EXPORTS.

Grey River Argus, Volume XXIII, Issue 3357, 22 May 1879, Page 2

EXPORTS.

Per Poneke, for Wanganui — 126 tons coal. Shippers — Kennedy Bros. Per Kennedy, for Ne?son— 80 tons coal, 3 do coke. For Westport -1 case, 1 truss. Shippers— Nancarrow. Kennedy, Smith and Barkley.

The St Kilda sailed from Melbourne for Grey month on Tuesday. The s.s Wallabi left Wanganui on Monday morning, and arrived at Westport on Tuesday evening. Left same tide, and reached here yesterday morning. The Wallabi leaves for Wanganui this morning at 9 o'clock. The s.s Kennedy, with the San H'rancisco mail, sailed for the North yesterday morning. The .<-chooner Poneke, coal laden for Wanganni, was towed out yesterday morning by the p. s Dispatch. England has a large surplus of tonnage which flhe is trying very hard to dispose of. Those Bupeiflaoua idle vessels are the result of over-speculation in that branch of commerce in Great Britain, just as there has been over-speculation in our infernal transportation by establishing too many competing lines of railway, and by starting others through territory that has not business to support them. If the owners of Idle ships referred to would take their pay in these useless or used-up railroads, it is possible something in the way of rational exchange might be accomplished ; but to take the cast-off lumber and iron of the British ship-yards, to the damage of our own builders and their workmen, and to keep onr railway and other lumber and iron unavailable on onr own hands, looks a little too much like the buzz »rd and the turkey divided between the white hunter and the Indian ; it is turkey all the time on one side and buzzard all the time on the other. — American Paper.