SHIPPING.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 June 1916, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT OF NEW (PLYMOUTH, THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 1916. PHASES OF THE MOON. JUNE, 191S 9th—First Quarter, 1.36 a.ni. 10th—Full Moon, 9.1S a.m. 23rd—Last Quarter, 0.33 a.m. THE TIDES. High water 10-day at 1.46 ti.ni. and '2.04 p.m.; to-morrow, 2.2G a.m. and 2.48 —j . THE SUN. The sun rises to-day at 7.01 a.m. and sets at 4.30 p.m.; to-morrow, at 7 a.m. and 4.29 p.m. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Wallsend, from Sydney, Thursday. Mapourika, from Wellington, Thursday. Rarawa, from North, Friday. Corinna, from Wellington, end of week. Rarawa, from North, Tuesday. TELEGRAPHIC. SAILED. Auckland, June 7. —At 7 a.m., Mamari, for Wellington. Port Chalmers, June 7. —At 2.30 p.m., Fred J. Ward Billingham, for Washington.

MISHAP TO OPOURI. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Christchurch, June 5. A magisterial inquiry was held to-day before Mr. T. A. B. Bailey, S.M., and Captains Murray and Hutchinson, assessors, into the mishap to the steamer Gpouri off Waipapa Point on April 24, on the voyage ft'om Greymouth to Lyttelton. Arthur Person, A.8., said it was blowing half a gale, and he was steering south by west when he felt a bump. The ship was a mile and a half from the shore, and the weather was clear.' In his opinion the ship struck a submerged object. Alexander W. Bethune, Government Surveyor, said that from the nature of the damage liis beliet was that the ship struck a spit of some kind. The inquiry was adjourned till tlie •2Ctli inst.

NOTES. The recent loss of the Peruvian steamer Pachitea in I.omas Bay is said to have been due to the act of a German fourth officer. It appears that German ofl'icers from vessels lying in South American ports are glad to take posts in junior positions on neutral-owned steamers, and the captain of the Paehitoa, himself an Englishman, had been forced to employ one of these, Tiemann by name, as fourth ofliicer. Oil the, day of the wreck Tiemann was on watch, with instructions to call the captain at a certain hour, which he failed to do. The captain coming on deck later found hia vessel among the barges in lomas Bay and driving straight for the shove, while Tiemann loafed by the man at the wheel without lifting a finger to save the vessel. The steamer was lost, and on searching for the fourth mate, after getting ashore, it was discovered that h< had departed in a local schooner. The theory is that Tiemann knew the vessel was insured in London and struck 011 this ingenius method of injuring his country's enemies bv casting the vessel away, causing :i loss to the British insurance market of at least £IOO,OOO.