SHIPPING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 296, 7 May 1913, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT OP NEW PLYMOUTH. E WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 1913. MAY. c PHASES OF THE MOON. i D. H. M. S. t New moon fi 8 1 10 p.m. 1 First quarter 13 11 22 12 p.m. s Full moon 20 6 55 12 p.m. i Last quarter 28 11 40 19 a.m. THE TIDES. High water at New Plymouth to-day 9.32 a.m. and 9.51 p.m. To-morrow 10.9 i a.m. and 10.30 p.m. i THE SUN. Rises to-day 0.58, to-morrow 0.59. Sets to-day 5.2, to-morrow 5.1. ARRIVED. Tuesday.—Rarawa, s.s., 1072 tons, Norbury, from Onchunga. Tuesday.—Rcgulus s.s., 585 tons, Tointon, from Tarakolie. Last Night—Haupiri, s.s., 748 , tons, Bilton, from Onehunga. SAILED Last Night.—Regulus, s.s., 585 tons, Tointon, for Greymouth. Last Niglit.—Rarawa, s.s., 1072 tons, . Norbury, for Onehunga. 1 ' EXPECTED; ARRIVALS, i Taviuni, from South, Wednesday. ] Rarawa, from North, Thursday. Corinna, from South, Friday. j Rarawa, from North, Saturday. ) Corinna, from North, Sunday. Karawa., from. North, Tuesday. ' THE HAUPIRI. The Haupiri arrived from Onehunga late last night arid'to-day will load general cargo for Wellington. -;;>.. THE REGULUS. The Regulus, with 170 tons of coal, arrived from Tarakolie yesterday morning. 'She got away about 8 p.m. for Greymouth. THE TAVIUNI. The Taviuni is due from southern ports this morning 'with: '■ about 300 tons of cargo. She proceeds to the West Coast ) after discharging. BOGUS DOCTOR-SENTENCED. ■ AMAZING "CAREER OF A MAN OF .MANY PROFESSIONS. CHAMPION MALINGERER : l | A man of undoubted ability, who had ) an extraordinary career, was at the Old 'I Bailey ..sentenced to 'nine months' im- | prisonment in.the second division. His I name is Harry Virtue, alias Richard ' Henry Barbei\ and the charge against ' him was that.he! had fraudulently caused himself to be; registered as a doctor Land.given false, certificates of-deaths. I Mr. Bodkin, who prosecuted, stated '"that the accused > practised at Treeton, ■ near Rotherham, under the name of a Dr. Barber, who was-drowned in 1904. ! On November 10th, within an hour of i receiving an inquiry respecting this docj tor, he sold liis practice to his assistant I for £IOO and' Teiffhe "district,. Hi- was .' next heard of in Liverpool, where in the } name of Tennyson lie. wivs nego:a*ing I for the post erf ship's -doctor in an Atlantic liner. Virtue, slid Mr. Bodkin,, was the son of a Manchester brass finI isher, and some of his .Icciiiatibns Lcfore ] practising as a dtre*or included that of I grocer, •butcher,' veterinary Mirgaon,, and ' soldier (in R.H.A.),, Mr. Bodkin -ssid there was no reason to douot that the people certified to be dead, .were really dead, but whether., they died of die disease specified was a .-natter on which there.nijglit be some doubt. T;-..*c was ' one' case—a 'state 1 "of 'gangrenous arms coming from foul instruments. 'Oi» being arrested," said Mr. Uoilßto;. *H began one of the .most remarkable wses of malingering aver, .l-n/iwn, .lie >™ s certified as -a rluila% remaining for seven ov eight weeks.' in''llahstead Asylum,4md -it-.was' ,"Qt -VntilH specialist was sent down to'csaiiiinc' lii'm that-it was found he was, in fact'/- Hialincrertng. He was brought up at '■ iv.ee to B«'.w street, and then 'lie" suddenly lest his • voice.. Ue.woujd nqt .Ttor;«i wimd. but after lie 'hail b'een'rema.nfcd'for a vveck jhe thought* better of, it' and suddenly I regained his voice. ■' ! ' '• ' ' • ' '"Mr" George'Elii'6tt;lv.C.VlJr the deI fence, said''tlie ; -acc«sed' ,: icted--m locum tenens to ten of etewm- professional gentlemen and it was -a -testimony to Ms -'ability that, in -U\h J -instances he was "'There were forty testimonials From pfttielit»-atTTwtoiLi-nd plmwhere expressing flie'-gifeaites.t, gimjtude for the relief he lwlaffprded them. He studied mediemft,-at Boston. .Uni voraity and other places/ and; because. Mil. _ot ■ Chicago and Wisconsin, .fcesi.des <>l>tf"ning a diploma' -in..Peru.- He knew Dr. Barter in "America. -. :..... Judoe Luralev Smith, as passed" sentence of nine months' imprisonment in the second, division.