EXPORTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 257, 31 October 1888, Page 4

EXPORTS.

Iff- Per barque Stavanger:—l,2o9 ton s [l] guano (originally laden at Maiden Island). I Per s.s. Te Anau : 300 cases glucose, 500

Ihi casks cement, 60 bags fungus, 17 cases 111] _heese, 39 ba'es flax, 5 cases almanacs, 2 I jj bags quartz, 143 kegs butter, 1 keg fish, 10 I oases gum, 4 tierces tongues, 54 cases | I cheese, 3 cases eggs, 35 cases produce, 72 t 1 kegs beef, 211 cases meat, 600 bags flour, [ I 1,200 bags bran, 150 bags sharps, 1,000 bags I | chaff, and sundries.

■ I Inwards Coastwise.—Rose, cutter, from j 1 the Barrier, with firewood ; Lark, cutter, )| from Omaha, with firewood. I I Outwards Coastwise. —Waiwero, schr., I if for Whangarei, in ballast ; Lizette, ketch, | | for the Thames, in ballast; Pukapuka, I scow, for Tutukaka, in ballast ; Mary Ann, J 1 cutter, for Whangarei, in ballast. I I Last evening the s.s. Wellington left for IS Whangarei with passengers and cargo. II The Danish barque Johann Brodersen is I re-loading her cargo of copra from the II Islands at the hulk "Senator. I Last evening the schooner Gisborne left [1 on her usual round trip to Mercury Bay and if East Coast ports with general cargo. 1 Tiie traffic in the Suez Canal, which was 1 blocked a week ago by a steamer ground- ' j ing, has been resumed. I At 6 o'clock last evening the s.s. Maitai if left for the East Coast and Wellington with \ |i cargo and several steerage passengers. 11l During to-day the steamers Wairarapa, II Arawata, and Taiyuan were engaged in II discharging their cargoes at the QncenII street Wharf.

News is to hand from Dunedin of the death of Captain Chaa. Clarke, at one time in command of the lost barque East

Lothian. At the Railway Wharf the barquentine Devonport is discharging her cargo of coal from Newcastle, and the schooner Mariner is also putting out her freight of Russell .coal.

ThcSwedish barque Stavanger is expected to sail this evening for London with her original cargo of 1,200 tons guano from Maiden Island. She was towed out into the stream this morning.

A wire from Waiwera this afternoon says that a brigantine is now outside Tiii, inward bound. This will probably prove to be the brigantine Clansman, which sailed from Kimberly on August 3.

The steamer Jessie Niccol will in all probability leave this afternoon for Long Island, where she will load guano for Sydney after landing her cargo of stores, etc.

1 The charter of the steamer Titus to load i'at the Bluff, for Melbourne, is reported to .have been cancelled because sufficient oats jto load her could not be procured. The .steamer Lindus was unable to complete and ihad to fill up with timber at Kaipara.

| I Last evening, at 5 o'clock, the s.s. Te I |Anau left for Sydney with cargo and 142pa.- ---| ''gengers, of whom 16 wero in transit from {Ijthe'South. The saloon passenger list was t ipnblished in our yesterday's issue, and in j (addition 98 steerage passengers were taken. I|A large crowd assembled on the Quecn- | btreeb Wharf to see the steamer off, and as I She vessel cast off a cheer was raised for the I {Auckland volnntter "reps." _ who are ij'going to Melbourne to compete in tho Ceniltenmal Rifle Meeting. f At 3 30 this afternoon the China Naviga- |] jfcion Go's s.s. Taiyuan leaves for Wellington, A .where she will discharge part of her cargo, j| fchenceproceeding to Lyttelton and Dunedin, S {for. which- ports she has considerable cargo. ! She'takes for Dunedin one through passonI per from Honsr Kong, Mr C. Webb, and also ' {takes one or two Chinese, who have booked I {jthrough for Hong Kong. The Taiyuan 1 bakes from this port about 30 tons of cargo J|br China, consisting chiefly of fungus, 1 fold iron, etc. -a |j The s.s. Wairarapa arrived from Sydney [iftbout 4 o'clock this morning. She left 'Sydney at 2.30 p.m. on 26th instant, made ■ {(Three Kings at 8.30 a.m. on 30th, rounded jl 'North Cape at 2 p.m., and arrived alongside Queen-stseet Wharf as above. Exjijperienced strong north-west winds and il* (heavy head sea to the 29th, thence flight variable winds and fine weather Ijiifco arrival. The Wairarapa brings the j: jfollowing passengers : — For Auckland : ! Mesdames Maeky, Cory and family (4), Lewis, Large, Misses Milne (2), Messrs I jP.ideey, Kenderdine, Orpen, Cain, Eraser, j Adams, Tame, Goodman, Stewart, Bloomj geld, Pbillipson, Milne, Goldsbro', Macky, I _Jreen, Doble, Dr. McGregor, Rew. H, j,

