SHIPPING NEWS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 43, 31 May 1910, Page 2

SHIPPING NEWS

TUESDAY, MAY 31

HIGH WATER. High water at New Plymouth to-day 1.10 a,m and 2.15 'p.m. To-morrow 1.43 a.m. and 2.38 p.m. SUN. Rises to-day 7.17, to-morrow 7.17. Sets to-day 4.43, to-morrow 4.43. Ai.lii . k.U Monday.—Rarawa, s.s., 1072 tons,>;orbury, from Onehunga. Passengers:— Mesdames Jenkins, J. Joul, Schnackenberg and two children, Wheeler, Rutherford and family, Quintell, Maxwell, Finnarty, McLeod, Misses B. Holloway, M. Russell, Brailsford, Laxon, Bolton, Dale, Qwilliams, W. Strong, Remes, McLeod (2), D. Yardwyer, M. Milligan, L. Collins', J. Murray, Dallen, Mcintosh, Gilmour, Messrs Wheeler, C. Brown, G. Cass, S. A. Fitzgerald, R Beilairs, S. de Vine, Bruce, Vaaie, R. Riley, W. Reid, Peake, Reece, Sticlrbury, Qwilliam, Rutherford, Quintell, Murray, Creagher, Churcher, Arnold Jones, Buller, F Davis, T. Dench, A. Hickey, Norton, Jenkins, Finnerty, A. Harrison, H. J. Hastie, Friend, Brown, Maxwell, and 31 steerage.

SAILED. Monday s.s'., 1271 tons, Cameron, for Wellington and South. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Koonya, from South, Tuesday. •Himitangi, from Westport, Wednesday. Rarawa, from North, Wednesday. Kini, from West Coast, via Onellunga, Wednesday. Rosamond, from South, Thursday. Rarawa, from North, Friday. Lauderdale, from Efobart, via Bluff and Port Chalmers, Friday. Rosamond, from North, Saturday. Rarawa, from North, Monday.

TELEGRAPHIC. ARRIVED. Melbourne, Monday.—Arrived, Star of Canada, from London. ißluff, Monday.—Arrived, at 10 a.m., Maitai, from Hobart, with an Englisli mail. THE CORINNA. The Corinna, which arrived here on Sunday morning from Onehunga. loaded 53 tons of general cargo yesterday and left about noon for Wellington. THE RARAWA. The Rarawa brought 90 tons of cargo from Onehunga yesterday morning, in- 1 eluding 50 tons of cement, 5 tons of sugar, 3 tons' of flour, and a small quantity of fruit. Two racehorses were also landed. '

THE KOONYA. The Koonya, from southern ports, is due here this' morning. Her cargo will amount to about 500 tons. A MAMMOTH DREDGE. ■ V ■ . ■ --. ■ | New Plymouth's' new dredge is insignificant beside one recently installed at Liverpool. This new vessel, the Leviathan, ranks as the largest and most •powerful dredge that has yet been placed in operation in any part of the world. It has an over-all length of 487 ft., a beam of 69ft., and a depth of 30ft 7in, these large dimensions being necessary to afford the requisite capacity and strength to carry the designed enormous load of 10,000 tons'of sand. It is of the twinscrew, self-propelling, sand-pump, hopperdredge type, provided with twelve hop-i pers, having a total net capacity of 180.000 cubic feet, and is fitted with pumps capable of dredging and filling itself with this load of clean Mersey sand in 50 minutes from a maximum depth of 70ft, whilst the propelling machinery gives a speed, with full load, of 10 knots.

OVERSEA VESSELS. FOR NEW PLYMOUTH. Lauderdale, from Port Huon, via Bluff ' and Port Chalmers, sailed May 14. Viganella, left Liverpool March 12, due about end of June. Pari tutu (dredge) sailed from Clyde on March 24.

FOR WELLINGTON. From London— Matatua (due about June 1), sailed on March 31, via Auckland. (Shaw, Saville). Nerehana (due about May 26), sailed on March 23, via Melbourne, Sydney, Auckland and Napier. (Tyser)'. Ruahine (due about May 30) sailed on' April 16, Plymouth April 19, via Capetown and Habart (N.Z. Shipping Co.) Star of Canada (due about June 24), sailed on April 22, via Melbourne, Svdney, Auckland and Napier. (Tyser). Arawa (due about June 14), sailed on April 28, Plymouth April 30, via Teneriffe, Capetown .and Hobart. (Shaw, Saville.) . Orari (due about June 29), sailed on May 9, via Auckland. (N.Z. Shipping Co.) Ruapehu (due about June 28) sailed on May 12, Plymouth May 14, via Teneriffe, Capetown and Hobart. (X.Z. Shipping Co.) From Liverpool— Sussex (due about June 14) sailed on April 2, via Australian ports and Auckland. (F.H.S.) Indradevi (due about June 12), sailed on [ Anril 10, via Auckland and Napier. i (Tyser). j Nairnshire (due about July G), sailed on I April 30. via Australian ports, Auck- | land and Napier. (F.H.S.) I From Montreal— Rakaia (due about July 29), sailed on Mav 14, via Melbourne, Svdnev and Auckland (N.Z. Shipping Co.) *

MAY, Last Quarter New moon First Quarter Full Moon D. 3 9 16 ti H. 1 . 5 1 5 M. 6 9 16 16 S. 18 a.iu 21 p.ni 13 p.n: 13 p.m