SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 76, 19 July 1876, Page 2

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

PORT OF OAMARU. ♦■ I OVTWARDS. f Jut ts>. SSafflaon, p. 8., t2* tonm Edi«, Cor Dunedin. H. litttt. agamr. I Jaa« BuoU»y, schooner, GO ton*. R. Seollay, for th« putt Mastur. »g«at. I VESSELS IS PORT. I JtJT.% 'W. ißri^antinus—Ethul, Emiuiwur. I ; EXPORTS. nFKr Sumson, for Dttnedin-SO bag* barley, N.Z. L.. pet X. A. Co.; 3» ewllt?. W. Puet:, t bundle skins. 2 pdWvt bag■(aUl»*-;wrsh(vwr•; t pnckagtt bass. J. Main: Übox»W. w. Daw«»n>v.iiJ>aifs barley. A. H. itaude : Btt ditto whuaf, AhddMon and Co. iFtw Juno .SMlus; ipf the BUiff-3(W bags Hoar. 30 ftto potatoes, ftay,an (t Biwr: *2» ditto sharps. 3KC Isto* flour: arid (s.'o: 8» ditto Hour. It ditto potIrtfeJ. ivtitfT: JToifc'.'.Uo ditto Hour, to ilitto bran..*. InV*. | . —." '♦ §Th» brtgantinu S«» Gull sailsit for the Btnff at J. £5 fin. y«seiiKlay. , ij'Ehti Anion Company's steamer Samson, Captain Edie. I ltd tA« port for Punwlitr Shis morning, at to.So. She |iolt ft ganurat cargo ami a fair complement of pa*gmg«r». |Tn* Union Company's steamer Maori. Captain Katg>tm>. Is advertised to sail hence for Dunedin to-morrow lofltfhg, at U>.::t>. iia 3A?f vvuxmxsm xmu service. ainoyanco, inconvenience, and losses caused at from the non-fulfilment oe the terms of the mail contract have been so often alluded to by s w« have little more to add now that this* port in- been ignored by one of the steamers. Pre- , tht» incoming mail steamers have usually Sfnpior without calling, but on this occasion it Itgolng maifthat has been 'eft behind* which is lore serious, •»ttji»th« happy system of blundert lias buen brought to so much perfection under niniitrafltth of the present tfnvernmenr.. the Imuitebothby way of San Francisco and Suevs events at Napier, on the same day. so Witt sven&of missing one mail; the other is also ft>V„ om of the chief advantages of having two ► was, that fortnightly mail* cont'd- be dest »ntf waived to ami from Great Brifaim But >efl« has been altogether tost siirhls of. ami,, so fapier is concerned; no advantage whatever has irived from thu establishment o( the expensive .neisco mail survive. Sot but what the service e miutttw.nuißtvah.mbto one, but owing t |> > o&lutittttt<rb»iotf allowed to- the' captain» of the fS> th(T uantatut is allowed to b« The uonfifiMtlr U! it did noft expressly !•„ that each dtawuw ■•"sfuntfii earr/an ettpeooiwt pilot, bxttlMns fiw** two caue* in whfch hiwßMfln.pasßHitby.one hiut no pilot,and the tut one who- wast itfnoljat of this. pnvt. Who is sponaihtu for a negteeli>x>f thto kind that involves hof the contract we &> not kniow. lint of this uerbvin. that if the Government rigidly enforced penalties of the contract instead of winking at ffitiei* In its conduct, we should have had little ». to complain. With all their faults, Webb's steamers carried out the constat service much strictness and punctuality as the clumsy Hj; of the rolling tubs would .permit. The pre- « appears to have carte .blanche to steam Inttihrough the contract, and'no more notice is f tlie brooch of the ter*s tO&tt an expression of > by the Government t<* the suflerfirs.