SHIPPING.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 16194, 27 July 1918, Page 6

SHIPPING.

SATURDAY, JULY 97, 1918,

At Waitara the tide is 15 minutes earlier than the above figures for New Plymouth, while at Opunake it is high water 15 minutes later than at New Plymouth. PHASES OF THE MOON. AUGUST, 1918. 7th—New Moon, 8.6 a.m. 15th—First Quarter, 10.53 a.tt. 22nd—Full Moon, 4.39 p.m. 29th—Last Quarter, 7.4 a.m. EXPECTjEDAimiVALS. Rarawa, from Onehunga, Tuesday. Corinna, from South, Sunday. Kamona, from Westport, Tuesday . ARRIVED. July 27.—Ngatoro, s.s. (9.50 a.m.) 1137 tons, Dowell, from Wanganui. SAILED. July 26.—Baden Powell, s.s. (6.30 p.m.) 174 tons, Jackson, for Greymouth. July 26.—Rarawa, s.s,, 1072 tone, for Onehunga. Passengers;— Misses Frame, Scott (4), Poole; Mesdames Harvoy, Scott and family, Wickham; Messrs. Harvey, Hastie, Ward, Bates, Walker, Soott, Lux ton, Ross, Scott, Fritsch, Seward, Bridges; 3 steerage. SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. ARRIVED. Onehunga. July 27.—Rarawa (9.20 a.m.) from Now Plymouth. UNION COMPANY. The Kamona left Westport at 11.30 a.m. yesterday for Wellington and New Plymouth and is due here on Tuesday. Her cargo for this port consists of 700 tons of coal and 1718 bags of coke. The Corinna loft Lyttelton at 4 o’clock yesterday for Nelson. She leaves Nelson to-night at 12 o’clock and gets here on Sunday afternoon with about 650 tons of cargo. FERRY~SERVICES. The ferry boat from Wellington for Lyttelton now loaves at 3 p.m. daily, in order to cross Cook Strait before

In consequence of the regulations which necessitate vessels navigating in Cook Strait doing so, as far as possible, in daylight, an alteration has been mode in the running of the Pateena from Wellington to Picton and Nelson. She now leaves Wellington on Mondays and Fridays for Picton and Nelson at I.SO p.m. and for Picton only on Wednesdays at tile same hour. DAYLIGHT SAILINGS ACROSS COOK STRAIT. The request of the Naval Adviser that shipping companies should dispatch their steamers, so that they cross Cook Strait in daylight, was discussed at a special committee meeting of the coastal shipowners on Wednesday (reports the Dominion). The general opinion of the meeting was, it is understood, that the position of the shipowners should be more clearly stated. Pending an explicit statement, the New Zealand- Refrigerating Company have decided to lay up their two steamers—the Mana and the Tainui—the former at Lyttelton and the latter at Wanganui. NOTES. The head office of the Union Company has received advice of the arrival of the Dartford at San Francisco on July 17 from Port Chalmers. The Dartford, which has been in turn sailer, training-ship, and hulk, Was refitted for the sea this year at Port Chalmers., which she left on April 27, taking 80 days to do the voyage. She will load at San Francisco for New Zealand. Information has been received in Sydney that the Orient Company’s steamer Omrah, formerly engaged in the Australian service, has been sunk. The Omrah was a vessel of 8130 tons, and was a popular liner among the Australian travelling public. She was built in 1899 by Fairfield and Company, Ltd., of Glasgow, her principal dimensions being:—Length, 490 ft 7in.; beam. 66ft 7in.; depth, 26ft.

DIARY. High Sunwater. rise. set. July, 1918. a.xn. 27—Saturday 12.15 7.5 4.55 28—Sunday ... 12.36 7.4 4.56 29—Monday ... 7.8 4.57 30—Tuesday 1.47 7.8 4.57 31—Wednesday ... 2.18 7.3 4.57 August, 1918. 1—Thursday 3.34 7.2 4.58 2—Friday ... 4.32 7.2 4.68