SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 27, 23 May 1876, Page 2

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

POBT OF OAMARtT. * ♦ rSWARDS. I Jt.VY •£'.. Samson, p..*, tU't tons. Edie. from, tfcttisuii*. HAitkmi, mffsiit. ,_„.,„„ OCTWAt.Dy. May 23. JfatiMiviM.. to* tons, Urnnhart,. for IHmeuitt. An•rauouiut Co.. a^nts. VESHE£9 tjf PORT. * «.*¥ '£':■ itmitner - Samson. Brtf -Clumatis. BrlKftiitiuu*-Yarn, and Endeavour. Suhoimew—.tune Anderson audi Mary K»W. (Catch—Jsssie. fMP^RTS. Par Samson,, from i>nnedin ~* H onsi!.'n«e»r Statute. Steward and Co.. Stfcc .f. ft-th »»<t '•''- *' lt:fc^ n - Jim* unit Co.. Harbour Board. Newsy. WtoU. Mai". (~'»» nnd Moor« r F«rcvs. Wdammer. rewter. Whita. 'Tulotfraofv Department. Run and f,".. r. H. Brown; Hulikef. ft. Aitken. trelamt. Mirams. WtrfSonand jrtntosh..«iw Works. Council and Clowes. ri'Mminif and HeiQey. Humphries. Million. l>raper. Kit.*. Pauline, Tnormy. J. 'Brown, Hood and Snennan. J. ttworjfo. Hmuiland. Richmond. Reid and t.ray. Scott. Karris. M. Oranf. Wheleh. Fiwh. Townsertd. Familton. .YTFartanß. t.Mu.ll. Roper. Hubbard. t>r. FUmitnir. Lindsay. Stteppard., Manchester.. Lmtiir. Uwre. E. t'. Smith. N'uw lands.. tJarncross,, F.arle. and Paterson. O W« Warn trow a lat» file of the Melbourne " thuS tht? barium William. OitJord. bound to Trmaru. and thu Guronno.and hriir dKiiaeniwrhle. bound to *>amaftt. ■ailud from Neweivstlu on tl'm uf.h Inst. According to the "' P'lllv Times," the steamer Easoy In to call hers to-day. on her way up. to Lyftleton and Wellington. „ ~ Wo understand there is some probahdtty that Messrs. afWttsvkan, t'-lackwood. and €o.'s steamers Rimrarooma and Arawata, which, for snm« time past, have disconttnuuil tnulinu" to Heevnmuth- and ftnkitifca. w-vU also e«aso to visit tfelson. but wilt make Wefiintfton their turminos, the Rinsamnnia hrinirimr the inward Ssuea mails vid thn Pliirt Co Wellington., and rcturmmr to. Melbourne thu same way : while the Arawata wvlV perfornv it similar double journey,, taking the outward Suuse mails. Hy this plan- the perils »f delays of Cook Straits with its fotpt, and Nelson with its inconvenient harbour inaccessible save at hitfh, war.nr—would be •MWtpml. 'Vtw contract f- r delivery ot the Suea majw only extonds iu< far its Welhu.u'tou. the Nelson, and W«st t-oiust tradM with Melbourne would be amply suppliudby th« Utiiifo, Albion, and the Alhawbra. without fl»kiti|f tho iwjra boats. —" Post."" uotrrHorstf'. wah-tep. Tlie'"A!fu" hius the tottowinar:- -"There art- three jflftmpt* o( fslands in the track o< vesset.s front fcnsrUnd to Australia which are a terror to the sailor, yet which it i* of the utmost importance to be sighted ; they are Tristan d'Acunha. the troaets. and St. Paul's and AmStordam. The wrecks and loss of life on these ww.no* hav« fcaun numerous. They are uninhabiteiL They wo bant, (fesolate rocks, with scarcely any _mean* »t gubsistuncß to be found upon them, but shipwrecked mws and passenirsw have frequently been detained on thmu four, six,'and even nine months, snffervnsr alt horrors of slow starvation, before they were, res- | L-nwl. tt is obvious, then, that Australia, and New Zealand have a direct interest in reducinsr the (fansers ineidunt to a ship's vicinity to these rocky islets ti> a mininiuni. The proposed remedy is that the three tpoupN should be Uvrhteil l that the titfht-fceepers at «uuh station should have stores under their charjre snf- * Bi;i«nB to siwtahv the craw and passengers of an emi- * jfrant ship.. If wrecked there, for at least t*month '. and that thers should be arramrsnienl* made to ealt once a 1 month at each, station with supplies. The expense. * whon tlivtdwl between the Australian irrmip of tot.iN'ew Zealand, and India, wourd be inconsiderable to eiKth when-compared with the iswvi t» be achievetL | Th« amomvt. lost by the wreck of the Sif.rathmore would have sufficed to maintain a light on the Crozels for many years."