Shipping.

Evening Star, Issue 2863, 23 April 1872, Page 2

Shipping.

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PORT CHALMERS. ARRIVED. Beautiful Star, from Lyttelton SAILED. Wallace for Oamaru CUSTOM HOUSE, DUN ED Os THIS DAY. INWARDS Flying Squirrel, 19 tone, Francis, from AlldftY Beautiful Star, 126 tons, Hart, from Lyttelton. OITWARDS. Gothenburg, 449 tons, Clark, for Lyttelton PASSENGER LIST. Pers.s Gothenburg, for Lyttelton. —Mrs McGregor, Miss Orbell, Mr Neilson, Mr and Mrs Henty, and Master Henty, And 9 in the steerage. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Hope for Allday Bay, early. Iteera for Northern Ports, April 2u Maori for Lyttelton, April 26 Nebraska for Auckland May 10 _ Phoebe for Northern Ports, April 2o Bangitoto for Melbourne, via Bluff, May 1 Tararua for Northern Ports, April 29 Wallace for Oamaru, April 26

The weather becoming finer this afternoon, the ship Jessie Headman was towed to sea t»y the Geelong, and cleared the Heads at 4 j>.m. The s.s. Beautiful Star arrived from Lyttelton via intermediate ports, and proceeded to Dunedin at noon today. Thep.B. Wallace sailed this forenoon for Oam am. The ship Jessie Headman, for London, with passengers and cargo, was to-day unmoored for sea, and had engaged the services of the steam-tug Geelong, but, in consequence of the thick adverse weather, was net expected to proceed further than the lower anchorage to-day. H M.S. Rosario for Auckland, and s.s Wanganui for Northern ports, that sailed yesterday, anchored inside the heads awaiting better weather. The Kosario was observed from the Port exercising her big guns —and is reported to have left the Heads shortly before noon to-day. Ihe dense fog that prevails prevents communication by signal with the Heads. The New Zealand Herald of a recent date g vys ;—“A return of the number and tonnage of vessels built in this Colony, also the numbsr of vessels engaged in the coasting trade, called for by Mr Creighton in the House of Representatives during the last session, has just been printed, and is now before us. Under the head showing the number and tonnage of all vessels built in the Colony since the 30th June, 1853, distinguishing steam from sailing vessels, and the Provinces in which they were built, we find :—ln Auckand there have been built 504 vessels, of which 22 were steamers, and 482 sailing vessels, representing a tonnage of 12,935. Of these vessels, 173 were unregistered. Nelson built 67 (65 sailing vessels, 2 steamers, 965 tons); Southland 50 (49 sailing vessels 1 steamer, 1068 tons); Canterbury 84 (31 sailing vessels, 3 steamers, 1157 tons); Wellington 12 (10 sailing vessels, 2 steamers, 211 fcans) ; Westland 3 (2 sailing vessels, 1 steamer, 71 tons) ; Hawke’s Bay, 1 sailing vessel, 14 tons; and Taranaki, 1 sailing vessel, 90 tons, making a total of 541 vessels, of which 507 were sailing, and 34 steamers, giving a tonnage or 16,460. In the retui'n of the number, tonnage and number of crews of the above vessels, engaged in the coasting trade of the Colony, on the 30th January, 1869, we find there were 205 vessels, representing 6,509 tons, and manned by 638 menOf these vessels, 129 belonged to Auckland, 21 to Nelson, 17 to Canterbury, 14 to Otago, 8 to Wellington, 7 to Marlborough, and 6 to Southland. The only vessels put down as •‘foreign vessels engaged in the coasting trade,” are two, namely, the Nebraska and the Nevada. In the table which treats ©f the number, tonnage, and number of crews of British vessels owned and registered in New Zealand engaged in the coasting trade on 30th June, 1860, we find 260 vessels, with a tonnage of 11,669, and crews numbering 1,116. Of these 260 vessels 36 were steamers, and 223 sailing vessels. Finally, in the table which gives the return of the number, tonnage, and number of crews of British ships not owned and registered in New Zealand, but engaged in its coasting trade, we find 11 vessels (all steamers), with a tonnage of 4,003, and manned by crews numbering 330. These figures speak for themselves, and show most unmistakeably how far ahead Auckland is in its shipping business, not only of any other single Province, but of the whole of the Provinces put together.” The Frecmmtk Herald reports that “on Sunday, the 10th March, the colony of Western Australia was visited by a storm such as had never before been experienced. Perth and Fremantle suffered more from its effects than any ether districts. In Fremantle the gale was particularly disastrous, toppling chimneys over, unroofing houses, displacing ceilings, and putting passengers out of their perpendicular. The shipping in the bay was for a long time in a most precarious situation. One after the other the, vessels in harbor parted their cables, and drifted helplessly on to a lee shore. The Bio, Laughing Wave, and G. H. Peake went aground at Woodman’s Point, all sustaining more or less damage. The Rio has been brought off, and has returned to her anchorage. The other two vessels, at the time we write, are still aground. At Banbury, the Midas, a vessel chartered by a New Zealand firm to take a valuable cargo of timber, among which were a number of 70 feet piles for a jetty at Dunedin, dragged her anchors, went ashore on the bar, and became a helpless hopeless wreck in a couple of hours. She has since been sold by auction with her cargo for L 255. Strange to say that at the Vasse, only 36 miles from Bunbury, the gale was not felt at all. H.M.S. Clio, which was anchored in Gage’s Roads at the time of the gale, had to steam at the rate of five knots an hour towards her first anchor in order to keep her ground. Had the gale continued for a much longer time than it did, she would have had to leave her anchorage. The extreme fury of the storm lasted only for about two hours, but during that time the wind worked well. Telegraph posts were torn down, telegraphic communication was interrupted for several days, and the roads obstructed by fallen trees in fill parts of the country.”

Heads I | Port Chalmers I I Dunedin. 3.38 p.m. | 4.8 p.m. 1 1 4.53 p.ir,