THE GROWTH OF WELLINGTON.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1202, 15 March 1895, Page 31

THE GROWTH OF WELLINGTON.

The shipping return, prepared by the Secretary of the Wellington Harbour Board, shows that for the first time in the history of the jjort the registered tonnage of vessels arriving has exceeded a million tons; 2194 steamers arrived with a tonnage of 986,360 tons, and 90 sailing ships with a total tonnage of 39,648 tons, together 2284 vessels with a tonnage of 1,026,008 tons. This shows a total increase of '52 vessels, and of 93,826“ tons, or an increase of tonnage over the previous year of about 10 per cent., and in number of ships of 2h per cent. In steamers there is an increase of 51 in number and of 90,053 tons, and of sailing vessels there is an increase of one in number, with an increase in tonnage of 3773 tons. From the United Kingdom there has been a decrease in the number of steamers in 1894, as compared with the previous year, to 47 from 52, but an increase in the tonnage from 139,437 tons to 140,730 tons. In the intercolonial trade there has been an increase both in number of steamers and tonnage from 154 steamers in 1893 to *165 in 1894, and from 194,220 tons to 209,294 tons. In the coastal trade the number of steamers arriving was 1963 of 616,257 tons in 1894, as compared with 1920 of 542,962 tons in the previous year. The figures show increase in all trades of the she of the vessels employed.