SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. PORT OF OAMARU.

North Otago Times, Volume VII, Issue 157, 23 November 1866, Page 2

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. PORT OF O AMARU.

INWARDS. November 20.— Anne, Russell, from Dunedin. H. France, Agent. November 20.— Gcelong, p.s., Hait, from Dunedin. Trail], Roxby and Oo., Agents. November 21.— Ahuriri, s.s., Flowerday, from the North. Dalgoty, Katti.vy and Co., Agents. November 21.— Fly, Hill, from Dunedin. H. France, Agent. November 22.— Wainui, i.s., Crone, from the North. Traill, Roxby awl Co., Agents.

OUTWARDS. November 20.— Mary Ann Christina, Ritchie, for Timaru. H. Fiance, Agent. Novembkr 20. — Geelong, p.s., Hart, for the North. Trail], Roxby and Co., Agents. Novembeb 21.— Auue, Russell, for Dunediu. Henry France, Agent. Novrmbfr 22.— "Wainui, a.s., Crone, for DuneUin. Traill, Roxby and Co., Agents.

IMPORTS. Per Anne, from Duuediu.— Ex Star of Tasmania: 4 drums nails, 2 bells shovels, 1 do forks, 2 cases, 1 cask, Turnell. Free and duty paid : 5 bis woolpacks, Holmes ; 1050 bars iron, Dalgety, Rattray and Co ; 14,000 feet timber, 4 cs glass, 18 doors, Masonic Hall Committee: 4000 feet timber, Oddfellows Hall Committee. Per Geelong, from Duucdin. — Under bond : 2 i-cks branay, 10 cs stout, Bee. Free and duty paid : 3 cs galv iron, 2 bxs effects, Dalgety, Rattray and Co ; 25 bags sugar, 10 bags flour, 1 cs sardines, 1 ck rice, 1 cs picklei, 1 do bot fiuits, 1 bag, 3 trunks, 3 casks, 3 bdls •undries, 1 cs bedsteads, 2 bales, 3 washstands, 2 pkgs, 5 j-chests tea, 3 bxs corn flour, I do laisini, 1 cs marmalade, 1 do confectionery, 11 do sundries, 2 bxs pepper, 2 cs c ysters, 2 do vinegar, 2 do syrup, 1 pel spice, 2 pkg, 1 cs jams, Booth Brothers ; 1 pr naves, 2 axle arms, 2 bars iron, 1 pel, Reid and Robertson ; 1 case, Luke ; 3 churns, 2 kegs nails, 1 bundle, 3 cs soda water, 1 keg barley, 1 pkg corks, Traill. Roxby and Co ; 4 ea drapery, Hood and Shennan; 1 bag cabbages, Armsttong and Payne ; 2 hhds, Oamaru Biowery Company ; 1 ca jams, Lees and Lee3 ; 5 cs peppermint, 13 bags malt, 10 bxs raisins, 8 cs currants, 20 bags rice, 12 bags oatmeal, 10 bxs tea, Royse, Mudie and Miller j 1 bl woolpacks, 6 baskets, 2 pkgs, Driver, M'Lean and Co; 1 parcel, Prendergnst ; I bale, Laing; 1 case, Gibbs; 1 paicel, "VVataon. Per Fly, from Dunedin.— Ex Queen Bee: 25 cks bottled beer, Traill, Roxby and Co. Ex Viola : 25 bxs tea, Traill, Roxby and Co. Free and duty paid : 5000 ft timber, Masonic Hall Company ; 500 do, Ogilvie ; 1000 do, Hewa.t; 40 drums oil, 1 ck zinc, 10 A-chests tea, 5 chests do, Cargills und M'Lean. Per Wainui, from Lyttelton.— 1 weighing machine, 4 drums, 1 bale, loowbar, 4 case, CargiUs and M'Lean. From Akaroa: 1 keg butter, Tiaill, Roxby and Co; 5105 ft timber, Lemon.

