SHIPPING.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 December 1915, Page 3

SHIPPING.

PORT OF NEW PLYMOUTH. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1915. PHASES OP THE MOON. i DECEMBER. 22—Full moon, 0.29 a.m. " ' ist quarter, 0.35 a.m. THE TIDES. High water to-day at 10.34 a.m. and 10.53 p.m.; to-morrow 11,12 a.m. and 11.20 p.m. THE SUN. The sun rises to-day at 4.36 a.m. and sets at 7.24 p.m.; to-morrow 4.36 a.m. and 7.24 p.m. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Rarawa, from North, Friday. TELEGRAPHIC. ARRIVED. Wanganui, December 22.—Arrived, at 0 a.m., Petoiie, from New Plymouth. SAILED. Auckland, December 22.—Sailed at 4 jp.m., Riverina, for Sydney. SEAMEN'S WAGES. AN INCREASE AGREED ON. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Yesterday. As the result of an official request by the Executive Council of the Federated Seamen's Union of New Zealand that the wages and overtime of deck, stokehold and engine-room hands be increased correspondingly with the increases granted this month py the Commonwealth Court, representatives of the shipowners met representatives of the Executive Council and mutually agreed that wages be increased £ 1 5s all round per month, the overtims rate to Is 8d instead of Is 3d and Is 6d per hour, ordinary seamen Is 2d instead of Is, leaving the rate for boating cargo at Is 9d as previously as from December 21. An industrial agreement to this effect was filed. ADRIFT. A French vessel of 200 tons is reported as being adrift near Vila, an island of the New Hebrides group. The story of how the vessel went [ adrift is told by the captain of the mission steamer Southern Cross, which reached Auckland on Monday. The boat, which is named the Pi Vanelie, was sailing from Vila to New Caledonia, a distance of about two days' sail. When about 100 miles out, she sent a boat off to the land with the message that she had lost her screw. The smaller boat reached land safely, and a Government steamer was sent out to search for the missing vessel. After five days' searching, the boat returned to Vila without any success. When the Southern Cross left the island, no further new? had been received, though there is a possibility of the vessel having drifted to New Caledonia, irom which she was not very distant. Twelve men were left on the Pi Vandie. The incident was reported at Vila on December 4, when the vessel was thirteen days out. f. AND S. LINE. The following sailings have been arranged by the F. and S. Line. The new steamer Devon was expected to begin her maiden voyage to Australia on the 141.1 i inst., and she is to be followed by the Somerset four days later. The next sailing (January 1) should betaken by another new steamer, the Cumberland, and about the middle of the same month the Durham or Dorset will be despatched, probably for New Zealand ports, THE ADMIRAL COURBET WRECKED, Advices received by the last mail report that during a fierce gale the French barque Admiral Courbctt, of 2223 gross tons, bound for New Zealand, while being towed to sea in ballast from Queenstown, broke her towing hawsers on October 20, and became separated from the tug Flying Sportsman. An attempt was made to set a sail on the ship, but the gale drove her on to the lee shore, and finally she was driven on to the rocks near Kinsale. Her crew took to the boats and reached the shore ill a distressed condition.