SHIPPING.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 February 1916, Page 2

SHIPPING.

FORT OF NEW PLYMOUTH, ' FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1016. PHASES OF THE MOON. FEBRUARY. 28.—Last quarter, 9.0 p.m. THE TIDES. High water, to-day at 0.50 a.m. and 1.14 p.m.; to-morrow, 1.32 a.m. and 2,10 THE SUN. The sun vises to-day at 5.2!) a.m and sets at (1.31 p.m.; to-morrow at 5.30 a.m. and 8.30 p.m. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Rarawa, from North, to-day. Kara, iram Wellington Saturday. Rarawa, from Nurtli, Tuesday, TELEGRAPHIC. ARRIVED. Wellington, February 24.—Arrived, at 7.36 a.m., Moana, from RarsUnga. Wellington, Feb. 24.—At 4.35 p.m., Corinuj, from New Plymouth. SAILED. Newcastle, February 2-I.—Sailed, Perth, lor Nelson. NOTES.

After a fortnight's ceaseless work at the Patent Slip at Wellington, the repairs to the collier Koinata, which went ashore neaT Pencarrow Heads about three weeks ago, have been completed. The prevailing shortage ef tonnage demanded the speedy • execution of the work, and one hundred men. divided into two shifts of twelve hours cacli, have been engaged continuously for the past fortnight. The work has proceeded without a hitch. Captain Ryan, late of the Karaiau, has taken command of the vessel. To he dismantled and dismasted to serve in the billable capacity of a coal hulk, and then to be suddenly renovated, fitted up and rejuvenated for the purpose of cargo-carrying has been the unique experience of the iron barque An tiope, which sailed from Wellington on Saturday for Kaipara, to load timber for Australia. No other vessel in New Zealand (states the Evening Post), probably in the world, lias massed through such a metamorphosis. There are other eventful incidents attached t<i her career. Port Glasgow was her birthplace, and slie was built in 18(16. Consequently she is fifty years old now. For many years she was a familiar trader from London and Liverpool to Australia carrying general cargoes and returning with wool. Then for seme years she was out ef the Australian business being engaged in the South American trade. When the war was.on between Japan and Tiuss'm »he was captured hv the Japanese, and sold as a prize to American buyers, wlm eventually put her in the Austra-lian-Pacific trade carrying lumber from Puget Sound or Eureka to Sydney, thence coal from Newcastle to the Hawaiian Islands or San Francisco. Jn j December of 1014 she left Newcastle for San Francisco and was chartered to load a cargo of timber on the Pacific Slope for Svdney. was purchased by the Paparoa Coal Company for the of a hulk, and made the vovage to New Zealand under Captain Holm. She arrived in the Dominion about nine months ago. and the intention was that she should end her days es a bulk. Tier masts were torn out and all her gear was cleared awa>. When the want of shipping apace became so acute, she was bought by the Otago Roller Mills Company, and was then entirely refitted and equipped after ever spar, yard and mast had been taken out of her. Her hull is quite sound, and it is anticinaied that she will maintain her seaworthiness for manv years yet.