PORT OF AUCKLAND. MISCELLANEOUS.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXIV, Issue 3403, 12 June 1868, Page 2

PORT OF AUCKLAND.

MISCELLANEOUS.

out of our steam fleet, so far at it was employed between the Atlantic States and Europe, by withholding all robsidies. Then, by a syiten of taxation under the most fatal of tariffs, we hare rained tbe bunneos of shipbuilding in tbe United States, The leading builders are doing nothing. A few have gone to Canada and Nova Scotia, wheie timber is cheaper and the duties are not oppressive. A j art of the old mprenntile fleet is under the British flag, where t took refuge in the times of the'Alabxma 1 and other pirates, and was not permitted to change flags after the war. And so it turns «ut that the country whose ships competed with the mercantile fleets of the world, must seek the aid of foreign bottoms to convey its own goods to market. '1 he following table of tariff duties on a ship of 1,000 tons, furnished by Donald McKay, shows, in a small compass, the way in which the shipbuilding interest has been killed :—

Alp the evil here illustrated only operates less disastrously on the Pacific coast because we have only just begun to build ships. But a tariff of over $8,000 upon the material of a *hip of moderate size more than represents all the profit which the builder could make. If a drawback were permitted of the duties upon all the articles enumerated, so far as they are used in the construction of American ships, perhaps the requisite relief would be afforded. We know no good reason why every senator and representative from the Pacific coaßt should not co-operate in bringing about so desirable an end. — Bulletin.

ARRIVALS. Enterprise No. 2, p.s., 45 tons, Scon, from Shortland, witl passengers. Orpheus, cutter, 21 tons, Diaz, from Puhoi, with timber. Whau, cutter, 15 tons, Burns, from Tookey's Flat, in ballast,

DEPARTURES. NiL

VESSELS EXPECTED. H.M. s.i. Blanche, from England, sailed February 24. Star of the South, s.i.. from Queensland, via Hokitika. Kacehorse, ship, 1,077 tons, from London, sailed March 27. Excelsior, ship, from London (loading). Constance, barque, from London, sailed March 29. Alice Cameron, barque, from San Francisco. Bella Mary, barque, from Hobart Town. Princess Alice, brig, from Lyttelton. Glencoe, barque, from Lyttelton EUesmere. barque. 170 tons, from Lyttelton. Royal Exchange, brig, from Sydney. Au Revoir, schooner, from Melbourne. Eugenie, schooner, from Tahiti Stanley, schooner, from Japan. Swallow, schooner, from Lyttelton. Kate Grant, schooner, from South Sea Islands. William and Julia, schooner, from West Coast. Excelsior, schooner, from Kaipara. 33«K1h. ketch from South Km latencM. Bittern, cutter, from Norfolk Island. Mahia, cutter, from Poverty Bay. Agnes, cutter, from Napier via Poverty Bay.

PROJECTED DEPARTURES. For London.— Charlotte Ann, early. Fiji Islands.— Percy, to-morrow. Norfolk Islanb —Joanna, to-morrow. Sydney.— Novelty, to-day ; Dart, 16th. Namer. — Lord Ashley, to-day. Ltttelton.— Lord Ashley, to-day. Oamaru.— Fiery Cross, early. Wellington.— Lord Ashley, to-day. Southern Poms.— Lord Ashley, to-day. Tauranga. — Lord Ashley, to-day. Opotiki.— Whitby, to-day. , Thames. — Tauranga Midge, and Enterprise, to-day Halcyon, early. , Tapu Creek.— Clyde, to-day. Tookey's Flat.— Susan, to-day. Mercury Bay —Lady Don, to-day. Whangarei.— Wangarei. to-day. Mangonui.— lvanhoe, early, j Kaipara.— Onward, early. Riverhead.— Gemini, daily, at 11.

VESSELSJN HARBOUR. (This Hit does not include coasting cutters. Lord Ashley, s.i., from Wellington. EnteisrUe No. I, p.s. (on ferry ««r»lce).' . Enterprise No. 2, p.s., 45 tons, Scon, from Shortland. Tauranga, s.s., from the Thames.— T. Macky, agent. Midge, i s., from Shortland. Halcyon, ■ s., from the Manukau. Lady Bo wen, s.s. (new). Gemini, s.s., on ferry service. Jane, s s., from the Thames. Royal Alfred, p.s. (newj. Novelty, barque, from Sydney,— Henderson and Macfarlane agents. Charlotte Ann, barque, from Nelson.— Cruickshank, Smart. and Co., agents. Pakeha, brig, from Melbourne. — Henderson and Macfarlane, agents. Dart, brig, from Sydney.— Roberton and Co., agents. Onward, schooner, from the Thames. Fiery Cross, schooner, from Mahurangi.^ Ocean Wave, schooner, from Lyttelton. Amateur, schooner, from Lyttelton.— Captain, agent. Lady Don, schooner, from Lyttelton. — A. Buckland, agent. Mavis, schooner, from Lyttelton. Southern Cross, schooner, from Norfolk Island. Tawera, schooner, from Lyttelton. Argo, schooner, from Whangerei. Neva, schooner, from Tahiti. Boyd, schooner, from Mercury Bay. Nava, schooner, from Tahiti and Rorotonga. Ivanhoe, schooner, from Mangonui.

ENTERED INWARDS. June 11— Whan, cutter, 15 tons, Burns, from Too\vf* Flat, in ballast. 11— Halcyon, s.s., 25 tons, Wing, from Manulcau, via Bay of Island!, in ballast. 11— Ivanhoe, icbooner, 72 tons, McGregor, from Mangonui, with 5 casks sperm oil, 2 cases gum, and 108 sheep. Passengers — 4.

CLEAHED OUTWARDS. JUNB 11— Lady Don, schooner, 68 tons, Martin, for Timaru, via Mercury Bay, with 6,000 bricks, 3 tons flour, and 60,000 feet timber to be shipped at Mercury Bay for Timaru. 11— ProTidence, cutter, 8 tons, Black, for Whakatane, with storei.^Passengers-3. 11— Cassia, ketch, 10 tons, Lloyd, for Whangaruru, with 6owt. flour, a quantity of drapery, <fee.

Little or nothing was done in shipping business yesterday, a furious gale from N.N.E., with heavy sea and rain, prevailing throughout the day. About 9 o'clock at night it bad abated considerably, and subsequently lulled to a gentle breeze. We have no casualties to record. The barque Novelty, owing to the unfavourable state of the weather yesterday, has delayed her departure for Sydney until to-day. The steamers Midge and Tauranga hauled from the wharf yesterday, and anchored to leeward of it for* the day, no passengers for the Thames having put in »n appearance. There were only two arrivals yesterday, and the departures nil. The steamer Phoebe is due ia the Manukau to-day from Southern porta. The schooner Percy will leave for the Fiji Islands to-day, the Joanna for Norfolk Island, the Susan for Tookey's Flat, Clyde for Hastings, Wangareifor Whangarei, the Lord Ashley for (southern ports ; and the Tauranga, Enterprise No. 2, and Midge for the Thames. The steamer Enterprise No. 2 returned from the Thames last evening, after a tempestuous passage She left Shortland at half-past 10.