Shipping Intelligence.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 15, Issue 749, 3 January 1870, Page 2

Shipping Intelligence.

PORT 0 F AH UR IS I. ARRIVALS. JANUARY. I—Three1 —Three Brothers, schooner, 26 tons.. H. Boss, from Wairoa 2—Success, schooner, 58 tons, "Fletcher, from Waimarama (pat back through stress of weather) DEPARTURES. DECEMBER. 30—Success, schooner, 58 tons, Fletcher, for Waimarama JANUARY. 2—Success, schooner, 58 tons, Fletcher, for Waimarama PASSENGER, LIST. INWARDS. In the Three Brothers—Mr Enright, Mr Davis, 2 half-caste children, and 3 natives EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Chile, ship, 768 tons, from Loudon via Auckland Enterprise, ketch, from Poverty Bay Maggie, brig, from Newcastle, N.S.W. Mary Ann, brigantine, from Newcastle, N.S.W. 'Muriwai, schooner, from Tologa Bay Star of the South, s.s., lrom Auckland Success, schooner, from Waimarama Wellington, s.s., from Wellington VESSELS IN HARBOR. Hero, schooner, from Wairoa Jennie Ellingwood, barque, from Port Chalmers Mahia, cutter, from Wairoa E. T. Turnbull, barque, 367 tons, Cumming, from London Three Brothers, schooner, from Wairoa PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Foa London—Jennie Ellingwood, barque, early; B>. T. Turnbull, barque, early Wairoa—Three Brothers, schooner, on Thursday next Tongoio—Hero, schooner, this day Auckland—Wellington, s.s., shortly after arrival The schooner Three Brothers, H. Ross, master, left Wairoa at 4' p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 30; arrived off Waihua at 6 p.m.; discharged a quantity of cargo, and shipped 11 bales of wool, —leaving for Napier at 8 p.m. Arrived in the Iron Pot at I pm. on Saturday, Ist January. From Wairoa till off the Old Man's Bluff experienced light northerly wind; and from thence till arrival iu port, fresh from' the S.W., with heavy squalls and rain. She brought 7 passengers and the following cargo : —(From Wairoa), 15 bags maize; (from Waihua), II bales wool. It will be seen by advertisement that the Three Brothers is again on the berth for Wairoa, to sail on Thursday next, 6th inst. The schooner Success, Fletcher, master, sailed for Waimarama on Thursday afternoon last, with light N.W. wind. OIF Cape Kidnapper, wind veered round to N.N.E. At 6 a.m. on Friday, stood in to Waimarama, but rinding too much sea on to land, stood off and on ail day, and at 5 p.m. made another attempt to effect a landing ; but the wind freshening from N.E., the attempt was ineffectual ; in consequence, stood to sea again. At midnight, blowing hard from N.E. in squalls. Reduced sail to close-reefed mainsail and jib. At 5 a.m. on Saturday the wind veered to the southward, blowing hard; stood in for the land, and finding the wind was freshening, tried to bring up under Cape Kidnapper, but there being a heavy N.E. swell rolling, shaped her course for Napier, bringing up in the roadstead at 6 p.m. on Saturday. From the Cape to Ahuriri Bluff had the wind from S.E. by E.; after rounding the Bluff, had it from the S.W. The Success resumed her voyage late last evening. A ketch, supposed to be the Enterprise, from Poverty Bay, was standing off and on the port when we went to press this morning. The schooner Hero, in charge of Mr John Sim, will probably leave for Tongoio this forenoon, with about a ton of wire. She will return with a cargo of wool.

The N.Z.S.N. Co.'s s.s. Storm Bird, Captain Doile, hence, arrived at Wellington at 4.30 p.m. on Thursday last. The N.Z.S.N. Co.'s s.s. Wellington, Captain Holmes, with the Hawke's Bay portion of the European November mail on board, left Port Chalmers at 1.50 p.m. on Thursday, December 30. She may be expected to arrive here this day, and will have quick despatch for Auckland. A startling statement was recently made in the House of Commons, namely—that the tonnage of British sea-going ships is probably as great as that of the rest of the world! The result of calculations on the subject shows that—deducting tonnage of shipping which is not sea-going—ves-sels employed on lakes, rivers, and coasts—the total foreign tonnage amounts to 7,150,000 tons ; whilst the total sea-going tonnage under the British flag is 7,230,000 tons. After criticising Mr Lefevre's calculations for including colonial tonnage and excluding some of the larger tonnage on American lakes, the Economist agrees" with Mr Lefevre in the importance of the fact that a. larger proportion of our shipping than of any

foreign shipping consists of steamers, and that we possess twice the sea-going steamers which the rest of the world does." 3lr Lefevre, in comparing the growth of British and foreign shipping respectively, made the following remarks, which cannot fail to excite much interest:—" The tonnage built iu this country had increased from 196,000 tons in 1857 to 379,000 tons in 1868, a year of much depression compared with two or three previous years. During the same period the tonnage built in France had diminished from 94,000 tons to 81,000 tons; in Holland from 55,000 to 25,000... In the United States the building of sea-going vessels had almost been extinguished. Iu Norway alone was there any increase —namely, from 29,000 to 43,000. One further illustration he might give. In 1854, of an aggregate of 18,669,000 tons entering and clearing our ports for foreign trade, 10,744,000 tons were British, 7,924,000 under foreign flags—a proportion of 57 per cent. Britisli to 43 per cent, foreignIn 1868, out of 33,680,000 tons, 22,666,000 were British, and 11,020,000 foreign, showing an increase of 120 per cent, for British against 37 per cent, foreign, the new proportion being 67 per cent. British to 33 per cent, foreign.