SHIPPING.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 5044, 24 May 1877, Page 2

SHIPPING.

FOUT OK WELLINGTON. Hion Water.—l.o a.m. : 1.42 p M ARRIVED.

May 23.—Kiwi, s.s., 183 tons, Campbell, from East Coast. Passengers—Cabin ; Messrs. Day and Maloney; 2 steerage. Levin and Co., agents. ituby, schooner, 24 tons, Dalton, from Kaikoura. Lethune and Hunter, agents. Endeavour, brigantine, 79 tons, Dick, from Oamoru. Master, agent. Falcon ketch, 37 tons. Fisk, from Blenheim. Passengers—Cabin : Mrs. Cronan and 3 children, Mr. Moore. Turnbull and Co., agents. Julius Vogel, schooner. 50 tons, Johnston, from Lyttelton. Compton, agent. Kangatira, s.s., 100 tons. Evans, from Napier. Passengers—Saloon; Baker and Karron Troupe (10), Mrs. Kennedy, Messrs. Grant and Ball. Plimmer, agent. Arthur Wakefield, schooner. 45 tons, Curran, from Lyttelton. Master, agent. BAILED. May 23.—Taupo, s.s., 401 tons. Carev, for the North. Passengers—Saloon : Mr. and Mrs Pclcher, Messrs. Ethclstone, Bell, Young, and Horan. Levin and Co., agents. . Napier, s.s.. 48 tons. Holmes, for Foxton. Passengers— Cabin; Captain Boyd, Messrs. Keid. Eyre, Batt. Cemino. and Gray. Turnbull and Co., agents. Kiwi, s.s.. 133 tons, Campbell, for Napier, Levin and Co., agents. Tui, s.s., t!4 tons, Bonner, for Foxton. Bishop, agent. iM POUTS, {A spci'ial charge is m,i,le /hr am*ianfe*‘ names inSirtfil in thh column. ] Buby, from Kaikoura; 300 sacks potatoes, 2 hides, 3 pkgs. Julius Vogel, from Lyttelton; 200 sacks salt, 270 do flour, 13 bags onions, 2 tons wire, 0 sacks bread, 10 cases, 222 sacks potatoes. 20 do beans. 2 tons chaff. Endeavour, from Oamaru: 772 sacks flour, 120 hf-do do, SO qr-do do, 110 do pollard, 20 do oatmeal, 147 do oats. Kiwi, from Napier: 42 casks tallow, 1 bale, 5 pkgs. Falcon, from Blenheim: 100 sacks barley, 70 bales wool. Tul, from Lyttelton : 200 sacks oats, 25 cases cheese, Otf sacks potatoes, 40 cases, (ID sacks grass seed. 7 cases cheese, 3 sacks oatmeal. From Kaikoura : 5 sacks potatoes. 1 bale. Carnatic, from Lvtteltnn ; 880 sacks potatoes, 00 do carrots, 100 do beans, 30 do barley. 280 do wheat, IfiS do oats, 94 do bran, 54 do sharps, 1035 do flour, EX POUTS. Napier, for Foxton ; 10 cases, 7 bills furniture. 14 trunks, 5 bags salt, 1 case drapery, 1 truss do. 1 do •matting, 1 grindstone, 4 pkgs plants, 1 bale leather, 30 sacks flour, GO bags do. 23 pkgs groceries, I pkg shovels, 1 do brooms. 1 do buckets, 1 case cordial. Taupo. for Picton ; 3 pkgs. (J cases. 4 pels. 1 truss, 3 <b|ids. For Nelson : 40 anchors. 2 chains. 8 cases, 500 railway joints. 1 box. 2 rolls lead. 2 trusses. 1 bale. For Taranaki; 10 cases geneva, 4 qr-casks, 42 eases, 500 railway joints. 1 truss. 34 pkgs. For Auckland ; 15 cases, 1 hhd. 21 kegs, 40 pkgs, 3 bags, 3 boxes, 15 bales, 2 pels. * Tui, for Foxton: 10 sacks oats, G cases, 59 bags flour, 20 tons railway iron, 0 pels, 4 cases. EXPECTED A Bill VA LS. London. Wennington. early ; Queen of the “West; Kobina Dunlop : City of Madras ; and Broomhall, early. I. SooriiKus Pout*.—Wellington, 20th; Hawca,SOtli. Nauru urn Forth.— Taranaki, 2Sth ; Taupo, Ist June. Melbourne, via thk West Coast.—Albion, 25th. Melbourne. —Eagle Wing, early. New York. —Ocean Chief, early, projected DEPARTURES. London,- Carnatic, early ; Chaudiere, earl)', Melbourne, via Hwbarton and thu South. — Albion, 2Gth. Napier, Poverty Bay, Tauranoa, and Auckland.— Wanaka. 30th. Northern Ports. —Wellington, 2Gth ; Hawca, 31st. W ANOANUl.—Manawatu, 25th; Stormbird, 25th. Southern Ports,— Taranaki, 28th; Taupo, Ist June. Foxton.— Napier. 2Cth. Nelson. Wksttort, Giirvmouth, and Hokitika. —Kennedy. 25th. Westport and Oreymouth.— Luna, 2lth. Castlei'oint and Napier,—Kiwi, early. Napier.— Southern Cross. 25th. Napier and Poverty Bay.— Kangatira, 25th. Sydney, Wakatipu. 25th. Kaikoura and Lyttelton.—Tui, 20th. BY XELEGIIABH. HOKITIKA, Wednesday. The s.s, Albion, which arrived in the roadstead last night, was tendered this morning She left Melbourne on the 17th inst., and brings no Australian news of importance. Passenger for Wellington— Mrs. Koxburgh ; 58 tons cargo. LYTTELTON. Wednesday. The Hawea sidled for Port Chalmers at 5.15 p.m. Passengers—Misses Jackson and Grifliths (2). The brigantine Mary Clifford, which was seen by the Tui on Wednesday night beating into port, did .not show up yesterday She is probably bound South, and when seen was coining in through stress of weather ; but as the wind changed round to the N. W. yesterday morning, the captain perhaps thought fit to resume his voyage. The brigantine Endeavour, from Oamaru, schooner Julius Vogel, from Lyttelton, and Ruby from Kaikoura, arrived in harbor yesterday forenoon. The s.s. Kiwi arrived from the East Coast yesterday at 4 a.m. She left Napier at noon on Sunday, called in at Turnagain, and experienced a heavy S.S. W, pale on Wednesday. The Kiwi sailed again for the East Coast last evening. The Government steamer Hinemoa sailed for Onehunga yesterday morning. The barque Carnatic sailed up to the wharf yesterday afternoon, and was berthed at the wharf. She has several hundred tons of produce from Lyttelton to discharge here. The steamer Taupo left for the North yesterday afternoon at 2 o'clock.

