SHIPPING NEWS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 312, 11 February 1910, Page 2

SHIPPING NEWS

FRIDAY FEBRUARY 11. FEBRUARY. D. H. M. S. Last Quarter 2 11 4 13 p.m. ■ New .Moon 10 0 50. 12 p.m. 1 F.rst Quarter 17 6 9' 17 p.m. J Fuii Moon 24 3 12 20 a.m. HIGH WATER. High water at New Plymouth to-day !J.s!i a.m. ana 10.10 p.m. To-morrow

■ 10.30 a.m. and 10.50 p.m. *' SUN. Rises to-day 5.12, to-morrow 5.13. Sets to-day 0.48, to-morrow 0.47. ARRIVED.

Thursday.—Rosamond, s.s., 721 tons, Watson, from South. SAILED. Thursday.—Rosamond, s.s., 721 tons, Watson, lor Onehunga. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Rarawa, from North, Friday. Rosamond, from north, Saturday. Rarawa, from North, Monday. Rarawa, from North, Wednesday. Rosamond, from South, Thursday.

, TELEGRAPHIC. ARRIVED. . Onehunga, Thursday. Arrived, at 9.55 a.m., Rarawa_, from New Plymouth. Westport, Thursday.—Arrived, at 9.30 a.m., Clara, from Newcastle. SAILED.

r ■ t Onehunga, Last Night—Sailed, at 3.30 a p.m., Rarawa, fer New Plymouth, passu ing Manukau Heads at 5/25 p.m. Passengers: Misses Cole-Baker", Fabian, Cooke, Rushbrook, Mesdames A. G. Barnard, Read, Bramwell, Messrs C. Potts. Richardson, F. J. Beale, Strachan, and others. j Wellington, Last Night.—Sailed, at 12.30 p.m., Ruahine, for London, via

._ Monte Video. Wellington, Last Night.—Sailed, at-6 p.m., Hornby Grange, for Rio Secco, Argentine. \[ THE ROSAMOND. 3 _ The Rosamond arrived from Welling-

ton, Picton and Nelson about 1 p.m. with 138 tons of general cargo, including 125 sacks of chaff, 50 sacks malt, 676 cases of fruit, and a quantity of general j merchandise. The Rosamond left fori Onehunga after discharging and returns

. to-morrow. OLDEST VESSEL AFLOAT. " . The distinction of being" Ihe oiliest • vessel afloat lias been discovered to! be-

long to a little Danish sloop named* the Constance. She is 187 years old, having been built in 1723 at Aero. The JD.oif- ! stance, notwithstanding her great la'ge, J still plies regularly as a "tramp" frora I Danish ports, delivering cargoes of flour and lime with the eame regularity a-, she did 180 years ago. She is constructed of oak. and- he r old timbers arl :•.* sound as the day they were put ill. In

1868 she was given a thorough overhaul, and' her stern was lightened by ajpont sft. Her present owner i.51 Mr. J.'Jensen. . of Lohals, Denmark, who' her since 1889. Up to 1882, under--the-name ■ of the Four Brethren, she was owned ■ by a family which had sailed her,, son after father, for 80 years; but, be,ing > bought by Captain Poje, her 'name was changed to Catarina , until her present : owners again altered it. Her leading dimensions are: 52ft. Oin. long, 14ft:''Shi. beam, and Oft. Sin. deep. Her tonnage I is 35 gross and 27 net. Under the Dan-

ish flag there are also sailing 32 vessels, ' built before' 1825, ancpof these seven were launched before 1800. On?' of ithem, the schooner Vigilant, was built in Baltimore in -1790, and fought as a ' privateer in the war between[, Dfcnrn'a rk j and Great Britain. ■ j

1 1 A PfeEASURE- CRUISE.'

The s.s. Eastern, which ariked' at Brisbane last week from . Kobe \in . China, brought information ' concerning j one of the biggest pleasure excursions j ever organised in America. A' party of j about 700 people are, to cruise .round; the? . world in a manner which bears eloquent I testimony, to the ; ability of ,t,he organ- [ iser. On December- 23 the largajpirty j reached Hong Kong, and completely Americanised its thoroughfares;'' The visitors were supposed to into bodies for the purpose of being ionducted, over the city and shown ' i!>-- ' sights, and,.while.this .was',l6 sipme'cx-

I tent true, it was noticeable that quite Ia large number preferred to Kong independently. But the incursion" I of so many tourists at once, was hot the only record created at Hong Kong. .The I steamer, the Cleveland, by' which they arrived, was the largest that' has 'enter-, ed the port. She is one o'f'the'iaijg&n additions to the fleet of the HammirgI American line, and is of 10,9'St) regisI tered tons. When running bet\v;"ii 1 'Hamburg and America the, vessel 'car;, ried 3,300 passengers, but for''the;present tour.sh? has been adapted to.earnonly 700 passengers, while the crewnumbers 436. The cruise began at Now -York, whence the steamer proceeded to Madeira, Gibraltar, Naples, Port Sail. Cairo, Suez, Aden, Bombay, Colombo, Manila and other ports. The' large jnirty intended visiting Canton, ..and the viceroy, who manifested, considerable. < ,-inxiety with regard to;the invasion, issued proclamations notifying ilie citizens of the coming multitude, ordering the ; carrying coolies to make way for chair*. ■ and asking the shopkeeper* to co-operate in streets dear. Special -i police, it'is stated, were requisitioned : to patrol the streets. THE SEAS TOLL. A heavy toll has been exacted hv the i sea In regard to the British nrrohi;r") <i navy during the past twenty-five vr"--. t the number of lives lost, hv shiver"'!.'. 1 and other casualties heiii2 trivrn : - 27.046. At a low estimate, the ov-h'n-j through this great sacrifice totalled, 45,000.'