OIL.

New Zealand Gazette and Wellington Spectator, Volume IV, Issue 315, 13 January 1844, Page 2

OIL.

Below we furnish a very interesting table respecting the oil . taken' during the last season ; together with the places were taken,' the names of the proprietors of the stations,' and the number of boats and men employed at each station during the season. n „, It' will be. seen the' twelve hundred a^d ninety tuns of oil; were, taken by. 85 boats, and 734: men. >• This ■ gives 15 tuns to a boat, and rather more than one tun and one half to a man, whicfy at £15 per tun, is £22 10s: for six months work. The bone is not stated, but we presume more than its value would be required to repay - the outlay of capital and the risk of the undertaking. We should think, by this showing that the

•_:—»: — » A large vessel passed through the Straits two weeks since. She was suppose to be a frigate. She has proved to be the French frigate returning from Sydney, where she had been for supplies, to her station at Akaroa. The following news has been received from Akaroa.

A vessel had arrived at Sydney from London with dates to the 21st August. The following are the only items of news we have obtained. The first, about emigration, is important. ,

Mr. Buller, in a speech of some length delivered in Parliament on the 16th August, recommended an extensive system of emigration, to be paid for by a loan on the security of the Crown Lands.

Mr. Under Secretary Hope promised that, if Mr. Buller would put his plan in writing, it should receive the serious attention of the Home Government.

On the 4th August, in a Committee of supply £1,281,000 were granted as compensation for opium surrendered at Canton.

On the 9th December, H.M.S. North Star, sailed for Auckland. The Bengalore sailed for the same port the next day ; on the 11th the Ariel, and on the 12th the JOebomh also sailed for the same port.

average annual earninga^df a 'whaler do t not amount to more than ;S3O. . ;; v \ .. Fisheries &JownerW Boafs Men 'Tune.^ * East Cape, Webster 2 * *15 "" 7 Mawou, Babington 2 15 5 Table Cape, Dorsay 4 30 6 Mansfield 2 15 6 ' . WaikokopUjjßilisfy ; >-*!• % * 20 Mahia, Lewis;- V* i '4 * -j' $5 \,, '■ 43 Wakari, l&lotfft '"' V v 4 '' 25 Wairarapa, Wade 4 35 23 „ r Porirua, Toms V' *; ' 2 . : r; * • a ' 5 " Taranaki, Ridgway 4 35" 7 - Kapiti, Jillett ' 5 40" "130 , w ,.- ,Jw , 4 r 38 7? *--*> 'Stewart 1 -7 *20 Long George 1.7 5 j.Mana, Fr^zer- S, .30 50 "Queen C. Sound, Toms 4 35 , 15 "'' Cloudy Bay, tVright S 27 40 i Wallace 3 27 40 Levin 3 27 40 Kai Kora/.Ftfe 4 ' 40- 130 Banks' Peninsula, Price 3 27 160 Woods 3 27 35 Wikowite, Jones 1 6 15 Otago,,Sch.ultze 2 12 0 Moraki, 2 12 15 Bluff & Jacob's R., Jones 8 80 200 Chatham Island, Hanson 3 27 15 85 734 1,265 Susannah Ann, schooner 25 Brothers, 0 1,290 The oil above has been disposed of in the following manner : — Taken to Bay of Islands 150 tuns. " " " Sydney 230 " Shipped to England from Port Nicholson 850 " Out and in 60 " 1,290