SHIPPING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 155, 18 November 1912, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT OF NEW PLYMOUTH. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1912. j PHASES OFTHE MOON. NOVEMBER. 1 D. H. M. S. J Last quarter 1 -3 14 18 p.m. 1 New moon 9 1 41 20 p.m. I First quarter 17 10 20 15 a.m. ] Full moon 25 3 49 14 a.m. ■High water at New Plymouth to-day 3.2 a.m. and 3.29 p.m. To-morrow 4.0 a.m. and 4.30 p.m. THE SUN. Rises to-day 4.52, to-morrow 4.51. ' Sets to-day 7.8, to-morrow 7.9. ARRIVED. Saturday.—Haupiri, s.s,, 748 tons, Irwin, from Wellington and Picton. SAILED. Saturday.—Haupiri, s.s., 748 tons, Irwin, for Onehunga. Friday.—Rarawa, s.s., 1072 tons, Norbury, from Onehunga. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Rarawa, from North, Tuesday, j Corinna, from South, Friday. Rarawa, from North, Friday. Corinna, from North,' Sunday. TELEGRAPHIC. ARRIVED. ! Onehunga, Saturday.—Arrived, at 8.15 a.m., Rarawa, from New Plymouth. Bluff, Saturday.—Arrived, at 8 a.m., barque Fram, from Surprise Island. ' SAILED. i Port Chalmers, Saturday.—Sailed,' at 5.15 a.m., Berkenfels, for Newcastle; and at 8.35 a.m., Rakaia, for Newcastle. THE HAUPIRI. The Haupiri got into port on Friday evening and discharged her cargo of 70 tons on Saturday, sailing at 11 a.m. for Onehunga and Wellington. GUNBOAT AS HULK. The old French gunboat Eure. which has been lying in Sydney Harbor for some considerable time, has been purchased by the Northern Steamship Company. The vessel has been dismantled, and is to be used as a coal hulk for the company's fleet at Auckland. The Eure will be towed from the New South Wales port by the steamer Ihumata, and the long tow will commence about the middle of this week, the vessel being expected. in Auckland about the end of the i month. The Eure will hold about 2000 , tons of coal, and she will have 1200 tons on board on the voyage across. ? \ CARGO BOATS AND PASSENGERS. Evidence of the activity in the shipping trade (writes a London correspondent) is the frequency with which we hear of steamers built for one purpose being converted for use in another line altogether. The passenger traffic to Australasia is, perhaps, the most noteworthy new development of the last year, and for months past the cry has been raised that there are not vessels to carry to Australia all the people who wish to go there. Australia will shortly see a fine example of the conversion of a , large cargo ship for the passenger service. The Indrapura, 900(J tons, when she left England this time was not to be a cargo steamer at all, but a passenger steamer with 1000 emigrants for Aus--1 tralia. Having discharged them, she ) will dismantle her passenger fittings and _ 1 arrive in New Zealand as a plain cargo , i steamer, to take in frozen produce as [ j usual.