ARRIVALS.

Grey River Argus, 26 June 1906, Page 2

ARRIVALS.

June 25. Nil. DEPARTURES. June 26. Alexander s s 185 tons, Captain Wild man, for Wellington. IN PORT. Jap, from Lyttelton, Putiki, f rom Wanganui. The Araihura from Wellington,- via ports, arrived in the roadstead yesterday but was unable to enter owing to tue heavy sea on the bar. She is expected to arrive about nine o'clock this moning. The Hawea and Haupiri arrived in tue roadstead yesterday and will enter as soon as the sea on the bar moderates. The Alexander, timber laden, lef • shortly after midnight this morning for Wellington. Mr Cramp, the great American ship builder, giving evidence before the House Committee on the Merchant Marine in favour of a shipping subsidy, said that there was no difference in the price of steel in America and abroad. He said he knew a man who had secured bids for six large steam ers for the Transatlantic trade' in which competition was most fierce but they were dependent on the passage of the Subsidy BjU under which he maintained that America, at a cost of £1,800,000 would acquire a greater ton nage of good ships in ten years than a Government spending £2,200,000 in purchasing foreign rotten merchantmen for war purposes had secured in' the past ten years. The United States he continued did not at the present moment possess thirty ships to form a proper escort to the navy, whereas Great Britain estimated that 300 mer chantmen would be required to attend the manoeuvres of her fleet.