SHIPPING.

Taranaki Daily News, 5 October 1915, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT OF NEW PLYMOUTH, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1913. PHASES OF THE MOON. OCTOBER, 1915. 9—New moon, 9.19 a.m. 16—First quarter, 1.28 a.m. 23—Full moon, 11.52 p.m. 31—Last quarter, 4.18 p.m. THE TIDES. High water to-day at 6.15 a.m. and 6.51 p.m.; to-morrow, 7.49 a.ni, and 7.20 p.m. THE SUN. The sun rises to-day at 5.44 a.m. and sets at 0.16 p.m.; to-morrow 5.43 a.m. and 6.17 p.m. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Rarawa, from North, to-day. Corinna, from Wellington, Thursday. Ravawa. frmii North, Friday. ARRIVED. Oct. 4.—lTuja, auxiliary schooner, 224 tons, (!. McKenzie, from Westport. TELEGRAPHIC. ARRIVED. Auckland, Oct. 4—At 0.50 a.m. Makura, from Sydney. Grcyniouth, Oct. 4.—At 7 sum., Regnlus, from New Plymouth. Wellington, Oct. 4.—At 8.5(1 a.m., Ulimaroa, from Sydney. SAILED. Bluff, Oct. 4.—At 9.45 a.m., Shiko Maru, for Newcastle. Onehunga, Oct. 4.—At 3.30 p.m., Rarawa, for New Plymouth; passed Man.v kau Heads at 5.40 p.m. SALE OF ELFRIEDE. News brought to Sydney by the A. U: S. N. liner Levuka from Fiji states that at the registrar's office, Government Buildings, Suva, Messrs Brown and Joske offered at auction tJlie auxiliary schooner Elfriedo, which was seized by a British cruiser in the Tongan Group and brought to Fiji, where eHie was condemned by the Prize Court of Fiji. The vessel was knocked down to the Lau traders (Mor- J ris, Hedstrom, agents) at the reserve figure, £IOOO.

BARQUE ACTIV SOLD. Messrs C. Lundin and Sons, the wellknown stevedores of Sydney have completed negotiations for the' purchase of the Norwegian barque Activ, now at Auckland, and will take her over forthwith. The Activ, a vessel of 768 tons gross and 699 tons net register, was built at Dumbarton in 1877 by Birrell, Stenhouse and Co., and when first launched was known as the Rothesay Bay, under which name she was first known in Australia. A few years ago, however, she, like so many other well-known British sailors, was disposed of to Norwegians. The new owners had the name changed as soon as the vessel was taken over, so she became Activ, and as such was, need-' less to say, a profitable venture. Messrs Lundin and Sons intend to keep the Aetiv employed in the Now Zealand and Australian trade, and she will make the first passage in the new owners' interests from Auckland to Sydney with a full cargo of timber.

NOTES. Accr&l.i-.' to cable nevn the Commonwealth and Dominion liner Muritai, en route from New York to Auckland, Wellington, Melbourne, Brisbane, and Sydney, left Panama on the 17th inat. A Home journal states:—"For some considerable time past there has been difficulty in seeming deck officers for British ships. Lately it has also been found no easy thing- to obtain engineers, especially juniors. Frequently vessels sail short of a junior. That is to say, steamers usually carrying four engineers have to be content with three. It is, of course, due to the number of certificated men drawn into the Navy or the Royal Naval Reserve, and also probably to the demand for such skilled labor on shore."

News from England reports that the steel screw shelter-deck steamer Surrey, 5987 tons gross, 3811 tons net, built and engined by Messrs Hawthorn, Leslie, and Co., Newcastle, in 1893, and owned by the Federal Steam Navigation Co,, Ltd., London, has been sold to the Blue Star Line, Ltd., in a damaged condition, for under £35,000. The New Zealand and African Company advise that the A. and A. Line has fixed the following vessels to take the loading bertJi at New York for New Zealand, and Australia, in Hie case of the first two, and the 'others for New Zealand or Australia:—JSiouw, to have; sailed on August 31; Achilles, to have sailed on September 10; Parattah (late German steamer Berlin), to have sailed September 20; Walton Hall, to sail September 30; Conargo (late German steamer Altona), September-October loading; Toromes (late German Tiberius), October, November loading; Talawa (late German Wootan), October-November loading; Araluen (late German Scharzfels), early November loading; Dongurra (late German Stalzcnfels), NovemberDecember loading.