SHIPPING TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume L, Issue 12438, 16 December 1903, Page 4

SHIPPING TELEGRAMS.

AttBIYKD. ' Gisborne, Dec. 16 — Kuxnar^,' ' js a. r from Napier, at 5 a jn. o^a - WelKngfcon, Dec. 16-BBftffll, 6 5., from . Sew Plymouth, at G.lo a.m. ,l::\ Onehunga. Dec^fL—Takapuna, ss., from New Plymouth, awsm! ' ! BAiteD, ; , ;ta\ *«: "Wellingfcon, Dec. 16-"Waimafc§,^.s,, for Gisborne at 3.45 a.m. ' T -,t.*-

EXPECTED ARRIVALS AT WELLIj^GTO.N!. .Kaikoara, left London Bth Ock, Via. A^3tralian ports and/Auctla'nd; dnfe v about Ibth Dec.. f • ' ' ; . Bverton Grange, left New rork3oth.Sept; , via Australian ports and Auckland': due about 16th Dec. --; -> Tokomaru,leffe London 28th, Oct., via Capetown and Hobart; due abotffe 18th' Dec. ' Paparoaj left Plymouth 9th\. .Nov., via Capetown and Hobart; 'da«jTab6ut £Bth Dec. t tar of Ireland, lefiHSew York 12th Oct , ria Au^raiia and Auckland^ due abbufc 30th Whakatane. left •SenTibn 2nd Nov., via Capetown, .Hobart, and Auckland; due about 31st Dec Corinthic, left London _19th Soy,, via Capecown ana ilobart; due about"3rvi Jan. The Eotoiti on Tuesday, 22nd inst., and Takapana on Thursday, 24th inst., will leave for Wellington;aV6.3Q a4n of noon. On Monday night thes,s. Sterling collided n ear*>Papgayille with an 'oil launch, wLich ea^k> fi 3|he owner, (Hunter) and his son were savga.fegt a was drowned: < - ,The jAdmiralty is building a coaling pier for batthjahigs at Hbng-Kpng; On her last trip from London to Adelaide the I jyMj£;£tar liner Buevic Is stated to have, made a record trip of thirty-nine days, including stoppages. . She occupied fifte&n days between Cape Town and Albany, and U credited,wii&|in x average run of 14 Knots tbrougho&Kttef trip. , The' Federal S.N". .Company's, steamship, "P^e^et^as been rather unfortunate sinco sneieit Unnedin. and when leaving Adelaide on November 28th for, South Africa went agronnd near tße South' Arm. 'Portion of her water balhutwa^ pumped out, and with the asejstanceTJFtugs slie was got off only, however, to get aground^ agajn on Lefrores Pemnsnla, ;- After* lightening she was floated off, and pr^ggg^egsta^he .voyage. The Government contribution to the cost °! t, %l n;rvey3 of t! ? e coastline and harbours oySey&Zealand made by HMS. Penguin m3sgZ!iß&^^-Simnltanecusly with the £ork done by the surveying ship, the chief surveyors o£ the colouy have been making land surveys for the purpose 6f computing the latitudes and longitudes ,oE the coastal tri" 1 stations as derived from 'ijhe new determina" tion of Mount Cook. Wellington. These have been plotted on the Admiralty charts, and maps have been prepared -sb6wing. bycomv^^Sl^, A &°H'ralty charts, the coastline land surveys. Ihe work, as applied to the whole colony, inand checking of 704 statioYsr^n^raßreadJustnient of the coastline on 51 charts. / -- ' -, >/'

The Union Steam Ship Company. mana«nng SF e «H'l° r th % Royal Mail Lrbe, forwa-d* #ie(£ollowing ektract from thrWo^tireal Herald of October 2nd:— "The fact that the mjjL steamer Tunisian ba3. come from land to Jand in f ur days fifteen hours, brings home the DojssibiJitie* 6f the express -^ryijfte so, long, talked of. The Tan»sian»embari:ea mails Sailed from Moville at 2 p.m. on Friday, September2J>th, and landed her mails at Bimbuski on Thursday. October JSf,4iEt 6.40 p.m. The OTftish maila of fieptemßer 23rd.^ pj^r JKMte-lfctar Line, ai*i not yet m Montreal. Tney are en route via New fork. , Th.a mails of twentyfour hours later were landed by the Canadian majhsteamerTneisianjaf Himooskilast evening, and were on the tables in. Montreal thi-j morning (Friday). Only the very fastest boat* on the flew York 'ivies now get ahead of the ''Canadian ' routed id : the' matter of rapidity of mail fan3it. It should not be lon^, said a sfceamshin-,official, before all our mail matter comes in less than six days by *2>a! 1 - B «tM£» route. ,f he fabt that the Jnißfflan.iras come irom> land vj land in four days.jfifteen hours' is a proof " ' *