SHIPPING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 167, 2 December 1912, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT OF NEW PLYMOUTH. MONDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1912. PHASES OF THE MOON. NOVEMBER. D. H. M. S. Last quarter 1 3 14 18 p.m. New moon 9 1 41 20 p.m. First quarter 17 1® 20 15 a.m. Full moon 25 3 49 14 a.m. Higli water at New Plymouth, to-day 2.51 p.m. To-morrow 3.17 a.m. and 4.5 p.m. THE SUN. Rises to-day 4.41, to-morrow 4.40. Sets to-day 7.1!), to-morrow 7.20. ARRIVED. Sunday.—Haupiri, s.s., 748 tons, Irwin, from Onehunga. 'EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Pukakij from South, Tuesday. Rarawa, from North, Tuesday. Rarawa, from North, Friday. TELEGRAPHIC. ARRIVED. Greymoutb. Saturday—Arrived, at 7.10 a.m., Putiki, from New Plymouth. Onehunga, Saturday.—Arrived, at 8.30 a.m., Rarawa, from New Plymouth. SAILED. j Greyinouth, Saturday.—Sailed, at 2.15 ■ a.m., Waipori, for Melbourne. I THE HAUPIRI. The Haupiri arrived from Onehunga yesterday. She loads a quantity of | general cargo to-day and will sail after- j I wards for Wellington. i t THE PUKAKI. The Pukaki is expected here to-morrow from southern ports with general cargo. She proceeds to the West Coast after discharging. VETERANS OF THE SEAS. Though the public as a rule fight shy . of Blue Books, there are often many very interesting little items to lie picked up in the statistical records published by Government departments. According to the annual navigation and shipping returns of the United Kingdom, issued recently, there are no less than 840 sailing ships and 50 steamships flying the British flag which have been engaged in our mercantile service for fifty or more years. The veterans of the group are eight sailing vessels that first sailed the seas in the days when Napoleon was . threatening to land in England. They were built in 1800 or earlier. There are | 42 that were launched at the end of the J reign of George 111. or in the early days }of George IV. Early Victorian relics of the days of hemp and canvas number 285, with four of the earliest steamships that ploughed the ocean.