SHIPPING NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 312, 29 June 1912, Page 2

SHIPPING NEWS.

PORT OF NEW PLYMOUTH. SATURDAY, JUNE 29, 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 8.46 a.m. and 9.7 p.m. To-morrow 9.27 a.m. and 9.48 p.m. THE SUN Rises to-day 7.22, to-morrow 7.22. Sets to-day 4.38, to-morrow 4.38. ARRIVED. Friday.—Waimea, s.s., 454 tons, for Greymouth. Friday. Rosamond, s.s., 721 tons, \ Irwin, from Wellington and Picton. Friday.—Rarawa, s.s., 1072 tons, Norbury, from Onehunga. Passengers:— Misses Wilson, Ambury, Halde, Bennett, Mesdames Bennett, Massey, Valentine, McGovern, Blake, Collins and child, Coombridge, Messrs Hamilton, Knuckey, Newman, Morrissey, White, Buchanan, Kyle, Ottway, McLeod, Massey, McGovern, Little, Rev. Hunt, Rev. Clement; 18 j steerage. j EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Rarawa, from North, Tuesday. Rarawa, from North, Friday. T7 ,EGRAPHIO. ARRIVED. Greymouth, Friday.—Arrived, at 9.30 a.m., Putiki, from New Plymouth. BAILED. Newcastle, Friday.—Sailed, Awahou, for New Zealand. THE RARAWA. The Rarawa, although she was unable to cross the Manakau bar till about 7 p.m. on Thursday, arrived in time to connect with the express train yesterday morning. The vessel's cargo amounted to 117 tons, including 30 tons of cement, 13 tons flour, 14 tons sugar, a small quantity of fruit and 1200 ft of timber. THE WAIMEA. The Waimea completed the discharge of her cargo yesterday and saiicd about' noon for Greymouth. THE ROSAMOND. The Rosamond arrived from Wellington and Picton last evening with about, 200 tons of general cargo. She discharges to-day iiiid afterwards will load .southern cargo. She leaves for Onehunga in the afternoon and will proceed from the northern port direct to Wellington. A SEAMAN'S LIABILITY. "When a ship is sold, are the crew sold with her?" was the problem exercising the minds of the crew of the steamer Tomoana, which sailed this week from Port Chalmers for China, she having I changed the TySer flag for that of the ' Blue Star company while at Port Chalmers (says the Diinedin Star). It was j thought that as the ship usually traded i to Australia and New Zealand, the crew should not be called upon to go to tropical climes, and in connection therewith arose the question whether the crew had been sold with the ship. It was said that the crew made their agreement with the captain, not with the owners, and therefore, while the captain remained with the ship, the crew could also be compelled to stay by her. Against this view it was shown that a crew can' be compelled to stay by a ship though there be many changes of commander. After that it appeared that, in signing the ship's articles, the men must have / made the agreement with the ship her- : self, and on behalf of the ship the captain or owners could set in motion the law to compel the crew to keep their agreement with the ship, which, under the peculiarities that pertain to sailors being compulsorily induced to observe their undertakings, was thus a party to the agreement. In the happy-go-lucky spirit that characterises seafarers, the crew went away in the vessel, but it is said that the firemen, as a kind of protest, smashed the gangway lamp to pieces on the wharf before the ship left.