Lewis, and 40 steerage. For Napier -. Mr and Mrs Large and 1 steerage. For Gisborne: Mr Shaddock. For Wellington : Mesdames Fewman, Tolbuvst, Misses Tolbuvst (2), Master Tolhurst, Messrs Temple, Weede, Baillie, Morrisay, Nairn, Dr. Newton, and five steerage. For Lyttelton : Mr, Mrs, and Master Rutherford, Messrs Trafibrd, Waghorn, and nine steerage. For Dunedin : Messrs McLaren, Green, and ono steerage.

A late caole says it was proposed by the Australian shippers to ask the London Associated Brokers to justify the existing high freights. It would be difficult to see exactly what good can come of such a step at present. Moreover, the brokers may not feel called upon to accept the invitation, but may simply point to the fact that the opposition lines have had to capitulate. If Australian importers are not prepared to support shipping companies outside the ring, there is nothing to be done. Besides, at the present writing, when freights are. almost universally high and tonnage scarce, any new opposition is scarcely practicable.

A Parliamentary paper has been issued containing a return of ail ships ordered by the Board of Trade, England, or its officers, to be provisionally detained as unsafe, in pursuance of tho provisions 39th and 40th. Victoria, chapter 80, sections 6 and 13, from -July 1, 1087, to .June 30, 1888, giving the names of the owners of those ships which havo been dismantled, broken up, or converted into hulks, etc. Tho return shows that the total number of ships found unsafe from allowed defects on hull, equipments, or machinesy was 21. The total number of cases of overloading or improper loading was 53. It would be well if the Board of Trade's action was emulated by the authorities in the Australian colonies, where more than £1 .bating coffins probably would be found.

Following upon Manchester, the Brummagens are jjoing in for shipping. By the last mail wo learn that an influential meeting was recently held in Birmingham to consider a proposal tor the construction of a canal for coasting' vessels between Birmingham and ' the Weaver Navigation in Cheshire. A sub-committee was then appointed to examine the project, and they have now reported favourably as to impracticability and the prospect of it. construction, the acquisition of land and water rights, etc., at a reasonable cost. A guarantee fund to defray the expenses of a detailed survey and of the preliminary stops for an application to Parliament is to be opened. The project is regarded in the Black Country with much favour.

Since the warning voice raised by Lord .Armstrong in his inaugural address as president of the British Association, respecting the rapidity with which wo were using up the accessible supplies of coal in the United Kingdom, by our large exports of this fuel, and by burning our coal so lavishly at home, tlie discovery of the value of oil for fuel has (says "Broad Arrow ") happily put an end to any fears as to the exhaustion of our fuel supply. The excellence of oil for steaming purposes has been practically shown by the fact of three American steamers having run a distance of 92,000 miles during the last eighteen months using this fuel instead of coal ; and now we see not only merchant and small war steamers running on the Caspian and Black Seas, but likewise the new Russian ironclad Tchesme, of 10,000 tons burthen, using the oil fuel with considerable advantage. We should not, however, forget that to the unwearied energy and skill of a British naval officer, great improvements in the burning of tho oil to the best advantage are due, and that Admiral Selwyn ran a 40-hoise-power engine for two years, evaporating per hour 5,0401b of water with only 2301b of oil—a truly marvellous result, and one which seems to indicate not only the possibility of war steamers, instead of expending all their coal fuel in running from 3,000 to 6,000 miles, steaming many times further with oil. In the fuel revolution Russia is taking the lead, and seems likely to secure a very great advantage by being the first to avail herself of a fuel which is practically inexhaustible, and which can be easily taken in at sea by means of hoses from ship to ship. In view of the probability, or rather the certainty, of the adoption of oil as fuel, it is certainly worth consideration whether we may not be arranging to fortify stations for coaling which may not be the most suitable for oil depots. Possibly, also, it may be found that oil exists in ample quantities where it may prove most advantageous for our own commercial purposes.