EXPORTS. Per Mary Ann Christina, for Timaru.— 60 ton* coals, Traill, Roxby and Co. Per Anne, for Dunedin.— 4 tons potatoes, Sewell ; 2 i-cka whisky, 1 chest, 1 bng, 2 parcels, Dalgety, Eattray and Co.

It is reported that the ship Melita is laid on to load wool at this port this season. The Geelong from Dunedin, early on Tuesday morning, and the Ahuriii, from the North, on Wednesday morning, cleared out of the Bay shortly after amval, before^ business people generally were awaro of their presence in port. The advantages of steam communication are much detracted from by such an erratic system as that no sv adopted by the captains of our coastal steamers, and it; is to be hoped that a few trips will convince them of thin fact. Speedy passages are not necessarily the most profitable. The s.s. Wainui, Crone, from the North, arrived in port at 4 a.m. yesterday. Left Lyttelton on Monday afternoon. Loaded a considerable quantity of cargo at A karoa for this port, and experienced variable winds on the passage We have files by the Wainui to the 19th instant. The Marine Board Act, 1866, passed at the last session of the General Assembly, contains provisions materially and favorably affecting this Port. By it, all masters of Vessels trading to the Port, excepting those who have got exemption certificates, are bound to engage the services of a pilot, or at all events to pay pilot dues ; power is given to license and control ballast and cargo lighters, lightermen, boatmen, Ac, and to levy harbor dues, neceisary to maiutaiu tho efficiency of the Harbor Deyartment. A similar Act was passed at the previous session tof the Assembly, but was never brought into operation. It would appear very much like as if its successor was doomed to be consigned to a similar fate of oblivion, for even foreign vessels continue to be taken in and out without their masters recognising the existence of a Pilot staff. As an instance, the Danish brig Emma, bound for Tome (Chili), took her departure yesterday morning, and sailed out in charge of. her master, free of pilotage. Such vessels have all the advantages of a well buoyed and beaconed channel at no expense whatever, the expense of maintaining such coming out of the general revenues of the Province, instead of being self-suppoi ting. Thus it appears that bo soon as our members leave Wellington the most important Ordinances they have passed affecting this Province are at once consigned to tho waste basket of tho Colonial Secretary, if indeed they do not meet with even a less respectful fate.— Otago Daily Times. A correspondent of the " Montrose Standard" states that shoitly after the reported loss of the London (s ), owing to the heavy seas breaking on board and gcttmg into the engine-room, Captain Alexander Watt, lon°-well-known in the Baltic trade, called on Mr James Jack, engineer and manager of the Montrose Foundry, and showed him a contrivance which, if adopted, would render a similar catastrophe for the future next to impossible. It consists of strong iiou plates, in two or more pieces, slicing in suitable grooves under the deck planking. These ho proposes to open and shut by toothed racks on their undei side, with pinions working into them on a shaft, to be acted on from the deck by an ordinary wiuch handle. He also suggests that the lids of the coal bunkers should bo made with a highheaded screw, and scrowed down on packing. Pow things are more annoying to the mariner, comparatively speaking, than the compass variations which, especially in the navigation of iron ships, he has to provide against. An extremely simple and ingenious mode of asceitaining the deviation has, however, been devised by a naval commander connected with the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, United States, which will remove all difficulty in the matter. It is proposed to take an ordinary compass card, and erect upon its centre a fine copper wire, fiom 4in. to Gin. or 8iu. in height, and perpendicular to its plane, at the moment of the sun's meridian passage, as indicated by the noon observation for latitude, note the direction of the shadow cast by the wire on the compass card. The angle contained between the direction and that of the north and south line of tho card will give the variation and local attraction combined. Small errors are involved in this method, but the approximation is close enough for tho purpose for which it is intended. As there would, of course, bo no difficulty in making this wire a permanent fixture to tho the card, it would be obvious that this arrangement would enable the deviation of the compass to be daily tested. -Mechanics' Magazine.