SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 91, 5 August 1876, Page 2

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

PORT OF OAMARtJ.

oerwAjuaa. Atr&c« 5Stauon, p.*. t2* tona v Edl«» (or Itowiiin. B. Alito*. agent.

VESSELS tJf PORT. Akocs* 6.

Sohoonen—Oarron. Ketch—Anna. EXPORTS. . An>CM 5. J»W Samson, for flunedin-t case,.Longford: t ditto ■aw*.*. JMerton-. 3 ditto empties, ft. ft. Ch<rsrlns; 5 box**,. £ bumUw. J l . Patrick ; 7 cases meat. Lees and Moore ; t bag bacon. W. Jamteson: t case, Kood ami ghennan; 1 bn»kst, Henderson; 232 bay* barley, N.XL. ft M.A. Co.

Th« Chlon Company's •learner Samson. Captain Stttv.taeh her departure top Dunedin at eleven o'clock Ulia morning. Passonirsrs: Jtesdamiss OU'cJirtsS and Campbell; iwm W. Junninirs. H. Paarson. Youns. J. 14 Jo«K. Bi Kay, A. Campbell. T. K. Brown. V. Stewart. J. G> CUlcartst: and ten in the steerage-. Th» Union Company's steamer Beautiful Star, re■USMtl her voyage to thinwdin at dayttght this morning. 8h« wan observed standing in (or Moeraki at noon.

TITO W.Z. tWVF.RXMF.NT B.S. STELLA. On, May 23rd (says the " European Stall "> the Stetta. the property of the sew Zealand Ciovernmcnt. went or* a trial trip> from the Carvel Wharf. fkeenoefc. and made eight runs. The spirit way vary satisfactory. Th» Stella was (winched on April t."th ".y Messrs Scott and Co., Cam! shipyard. Cartsdyke. Length between perpendicular*, t.'oft. ; breadth -of beam, at ft.: depth of hold, titi. «i". : ""- »™ ;1 rciristcr: tyro engines 0"-hors« power nominal; diameter ot cylinders,. tt»and 38 Inches respectively. Three iron- nwk schooner rigged, t"- the evening she returned f,> Oarvet Wharf. Sh« sailed from <;rccn<>'-r< for VH:!(i"i--tun ttunu Sth.

ffAfJTtCAL- ITEMS. The "-Maritime Rmrister" inform:.- us that the dimenMont* of thu new armor-plated ship, the Agamennou. which to ordered to-be built at tho Chatham Pocfeyard. wttt bo o» follows: -Length between- perpendiculars, 280 ft.-. estrume bruadth, Kiit't.; depth "f hnUV.J'Jft. un.; displacement in tons,, nM'i : burthen in toon (old muuaurumont), S,(6i). Mr. Cross*the Home Secretary, has remitted tho remainder of the sentenco on Mr. Chariest flames, tho «ommander of the Locksley Hall, who was committed toe twenty -one days at tho Thames Police Court tor {mtting an insubordinate sailor in irons. The follownit official communication has been received by Mr. Batug, the member for Plymouth, who had interceded on benalt of tho imprisoned captain:—"Mr. Secretary CroH* hatdmr hu»{ before him y»ur application on behalf of Charts* Barnon.. ( have tiw satisfaction to acquaint yow that hj« has felt warranted in advisinir Her Jitajesty to rorait the remainder ot the prisoner'* sentence.—thave.&c, A. P. O. Uonnt,. " Mr. Hart, the tnspeetor-t&neral of Chinese Maritime CUBtoms at Pekin. ha» issued a yellow bm>lc containing • •Mist of the-Chinese litfhthimscs. light-vessels, buoys, antfbeauons tor W7(i," There are sit-ty-fonr ('hinese U((htl» v thirty-two buoys, and forty beacons on the uoaat. in addition to-sevpnforci'srn liirht-ships ami fortythree foreign- liirhthouses. When- >tr. Mart entered npon hl» duties, in WOiJ. there were not more than tour or live ordinary liirhts on tho Chinese coast. The Bessemer, saloon- stßamer, has been sold to a Brm In Knit tor .gyn-.OOOs Tho original cost of this ship autountud to tho larsfd sii.f. of «.:Joi>;l>iK>;