WELLINGTON.

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1625, 30 April 1875, Page 3

WELLINGTON.

(Per Press Telegram Agency.) Thursday.

The Patent Slip,

At a meeting of the Patent Slip Company to-day, the chairman said the shipping taken on the slip last year comprised 37 vessels, including twenty steamers, six barques, one brig, ten schooners, and small crate, representing an aggregate of about 7000 tons. He regretted that the Government subsidy, instead of being merely an aid to their revenue, formed their . chief source of income. The report states that an arrangement had lately entered into with the representative of Shaw, Saville and Co., under which a certain number of vessels will be taken on the slip in each year. A dividend of 5 per cent, was recommended, and agreed to. French War Steamer. The French war-steamer Inferent, which arrived from Sydney via Picton this morning, is a corvette of 20 j0 tons measurement, and 450 horse-power. She has a turret, where she carrijs a,five-ton breech-loading rifle-gun, throwing a conical ball of 100 lbs. weight; besides, she also has eight broadside muzzleloaders. Her crew consists of 210 men. She will stay here for five days, and then proceeds to Auckland, and thence to the islands of the Pacific. This day. Mr. O'Shea reports :—Flour, £11 10a to £12 10s ; bran, ls 3d ; maize, 7s 6d ; potatoes, £4 to £4 10s; oatmeal, £24 10s. Market bare barley, hams and bacon.