CUSTOMS ENTRIES. INWARDS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 706, 23 March 1864, Page 4

CUSTOMS ENTRIES. INWARDS.

March 22. — City of Hobart, s.s., Darby, | master, from Melbourne. R. B. Martin and Co., BgMar'ch 22.—Agnes Holt, 235 tons, M'Donald, master, from Melbourne—with cargo. Tickle and Co., agents. _ ~, March 22-Island City, 483 t>ras, Smith, master, from Western Port—with sheep and cattle. Driver, Maclean, and Co., agents. OUTWARDS. March 22.—Ismyr, 226 tons, Summers, master for Valparaiso. - Langley, Hay. ard, and Co., agents. ■ March 22.—Scotia, s.s., A. Newlands, master, for Melbourne. Cargill and Co., agents. March 22.—Rachel, 576 tons, M'Donald, master for Guam ; in ballast. B. B. Martin and Co., agents. INWABDS—COASTWISE. March 28.—Nil. OUTWARDS—OOABTWISB. March 22 —Matilda Hayes, 20 tons, Walker, master, for Oamaru. H. Wurm, agent. March 22.—0me0, s.s.,.Edwards, master, for Auckland—with cargo and passengers. Royse, Mudie, and Co., agents. March 22.—Dunedin, 66 tons, Stewart, master, for Moeraki aud Oamaru. Master, agent. IMPORTS. Per City of Hobart, from Melbourne: 494 sheep, Captain Darby; 2 cases, Dalrymple and Co j 30 kegs butter, J Brook ; 2 packages, order : 2 cases, 2 parcels, P Hayman and Co; 3 hhds eggs, T Duff; 6 cases beef. 1 do bacon, E B Martin and Go ; 3 cases, 1 cask, 3 bundles steel, 30 parcels iron, 6 pillars, Baines and Oliver; 2 parcels, order; 4 cases, 1 bale, G Blyth ; 4 hhd3 eggs, J Louis; 1 case biscuits, Levy ; 1 do do, Casper; 5 chests tea, 14 half-do, 20 do, Tt B Martin and Co; 2 cases, Benjamin; 3 cases, Ferguson and Mitchell; 10 chests tea 2 cases cigars, Lange and Thoueraan; 30 hhds ale, M'Callum, Niell and Co; 2 bags nails, 1 bale leather, R Forest ; 16 cases fruit, I Simons ; 3 hhds eggs, C Burkhart; 10 kegs nails, 4 bundles muskets, 3 casks, 1 case, 1 bala, 1 cask nails, A Briscoe aud Co; 3 bales cork, C Clarke and Co; 16 cask. butter, Wilson and Co. Per Agnes Holt, from Melbourne: 10 casks Haye"s specific, order; 10 cases w_x vestas, Kohn and Co; 15 hhds port wine, 26 qr-casks do. Finch and Co; 20 cases bitters, 6 chests tea, M Joel; 50 oases kerosene. 1 case shield iron, J J Johnstone; 149 casks, pitch, order; 6 crates bottles, M Joel; 4 crates merchandise, Matheson and Campbell; 5 crates merchandise, I Hyman; 2 eases vestas, Bgger. Brothers; 200 iron pipes, 17 castings, 1 bundle, M Walkem; 6 bales coir fibre, 2 casks almonds, 4 hh Is nuts, M and H Fink; 2cases mouldings, i bale scrim, 2 cisks color, H Brooks; 25 cases sarsaparilla, M Joel; 1 bale paperhangings, 3 cases oilmen's stores, H 5 Fish and Sons ; 3 casks color, 1 cask varnish, Scanlan Brothers; 20 cases oilmen's stores, 100 cases kerosene, 6 casks glass, H and J Hart; 1 mangle, Mrs (Julian; 3 bales paper, Paterson and M'Leod; 3 bales paper, Ure and Co; 1 bale do, G Blyth; 10 hhds ale, order; 34 cases furniture, Wallach Bros; 4 casks horse shoes, 1 case lamps, 1 case glass, 1 cask charcoal, 1 cask hardware, 7 grindstones, 12 kegs paint, 2 drums oil, 2 kegs nails, 2 bundles spouting, Shaw and Co; 14 casks bone ash, order; 8 bundles mouldings, 12 bundles spouting, Black and Thomson; 10 cases bacon, 38 casks bacon, order; 1 cask crockery, M Calvert; 2cases wheels, Walkem; 50 hhds lime; Cornwell; 2 caaes zinc, 1 case ridging, 1 keg screws. J Mundy; 50 bundles rod iron, M Connellj 50 cases goneva, Currie and Smith; 10 cases window glass, Scanlan and Co ; 100 cases kerosene, Stanford and Co; 6 cases paperhangings, H S Fish and Sons; 5 casks glassware, Stanford and Co; 126 pieces iron, 3 spades, 2 packages iron screws, 1 chest, 1 case, Mackenzie and Co; 146 earthenware pipes, order; 81 rails, D Switzer ; 2 casks earthenware, Law, Somner and Co; 10hhds ale, Moody and Co; 2016 boards, 18 bundles architraves, 4 rolls lead, 6 casks fruit, Bell, Eae and Co: 1 wool press, S Parry and Co; 10 cases brandy, 75 boxes candles, order; 20pipes, 3 iron grates, 2 cases, 25 six-feet sheet iron, 2 Iron bars, 2 three-feet sheets of iron, 1 hammer, 1 adze, Mark Walkem ;25 cases claret, Lange and Thoneman; 18 cases kerosene, R Borthwick; 480 bag. rice, order; 