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Ship*' movements have been considcrablv delayed owing to the foggy father The Corinna left Duiiedtit L Oamaru at 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon, and arrived in the roadstead air hoars later, but owing to the dense mit had to lay to and was not brought to her moorings until 9 o clock this morning. . , c , The Whangape, with a cargo of coal from Newcastle, may be expected tomorrow night from Dnnedin. Xh" Ruapehu saded from Capetown ! 1)B Sattirdav for Wellington, at which nort she is due on the 21st September. The (John Mill and Co.. scents), with a cargo of 400 tons oi coal from Oreymonth for the railways, arrived in the roadstead at 8 o clock on Saturday night, but owing to the fog was not able to make the harbor, -and ff a» compelled to lay to. A temporarv break in the mist gave Captain Christian an opportunity to berth ins vesset at 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon. Dischar-dng operations were carried on viroroiistv throughout to-day and it was anticipated that the Xgahere would clear for Lyttelton about 6.30 this cvenTtie Storm left Lvttclton at 4.13 p.m. im Saturday for Dnnedin, Oamaru, and Timaru. The Kurow was expected to get away from the Bluff to-day for Oamaru. From here she proceeds to Westport. and thence to Wellington. At the present time the British Ke.riaVr of Shipping contains steamers ng-Trre-'attri" 17.702.714 tons, and sailing ««seN with a total of 1.123,723 tons. The United States has a total steam tonna"e of 3.662.332 tons, whilst sail accounts for 1.291.480 tons, giving the Americans a good lead over the rest of the world as regards ownership of mailing vessels by 167,452. Germany "has 3?5!>.046 tons of steam tonnage and onlv 377,667 tons of sail. France comes fourth on the list of maritime nations with 1,445.067 tons of steamers and 147.617 tons of sail. Next in shippin" importance comes Norway, with a steam tonnage of 1.338,423 tons and 605.3)1 tons of sail, being a slight decrease of the latter class since the previous vear. followed by Japan, whose steamers total 1.150,858 tons, and sailers accounted for only 1924 tons — equal to one fair-sized sailing vessel.