WELLINGTON.

Lyttelton Times, Volume III, Issue 124, 21 May 1853, Page 7

WELLINGTON.

We have Wellington papers to the 10th inst. The " Stately" had at last sailed for England, having left Wellington on the Ist, with a full cargo and some 20 passengers. The Spectator gives the following particulars of the cargo, &c. : — " The departure of the " Stately" for London, laden wilh a valuable cargo of New Zealand produce, leads us to say a word or two on the export trade of this Province and of the Southern settlements of New Zealand, a trade which is rapidly increasing in value. The bulk of the " Stately's" cargo consists of wool —the staple export of the Southern Provinces—l 329 bales and twelve bags, or 370,179 lbs., valued at £25,000, aud the whole cargo may be estimated at up wards of £26,000. But besides the wool shipped by the " Stately" we understand there are about 600 bales ready for shipment by the " Lord Nelson ;" about the same quantity has been shipped from Nelson to Sydney, and a considerable amount has also found its way up to Sydney in various vessels from this Port. Altogether, in the opinion of well informed persons, the result of this year's clip in the four Southern Provinces is estimated at fully 3000 bales, the value of which may be reckoned at between £50,000 and £60,000. But besides these exports to the mother country, a colonial export trade is rapidly growing up wilh Melbourne and the other Australian Ports, already of considerable amount and of daily increasing commercial activity. The colony has benefited to some extent by the gold brought back by those settlers who have visited ?he diggings for a season, it is benefiting still more by the wholesome stimulus given to the industry of the country settlers by the great demand for produce of all kinds in the Australian Colonies, owing to the influx of population caused by the cold discoveries. We cannot better illustrate

this than by turning to the Quarterly table of exports published in Thursday's Government Gazette, and noting a few of the items. The amount exported from Wellington during the quarter ending 31st March last, of bacon and bams was £300, of cheese £560, of butter £1,097, of flour £2,165, of rope and cordage £825, of sawn timber and houses in frame £4,365. In the corresponding quarter of 1852, the export of bacon, butter, and cheese was nil, that of sawn timber £ 100. So that in these four items alone the increase of the exports in the quarter jlist ended over the corresponding quarter of 1852, is £6,200, or at the rate of nearly £24,000 the year. And every week brings fresh arrivals of vessels seeking for cargoes of New Zealand produce of all kinds. We understand that all the timber the sawyers of the Hutt can cut for the next six months has been agreed for at gveatly advanced prices. J3ut these high prices indicate also the great want of additional coasting vessels to bring the produce to the port of shipment. Along the coast, in different districts a very large amount of New Zealand produce, we understand, is collected waiting for shipment, but the number of coasting vessels at present engaged is quite inadequate to meet the demand. It is known that the Natives throughout this Province have greatly extended their cultivations of wheat this year, and yet for want of adequate means of transport the price of wheat is unusually high at Wellington. Another favourable sign of healthy progress is the increasing number of settlers gradually spreading into the country.