The Albion is expected to .arrive here from Melbourne, via the NVest Coast, to-morrow.

The s.s. Rotorua, from Sydney, via Auckland and the East Coast, ought to arrive here to-rnorrow. . The ketch Falcon arrived here from Blenheim at noon yesterday. She left there at noon on Tuesday, went up to Port Underwood and remained there till 4 o’clock yesterday morning, when she resumed her voyage. Experienced strong N. W. wind across. The following vessels, all from Wellington, were in Port Underwood when the Falcon arrived there :—Clio and Torea, bound for Kaipara; Canterbury and Hero, for Peloms Sound; and Spray and Herald, for Picton. The three latter cleared out of there on Tuesday.

The s.s. Kangatira, Captain Evans, arrived from Napier at 3.30 p.m. yesterday. She left there at 12.30 p.m. on Tuesday, and experienced a light northerly wind with tine weather as far as Cape Palliser, thence strong NAV. till arrival. Passed a schooner standing out of Palliser Bay, supposed to be the Arthur Wakefield, bound from Lyttelton to this port. The Kangatira is expected to sail for Napier and Poverty Bay to-morrow afternoon.

The brigantine Resolution, which was mentioned some time ago as having been chartered by Messrs. AV, and G. Turnbull and Co. to load at Singapore for Wellington, has been wrecked on her passage from Melbourne to Singapore, via Flinders Island. She never reached the latter place. We undeistand another vessel has been laid on.

The barque Ocean Chief is now on a voyage from New York to this port with a cargo of Yankee notions, part of which is for Lyttelton and Nelson. She sailed from New Y r ork on the 30th March.

The schooner Arthur Wakefield arrived from Lyttelton last night at 10 o'clock with a cargo of produce. A brig was signalled yesterday from the North, but bad not reached port up to an early h ur this morning, She is doubtless the Neptune, from Newcastle, which U reported us leaving there on the 12th inst. The April circular of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency says In estimating the relative extent of the depreciation now established, particular regard must be had to the intrinsic merits of the season’s clip as compared with the previous year. Australian descriptions, of which the hulk of the olferings consisted, have all suffered more or less from the effects of the prolonged drought as exhibited in the almost uniform thinness and tenderness of staple, and the increased prevalence of burr. The absence of water also, precluding the proper washing of the fleeces, necessitated the shipment of a disproportionate quantity of the bulk in the grease, which operated prejudicially against Its acceptance by the Home trade, who are, as a rule, less inclined to purchase wool in that form. It Is in all faulty lots, whether fleece or grease, that the decline has been most marked. Good sound wool has been more keenly competed for, and for superior grades the prices paid do not show a fall on November rates of more than 5 to 7 per cent., while for some few excep tionally flue parcels values were fully maintained. The support accorded to these latter sorts was mainly derived from the French trade, in view, probably, of the production of fine woollen fabrics for the Baris Exhibition of 1878, and the inconsistently high prices paid were frequently the result of two manufacturers bidding one against the other for the possession of a parcel which, in furtherance of their objccL both were anxious to secure. Lambs' wool, also, without fault, suffered little or no depreciation. All descriptions of crossbreds have shared in the general depression, chilly on account of the heavy nccumula ion of domestic wools with which this class Is more particularly brought into competition. The quantities ■of New Zealand wool available for the series were so insignificant, and the condition relatively superior to the Australian, that comparatively higher prices were obtained.