SHIPPING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 277, 15 April 1913, Page 2

SHIPPING.

POST or HEW PLYMOUTH. TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 1913. PHASES OFTHE MOON. APRIL. D. H. M. S. New moon 7 5 25 14 a.m. First quarter J4 5 16 14 p.m. Full moon 21 9 9 19 a.m. Last quarter 28 5 46 14 p.m. THE TIDES. High water at New Plymouth to-day 3.40 a.m. To-morrow 4.20 a.m. and 5.1 c p.m. THE SUN. Rises to-day 6.30, to-morrow 0.32. Sets to-day 5.30, to-morrow 5.28. SAILED. Monday.—Corinna, s.s., 1271 tons, Cameron, for Wellington. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Rarawa, from North, Tuesday. Poherua, from South, Wednesday, Rarawa, from North, Saturday. TELEGRAPHIC. ARRIVED. Bluff, Monday.—Arrived, at 1.40 p.m., Manuka, from Hobai't, with English mail. THE' CORINNA. i The Corinna, which arrived from One- | hunga on Sunday, yesterday loaded' 4000 crates of cheese, 200 boxes of butter, and a quantity of general cargo, sailing in ! the evening for Wellington. THE POHERUA. The Poherua, en route from southern ports, is expected to leave Wellington this evening for New Plymouth, HOME LOADING AT WAITARA. The Essex arrived in the Waitara roadstead on Saturday and sailed yesterday afternoon with a quantity of frozen produce. • THE BRAVEST ACT OF 1912. l' For the bravest act of the year the Stanhope gold medal of 1912 has been awarded to Mr. D. Palmer, second engineer of the steamship Meifoo, for a heroic deed when the vessel sank after a collision on April 23, 1911. In 1912 the Royal Humane Society of Great Britain awarded 13 silver medals, 130 bronze medals, 831 testimonials and 161 pecuniary awards. Mr. Palmer's deed was performed off Elgar Island, off the Chinese coast, -when the Meifoo* belonging to ; the Chinese Merchants' Steam ■ Navigation Company, was run into by the.same company's steamer Kwanglee in a dense fog. The Meifoo, which had a large number of native passengers on board, rolled over and sank four minutes afterwards in a de'jrth of 15 fathoms. The chief officer, Mr, James Smith, who could not swim, was going down with the ship, when- Palmer jumped after him and suc»ceeded in getting him clear of;the wreck, supporting him in an unconscious state for kn hour, when they were picked up by a boat. Admiral Morant, who ! presided, said that Palmer had dived among a seething mass of drowning people.