SHIPPING.

Taranaki Daily News, 19 September 1916, Page 2

SHIPPING.

FORT OF NEW 'PLYMOUTH. TUESDAY, iSKI'TKMBKIi in, 1916. PHASES OF THE MOON. Last quarter, 19th, 5.12 p.m. New moon, -27 th, 9.11. THE TIDES. High water at New Plymouth to-t-.J'y at 1.10 a.m. and 1.34 p.m.; to-morrow at 1.58 a.m. and '2.25 p.m. THE SUN. The sun rises to-day at 0,4 a.m. and sets at S.fifi p.m.; to-morrow, rises at 0.3 a.m. and sets at 5.07 p.m. EXPECTED ARRIVAL? Rarawa, from North, to-day. Rarawa, from North, Friday. Corinna, from Duncdin, Sunday, TELEGRAPHIC. ARRIVED. BlulT, Sept. 18.—At 7.30 p.m., Patoona, from Melbourne. SAILED. Newcastle, September 18.—Warrimoo, for Timaru; Kakapo, for New Plymouth. Auckland, September 18.—Talune, for Suva. Onehunga, Sept. IS.—At. 3.15 p.m., Raia\va, for New Plymouth. Auckland, Sept. 18.—At C.lO p.m., Wairuna, for Sydney, NOTES. A well-known identity on the Wellington waterfront and to the travelling public, Mr. John Witheridge, quartermaster of the Union Co.'s ferry steamer Mararoa, died at Dunedin on Wednesday after being in the hospital there for about four months. Old ''Jack,'' as lie was familiarly -known hy his friends, was for about twenty years engaged on the Mararoa, which vessel lie left a'hout four months ago. Witheridge had an adventurous career, both ashore and alloat, having enlisted in the American Civil War and served afterwards in the famous ten clippers Cutty Sark and Undine, and later on in the American and Australian ship Snrat. Altogether he spent half a century at sea.