Shipping Items.

Lyttelton Times, Volume VIII, Issue 492, 22 July 1857, Page 4

Shipping Items.

AEEIVED. July 18, schooner Queen.of Perth, 92 tons, Sturley, master, from Sydney. Passengers, Messrs. Franc and J. Kelther. Same day, ketch Midlothian, 15 tons, Kelly, master, from Akaroa. SAILED. July 18.. schooner Mary Louisa, 18 tons, Davis, master, for Akaroa. CLEAEED. July 21st, schooner Salopian, 40 tons, Bain, master, for Wellington. IMPORTS. In the Queen of Perth, Dransfield, agent ; 4 hhds. whiskey, H. E. Alport; 14 cases liqueurs, 30 cases Geneva, order; 4 chests tea, 1 cask coffee, 1 cask currants, 1 case starch, 6 boxes soap, 1 cask saltpetre, 1 case sago, 1 cask carraways, 1 bag pepper, 8 boxes tallow candles, 2 kegs dried apples, 2 casks treacle, 1. case matches, 2 cases groceries, B'half-chests tea, 100 bags sugar, Pyfe; 12 bags coffee, 5 barrels rice, 3 bales drapery, 7 cases do., H. E. Alpoit; 18 bags sugar, E. & G. Ehodes; 70 hags do., order; 280 bags do., Gould & Miles; 200 mats sugar, E. Waitt & Co.; 1 parcel magazines, M'Cardell; 5 casks rice, order; 10 hhds. beer, 2 cases hardware, J. T. Peacock & Co.; 2 bales/ calico, 2 bales bags, 10 bales gmmies, 20 cases fish, 1 case ironmongery, 1 bale candlewick, 2 pkges. and 1 bag do., 5 kegs nails, 7 hhds., 6 bundles, 2 cases hollowave, 2 bundles buckets, 2 pkgs. rope, order; 4 bales bags, A. J. Alport; 1 bag and 1 bale candlewick, E. and GEhodes; 20 half-chests tea, 4 cases plants, 60 bags sugar, order; 40 chests, 40 half-chests, and 100 boxes tea, 28 pkgs. boots, 83 pkgs. oil stores, 25 pkgs. drapery, 80 pkgs. hardware, 3. Dransfield; 7 trunks drapery, 10 boxes soap, 1 chest tea, 1 bag sugar, 1 bag coffee, Order; 23 sheets copper, 1 bundle cotton, E. Waitt & Co. In the Midlothian, E. Genet, agent, 18 cords firewood. EXPOETS. In the Mary Louisa, E. Waitt & Co., agents, 630 bushels wheat, Jones, & Co; 2 cases chairs, 1 case drilling, 1 case boots, 1 pkg. shovels, 1 pkg. axes, E. Waitt & Co. In the Salopian, E. Waitt & Co., agents, 555J bushels wheat, E. Waitt & Co.; 703| bushels wheat, J. C. Aikman. _______ The Dart arrived in Sydney, June 16th, and ; the Spray on the 21st. | The Mercantile Shipping Act is becoming a

great nuisance to shipowners. The late decision of the courts of Inquiry, held under the provisions of the act have given great-dissatis-faction, and have heen of no practical utility. Such cumbrous and complicated legislative machinery as this act will never work usefully no r smoothly. Legislation on such matters is superfluous, and being such it is mischievous. The only true safety to all is the interest that the shipowners and captains have in safely ■bringing their vessel to port. It is their interest to secure most effectually the safety of the lives and the property of those intrusted to them. There has lately been a tendency to leo-islate for everything—attempting to make people by acts of parliament conduct their business better. The meetings that have been lately held at Southampton aud Liverpool, to protest against the Mercantile Shipping Act, are evidencethat such attempts are aspernicious as they are futile.— Some News.