SHIPPING.

PORT OP TIMAWL. Th« flagstaff of Timarn is situated in Cut Longtitnda 171deg. 15mia- loseo.; fcootb. Latitude 44deg. 23min 41«e«. High water, 6.26 a.m.; 6.52 p.m. Sou rises, 7.48 a.m.; tets, 4.4J p.m. Moon rwrs, 10.21 p.m.; sets, 10.4i2 a.m. , PHASES OF THE MOON. July 21—Last quarter, 11.32 a.m. :July 28 —New inooii, 6.47 p.m. ARRIVED. July 17—Koonya, 6.t>., 1091 tons, Nicholson, from Oamaru. SAILED. July 17 Koonya, s.s., IC9I tons, Nicholson, for Lnltelton. IN HARBOUR. NiL EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Cornwall, s.s., today, totonn, S.S., to-day. •Lizzie Taylor, schooner, daily. Gorinna, s-s., on MonJay. Huapebu, s.s., en July 20. h. Taieri, s.s., early. Kaituna, s.s., early. Navarino, s.s., about July 24th. Wanaka, s.s., about July 23rd. .-.Waimate, 5.6., in August. The s.s. Cornwall left the Bluff at 10 a.m.. ■ yesterday, and should arrive heie about tifae same time to-day. She will load i frozen meat and other produce for West of England ports. The Union, Company's chartered etearner Navarino arrived at Wellington on Thursday morning from. Newcastle, and has a fnU cargo of coal, part of which is for Timarn, where the vessel is due about abont July 24t;h. : The Union Company's s.s. Koonya, from Dunedin and Oaniaru, arrived about 5-p.m. yesterday, and proceeded to.-dis-charge 42- tons of general cargo and to loaoV 120 tons of produce. She sailed about midnight; for Lytteltfon, Wellington atid,'W«st Coast.. A- return in regard to shipping at Newcastle, comparing, the iiret eix montha of 1908; and 1907, .has just been issued. . It shows that 2535 vessels arrived and 2558.- vessels- left the port from January 1, to'. June 30 this year, as against 2477 arrived and 2443 left for the same period in',1907. .The new steamers, Rutherglen and Baron Minto, have been chartered to load coal-, at Baltimore, U.S.A., for Auckland, for ■ the • American fleet. Five other Gteamers, the British Monarch. Palls of Gfehy, Glenfrnin. Magdala, and Uisher, are atpresentl on their way from United States ports to coal the American tleet. at" Auckland. .'The Shaw Savill steamer Waiwera, 6237 tons, which left Sydney on Juno 10th for Guaymas. in Mexico, with a cargo ..of coal, has been chartered to load a. full cargo of lumber ati Puget Sound for Sydney. The Waiwera. now holds the record of being the biggest tonnage steamer that has ever been chartered to load lumber at Puget Sound for Australia. 'Japanese steamers (6ays an exchange) are still acutely feeling t;he effects o£ the Chinese boycott, and, judging by the. thorough manner in which it is bring applied to representatives of the> Japanese lines trading to Australia, the end is as far. off--as ever. The Yawata Marn, which arrived at Melbourne from Yokohama, and Hongkong, via ports, recently, was again a great stifferer. She did not carry- a single Chinese passenger or a ton. of Chinese cargo from Hongkong. She was, 1 however, freely patronised by Knropeans and Japanese, arriving in Sydney with her ; saloon accommodation well taken up.