SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 63, 4 July 1876, Page 2

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

PORT OF QAMARtT. inwards. Jo.? *. Samson, p.*, 124 tons, £Ute, from IkmeUln. H. Al&lua. agent. orrwAßoa JCtT S. Endeavour, brlgantine. £>iek. tot Wsnimrton. Jand L. Moult. agents. Zlor, schooner, Bell, fot Jfapier. F. J. Jeffreys, scant. VESSELS ft* PORT. Jet* *. Stsamer—Samson. Bri*-—Wave. Cuttsr—Hope. EXPORTS. JctY 3. Per Endeavour., for Wellington—OTO three-nnarter Socks Hour, 15 ditto oatmeal, tix> tiiteo wheat, ttttetitto crushed wnuat, SO ditto bran. *> ditto pollard. J. and T. Meek. PerZior, tot tfaplor— 730 three-fuarter sacks float, Pratt and Co. ; so socks whan*.. !W5 three'fiuarter sacks lh»». 30 sacks oatmeal. J. anil T. Meek 1300 socks eats. JBeU ; I sacks seed, t Iceg, t case. J. OummelL The brignntlnu Endeavour tsft the port yesterday afternoon at a. *JS tor Wellington. She took » tall cargo, shipped by J. andT. Msuk. THE AMAtCI AMATED COMPARES. I» lt# summary fur Europe the " Daily Times" writes:—"The chief event of the month has been th« virtual retirement of tho old tfow Zealand S.S*. Company trom- the intsrprovtneiat trade. Negotiations tot •a amalgamation, with, tho rising anil mors vigorous Union Company of Dunedin had been some time pending, and were concluded on the 2.*srd instant, when instructions wan totwardod to the New Ftv'and Company's local agent here to hand over to the tfnion Company the steamers Wellington. Tarann si. Ladybird. and Pnojbe, as they arrived. The tare »of the purchase— tot amalgamation is scarcely the word for it—at*,, the tfnion Company pays .SUT.OOO in shores, and the balance of ,420,000 in cash. Thus, tho total sum paid ot to be paid tor the four boats is JM7.000. The New Zealand Company lias not imite subsided, as it •tilt retains the steamers Manawatu and Rangatira. and purposes, we understand,, to maintain the trade bstween Wellington and the East Coast with them, Huwever. as a company of standing it has passed away, having, aftsf a fesbia struggle, succumbed to Ule overpowering influence of the Dunedin firm. The Union Company has a superb' prospect before it. and. under good management, wilt scarcely fail in making the ftjterprovtnciat traffic most profitable, white at the Same time the earnest has already been given that thu nubile Interest will bo carefully studied. Indeed. to the recognition of that fact by the public is to be in * great measure attributed the success that has already waited upott the Company, tt entered the lists by providing three ot the most perfect passenger and cargo steamers of their class that had ever (touted in New. Zealand waters. Oue of these, the Bruce, came to aft untimely end, but a boat superior to her in every respect wilt soon take her place, whilst another superb steamer will as soon bo ready to run in conjunction witll the fiawsa and Tftupo. Then, again, a third, of I.SOO' tons and high power, is atso on her way out to tun In the Intercolonial trade, or in any other that uiroumstances may dictate. Besides these there will toe a new steamer tor the Dunedin and Oamtww trade. With suuh a Meet the Union Company may almost defy- competition. To enumerate, we find that the Company has now the command of nine steamers. ranging from 4«t tons to. tW tons register, tout of them-—the Hawea, Tnupiv Wellington, and Taranivtet—being (trst-class boats, and the others most serviceable for ordinary coasting week, tn a couple of months ot •othe (teeewtll be augmented by the arrival of tout new and powerful vessels from Scottand. of which the Wakatlpw will be t.fKMv tons ;. the Uotorusv. about So«> ton* - , tho Wanuka. about aoo- tons: and the Oamaru boat some 800 tons, each built and appointed in accord* anoe with the most improved modern plans. We enter* tain- * pardonable pride ia reflecting that this tine Heet and well-organised Company b Che output of Dunedin enterprise, So mote convincing proof of the commsruial soundness of the Province of tmvgo could be asked tor. But this is not all. tot the t'nion Company aims at establishing an Cntutcokmiaf trade, and to that •udiw negotiating with Sfessrs. M'Jfeckan and Hack* wood, of Melbourne, tor the purchase of the greater number of their tteet of tine steamers, including it* latest additions, thu steamers Arawafa an(f Ringiv woma. tt this Cold stroke of commercial policy falls with effect. Dunedin will bo tho centre of a f rode, the ramitteattons of which wilt extend from end to'end of this Colony, to Melbourne and Sydney, and we have no hesitation in predicting that eventually a trade will Be established with the new colony of Fyi. and very probably with- Hobart Town, Tasmuniiv. We are guilty tit m> hyperbote in stating that Ofago has long been tha very heart of the Colony, and Its intfuenvu tor good and fflarke«l predominance will become more and mors deeided Ih the future in spits of the efforts that may be mode to centralise at Wellingfon, What Jfaturunas bestowsd man cannot fake away, and hence, strong irt lt» almost illimitable resources, the Province may bid sturdy defiance to what may be not inaptly termed * Buccaneering line of policy from abroa-fc'