CASUALTIES.

Dunstan Times, Issue 410, 25 February 1870, Page 4 (Supplement)

CASUALTIES.

Mary Shepherd, Peak, from London for Auckland (N.Z.), has put into Dartmouth with los 3 of jibboom and sails. Buby, Douglas, from Burrard's Inlet for Australia, which was stranded off Esquimault Dec. 10, floated Dec. 21, after discharging about half her cargo, and was towed into Esquim&lt with very slight damage. Madras, for Melbourne, iu docking at Birkenhead 2nd inst., camo into o >liision with thepior-iJM 0 the Morpeth Dock, and roceivod damage to stC^^-~ The S.S. Nyanza reports lauding at Southampton the master and crew of the Australian barque Catterina, which was found in lat 48 20 N., long. W., in a sinking condition, with pumps choked, and tho sea sweeping cloar over the vossel; the Catterina was bound from Odossa to Falmouth with grain.

Ha.udwa.tie fou Australia. —At a meeting of the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce, held on tho 2nd February, a report was presented on tho important subject of the hardware manufactures of England. Great depression of trado is experienced in Birmingham and tho north, the more so 113 Belgium and Prussia aro keen competitors in tho English markets. Tho report continues:—"Considerable attention has been drawn to tho fact that the United States are great oxporters of edge tools and agricultural implements to our colonies. In Australia a very large proportion of tho goods in a hardwaro atoro aro of American manufacture, but mado out of English iron and steel, manufactured by American workmen earning 75 per cent, higher wages, beating üb, with charges on tho raw material 0f750 per cent., and on wages, Ac, of fully 100 per cent. This, the report fears, can only, therefore, bo attributed to the greater aptitudo of many of the foreign workmen. If theso questions were inoro closely studied, it would ha the greatest benefit to tho whole, community."