SHIPPING.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 October 1915, Page 2

SHIPPING.

jPORT OF NEW PLYMOUTH. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8, l'Jlu. PHASES OF THE MOON. OCTOBER, 1915. 9 —Xew moon, 9.19 a.m. 16—First quarter, 1.28 aim. 23—Full moon, 11.52 p.m. 31— Last quarter, 4.16 p.m. THE TIDES. Ili-li water to-day at fl.O a.m. and !l.i) p.m.; to-morrow, 9,5;! a.m. and KM p.m. , THE SUN. The sun rises to-day at 5.40 a.m. and sets at C.20 p.m.; to-morrow, 5.39 a.m. and fi.2l p.m. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Rarawa, from North, to-day. Corinna, from Wellington, Saturday. Rarawa, from North, Monday. TELEGRAPHIC. ARRIVED. . Auckland, Oct. 7—At 3.10 p.m., Moana, from Rarotonga. FEMALE SAILORS. Brisbane, Oct. 7. The steamer El Cordobes has arrived from Liverpool. It claims that it is the first British deep-sea vessel to experiment with the substitution of women for seamen in their lighter occupations. It did not prove a success.

THE CORINNA DELAYED. The Corinna arrived at Wellington from Onehunga .on Wednesday with a cargo of butter and cheese for the Rimutaka. As that vessel had not arrived the Corinna could not start discharging till yesterday. It will be impossible for her to leave Wellington before 3 o'clock this afternoon, arriving here to-morrow morning. She sails again to-morrow night. NOTES. Captain A. F. Watchlin, R.N.R., who relinquished command of the Union Company's tug Terawhiti in March last, in order to join the Imperial service, writes to his mother, Mrs. E. Gullery, under date of July 30 that he had been appointed to H.M.'S. Jonquil as navigator, and was then at Malta on the way to the Dardanelles. He remarked that this was considered to be a good position, and expressed pleasure at the prospect of his taking a part in the operations of the Allied Fleet. Prior to his transfer to the Jonquil, Captain Watchlin had been engaged in navigating prize ships in Home waters, and he had also seen service as second in command of H.M. torpedo-boat Thrasher, and went through a course of instruction in gunnery.

The Union Company's Pateena, which has been relieving the Loongana in the Melbourne-Launccston ferry service for some little time, left Melbourne on Monday for Wellington. Tho vessel will probably re-enter the Wellington-Picton, Nelson ferry service.

HULK PURCHASED. It is announced that the Blackball Coal Company has purchased the Tyneside Proprietary's well-known hulk Prince of Wales. Built in 1850 for the Hudson Bay Company, and christened by the late King Edward VII (then Prince of Wales), the vessel has had an intensely interesting and romantic career. ' She was built for use lis an ••ice-breaker" in the Arctic Seas, and was formerly fitted with engines as an auxiliary to her sails. For many years' she traded among the outposts of the Hudson Bay Company until in the early 'sixties she changed hands, and was then used for conveying emigrants from England to New Zealand. It was during one of her trips to this country that she was a silent witness of the famous sea tight between the Kearsage and the Alabama. She was well known in London, her coat of gamboge and her "kiltie" figurehead giving her a very distinctive apparane. In later years she was dismantled, and for some time lay at Pieton, doing duty as a. freezing hulk. She wa3 finally brought to Wellington, and will doubtless remain there until she is scuttled ill Cook Strait as being no longer seaworthy.

TRADE AT NEWCASTLE. According to Messrs Earp Bros.' trade report for September, business at Newcastle, particularly in the coal trade, was reported quiet, but the outlook was more promising than for some time past. The shortage of explosives had been overcome. The following are the present rates of freight to foreign ports;— San Francisco■ 18s, Honolulu 18s; Acapuleo 245, Ouaymas 245, Callao 30s, Valparaiso, Pisagua Range 225, Manila 14s, Singapore 17s, Java lCs. Auckland lis, Cisborne 15s, Kapler 12s, Wellington lis, Wanganui 14s Od, Lytteltou 12s, Timaru 12s Od, Dunedin 12s Od, Bluff 12s Od.