SHIPPING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume IX, Issue 2490, 18 January 1872, Page 2

SHIPPING.

ARR'VALS. >~iL DEPARTURES. Couierang, p.s., Clirisp, fur liay of Islands. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. LoynoN.—City of Auckland, to-day. Sydney. s.s., to-day ; City of Adelaide, sth prow; Mary Ann Christina, to-day. Samoa.—Kcnilworth, 23rd inst. Soi;t»i:ux I\>hts.—Taraimki, s.s., to-day. H«>noj.l-ki\— Nebraska, p.s., 25th inst. Lkvuk —r.jetitia, 20th inst. Xauiti.—Queun, early.

VKSSItLS EXPKOTED. U..S. Man of War St. Mary, from Sydney. JN'ebraska. p.s., from Sydney, due 24th inst. City of Adelaide, s. from Sydney and Melbourne. Napiei, s.s., from Napier. Cmhiceus ship, f «>m London, s.aPeil Oct. IS. s»aomi, from London, sailed Nov. 10. Ferndrtle, barque, from Liverpool. Alice Cameron, barque, from Sydney, sailod Otli inat. barque, from Newcastle : left sth inst. Coronet, schojiicr, from Tahiti. Magellan Cloud, schooner, from Chatham Islands. Amr.teur, s.hooner, from Lyttelton. Gracs Darling, schooner, from Melbourne; left 3rd inst.

