SHIPPING.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LX, Issue 143691, 12 January 1912, Page 6

SHIPPING.

PORT OF NEW PLYMOUTH. FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 1912. DIARY. January, High Sun Sun 1912. Water. Rise. Set. 6 Saturday ... 10.24 4.41 7.13 7 Sunday 11.16 4.42 7.13 8— Monday 12.5 4.43 7.13 9 Tuesday 12.54 4.44 7.12 10— Wednesday... 1.38 4.£5 7.12 11— Thursday ... 1.59 4.46 7.12 12— Friday 2.42 4.46 7.12 At Waitara the tide is 15 minutes earlier tiian the above figures for New Plymouth, while at Opuuake it is high water 15 minutes later than at New Plymouth. PHASES OF THE MOON. 11th.—Last Quarter, 7.13 p.m. 19th.—New Moon, 10.40 p.m. 27th.—First Quarter, 10.21 p.m. ARRIVED. Jan. 12.—Rarawa, s.s., 1072 tons, Norbury, from Onehunga. Passengers; Mieses Coe-Sinith, Hickey, M. Ewington, Spear, Sharp, and Payne, Mesdames Richards and child, Farrell and child. Ward, Cretnor, and Dodington, Messrs. Houghton, Kippenburge, Roberton, Ewingtou, Fussed, Farrell, and Wellington ; 20 steerage. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Rarawa, from North, Friday. Rosamond, from North, Saturday. Petone, from Newcastle, Saturday. Rarawa, Irom North, Mondev. Rarawa, from North. Wednesday. Rosamond, from South, Thursday. Rarawa, from North, Friday. SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. ARRIVED. Sydney, Jan. 11.—Arrived. Casablanca, from Auckland; Bentinck and Kopu, from New Zealand; and Ihumata, from Hokianga. Onehunga. Jan. 12.—Arrived, at 6.30 a.m., Rosamond, from New Plymouth. SAILED. London, Jau. 11.—Sailed, Hornelan, for Auckland. OVERSEA VESSELS FOR WELLINGTON. FROM LONDON. Tainui (duo about January 23), sailed on December 7, via Capo Town and Hobart. (Shaw, Savill, and Albion Co.,' agents.) Mamari (due about January 24), sailed on December 6, via Auckland. (Shaw, Savill, and Albion Co., agents.) Rotorua due about February 4), sailed on December 23, via Capo Town and Hobart. (Now Zealand Shipping Co., agents.) Otaki (due about Jau. 13), sailed on Nov. 4, via Australia and Auckland. (New Zealand Shipping Co., agents.) Muritai (due about Feb. 3) sailed on Nov. 28, via Australia and Auckland. (Tvser Line, agents.) FROM MONTREAL. Rakaia (duo about Jan. 20), sailed on Nov. 19, via Australia and Auckland. (New Zealand Shipping Go., agents.) FROM NEW YORK. MarionfeJs (due about January 15), sailed on October 31, via Australia and Auckland. (Dalgetv and Co., agents.) Star of Scotland (duo about .lan. 27). sailed on Nov. 18, via Australia and Auckland. (Tvser Line, agents.) Fails of Orchy (flue nlmut Feb. 16), sailed on Nov. 18, via Auckland (Vacuum Oil Company, agents.) FROM LIVERPOOL. Banffshire (due about February 29), sailed on December 21. via Capo Town, Sydnov, Newcastle, and Auckland. (P.-H.-S. Line, agents.) Waimana (due about Fcbrruary 16), sailed on December 23, via Australian ports and Auckland. (Shaw, Savill and Albion Co., agents.) SAILER TO ARRIVE. Queen Elizabeth, ship, sailed from New York October 17. (Vacuum Oil Co., agents.) ROSAMOND’S MOVEMENTS. The Rosamond is expected hero tomorrow from Onehunga. RARAWA’S CARGO. The Rarawa arrived from Onehunga this morning with 60 tons ol cargo, including 17 tons cement, 10 tons flour, 13 tons sugar, and 160 cases fruit. Thirty-four hundred feet timber were also landed. THE NEW STEAMER WAIMANA. ■ The Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company's now steamer Waimana, which is at present on her maiden voyage to Australia and Now Zealand, was built bv Messrs. Workman. Clarke, and Co., of Belfast. She is 494 ft. in length with a gross tonnage ot over 10,300 tons, and has been constructed tinder Lloyd’s special survey for the highest classiu their registry, besides complying with the Board of Trade requirements for a cargo sud passenger emigrant steamer. The vessel has been specially designed for the, owners’ frozen meat carrying trade between New Zealand and England. and four of the six cargo holds have been insulated and otherwise fitted for the carriage of frozen mutton. The decks are supported on fore and aft girders, thus dispensing with the ordinary hold pillaring, and the holds arc therefore practically free of obstruction, and arc capable of receiving consignments of large dimensions such as locomotives, boilers, and general machinery. Comfortable accommodation for a number of first-class passengers -has been arranged in a steel midship deckhouse. The staterooms are large, apartments, and the public rooms include a dining saloon at the forward end of tho deckhouse, with smokeroom adjoining. Accommodation for about one thousand emigrants is provided iti staterooms on the upper ’tween decks, tho rooms being fitted up for two, four, and six persons, while spacious dining-rooms, smokeroom, and ladies’ room are arranged on the bridge space on the shelter deck. Tho vessel is propelled by two independent sets of triple expansion engines, having all the latest improvements, and a complete installation of auxiliaries, supplied with steam from five single-ended steel cylindrical multitubular boilers working under forced draught.