TIDE TABLE.

Southland Times, Issue 1620, 16 August 1872, Page 2

TIDE TABLE.

Hi'h «-afer at Bluff Harbor and Tnverearjnn fetty. Biverton, one hour earlier. Low water at Eiverton Beach, five hours later. Calculated for Invercargill meantime.' Add fifteen minutes for telegraph time.

No arrivals or departures since our last issue.

BHlPBTmj>nT& is 1871. — A return has been presented to Parliament of the number and tonnage of vessels completed in 1871, and of those in course of construction at each port in the United Kingdom. From this return it appears that in England 418 sailing ships of 42,291 tons, and 369 steamships of 210,634 were completed. In Scotland, 64 sailins ships of 17,878 tons, and 163 steamships of 112,351 tons were completed in the yew, and in Ireland three sailing ships of 91 tons, and five steamships of 7812 tons were completed in the year. The totals of these •mnvm*^jfca._l<>p o •Mm «ta&m and sailing, of 891,058 tons. Of these 510 were iron, ooa . 1 . and 10 composite. The iron ships averaged a tonnage of 690 tons each, and the wooden ships of 83 tons each. The vessels under construction n the year, and incomplete on the 31st December, 1871, were — in England, 220 sailing ships of 26,445 tons, and 237 steamships of 162,228 tons ; in Scotland, 51 sailing ships of 19,117 tons, and 196 steamships of 207,131 tons ; and in Ireland, one wiling ship of 1200 tons, and fire steamships of 11,537 tons. The total ships under construction on the 31st December laet being 710 of •427,658 tons. The ports which figure ohiefly in the list are— Glasgow, 82,005 tons built ; Sunderland, 70,000; Newcastle, 44,000 ,- Hull, 25,000; Liverpool, 24,000; Port Glasgow, 16,000 j Greenock, 15,000; Stockton, 14,000; West Hartlepool, 11,000; London, 9000 ; Shields and Belfast, each 7000; Middlesbro', Aberdeen, and Dundee, each about 6000 ; Hartlepool and South Shields, 4000.

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