EXPORTS. Per ship City of Auckland, for London :— 1 pko- g" I S Pr > 1 ditto nuts, Cruickshank, Smart and Co.; 2tO cases guui, 133 bales wool, E. Walker and Co. ; 206 cases gum, Stewart, and Anderson ; 1 box bell metal, J. Gr. Freer; 13 ca=ks tallow, Bucholz mid Co.; 4 casks iron-sand, Bank of New Zealand ; 1 case, J aim's Morton ; 67 bales wool, J. S. Maefarhme and Co. ,- 7 ditto, R. Sissons, 3 bales leather, 16 bales "wool, 33. Gittos ; 259 cases gum, Bolpli Sterry; 30S ditto, same; 10 ditto, Bucholz and Co.; 13 bales wool, Brown, Campbell and Co.; 659 cases gum, 15 casks gum, 31 bales wool, Brown, Campbell and Co. ; '200 cases gum, ISI bags gum, 5? tons gum, in bulk, 10 kegs n-iils, 5 bundles bark, R. Walker a-.d Co.; 21 cases gum, 37 bales wool, L. I). Nathan and Co.; 9-1 bales wool, Oweu and Graham ; 5 ditto, T. IXussell; 2S pieces timber, S. James; 10 bales wool, L. Winter; 5 casks tallow, 7 ditto hides, 50 bales wool, 32 eises gum, Combrs and JDaldv ; 10G bales wool, 6 casks tallow, J. S. Macfa'rlane and Co.; 4SI cases gum, 11 sacks gum, Mast and Co.; 49 bales wool, A. Dornwetl ; 172 copper, A. Clark and Sons ; 15 b.des wool, G. Tliorne, ju:i., and Co. ; S6 cases gum, 101. ditto, same; 7S bales leather, 6S b des leather, Ireland Bros.; 6 bales wool, W. Grahame ; -16 casks tallow, 11 bags bones, 32 bales wool, Xi. 1). !Naihan and Co. ; 51 bales wool, Owen and Graham ; 9 ditto, 172 tins cheese, 2 bales wool, ?\\ 1 w Zealand Loan Company; 30 bales wool, 42 bales cotton, 20 casks cocoanut oil, 199 bags Copperuh, 213 bajis cotton seed, Cruickshank, Smart., and Co. ; 23 bales wool, New Zealand Xioan Company ; 1 case plants, \Y. J. Palmer; 2 cases curios, Cruickshank, Smart, and Co. ; 1 bos silver plite, James Russell; 9 bales wool, J. iicarrol; 7 bales cotton, 911 tons cotton seed, in bulk, Oweii and Graham ; id eases gum, H. A. \\ illiams ; 51 cases gum, J. Xia-ub ; 2 casks tallow, 4 casks hides, Combes and Daldy ; 2 boxes gold, Bank of Australasia ; 10 oars silver, Bank of Jfew Zeulrfnd ; 2 boxes, Must and Co. —Cruickshank, Smart and Co., age-:ts. j Hero will leave for Sydney at noon to-c:. Xh. -> Go-Ah-ad will leave Onehunga at two oWck to-day for the Waitara (l'ara- ■ Eaki). The s.s. Xaranaki will leave the Manukau at six o'clock p.m. to-da} - . The p.s. Comerar.g, Captain Chrisp, left la=t evening for the Hay of Islands with u number of passengers, and a miscellaneous cargo. The p.s. Duke of Kdinburgh, having come ofT the hard in Official Bay, will leave for W-uigarei at nine o'clock this morning. In future the p.s. Golden Crown will leave the wharf every lion'.ay, Wednesday, lliurs<3ay, Friday, und Saturday, at 11 o'clock forenoon ; every luesday at nine o'clock, and every Sunday at 10 o'clock. 'i lie time table for the p.s. Challenger, ■which trades to Coromadel, wdl bo found in our advertising columns. The schooner Mary Ann Christina will sail for Sydney to day. The schooner L.-etitia will sail for Levuka (Fiji), on the 20th instant. The sch.'oner Clyde came up the harbour from the l'amaki (where she had been landing cattle) l:st evening. She will leave for Wangarei on Friday. In a shipping paragraph which appeared in our yesterday's issue, we stated that Mr. David Stua:-t had been appointed to the command of the Onward. This was a mistake, the master of that vessel b.-iug named D jnald Stuart. Captain David Stewart, late of the Midge, is stiU at the Kaipara. Steam ±xigsti<>::.—l be opening of the Suez Canal bas given an extraordinary impetus to the building ot steamships. A new route to the K'lstci'n Seas created a demand which has been abundantly met. Independently of British e:i'< rprise, the French, Dutch, Italians, Austrian* and Hussians have taken advantage of the facilities presented by the short euL to India, Java, the Straits Settlements, CI ina, and -Japan, and they also have inaugurated I lines of steamers. From a summarv before It;, British steamships, advertised in asiin'ie number only of the Shipping and Mercantile Gazette, to sail on a given day, via Suez, to ports beyond the Red Sea, and those announced to follow, we Gild that the actual tonnage of the vessels whose names are given amounts to 104,986 tons. To this gross tonnage we add the burthen of those ships advertised on previous days, and known to be in the trade; and, from a careful calculation, we make tho grand total of 1-17,95G tons. The employment of such a large amount of steam tonnage must completely revolutionise the Eastern trade. But to the British sLeam-vessels of 147,986 tons should be added tho tounage of foreign vessels built expressly in consequence of the pie.'cing of tho Isthmus, and, if we place that, at 50,000 tons, which is a fair estimate, it will be l'ouud that over 200,000 tons of steam shipping is employed, under different European ilags, in steam navigation to the East. This is a result scarcely to have been anticipated two yi_ara ago, and the enormous augmentation of steam tonnage thus shown is the most convincing proof of the practical Success of the Suez Canal, as a means of expediting commerce between Europe and Asia. It should be borne in mind, also, that so extensive an employment of British steam-vessels in this new channel of navigation is the spontaneous achievement of British anterprise and British wealth. Taking the value of our own vessels at £25 per ton, onau average, it gives an estimated expenditure of capital of £3,699,650. The embarkation of such a large eapitul, in a comparatively short period, in vessels, engines, equipment, and stores, must have afforded work for thousands of mechanics and labourers, independently of tho mining population. That whole ileels of unaubsidised steamships should have been thus created in less than two years seems marvellous, Some few of the steamers dispatched to the Eaßt have, no doubt, been taken from other lines, but this does not in reality touch the question, as, if they were profitably employed before, other ships would be placed on" the temporarily abandoned routes to supply their places. What effect will ■ultimately ensue from the extension of steam navigation to the East remains to bo proved, but, considering that so few sailing ships are being built to fill the void left by wrecks and breaking up, this inereaeo of steamship.", in 1 poiut of aggregate tonnage, is not, perhapß disproportionate to the merchandise to be conveyed. The old East Indian sailing Bhips averaged about 1000 tons, so that the new British steam tonnage, as regards register, is equal to 148 sailing vessels. By the rapidity of their voyages, and tho saving of time in distance, tho increased steam tonnage is equul to about 370 sailing ships of 1000 tons each. Kecent returns from the commercial building yards of the United Kingdom show that there are 450,000 tons of steam shipping now on the stoc.'.s, or on order, all of which, it is said, is to be iloated between this and March noxt. 'The value of this tonnage now building, or i ready for floating, calculated upon the same moderate estimates as that which we have , referred to as engaged in our Eastern trade, ;

