth and Onehunga. Passengers—for New Plymouth: Mr. Pope; for Onehunga; Miss Wade and Mr. Young. Melbourne, Thursday—Arrived, Jessie Craig, fromi Kaipara and Thursday la* t land. Onehunga, Thursday. —Arrived, at 8.10 ajn., Blwawa, from New Plymouth. V Auckland, Last Night.—Sailed, at 5.45 ;.m., Junee, for Sydney. Wellington, Ust Night—Sailed, at 5 ;/ p.m., lonic, for London. V Sydney, Last Night.—Sailed, Indradefvi, for Auckland. tfewpaatle, Last Brisbane, from New Zealand.

There Trill "be no boat from, Onehunpi on Mardh 4th or to Oaehunga on March sth, owing to the Rarawa undergoing hor .periodical boiler-cleaning. The Takapuna will leave as usual for Onoliunga ob March 4th and will make hor return trip on March stli. The Karawa will lesume running on Sunday, March 7th. The Takapuna brought 03 tons ot cargo from Onehunga yesterday morning. This included 485 bags of sugar, 65 sacks, 44 hundreds, and 48 fifties of flour, 86 bags of potatoes, 32 sacks of mauure, and 400 cases of fruit. About a fortnight ago Mr. A. R. Thompson, purser of the Union Company's ill-fated steamer Penguin, was battling for life on .a raft In the open .searinCook Strait, and less than twelv; months previously he had a narrow escape in the wreck of the Kawatiri ■' Tasmania. On Wednesday he receive | . his orders, and yesterday he proceeds! by\the Maauka to Auckland to join th? Mokoia as purser in place of Mr. Williams, who has been transferred temporarily to the Moeraki. Purser Thompson is quite undeterred by his rough experiences itf wrecks, but he looks forward- to better luck. He has been six years in the company's "employ and four years of that period has been spent as purser. '

EXPECTED ARRIVALS. R.ira wa, from OneViunga, Friday. Takapuna, from Onehunga, Saturday. Rotoiti, from South, Saturday. Rarowa, from Onehnnga, Monday. Rotoiti, from Onehunga, Tuesday. Tr.kapuna, Iron South, Tuesday. Raraiwa, from Onehunga, Wednesday. Takapuna, from Onehunga, Thursday. PROJECTED DEPARTURE TO-DAY: Rarawa, for Onehunga, 8.30 p.m. OVERSEA SHIPPING.

' STEAMERS TO ARRIVE AT WEMNGTON. From LiverpoolDrayton Grange • (left Liverpool 'January 9, for New Zealand ports), due at Wellington about middle of March, after calling at Auckland and Napier. From New York— Indradevi (due Wellington about March 1), sailed on December 19, vii. 'Australia and Auckland. SAILING VESSELS EXPECTED. Lady Wojley, barque, left Liverpool 'November 11,

Charles F. Croker, left iPuget Sound October 24.