Shipping.

Press, Volume X, Issue 1192, 1 September 1866, Page 2

Shipping.

Lyttelton, August 31. A SKIVED Nil. CLEABED. Struggler, schooner, 30 tons, Wishart, for Saltwater Creek. Gazelle, s.s., 79 tons, McLellan, for Heathcote, with cargo, ex Bombay. KXPOBTS. Per Struggler, Callow, agent: 12,000 feet timber, 12 tons coal, Pavitt. BXVECTKD ABBtVAM. Wellington, from the North, daily. PROJECTED DRPABTUBES. Wellington, for Dunedin, on Monday. Phoebe, for Wellington, Picton, Nelson, Manakati,-onThursday. — j:< '' RtYSR%mPpiNCK :: Heathcote, August 31. ABBIVED. Sea Bird, schooner; Priflco Consort, scheoner-r-Tbetisj ketehr Gonnaught Ranger, ketch j Quiver, ketch.

Referring to the "Survey and Inspection of . Steam Vessels,"- the President of the Marine Board says, in his' annual report, "This branch of the establishment has been greatly reduced during thai past yea*. / It formerly comprised three inspectors and two engineer Buryeyors. The present working staff is one inspector (Captain Johnson) who receives salary us Admiralty mail agent; and two engineer surveyors (Messis Nancarrow and Hamilton), who perform the duty, of acting inspectors also, when required, Warden and Inspector Robertson having resigned, and Warden and Inspector Kennedy being lent to command the Government: Bteamer St. Kilda, in which capacity I understand his services on the' East Coast and elsewhere have been most useful. -The number of steam vessels trading on the sea-board and rivers of New Zealand, coming under the immediate inspection of this department are ; thirty-seTen, haTing low pressure-engines, and twenty high pressure; the former requiring to be surveyed at an interval of six months, and the latter every third month ; thus making in all about. 154 surveyß. Besides which many steamers having Australian certificates, runningito tbis colony, undergo cursory supervision. When it is considered that these vessels find employment at Sorts extending from Auckland to th© Bluff arbor, and both on the East and West Coast, where inspecting officersr-in the performance of their duties, have to visit them, it will be perceived that the labor with the present limited staff is by no means light. It affords mc great pleasure to state that Messrs Nancarrow and Hamilton, upon whom most of Ihe duty of survey has devolved, ha y» shown themselves both efficient-and assiduous in the double capacity of engineer,, surveyors and acting inspectors. The assistance they have rendered in superintending repairs of.lighthouse apparatus' has "also been of great service. From Captain Gibson, port officer at who is deputed by Government to supervise Marine Board duties at Canterbury, I have and valuable assistance."