SHIPPING NEWS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 284, 28 May 1912, Page 2

SHIPPING NEWS

PORT OF NEW PLYMOUTH. TUESDAY, MAY 28, 1012. PHASES OF THE MOON. MAY. D. H. M. S. Full Moon 1 9 59 16 p.m. Last Quarter • 9 33 13 p.m. New Moon 17 9 50 18 a.m. First Quarter 24 1 48 15 a.m. Full Moon 31 11 6 18 a.m. HIGH WATER. High .water at New Plymouth to-day 0.59 a.m. and 7.23 p.m. To-morrow 6.45 a.m. and 8.6 p.m. the era Rises to-day 7.16, to-morrow 7.1C. Sets to-day 4.44, to-morrow 4.44. ARRIVED. Sunday. —Ivaituna, s.s., 1977 tons, J. Thompson, from Wallaroo (South Australia), via South Island ports. ; Monday.—Rarawa, s.s., 1072 tons, Norbury, from Onehunga. Passengers:— Misses Grant, Swiman, Treadwill, Mcintosh, OBosworth, 'Hempton, Huzziff, Montie, Messrs (Payne, Mc'Cathie, Garnett, Hall, Bannister, Larsen, Kemp (3), Williams, Anderson, Perry, Jenkinson, Ramsay, Justin, Webster, Roe, Pitcher, Young, Huzziff, Montie, Thompson; 12 steerage. SAILED. Monday.-—Moa, s.s., 92 tons, Burt, for Westport. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Te Anau, from South, Tuesday. Rarawa, from North, Wednesday. Rotoiti, from South, Thursday. Ivaituna, from South Australia, early. Rarawa, from North, Friday. Rarawa, from North, Monday. THE MOA. The Moa, which arrived from West- • port on Sunday, discharged her cargo "j of 136 tons of coal yesterday and sailed 1 on her return for Westport about 4 p.m. j THE KAITUNA. ] The Kaituna arrived from WallarooJ (South Australia) on Sunday evening" i and "berthed yesterday morning. A 1 commencement was made with the dis- j charge of her cargo (about WOO tons of • fertilisers), but rain in the afternoon ( compelled operations to cease. It is i hoped to complete the discharge of the vessel to-day and despatch her for Greymouth. , THE RARAWA. The Rarawa brought 119 tons of cargo from Onehunga yesterday morning, inI eluding 10 tons sugar, 14 tons flour, 38' tons cement, 2 tons manure, besides a small quantity of fruit and a motor car. THE TE ANAU. The Te Anau was to have left Wellington last evening and should arrive here t'his morning. She will bring about 500 tons of general cargo, after the discharging of which 'she proceds to Westport and Greymouth. THE NEW ERA.| An intereseing discussion took place at the Institution of Naval Architects on Mr. W. J. Knudsen's paper on the Diesel engines fitted in the m.s. Selandia. Mr. Westgarth, of Richardsons, Westgarth and Co., Ltd., paid a high tribute to the broad-spirited action of the owners and builders of the Selandia in opening the vessel to all and sundry for inspection. He said that as an engineer he was struck on going on board the vessel by the great care exercised in designing and carrying out the vessed's machinery installation. He hoped that the internal combustion engine at present building by his firm would be finished at the latter part of the month. Sir Marcus Samuel referred to the Vulcanus, and said that they had not had the slight- ; est difficulty with her so far as her main engine was concerned, and he did not hesitate to say that their experience had demonstrated that there was no possible doubt that anyone who went in for steam engines in the future was courting disaster. His firm, he added, would never build any more steam vessels. The large engine room space on the Selandia was, he said, entirely due to the regulations which were made when propelling power occupied a very large proportion of a ship, and a large engine room had to be ina.de in order to get a reduction of the tonnage of the vessel, but onethird of the space and weight of those engines could now he saved. The present was a very unfortunate time for building owing to prices being so (high, otherwise, in conjunction with certain friends, he would have been prepared to supply £1,000,000' sterling to permit of this matter being gone into in a wholehearted way. He added that great as would be the revolution brought about by the Diesel engine, if shipowners moved with the times they need only •Iter their present vessels and need not scrap them, as the engines could be applied to all existing boats, though it would, perhaps, not be so satisfactory as in the case of ships specially constructed.