SHIPPING

Evening Star, Issue 19550, 7 May 1927, Page 1

SHIPPING

HIGH WATER. —To-morrow.— St. Clair; 8.24 S-51 p.tn. Talk roa Head: 8.34 a.m., 9.1 p.m, Port Chalmers: 9:14 a.m., 9.41 p.m. Dunedin ; 9.44 a.m., 10.11 p.m, —Monday.— St. Clair: 9.17 a.m., 9.43 p.m. Taiaroa Head: 9.27 a.m., 9.53 p.m. Port Chalmers: 10:7 a.m., 10.33 p.m.’ Dunedin : 10.37 a.m., 11.3 p.m. THE SUN. Sets to-day, 4.58 p.m,; rises to-tmjf-row, 7.12 a.m. Sets to-morrow, 4.57 p.m.; rises Monday, 7.13 a.m. PHASES OF THE MOON. First quarter May 9 2.57 8.It), Full moon May 17. 6.33 a.m. Last quarter May 24 5,4 p.m. New moon May 31 8.36 a.m. Sets to-day, 10.49 p.m.; rites to-mor-row, 2.2 p.m. Sets to-morrow, 11,64 p.m.; [rises Monday, 2.28 p.m. ARRIVED.—May 6, Katoa, s.s. (6.30 p.m.), 2,484 tens, Kane, from Auckland via ports. SAILED.—May 6. Storm, s.s. (12.20 p.m.), 7*9 tons, Sharpe, for Bluff. Norfolk, s.s. (4.20 p.m.),' 10,946 tons, G. P. Mead, for Timaru. CAMBRIDGE FROM LONDON. The New Zealand Shipping Company advises that the Federal Line steamer Cambridge is scheduled to leave London on June 1 with cargo for discharge at Suva, Wellington, and Auckland. She is duo at Auckland on July 9. MAIMYoTrOM NEW YORK. ' Under charter to the Commonwealth and Dominion Line the steamer Moimyo is to sail from New York' at the end of this month with case oil and general cargo for discharge at Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton, and Dunedin. PORT HARDY’S ITINERARY. ' Having sailed from Loudon ou April for Auckland, P.ort Chalmers, and Now Plymouth, the Commonwealth and Dominion Line steamer Port Hardy is due at _ Auckland ou May 16. After completion of discharge the vessel will load in.the southland then return to Auckland to fill' up with cargo for New York, Boston, and London, She is to be despatched finally from Auckland for her Homeward voyage on June 3. PORT OF LONDON’S RATS, Thero is evidence that the rat nuisance is,being successfully combated in the Port of London. ; Last year the Authority destroyed 10,563 of these pests, compared with 11,977 in 1925, and 13,020 in 1924. This diminution in numbers killed is due, not to any' failux‘e of the methods employed, but the fact that the rat 1 army is steadily becoming smaller A war of attrition mayr be slow, but it is about the only possible way of dealing with this problem. FORERIC AT AUCKLAND. Loaded with 7,500 tons of phosphate,the steamer Fororic arrived at Auckland from Nauru Island on Wednesday, The Foreric, which last visited Auckland on March 15, went from that port to Westport for bunkers, thenco proceeding to Ocean Island with a small quantity of coal. From Ocean Island she went to Nauru to load her present cargo, sailing thence for Auckland, ou, April _ 22. Fine weather was experienced to the islands, but a couple of days’ fresh head winds delayed progress on the return run. The Foreric was expected to sail to-day lor Wanganui to complete discharge. Thenco she will go to Westport tor hunkers, and later will proceed to Makatca to load another phosphate cargo. Captain G. Jones is still in command.