18 hhds lime, 200 nests earthenware pipes, G Cornwell; 1 case shovels, 4 bundles buckets, 1 bundle sieves, 1 case, 1 cask, 103 fash weights, 1 case steel, 6 boiler plates, 3 bundles iron, Baines and Oliver; 3 cases furniture, Wallach Bros.; 319 packages merchandise, 283 do, A > riscoe and Co; 896 pieces hardwood, J Young; 2 casks hardware, 1 case handles, 7 pumps, 2 bundles barrow wheels, 10 cases kerosene, 30 drums, 4 casks zinc, A Shaw and Co; 1 case, M Joel; 100 bags gram, 100 do rice, 30 do Hour, W and J Scoular; 1 box effects, R B Waterhouse; 280 boxes soap, 500 cases geneva, 20 do bitters, 2i bags bran, Tickle and Co; 3 bales paper, Thomson Bros; 5 crates Jbottles, 4 cases do, 2 bales corks, C B Goulding. EXPORTS. Per Matilda Hayes, for Oamaru—Free and duty paid goods: 4 hhds, 1 cask zinc, 2 crates buckets, 10 cases, 1 bundle pick handles, 6 casks ironmdngerv, 9 casks, 18 bundles forks, 2 shovels, 17 kegs nails, 2 vyces, 2 crates, 2 boxes luggage, 2 packages do, 1 tin case, 1 package saws, R. Furnill. Per Omeo, for Auckland—ex warehouse under bond: 50 boxes tobacco, Forsaith, Fry and Co. British and foreign goods, free and duty paid: 3 hhds ale, W Watson and Sons; 3 cases ironmongery, 2 case. drapery, Mason and Co; 12 tons galvanised iron, M'Landress and Co; 140 horses, 30 drays, various. ,

The barque Malay, brig Prairie, and schooner Despatch, arrived at the Heads on Monday evening. The Prairie, which is from Hobart town, wa. taken in tow by the Samson in the morning, but. the S.W. gale prevailing compelled her to let go the brig in the cross-channel, where she remains at ancho". The Malay is from Adelaide with a cargo of Hour, The Despatch is supposed to he still on her passage to Stewart's Island, this beiDg the second or third time on which she has brought up at the Heads. The pilot-schooner Caroline has proceeded to Moeraki with Captain John Lowden, chief pilot, onboard, the obj .ci; b.ing to place some buoys on the moorin?.'recently laid down there. A number of carpenters are now fairly employed, under contract, converting the brig Thomas and Henry into a prison hulk for refractory seamen. * Since the hulk was used as a station for tho water police, there has been a limited number of cells for the incarceration of offenders, but this number is to be increased, and by the erection of a deck house in the fore part of the vessel, the acenmmo latum for warders and prisoners will be considerably increased. The vicinity of the jetty has been made busy all day by the shipment of a large number of drays, buggies and horses, with a quantity of horse feed, on board the!Omeo, which is expected to sail early on Wednesday morning for Auckland. It is understood that there is a change contemplated in the provision made far the safety of life at the H. ads, against which it would become not only the pilots, but the public generally to make a decided stand, if such do not have the usual eflV t of producing in the chief of the Harbor Department an equally decided spirit of contrariety. About a year ago, it will be remembered, Capt. Gann, bf the pilot staff, and the entire crew of the one available pilot-boat, were drowned at the Heads, within sight, but beyond the reach of their bereaved families and fellow pilots, and this disaster, it may be remembered, was very lreeiy. and perhaps, truthfully, attributed to the absence at the Heads of a sufficient number of efficient boats and crews. Immediately upon this there was an awakening the Harbor Department. Extra boats were obtained ; extra precautions were taken to fit them for tbe service; and an extra crew was engaged to reside at the Heads. In addition to this a ponderous and costly life boat was built at tha expense of the Government, and is now placed at the Heads with the object, of course, of being of service in a case of emergency. The propriety of these steps, or of some of them, was sufficiently illustrated a few weeks ago, when, but for the presence of the second boat, which was expeditiously manned an . put off to their rescue, the crew of a boat which had capsized would almost certainly have