SHIPPING.

Globe, Volume I, Issue 17, 19 June 1874, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT OF LYTTELTON. ARRIVED, June 18—Golden Sea, ship, 1418 tons, Strachan, from Wellington, CLEARED. June 18—Eleanor, barque, 396 tons, Coleman, for Newcastle, in ballast. June 18—Prince Victor, barque, 294 tons, Yarnall, for Newcastle, in ballast. June 18—Alert, schooner, 44 tons, Hays, for Hokitika. June 17—William and Mary, schooner, 47 - tons, Stevens, for Pigeon Bay, in ballast. June 18—Bee, schooner, 31 tons, Green, for Boat Harbor. SAILED, June 18—Wellington, s.s, 260 tons, Carey, for Wellington. Passengers—saloon : Mr and Mrs King and 29 circus company, Mr and Mrs Qeddes ; steerage, Messrs Jenkins, Sharp. June 18—Taranaki, s.s, 299 tons, E.Wheeler, for Dunedin, Passenge—saloon : Mr Ostler, Mr Suffield ; steerage, Messrs Lovel, Edwards, 2 Maoris ; 10 original. EXPORTS. Per Alert—l 39 sks barley, 290 do oats, 199 do bran, 53 do wheat, 5 cases, 10 kegs. Shippers —Eoyse, Stead and Co. Per Bee —Quantity of stores, 1500 bricks, 22 bdls, 1 horse-power, 50 bdls, 50 posts, 80 stays, 88 coils wire, 441 bdls, 5 kegs, 8 casks, -1 pci. Shippers—Miles and Co. A brigantine was signalled from the north, and was coming up the harbor when our express left. A telegram from Dunedin states that the Atrato had completed her Dunedin discharges, and that she was to leave Port Chalmers to-day. As the vessel is drawing only 16ft of water she will be brought up off the town, and there can be no objection to her being berthed at the Gladstone pier and discharging her inward cargo. This would facilitate matters very considerably, and will, should circumstances permit, be adopted. The “ Wellington Independent ” advocates the establishment of a tug service for the Port of Wellington, But the difficulty is about the cost, which is put down at not less than £IO,OOO. Our contemporary remarks — We presume that, if the service were a public one, with it would be combined the pilot service. Out of this there would come economy. Fewer men would be required on a tug boat than are employed on the present pilot service ; and the work would be far more efficiently performed than it can be under existing circumstances. This is a view of the subject that deserves prominence, for some persons seem to indulge in an apprehension that a proper pilot service must mean something infinitely more costly than the one now employed. Mr Pilot Holmes would, we suppose, be able to do the whole business if he were in command of a steam vessel, and his crew of five men, with a supernumerary or two, would not all be required. The advantages that would accrue to the trade of the port from the introduction of a steam vessel to bring in the fine ships that now frequent it at once to their destination, and take them back to sea without delay, are literally too numerous to mention. Instead of lagging in the rear of every port of consequence in Australasia, Wellington would then be on a par with others.