SHIPPING.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 October 1915, Page 2

SHIPPING.

POKT OF NEW PLYMOUTH. . SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1915. PHASES OF THE MOON. OCTOBER. 23—Full moon, 11.52 p.m. 31—Last quarter, 4.1(1 p.m. THE TIDES. High water to-day at 9.30 a.m. and ».47 p.m.; to-morrow, 10.4 a.m. and 10.21 p.m. THE SUN. The sun rises to-day at 5.21 a.m. and sets at 659 p.m.; to-morrow, 5.20 a,m, and 0.40 p.m. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Kittawa, from Wellington, to-day. Rarawa, from North, Tuesday. Rarawa, from North, Friday. ARRIVED. October 22. —Rarawa, s.s., 1072 tons, Bark, from Onehunga. Passengers:— Mesdames Stohr, Sargeant, Whelan, Jonkal, Fairweather, Boutell, Nurse Le Pine; Messrs Turnfield, Parsons, Crocker, Dean, Kempthorne, Barlow, James, Black, Sampson, Kettle, Revs. Harrison, Ardenbroist, and Howard; ten steerage. THE RARAWA. The Rarawa brought 101 tons of general cargo from Onehunga yesterday, including nine tons of sugar.

RARAWA'S ROUGH TRIP. The passengers by the steamer Rarawa from New Plymouth to Onehunga had a trying experience on Wednesday, reports the Auckland Herald. The steamer left New Plymouth about nine o'clock on Tuesday night, and under ordinary circumstances should have reached Onehunga at that hour the following morning. The rough weather on the west coast, however, prevented this. When the Rarawa approached the Manukau Bar it was found impassable, and Captain Bark put out to sea, where the steamer remained until late in the afternoon, when she again came on and crossed the bar about half-past four o'clock, and readied Onehunga at six.' o'clock, ten hours late. Captain Gibbons, harbormaster at Onehunga, stated on Wednesday night that it was the first time in his six and a-half years' experience at Onehunga that he had heard of the bar being so rough as to prevent tie Rarawa crossing inwards. The steamer Arapawa, from Wanganui, had to remain at eea on Wednesday, but she crossed the bar in the wake' of the Rarawa and reached Onehunga shortly afterwords.

INSOLVENT GERMAN OOCMBANIES. It has been officially denied in Berlin that the Hamburg-Amerika and the Nord-deutscher-lloyd transatlantic lines are bankrupt. This (states a Geneva telegram of July 29) may be true from a purely legal point of view, as the shareholders have taken no public action in the courts, but there is little doubt that both, companies are insolvent from a business point of view. The Nordline has issued the following circular, which reached Switzerland through {Basle:—"For German navigation on the seas, the declaration of war against France, Russia and England represents for us the most terrible catastrophe. All our navigation since the end of July, 1914, has been paralysed by the insecurity of the political position, and it was completely stopped at the beginning of August. In comparison with 1913 the number of our passengers has diminished by 284,582. In the first seven months of 1914 there were 376,795, against 062,385 in 1913. Since August last both the passenger and goods traffic has entirely ceased." The report adds that it is not yet possible to estimate the great losses incurred by the two companies, but it appears that they owe several millions sterling and cannot piy their creditors, and as their indebtedness increases daily by leaps and bounds the question of bankruptcy is only a formal legal matter.