SHIPPING NEWS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 293, 7 June 1912, Page 2

SHIPPING NEWS

POST OF NEW PLYMOUTH, FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 1912. PHASES OF THE MOON. JUNE. D. H. M. S. La-st quarter 8 2 12 18 p.m. I New Moon 15 6 0 18 p.m. First Quarter 22 8 15 21 a.m. Full Moon 30 1 1# 20 a.m. HIGH WATER. High water at New Plymouth to-d&y 1.44 a.m. To-morrow 2.7 a.m. and 2.31 p.m. THE SUN j Rises to-day 7.21, to-ntorrow 7.21. ■ Sets to-day 7.39, to-morrow 7.39. ARRIVED. Thursday.—Moa, s.s., 92 tons, Burt, for Westport.

EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Corinna, from South, Saturday. Rarawa, from North, Friday. Rara/W*, from North, Tuesday. TELEGRAPHIC. I ARRIVED. Auckland, Thursday—Arrived, at 6.50 a.m., Tomoana, from Sydney. Onehunga, Thursday.—Arrived, at 9 a.m., Rarawa, from New Plymouth. THE MOA. The Moa was able to get away yesterday morning for Westport, the weather having moderated considerably. On arrival at Westport the Moa is to load another cargo of coal for New Plymouth. THE ROTOITI. The Rotoiti left Nelson last evening for New Plymouth and is due here today. After the discharge of her cargo she proceeds to Onehunga and will return here on Monday to load general cargo for Wellington. THE CORINNA. The Corinna is due here from southi ern ports to-morrow with a fairly large cargo. After discharging she proceeds 1 to Onehunga, from which port she sails | direct for Picton and Wellington.

PANAMA CANAL TRADE. Discussing the type of vessel which will use the Panama Canal if it if? properly equipped with large graving docks, machinery shops for repairs and oil storage tanks, the Shipping Gazette, says:— "There is to be built at Clydebank for the service from Sydney 'to Vancouver, via Auckland, a new steamer for the Union Steamship Co. of New Zealand. She is to be of some 1-2,000 to 13,000 j tons, and to have accommodation for 700 passengers . . . The big mail ships which will work the Panama Canal will be able to obtain there all the oil. they require, for the vast oilfields of Texas are not far off. The Clydebank ship should be the forerunner of many such, but they will be larger, although the type will be similar. The facilities given by the Panama Canal will go far to develop the size of the ships which will use it, so will wireless telegraphy play an important part in the matter of providing for their safety. As far as the Pacific is concerned, all the mail steamers will be fitted with wireless, and those I vessels will be in communication for the ' whole of the voyage with the outside world. Australia and New Zealand stations will be joined up with the coal and oil fuel stations which commercial enterprise will provide along the routes."