been drowned, but scarcely a week pas .es in which the wis lorn ofthe airangement is not otherwise made apparent. Forgetting, however, the fate of Captain Gunn and his crew, and the probabilities of a similar occurrence to the men now risking their lives at the Heads, the Harbor Mater has ordered nil that was then done to be now undone; and this on the score of economy — economy in a department in which there are f ome large salaries paid for very »m .11 duties, and in connection with which there is, by the retention of a valueless schooner and crew outside the Heads, a waste of public money which ought long ago to have terminated. The reason for this step is the presumed dulness of the shipping trade, but it so happens that the statistics show no serious depression. The number of arrivalsjjduring the past month has only been three less than during the previous one, and not a dozen lets than the monthly average of the past two years. But if there is a falling off in pilotdues, the matter is remediable by the application of these dues to their proper purposps, and by dispensing with the expensive and clumsy toy which .3 supposed to do the duty of pilot-schooner outside. If thero were a commission of inquiry into this Department, it is doubtful if one of the pilots would be able to assert that she has been worth a sixpence to the puhJic service since fhe has been placed there, while she has been the cause of expenditure to a very serious amount. By the removal of the, precautions taken after the sad fate of Capt. Gunn, the Government would be allowing the service to revert to the same condition of things, which, notwithstanding numerous warnings, preceded and culminated in that disaster, and will have gone to considerable expense without achieving the slightest good. It is doubtful if the lifeboat would ever he of service, since it takes the full strength of two crews to move her against either wind" or tide, but by the removal jof one of these crews, not only would she be unavailable iv a case of shipwreck, but at all times the pilots and pilot crew, would be undertaking n position attended by a constant, unreasonable, and unnecessary risk of life. A notice of the trip of the Otago Steam Navigation Co's new vessel, the Scotia, and of that ofthe Government . teamer, St. Kilda, will be found elsewhere.

The British Navy.—The official annual return of the number, name, tonnage, station, and every particular] regarding" the steam and sailing ships composing' the British navy, together with the horse-power and armament of each, has been published under the authority of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. The total strength of the effective ships of the navy on the Ist of January was 975 of all classes, not including a number doing duty in the various harbors both at home and abroad, the whole of which could be speedily converted into block ships for the defence of the coast, together with a numerous fleet of iron and wooden mortar-boats laid up at Chatham, Of this number there are 72 vessels ranking as line-of-battle ships, each mounting from 74 guns to 121 guns ; 42 vessels of from 60 guns to 74 guns each, 94 steamers and other ships, carrying an armament of from 22 to 46 guns each, and the majority of which are of a size and tonnage equivalent to line-of-battle ships; 25 screw corvettes, each carrying 21 guns, and 500 vessels of all classes, including iron ships of great power and tonnage, carrying an armament of from four guns to 21 guns each. Exclusive of the above there is a squadron of 185 screw gunboats each mounting two Armstrong guns, and nearly the whole of which are fitted with high pressure engines, each of 60 horse power. The total number ot ships ot all classes in commission and serving in nearly every_ part of the world is upwards of 300, the remainder being attached to the reserve squadrons at the various naval' ports, and partially equipped in readiness to proceed to sea whenever their services may be required. During the past year the following vessels have been completed and launched at the several dockyards— viz, the Achilles, iron-clad, 35, 6080 tons, .1250 horse power, and the Salami., 4. 