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Dec £9, steamer Wanaka, 276, Anderson, f rom Taran&ki and Manukau. rasseogfrs : Hes^ames Collins, Josiah, Lamb and boy, Tomlinson and 5 chi'dren, Messrs Burnett, Cowan, Faegast, Hesketb, Josiab, Lamb, McLean, Pare,aud Tomlinson. — cutter Mersey, II), Fiann, from Waitapc. aAILEL. D-c 28, steamer Kennedy, 136, Williams, for West Coaat. Fassengr-rs : Misses East, Leech, Nahr, Mesdsmea Cato and Malfroy, Messrs Brown, CaSo, Malfroy, Stewart, and Thompson. — cntfer Planet, 12, Thome, for Mo'.tiekn. Dec 29, fteamer Wsnaka, 276, AudersoD, for lictoQ, Wflliogton. and Lyttelton. Paseenger? : Mi-ae9 Andre?/, Knapp, Leech, Mitchell, Simp^oti, Wheeler, Mesdames Mortoi., Xaylcr and 5 children, Nicholson snd 2 children, Wheeler, Masters Bell. Curtis, Morton, Revs Hoot and Mitchell, Colonel Kicholgoi), Meesra Alborongb. Baiilie, Cato, Crombie, Koapp, McDoaald, Morgan. Nayior, Jficbohoa, Terry, Waddell, White, and a nuicber of excursionists.

Tbe Lord Tredegar finished discharging this mornicg. The Kennedy should rerch Weatport this aftemcon, and Uokitika to-morrow moming. Tie Wallace left Wellington for Wangnnni anl Nelson l;st evening. Tbe Cbarks Edward is b. ing dismantled, prior to undergoing repairs. The Wanaka left Onehunga af, lpm, on Tufg'ny, and reached Taranaki at C a.m. yesterday ; lacded mails, passengers, &c., and prcceeded on to Nelson at 1040 a. in, srmitjg here at 130 a.m. to-day. Fine weather withlight and variable winds marked the p»ssage down. She sailed for Picton, Welling ton, and Lytteiton at 1 p.m. The Uaion Company's time table for January bas been issued. from it we learn that the new steamer Manuponri, 1900 tons grofs register, 2000 h p.. w i:l leave the Clyde about March Ist for Melbourne and Now Zealand. Sh« is expected to reach Melbourte ia 44 days, and Ntw ZealaDd in 50 days. Tho Hawea is expected to arrive here from Southern peris to-morrow. She &ai's for Wellington, Taranaki and Manukau ht 3 p.m. on Saturday, takiog the outward San Frar cisco mail. An fxenrsion trip to Wellington and back T)y the Union Company's 9teamers is acv^ttiafd ia another column. The Hawea leaves here on Saturday afternoon, and will Teach the Empire Ci ! y about midnight ; the Wanaka brings back the excursionists, leavtbere on Monday afternoon, and arriving here about 8 a.m. on Tuesday. The return fare is only £1 The Shipping of the World. — From a statement recently published, it appears that omitting vessels less than 50 tons measurement, Europe possesses 42 tons to every 1000 inhabitants ; America, 40 ; and Australia, 79 ; while Asia and Africa have only two tons per 1000. Liverpool ranks as the most important port in the world, with a tonnage of 2,647,373 ; this is succeeded by London, with 1,330,688, and Glasgow, with" 1,432,364 tons. Uew York comes next, with 1,153,676 tons. Great Britain and Ireland possesses a gross tonnage of nearly 12,000,000 sailing-vessel ions, and, with the tonnage of her colonies the British flag covers 14,000,000, out of the total existing world's tonnage of 27,000,000