EXPORTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XX, Issue 56, 7 March 1889, Page 4

EXPORTS.

Per R.M.s. Tongariro, for Plymouth : — 2,600 frozen sheep, 1,500 lambs, 800 quarters beef, 500 cases trum, 600 cases preserved meats, 10 tons, flax, 85 bale? wool, 120 sacks peas, and 10 tons sundries.

Inwards Coastwise.—Olive, barge, from the Great Barrier, with logs ; Else, ketch, from Russell, with coal.

The brigantine Magellan Cloud left Brisbane yesterday for this port.

The barque Devonport, Captain Greenwood, reached Hokianga yesterday from Auckland to load kauri for Sydney.'

Yesterday the Jessie, schooner, and Sarah Pile, brigantine, sailed from Newcastle for Auckland, coal-laden.

. This afternoon the brigantine Linda Weber was floated into the Auckland Graving dock for a cleaning and overhaul.

Early this morning the s.s: lona came in from Tauranga with passengers and freight, and left at 8 a.m. on her weekly trip to the Great Barrier.

The coastal trading schooner Queen sailed last evening for her usual northern port of Hokianga, with a quantity of general cargo, stores, etc.

The locally-owned schooner Three Cheers, Capt. G.McKenzie, is now on her way to this port from Brisbane with a freight of coal, coke, and bonedust.

A cable.message from New York states that the American barque Rebecca Crowell arrived at that port on the sth inst., from Auckland, with kauri gum, after a passage of 100 days.

The brigantine Stanley, Captain McKenzie, now due at this port from Newcastle, has been fixed by Messrs C. J. James and Co., of this port, to load timber at Mercury Bay for Noumea (New Caledonia.

The s.s. City of Cork and the s.s. Vivid, trading to Riverbead, will for the nexS few days stop at Pine Island to land any passengers desirous of inspecting that property prior to its forthcoming sale.

Messrs Stone Bros, are advertised by wire that the schooner " Silver Cloud," and and brigantine Parnell, sailed from Melbourne for the Kaipara, the former on the sth the latter yesterday. Both vessels are for Helensville and load timber back to Victorian Capital.

At noon to-day the s.s. Waihora left for the South and Melbourne with cargo and the following passengers :—For Gisborne : MrF. O'Meara, Messrs W. G. Smith, D. M. Beere.. For Napier: Mr A. Brett, Mrs McNaughton and 2 children, Miss Dunn, Messrs G. Harris and H. Williams. For Wellington : Miss Barron, Mesdames Warren, Barron, Messrs Warren, D. J. Arnot, Barron, Thomas Cotter, H. Johnston, A. Smythe. For Lyttelton : Miss Hill, F. Binney, H. McLatchie, Prof. Brown, Mrs and Mr Goodson, Alfrey, A. J. Entrican.

It will be news to many residents of the colonies whose impressions of Her Majesty's ships have been formed from the occasional visits made on board the ships composing tho Australian squadron, to be told that great difficulty has been found this year at home in obtaining candidates for the cadetships in the Britannia, and that in order to make up the number it has been found necessary to lower the standard of examination. Such is, however, tho report to hand by the latest mail, and it is commented upon by the London press. The reason assigned by some is thestateof the lieutenants' list and the position of the whole body of lieutenants. At this moment not one officer out of two of that rank has the smallest chance of ever becoming captain on the active list. This of itself is depressing. But it is, perhaps, in fact it is certainly inevitable, and might be compensated. As a matter of fact, however, says one journal, men are not only not promoted, but are so badly paid that the naval service, as a career, i 3 rapidly-becoming hopelessly repulsive to men who have not more or less ample private means. At the same time, it is a very hard-working profession, which no longer attracts the moneyed men who formerly entered the navy as they entered the army, because it was gentlemanly, and not too arduous. This also is inenviable, and its consequence must be guarded against. There is only one way in which this can be done, namely, by a material increase in the pay of tho senior lieutenants. The younger men of tho rank have no cause to complain. Their pay is ample for young men who have no rent or taxes to provide, no family to support. For the older men it is ridiculously, insuf-1

ficient. It ought to be increased for lieutenants of over eight years' service, not by shillings a day, but by something which wiU put them on an equality with at least senior clerks in a Government office.