Shipping Intelligence.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1379, 19 July 1872, Page 2

Shipping Intelligence.

Port Ahuriri. HI#H WATER SLACK. TO-MOBEOW. llorpJDg, 640 ..,.. .... Evening, 6.35 , DEPARTURES, v ??*,*? of the South, 3,9., for Auckland. Cargo: 940 sheep. EXPECTED ARTtIYALS. Coronilla, ship, from London via Auckland Free Trader, barque, from Newcastle flector, brigantine, from Warrnauabool Jlerald, schooner, from Auckland via \Vangapoa Keera, s.s.» from Wellington . Xjgetitia,, schooner, from Aucklana* via Mercury Bay JjUna, p.s., from Wellington papier, s.s., from Auckland via Poverty gaucy Lass, schooner, from Auckland via Mercury Bay VEBSELS IN PORT. Amherst, brigantine, from Newcastle Colonist, schooner, from Auckland via Mercury Bay Fawn, ketch, from Lyttelton Hero, schooner, from Wairoa ilary Ann Hudson, ketch, from Wajrqa Three Brothers, schooner (repairing) PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Colonist, for Poverty Bay, to-morrow Ann Hudson, for Wairoa, when the weather permits Hero, for Wairoa, early The s.s. Star of the South, Capt. Holmes, took her departure for Auckland at 3 o'clock this afternoon, conveying a cargo pf sheep. The s.s. Keera, which left Wellington for this port at midnight' on Wednesday, was signalled a short time before we went to press. The following is from the British Trade Journal great change that is coming over the shipbuilding trade is most forcibly shown by the Parliamentary return just issued as to the ships completed and under construction in 1871. Out of a total of 1,022 ships, with an aggregate tonnage oi 391.058 tons, the number of sailing vessels was but 485, with a tonnage of 60,260, while the steamers numbered 537, with a tonnage of 330,7Q8. Thus the tounage of the steamers built during last year was actually five-sixths of the whole, and the return as to the ships under construction, on the 31st December, tells the same tale. The change, too, from wood to iron is very striking, for no less than 010 were built of iron, with a tonnage q{ 347,074, besides 1Q others that were composite vessels, so that there can be \\t%\e wonder, after looking at such figures, that the Americans, whose great strength was in wooden clippers, should feel tliat they have lost the high rank that they held a few years back as a shipbuilding nation. Sixteen vessels, of 17,300 tons, were launched on the Clyde last May, compared with thirteen vessels of 17,700 tons during the same, period of last year. The oldest merchant-vessel still afloat ts the Dutcji ship " Coiuniissaries des Coning vonder Heyne." She was built in 1568, and is still in good condition. Eight years ago she made the long and dangerous voyage from B,atavia to Hoi Jand around Cape Horn.