SHIPPING.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1314, 9 June 1883, Page 2

SHIPPING.

ARRIVALS, JVKB. B—Rotomahana, s.s. Captain Carey from Auckland with the following passengers : — Messrs Gibbard, Coleman, Brown, Common, Rev. P. Riordan, Cameron, Austin, Nolan, Henderson, Yot, Nolan, and Schultz. Misses Schroder, Ruce, and Mrs Coleman. DEPART V RES. JVXE. B—Rotomahana, s.s., Captain Carey, for southern ports with the following passengers, —Mr and Mrs Reardon, Mrs Swainson and family, and Mr Morgan. The s.s, Rotomahana, Captain Carey arrived from Auckland about 1 o’clock yesterday. She left the same evening for Napier and Sonthern porta. The sailing tonnage of the seven principal maritime nations is as follows—Great Britain (18,035 vessels), 3,819,872 tons; United States (6037 vessels) 2,054,685 tons 1 Norway (4112 vessels), 1,381,203 tons tons ; Germany (28*1 vessels, 933,387 tons ; Italy (3054 vessels), 924,957 tons . Russia (2135 vessels), 447,072 tons ; France (2536 vessels) 406,370 tons. The modern form of steamers' bows, perpendicular, and without a bowsprit, is proved to add to the risk of damage in cases of collision, and many English underwriters are so impressed with this that they are taking into consideration the desirability of making differential rates as between these steamers and those having the former and far more sightly overhanging bow and bowsprit. During the year 1882 there were built in 19 ports of the United Kingdom ships having an aggregate tonnage ot 1,200,000 —an increase of 20 per cent. The tendency is toward the construction of larger vessels than heretofore, the average now being 1347 tonsThe largest vessel built was of 7,500 tons burden. The cost of building is now 15 per cent, greater than in 1880 and 1881, owing to the augmented prices of iron and steel. But to offset this is the great increase in the commerce of the world, especially in the transportation of new products.