SHIPPING TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13173, 25 May 1906, Page 4

SHIPPING TELEGRAMS.

ARRIVED. Onehunga, May 25.— Penguin, from N«w Plymouth, at a.m. • (xreymauth, May 254— Rbskmond", Sroin New Plymouth, yesWUfay, at H p.m.,

SAILED.

Wellington, Miay 25.-lojaic, for Lon don, at 8 a.m. .

' THE ORMtTZ. Perth, May 25.— Arrived^ Ormiiz. Passengers Tor New 'Zealand : Mr Richardson and wifa and child. '

WELLINGTON HARBOUR. BOARD

Wellington, Miay 24.«-Th 1 c Harbour Board to-day decided to grant its permanent employees who have been two years and upwards iln -the Board* employ a week's holiday each year, and those wlio 'have been .ten year's an# upwards a fortnight,'^ holiday in each year on full pay. The Board approved the , draft ofth© Harbour Association's 'Superannuation Bill.

ON- THE ROCKS.

Sydney, May 24.— A vessel,' supposed ho be a ihree-masted French barq,ue, is on th« rocks a milo from Manly, making, signals of distress.

Sydney. May 25.— The vessfel ashore at Manly is the French barque Vineennes, from Yokohama in ballast, for. forders. Sh© arrived off tho heads

yesterday afternoon, arid signalled for a pilot. A. gale was ragmg, amd the . weather was too thick 'for 'tha's'ign/d's' to be seen ■at the pilot station. She

gradually drifted ashore <on Ocean Beach, arid lies broadsM© on an even keel, embedded in the sand. Shortly after she struck -four of the- crew 1 managed to, reach the shore in ai bloat. They- were v greatly exhausted. The pilot steamer went to th© scene, but the '^ea was. too rough to allow her to render assistance, arid! she by. This morning the weather -was calm, and at low water it iwasi almost possible Id walk aboard. \Th-ere was 1 only about - f otar * feet- of water where the vessel lies. She 1 3s settled in\t'< sand, and there are go.o'd prospects M salving if the wte-aiiher (holds -good. The 1 balance- of the crew remain aboard.