SHIPPING NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 209, 8 October 1909, Page 4

SHIPPING NEWS.

POUT OF NEW PLYMOUTH. FRIDAY, OCTOBER S. PHASES OF THE MOON. OCTOBER. D. 11. M. S. Last Quurlvr 0 0' 21 H p.m. New .Moon •.. U 7 -50 Hi p.m. First Quarter 22 G 4 18 p.m. Full Jloou .. 21) 9 44 12 a.m. HIGH WATER High water at New Plymouth to-day 3.34 a.m. and 4.22 p.m. To-morrow, f> a.m. and 5.30 p.m. SUN. Rises today 5.40, to-morrow 5.2!). Sets to-day 1i.20, to-morrow 1i.21. ARRIVED. Thursday.--liarawa, s.s., 1072 tons, Norbury, from Oncliunga. Passengers: Misses Reuuell.Boyes. Xcwcll, Mcsdames lirowu, Cathro. Messrs Sladden, Uawson, Lewis, Martin, Taylor; nine steerage. Thursday.—lioojiya, s.s., 1091 ton-., Showman, from Southern ports. SAU.ED. Thursday.— Koonyn, s.s., 11)91 tons, Showman, for Westport. Last Night— liarawa, s.s., 1072 tons, Norbury, for Onehiinga. Passengers. Mesdaines Partington, I. Bayly, Robin son and family, -Misses . Partington, Zamit, Harvey (3), Sowden, Messrs 1. Bayly, G. Rawson, Donaldson, Fea, Brooke, Newman (2), linker, Rabbits, Kendall and others; 9 steerage. ENPECTED ARRIVALS. Rosamond, from South, Saturday, liarawa, from North, Monday. Rosamond, from North, Tuesday. Koonya, from South, Thursday. Kotuku, from West Coast, early, liarawa, from North, Thursday. TELEGRAPHIC. SAILED. Wellington. Last Night.—Sailed, at «.!(• p.m., Arawa, for Loudon. THE KOONVA. Tiie Koonya arrived from Southern !»"i :s yesterday morning with ISO tons "i cargo, including 229 sacks of oats,2oo bags of manure, 49 sacks of wheat, 236 sacks of potatoes, and 17.") sacks, 90 hundreds, and 130 liftics of Hour. She left lot- Westport and Greyinouth about 2.30 p.m., and loads coal at the West Coast ports for South. TIIE RARAWA.

Tile Karawa, from Onehmiga, yesterday brought 81) tons of cargo, including K! tons of sugar, 7 tons of immure, 7 tons of cement, ;i tons of Hour, and 200 packages of fruit and vegetables. TMK KOTUKU. The Kotuku, which was unable to get out of Manukau on Tuesday owing to the state of the bar, left Onehunga at 5 a.m. yesterday, crossing the bar at 7.15 a.m. She arrived here last night and commences discharging her fairly large i cargo of coal this morning. DEFENDER IN SHELTER. The Defender (Anchor Company), which had teen sheltering at the breakwater for a couple of days awaiting a favorable opportunity to get into Waitara—a fresh in the* river having made the bar difficult to negotiate—succeeded in reaching the river port yesterday. She has a cargo of manure from Lyttelton for Waitara. SYDNEY'S NEW DR KDfi E. The new sand-pump dredge Duiker, recently purchased by the Sydney Harbor Trust for work in Port .Jackson, and which safely arrived at the New South Wales port a fortnight ago. will be renamed the Triton, and will probably be employed in the first instance in deepening the eastern channel to a depth of ;i2ft. Very heavy weather conditions were enoouiitcred during ]>ortion of the voyage across the Indian Ocean, hut the Duiker behaved splendidly in the nioun tainous sens ami terrific'gales. During the height of an exceptionally sevei'e gale on August 8 the rudder chain carried away, and the Duiker was hove to for about twelve hours while repair* were effected. The only other incident of the voyage was the bursting of a 'team pipe, which was eventually Repaired by the staff of engineers. The* Duiker, which i H a twin-screw vessel of 1037 tons, was launched in December, 1903, from the yards of Messrs Fleming and Ferguson, of Paisley. Scotland, and is 200 ft in length, with a beam of 40ft, and a depth of 14ft. Her engines, which are of a triple-expansion tvpe. indicate 950-h.p. Her first cost was '£30,000, '.lit the price paid for her by the Sydney Harbor Trust Commissioners to .the Table Bay Harbor Board, Capetown, is said to be £14.000.