would amount to the largo sum of £11,250,000 —a further proof of the characteristic enterprise and commercial wealth of tho country. All this tonnage will not figure on the register for 1871, but, even if it did, there is, we presume, a corresponding decrease in sailing tonnage. We will not say that the steam tonnage underconstniction is exceesivo, though if a panic or adverse times irerc to set in it would certainly turn out to be so. During a peri id of prosperity there should be not only tonnago enough built or building to supply the annual displacement, but sufficient also to keep pace with the growing trado of the world. — Mitchell's Register, November 4. THE CITY 08 , AUCKLAND. The fine clipper ship City of Auckland will take her departure at noou to-day for tho old country, with a very largo and valuable cargo and a full complement of passengers. With regar.l to tho latter, a much greater number of applications for passages homo were applied for than could possibly be eranted. This speaks volumes for the good name of tho sbip, and the estimation in which Capt. Ashby is held. The short time that has elapsed since the City's arrival is really a matter of surprise, for wbilo some ships would not have been yet unloaded she lias had every ounce of cargo taken out, is aguin chock full of slulf for tho home market, and leaves again within a month after her arrival. And out of this thero must bo rocUonpd four days lost before she commenced to discharge, and six days lost through the holidays. It was only on the 30ih March last that she left this port a full ship, arriving homo on the 2nd of July. Seventy-two days were then occupied in repairing and loading her, and yet sho was again in Auckland on tho ISth December, having left England on the 12th of September, thus proving most unmistakably that she is a splendid sea-boat. She has landed altogether some 1150 tons of cargo, and takes away 1360 lons. This may be called smart work, and could hardly be surpassed—certainly not with the same appliances—in any part of tho world. The vessel will heave out into the stream this morning, and sail at 12 o'clock precisely. We wish Captain Ashby and his noble vessel a prosperous voyage home, and a speedy return to tliese waters. Tho following is the list of passengers booked by tho City of Auckland :—Saloon: Mrs. Ormsby, Miss Ormsby, Miss Selena Orinsby, Rev. L. Vinay, Mr. Andrews, Miss Browne, Mr. D. White, Miss White, Miss A. White, Mr. J. P. Walker, Mr. H. Parnall, Mrs. H. Famuli, A. TTarnall, Mrs. Maynard, .Mis. and Miss Williams. Steerage: Mr. A. Smith, Mr. B. Brougham, Mr. William Reed, Mr. Slovens, Mr. F. Coutts, A. G. Urodie, E. G'edhill, William Clark, John Clark, William Clark, Gr. Thorp, Ourriors, Lee, J. P. Grilliner, J. Pearce, JS. James, J. Penhall, Wm. Rowe, Mrs. W. Uowe, W. K. Clarke, A. Clarke, B. Clarke, C. Claude, S. Hoeking. The following is tho analysis and valuo of the cargo : — 874 bales of wool £1G,59G 2911 cases, 15 casks, andß bags gum 9,065 2 boxes gold (2,847 oxs.) 8,000 10 bars silver (1,280 lbs ) 4,900 Leather 2,350 Cotton (in bales) 1,079 Tallow 853 Hides 150 Cocoanut oil ... ... ... ... 75 C.ieese (in tins) 120 Cotton seed 618 Tarunaki ironsaiid ... ... ... 100 Copperah 245 Plants 15 Curios 20 Bones 8 Silver plate ... ... ... ... 5 Nails 5 Broken metal... ... ... ... 25 Timber ... ... ... ... 15 Bark 6 Total ... .„ £44,244