IMPORTS.

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1626, 3 May 1875, Page 2

IMPORTS.

81 Per Kate McGregor from Lyttelton: 255 bags II wheat, order. From Tauraa£a: 2 bales wool, order. if —D. H. McKenzie, agent.

I The s.s. "Wellington left the Manukau yesterday afternoon for the South She conveyed a large quantity of cargo and the following passengers :— Saloon : Mrs Hendry and 3 children, Mr and Mrs Floyd, Mr Ronaoas, Mr and Mis Bay ley, Miss Smart, Messrs White, Brown. Kohn, Key A. Reid, Messrs "Wheeler, Hawkins, Hamer, Hyman, Miss Woolley. Steerage: Messrs Larabert, Smith, Kerr, Boyle, Sharp. Yfittß Miss James, Messrs Bigermat, T. •Wardell, J. M. McFarlitne, A. Waddell, J. Smart, Bishford, Wah 3ug, and nine others. "The barque Shooting Star is now-132 days out from London. Her prolonged passage has already had the effect of increasing the rate of insurances on her cargo to 5 per cent. The schooner Charybdis.. bound for the Friendly Islands, takes the usual assortment of cargo adapted Bfor trade among the islands of the South fleas. Messrs Pavies, Owen, and a native go as passengers The schooner Kate McGregor airived yesterday ■ from Lyttelton via Tauranga. She left the latter port on Friday. Her careo consists of. wheat from ILyttelton and wool from Tauranea. To the Editor : Sir,—l bad no intention of entering Into a controversy as to the merits or demerits of Germinic or English Lloyd's when I made bold to correct a paragraph 'in your paper la«t week, nor did I know that the statement was made on the authority of the Surveyor to German Lloyd's andjthe two prif eipal shipbuilders in the place. However, that will not deter me from again asserting what I Ihen did ?ay, viz.: That the requirements of Germanic are Jess stringent, in place of beiDg more stringent as stated in the paragraph referred to, than that of English Lloyd's A case in point last year I made enquiries in Nova Scoti* for a vessel of a certain size to be classed. In answer I got replies from several bniWers, giving particulars and dimensions of vessels on the stocks, how to be rigged, cost per ton buiWers' measurement, or per ton gross register, tn be classed (according to choice) seven years Fnelfch I loyd's or pieht years Gernnn Lloyd's. So it mnst necessarily follow that the requirements of Geiman Lloyds are less stringent when they will class a vessel eight years, when English Lloyd's will only class the same vessel ssven yearn. If necessary, I can give the I name and address of the builders referred to. ( know, of my own knowledge, that much satisfaction was exprpss'd by shipbuilders in the lower provinces of the Canadian Dominion) at the time that Germanic Lloyd's fstablished agencies ameng them as being less stringent and giving their vessels a loDger class than the English Lloyd's would ; and Falso know that a great many builders patronized Germanic Lloyd's on that account. Ido not write this for Ihe sake of contradicting the Surveyor to Germanic Lloyd's or the authorities quoted by him, but to correct what may create an erroneous opinion among some people that have no opcortunity of knowing better.—l am, etc., D. H McKenzie. The Charybdis leaves this evening (weather perOwing to ihe showery weather to-day very little ■business was done among the shipping. The ship Fernglen is alongside the wharf in the Hero's berth. She has not yet broached her cargo.