SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 60, 30 June 1876, Page 2

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

i PORT OP OAMAKU. ! [ ♦■ [ ESWARD3. t Jcs« 30. j fkaMoß. p.S.„ tii torn;,. Edie, from Dunedin. U. \ AMik * B * , « wrt - QCTWARDS. f Jtr*B 2!>. |, W*v» ot life, schooner, Lombard, (or Auckland fi J. Jeffrey*, agent. 5. VESSEtS t>* PORT. I A'SIC 30. I Steamer— Swnaon. ~ flrlgwiMnn Fh-nlnirl-l'' Dhu. a ■chooner*—Zlor. 1 EXTORTS). 1 Par Wave ot Life, Tor Auelcliind-RTO qnarter-saefcs i flour. J. T. £vans ivml Co. I 31W sacks «n*e.-«. Pratt and I Co. ;T» »ack» meats, 'ift hnxes incuts, LceS and Moors. | • I The brigantino Swordtish. Captain Sansnm. wtn.-.n * claared at Ui« Custom* on Wednesday last, took her • departure for Melbourne yesterday. ." The iuhooner Mabel Jane. Captain Graham, left the 4 BOrtyesterday for Wellington with a full snipped % by Hay »nd Eiirr. i Thibrtetuitino Rhoduriek Phu took "P !V di.-u-har^nvf " feeitn inside the Breakwater at nine o'clock this u\»m- . I ln(f„ ami will at once toad up for Auckland f ' ■+ r BfctTOet TARS. [ AaEnglishpaper observes:—"The mercantile ser"f tine bwtaiwkyft been spoken of as the nursery oi the A Bttttab mk«y ? but It would M«m that the children have tl tm uhanired In the cradle, it it is true., as was asserted | fey tha deputation of seamen to Mr. Disraeli on the * eondition ot tha mercantile marine, that ot the 20i>.oi.)i> Bum ot tha British merchant service, not more Chan 20,000 are raally British seaman, tha remainder being Inrgefr composed o* the vary ot the ijlobe. Captain Mm-, too,. In the debate upon- Mr. firassey's M motion Oft seaman reserves, said that he hail known 1 ■hies sailing from the port ot London whose entire ; I amw9 f teum the captain downwards, ware foreigners. ! | and that the proportion ot foreign mates and captains i» munh Ittrwtt than is generally imagined, and a growI toff evil. No-wonder that the shipowners complain of 1 tha uliuraoter ot the men who navigate their ships '. I but they hava no right in doing so. to complain ni the | datariowMon ot tha Eniflish sailor, and in all their apI pearanoas against Mr. b'timsoU they havu tals.cn care I tusay nothinif ot this substitution for native sailors of 1 WMtohe» described as 'the scu.n and refuse ot Eoveiirn i nations tenorant ot our lanirnwre so as to be nnaWe Co i tompranend the orders ylven to be performed, disi tfanlutf and disjruslinif in their tastes and habits, to be 1 hetthJ and isolated lunonar whom is a positive misery I »n«ldagnutation to a Briton." this revelation -for it % wilt be a reat revetation l«v most people—throws a. I ■ombre Uitnt on the Lennie. Jeffcwm. Borden, and ff other mutinies., and the matter is oue- wh;c:h ousht to S li»ve been Inquired into tousratr"': for. apart from its 1 hnportant bearing upon English commerce, it lies at ff the root of that superiority in naval warfare which is tha beat safeguard ot the nation against torelatn levy."

ftt describing the trip- of thu three-masted schooner A«(o»y ttom K«w Yorfc„ yesterdays " Paily Times" NBO*t»:— "On th« tilth she was ia tori!,-. W. 3.33. and g«6 the wastarlios- again- stronsr and increasing to a mto ttmt obttirsct bur next day to eome to thu wind unit haud-ruaoh umlur small suit. This was her sat*** tiOn»fnre» thu totliiwtntf day. .when she was heading bx U»* northward, land was sitfMeif brood on her stiu--bonrtf bow, and proved no less unexpected than «tenttrau»»» »tttnet fail. There btiiiir too. mueti sea on ta SBM- «h« suhoonsr,, she was wore round o>v the other took, *tui» ftKi* standing south a short time, fcvmil was itohttHion- Shu.portbow-. This proved to few Uaide Jtuofc, off oris el the two islands that hetps to. form Muoft Buy* on the wast i-oasf of Stewart's Island, ami tw» titer* wiia no watherins it in the teeth ni siteh a gale and «a. the schooner was kept away, and brought up Mfetp in the bay. She tay there oris week,, and then ott tha atsß assayad to put to sea ; but the sen beins: vary heavy outside, she raft back and asain anchored. Jfe*!** better start ne*6 day with a S.t;. wind, which jMXUtKtto ft iflde when sho wast oft the Traps, and lipt he* bend ttiachinif a couple ot (lays, then the ttictt veered to ». W. and with it she fetched with m »igft« o*otagro. tt«a<te on Tuesday, and was towed in by tttu Jane yesterday. '*