SHIPPING NEWS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 311, 28 June 1912, Page 2

SHIPPING NEWS

PORT OF NEW PLYMOUTH. FRIDAY, JUNE 28, 1912. PHASES OF THE MOON. JUNE. D. H. M. S. Last quarter 8 2 12 18 p.m. New Moon 15 6 0 18 p.m. First Quarter 22 8 15 21 a.m. Full Moon 30 1 10 20 a.m. HIGH WATER. High water at New Plymouth to-day 8.0 a.m. and 8.26 p.m. To-morrow 8.41 a.m. and 9.7 p.m. THE SUN Rises to-day 7.23, to-morrow 7.22, Sets to-day 4:37, to-morrow 4.38. ARRIVED. Thursday.—Waimea, s.s., 454 tons, Wildman, from Greymouth. Thursday.—Moa, s.s., 92 tons, Burt, from Westport. SAILED. Thursday.—Moa, s.s., 92 tons, Burt, for Westport. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Rosamond, from South, Friday. Rarawa, from North, Friday. Rarawa, from North, Tuesday. TELEGRAPHIC. ARRIVED. Lyttelton, Thursday.—Arrived, at 9 a.m., Kaiapoi, from Newcastle. Auckland, Thursday.—Arrived, at 10.30 a.m., Muritai, from Sydney. I• ' 1 'fl ] ' SAILED.

Picton, Thursday.—Sailed, at 12. IZ p.m., Rosamond, for New Plymouth. THE MO A. The Moa, with a full load of coal, arrived from Westport yesterday morning, sailing in the evening 011 her return to Westport, where she is to load another cargo of coal for New Plymouth. THE WAIMEA. The Waimea, which arrived from Greymouth yesterday morning, was unable to complete the discharge of her cargo, on account of rain setting in during the afternoon. The cargo amounts to 294 tons of coal, 1100 sleepers and 15 tons of bricks. Operations will be resumed this morning and the vessel will sail for Greymouth after completion. THE. ROSAMOND. The Rosamond sailed from Picton about noon yesterday for New Plymouth, and is due here this morning. Her cargo will amount to about 200 tons. THE LOADING OF PHOSPHATES. The method of loading phosphates at Christmas Island (near Java) is somewhat different to the methods we are accustomed to here. The River Clyde is at present discharging a cargo of phosphates from Christmas Island at New Zealand ports. The phosphates were transferred from the top of a hill to the ship by porters, and the work was carried out by about 1800 dhinainen, supervised by Europeans. At a cable length from the wharf, which the ship cannot lie close alongside of on account of the surf, the water is 1000 ft deep. The ship was tied up, wire-rope hawsers underneath shoots run out on piles, and from these shoots the phosphates poured into the vessel's holds. This steamer loaded 0000 tons in four days.