Shipping.

Tuapeka Times, Volume V, Issue 222, 2 May 1872, Page 5

Shipping.

PORT CHALMERS.

Tuesday.

The weather becoming finer this afternoon, the ship Jessie Ri adman was towed to sea by the Geelong, and cleared the Heads at 4 p.m. H M.S. Rosaiio for Auckland, and s.s. Wanganui for iNorthern ports, that sailed yesterilay, anchored inside the heads awaiting be ter weather. The Kosario was observed from thePoit cxc cisinsj her big guns — and is reported to have left the Heads shortly before noon to day. The flew Zealand Herald of a recent date ays :—": — " A return of the number and tonnage of vessels built in this Colony, also the numi ber of vessels eugaged in vbe coasting trade, called for by M r C'reighten in the House of Representatives du.i.ig the last session, has just beeu priuted, and is now before us Under the head showing the number and tonnage of all vessels built ia the Colony sin<-e the 30th June, 1353, distinguishing steam from sailing vessels, and the Provides in which ihey were built, we find :— ln Auckland there have been built 504 vessels, of which 22 were steamers, and 482 sailing vessels, representing a tonnage of 12,935. Of these vessels, 173 were unregistered. Nelson built 67 (65 sailing vessels, 2 steamers, 9(35 tons) ; Southland 50 (49 sailing vessels 1 steamer, )068 tons); Canterbury 34 (31 sailing vessels, 3 steamers, 1157 -ons) ; Wellington I*2' (10 sailing vessels, 2 steamers, 211 tons) ; "Westland 3 (2 sailing vessels, 1 steamer, 71 tons); Hawke'a Bay; 1 sailing vessel, 14 tons ; aud Tar-maki, 1 sailing vessel, 90 tons, making a total ef 541 vessels, of which 507 were sailing, and 34 steamers, giving a tonnage or 16,460. In the return of the number, tonnage and number of crews of the above vessels, engaged in the coasting trade of the Colony, on the 30th January, 1869, we find there were 205 vessels, representing 6,509 tons, and manned by 638 menOf these vessels, 129 belonged to Auckland, 24 to Nelson, 17 to Canterbury, 14 to Otago, 8 to Wellington, 7 to Marlborough, and 6 to Southland. The only vessels put down as "foreign vessels engaged in the coasting trade," are two, namely, the Nebraska and the Nevada. In the table which trvats ©f the number, tonna.e, an- 1 number of crews of British vessels owned and registered in New Zealand engaged in the coasting trade on 30th June, 1860, we find 260 vessels, with a tonnage of 11,669, and crews numbering 1,116. Of these 260 vessels 36 were steamers, and 223 sailing yes els. Finally, in the table which gives the return of the number, tonnage, and number of crews of British ships not owned and registerel in New Zealand, bit engaged in its coasting trade, we find 11 vessels (all steamer>), with a tonnage of 4 003, and manned by crews, numbering 330. These figures speak for themselves, and &how m >st uumistakeably how far ahead Auckland is in its shipping business, not only of any other single Province, but of the whole of the Provinces put together." The Freeman tie Hera Id reports that "on Sunday, the 10th March, the colony of Western Australia was visited by a storm such as had never before been experienced. Perth and Freman le suffered more from its effects than any ether districts. In Fremantle the gale was particularly disastrous, toppling eh lnneys over, unroo6n» houses, displacing ceilings, and putting passengers out of their perpendicular. The shipping in the bay was for a lung time in a most precarious situation. One after the other the vessels in harbor parted their cables, and drifted helplessly on to a lee shore. The Rio, Laughing Wave, and G-. H. Peake went aground at Woodman's t'oiut, all sustaining more or less damage The Rio has been brought off, rand has returned to her anchorage. The other two vessels, at the time we write, are still aground. At Banbury, the Midas, a vessel chartered by a New Zealand firm to take a valuable cargo of timber, among which were a number of 70 feet piles for a jetty at Dunediu, dragged her anchors, went ashore on the bar, and became a helpless hopeless wreck in a couple of hours. She has since been sold by auction with her cargo for L 255. Strange to say that at the Yasse, only 3d miles from Bunbury, the gale was not felt at all. H.M.S. Olio, which was anchored in Gage's Roads at the time of the gale, had to steam at the rate of five knots an hour towards her first anchor in order to keep her ground. Had the gale continued for a much longer time than it did, she would have had to leave her anchorage. The extreme fury of the sttrm lasted only for about two hours, but during that time the wind worked well. Telegraph posts were torn down, telegraphic communication was interrupted for several days, and the roads obstructed by fallen trees in all parts of the country." Thursday. The N.Z S.N. Company's s s. Keera, Capt. Carey, from Auckland, Taurnnga, Napier, Wellington, and Lyttelton, arrived in port at 10 a.m. to-day. Left Auckland ou the 12th, at 4 p.m ; arrived at Tauranga next day, at 10 a m., and sailed at 11 a.m.; met with a strong southerly gale and heavy confused sea when off the East Cape, and bore up for Tologa Bay. The weather moderating at midnight, again sailed, and arrived at Poverty Bay on the 15th, at 6 a.m. ; landed passengers and cargo, and sailed at 10 a.m.; experienced fine weather, and arrived, at >■ apier the same evening, at 8 p m. ; sailed thence on the 16th, at 1 p.m ; expenenced strong S. E. gales, high confused seas, aud thick weather until arrival at Wellington on the 17th, at 10 p.m. ; was detained there' by adverse weather and sailed on the 20th, at 2 p.m.; experienced light easterly winds, heavy 8. E. swell, and dense fogs throughout the passage ; arrived at Lyttelton on the 22nd, at 5 p.m., and sailed thence on the 24th, at 5 a in. ; met with light N.E. breezes and dense foggy weather to arrival at Port Chalmers. Friday. The s.s. Phoebe arrived this morning from Northern Port 3 with passengers, cargo, and mails. The s.s. Alhambra, for Melbourne, via the Bluff, and the schooner Result for Waikouaiti, sailed last evening, Monday. The s s. Maori sailed for Timaru at 7.30 this morning. The ship Helios, detained in Port for the last few days by the bad weather, was today taken out of the Graving Dock preparatory to sailing for Newcastle in ballast. A cutter, supposed to be the Hope, for Allday Bay, and. the schooner Strathnaver, sailed for the coast this forenoon, but owing to the heavy sea on the bar were not expected to put to sea.

PASSENGER LIST.

Wallace, 56 tons, Edie, from Oamaru : Mrs Gibson, Mr Gibson, Mr Holmes, Master Reynolds ; and 3 in steerage. Storm Bird, s.s. 67 tons, Fraser, from Invercargill : Hon. F. D. Bell, Messrs small and Ellis, and 1 in the steerage. Per Alhambra, for Melbourne : Mrs Smith and Master Smith, and 17 in the steerage : For Bluff — MrsOswin, Sub-Inspector Fox.

Per Keera from Lyttelton- Messrs, Galbraith, Jones, Ingpen, Burton, Gundry, M 'Donald, Fraaer, Haselmayer and Most,