SHIPPING.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 October 1917, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT OF NEW PLYMOUTH. I WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1017.. PHASES OF THE MOON. J.sth —New moon, 2.18 p.m. 23rd—First quarter, 2.14 a.m. 30th—Full moon, 5.5 C p.m. THE TIDES. i High water at New Plymouth to-day J at 9.30 a.m. aud 10.18 p.m.; to-morrow., I at 10.35 a.m. and 10.52 p.m.. I THE iii^iiii—J Thursday or Friday. ! Rarawa, from Onehunga, Friday. Karamu, from Lytteiton, Sunday. Rarawa, from Onehunga, Tuesday. Corinna, from Dunedin, Tuesday, 23rd. ARRIVED. October 16.—Rarawa, sjs., 1072 tons, Bark, from Onehunga. Passengers: Misses Saxton, Morton, Arnold; Mesdames Grubb, Gentlers, Bradbury, Pague, Newing, Ward; Messrs. Grubb, Roper, Johnson, Burns, Peppell, Hal-: ten, Hamilton, Kasper, Patterson, Snellen, Green, Spence, Chaff, Maddock, laglis, Calmer, Reeve and child, Avery, Drysdale, Boulton, Crespen, 'Passavant, Private O'Halloran, Master Avery; 13 steerage. SAILED. October 16.—Rarawa, s.s. Passengers: Misses Mace, Wilson, Wright, McEwen; Mesdames Evans. Shaw, .Toll, Sellers and child, Hooker, Moir, Phillips, FarncyHougty Barraclough, King and child; Messrs Nott. Hadley, Cheatle, Crawford, Hodgkinson, Day, Jensen, Erskine, Shaw, Joll, Sellers. Hooker, Johnson, Barry, Barraclough; Archdeacon Evans; Revs. Harvie, Barnett, Addenbrooke, Harrison, Geddes, Moir. Favell; 2 steerage. THE RARAWA. The Rarawa got away last night, after discharging 226 tons of cargo from Onehunga. A suggestion £or improving the sea journey between Gisborne and Napier has been put forward by a Gisborne resident. The idea is the opening up of a channel through the isthmus at Mahia. Discussing the subject with fishermen from that locality, he was informed that the lagoon that opens in the low sandy stretch that connects Mahia with the mainland, extends to within nine miles of the sea on the Hawke's Bay side, and that it would only require a comparatively small amount of dredging to open up a' navigable channel for the smaller class of vessels. A canal through this gap. it is pointed out, would obviate the passage round Portland Island at the extreme southern point of the peninsula, effecting a saving of 26 miles in the journey to Napier.