SHIPPING.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 October 1915, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT OF NEW PLYMOUTH. . B THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1015. PHASES OF THE MOON. OCTOBER. 18 —First quarter, 1.28 11.111. 23—Full moon, 11.52 p.m. 31—Last quarter, 4.10 p.m. THE TIDES. High water to-day at 12.40 a.m. and 1.6 p.m.; to-morrow, 1.35 and 2.4 p.m. THE SUN. a The sun rises to-day at 5.33 a.m. and J sets at 8.27 p.m.; to-morrow, 5.32 a.m. and 0.28 p.m. TELEGRAPHIC. C ARRIVED. Auckland, Oct. 13. —At 12.40 p.m., Baron Tweedmouth, from Balbao. SAILED. Port Chalmers, Oct. 13.—At 5.10 a.m., * Rakanoa, for Newcastle. NOTES. The Government steamer Hinemoa left Wellington on her periodical visit to northern lighthouses on Monday morn- ! ing. She will be absent for about a a month. An expected arrival at Auckland any time now is the U.S. and A. Line's char- j tered steamer Clan Farquhar from New York, via Panama Canal. She left the American port on September 5. The C. and D. Line's Indrapura, which left Wellington on August 2 for London, via Australian ports, is reported to have arrived at her • destination. It is reported that the Huddart-Parker steamer Warribco has been fixed to load £ on the Pacific Slope for New Zealand , ports. The vessel left Sydney on Septem- , her 25 for San Francisco, and will bring down a shipment of paper for various ports in New Zealand. A statement appears in a London shipping paper to the effect that the Union Company paid £IOO,OOO for the steamer , Maritime. When gold by auction in ] London on January 5 last, by order of ( the Marshal of the Admiralty, the vessel (then the German steamer Schlesien) realised £65,200. THE DACIA. The Hamburg-America liner Dacia has been renamed the Yser. She was at New York when war broke out, and was afterwards bought from the Cjerman | company by Edward Breitung, the American son of a German, and loaded cotton j at Galveston for Bremen. The question < then arose as to whether the Dacia was in fact an American ship, placed on the J Registry. By English law the decision , would have been a ticklish one; but the ' problem was evaded. The vessel sailed for a German port, and was captured i by a French warship and takeu to Brest. , As French rules recognise no transfers ; of shipping made after war has begun, the Prize Court decided the capture to bo a legal one. STRANDING OF THE FIONA. Fiji papers record a Magisterial inquiry regarding the stranding of the , steamer Fiona on the Nartata Reef, 30 miles north of Navua Passage, in the Zasawa Group, while proceeding from Lautoka to Labassa. The Fiona got oif the reef two hours later, having jettisoned fIOO tons of molasses. The Court found that the Fiona grounded on an uncharted patch; that an alteration of the vessel's course by the third officer (Paul Caesar) did not contribute to the grounding, but the third officer was deserving of censure for not informing the master of the. alteration he had made in the course; that Captain Barnes handled the vessel in a most seamanlike manner, and in no way contributed to the accident. It- transpired that the Fiona was in the habit of taking eighty labourers from Suva, and the Court expressed the opinion that better life-saving provision was desirable when such a large number of adults was carried.