835 tons, 250-horse power, paddlewheel steamer, at Chatham ; the Ocean, 35, 4045 tons, 1000 horss power, armour plated frigate, at Devonport: the Research, iron cased ship, 4 guns, 1253 tons, and 200 horse power, at Pembroke: the Minotaur, iron clad, 50, 6621 tons, 1350 horEe power, at Blackwall; the Hector, 32, iron clad, 4063 tons, 800 hor=e power, at Glasgow; the Valiant, 34, iron clad, 4063 ton*. 800 horse power, and the Tamar, 3, 2812 tens, 500 horse power, iron troop ship, at Millwall; and the Wolverine, 21, screw corvette, 1702 tons, 400 horse power, at Woolwich. Dnring the same period the following vessels, the whole of which are either of iron, or iron cased, have been commenced at th. several dockyards— viz., the Lord Warden, 36, 4067 tons, 1000 horse power, and the Bellerophon, at' Chatham; the Lord Clyde, 36, 4067 tons, 10C0 horse power, at, Pembroke; and the Pallas, 6,. 2372 tons, 600 horse power, at Woolwich. The iron clads now builling fir the Admiralty, in addition to those above enumerated, are th. Northumberland, 50, 6521 tons, 1250 horse power, at Millwall; the Agincourt, 59, 6621 tons, 1250 horse power, at Birkenhead; the Royal Alfred, 35, 4045 tons, 800 horse power, at Portsmouth; the Zealous, 20, 3716 tons, 800 horse power, at Pembroke ; and the Favorite, 8, iron cased corvette, 2186 tons, and 400-horse power, at Deptford, together with the iron-cased shield ship Enterprise, 4993 tons, and 160 horse power, building $ Deptford, and the Royal Sovereign, 3963 tons, and 800-horse power, which is being converted into an ironcased cupola ship, at Portsmouth. The vessels now on the stocks at the various royal dockyards, exclusive of the iron and iron cased ships, are the Bulwark, 91, 3716 tons, 800-horse power, the Belvidera, 51, 3627 tons, 600-horsQ power, v and the Myrmidon, 4, 695 tons, 200-horse power, at Chatham ; the Dryad, 51, 3027 tons, 600-horse power, the Harlequin, 6. 950 tons, 200-horse power, and the Helcoin, 4835 tons at Portsmouth; the Dartmouth, 36, 2478 tons, 500 horse power, the Repulse, 89, 3716 tons, 800-horse power, and the Sylvia, 4695 tons. 200-horse power, at Woolwich; the Robust, 89,3716 t .ns, 800 horse power, he Ister, 36, 3027 tons, 500 horse power, and the Bittern, 4669 tons, 150-horse power, at Devonport; the Endymion, 36, 2478 tons, 500-horse power, at Deptford; the North Star, 22, 1623 tons, 430----horse power, at Sheerness ; the Tweed, 51, 3027 tons, 600-hor.e power, the Trent, 6, 950 tons, 200-horse power, the Newport, 5, 425 tons 80----horse power, the Nassau, 4, 695 tons, 200-horse power, and the Tartarus, 4, 695 tons, 200-horse power, at Pembroke; and tbe Prince Albert, 5, 2529 tons, 500-horse power, iron-cased cupola ship, at Millwall. The names of the following

vessels, ordered by the Admiralty to be built at the several dockyards have been removed from the " Navy List":—The Circassian, 4, 669 tons, 150-horse power, and the Sappho, 6, 950 tons, 150-horse power, ordered to be built at Deptford ; the Alligator, 22, 1857 tons, 4.0- horse power, at Woolwich; and the Guernsey, 4.95 tons, 200----horse power, at Pembroke. In addition to the above vessels there is a squadron of screw gunboats in course of construction at Portsmouth dockyard. The number of line-of-battle ships .nd vessels of all classes, including gunboat 9, which compose the East India and China squadron, is 51, under the orders of Vice-Admiral A. L. Kuper, C.8., with Commodore F. B. Montressor, in command of the East Indies division. The North Ame.ica and West India squadron, under the command of Vice-Admiral Sir A. Milne, X.C.8., consists of 29 vessels. The squadron in the Mediterranean, under ihe command of Vice-Admiral R. Smart, K.H., whose flaeship ia the Marlborough, 121, 4.000 tons, 800 horse power, Captain C. Fellowes, numbers 29 ships and gunboats. The number ot ships stationed on the West Coast of Africa, to aid in the suppression of the slave tr.de, is 22, under the orders of; Commodore A. P. E. Wilraot, C.B. The Pacific squalron, under the comuund of Rear-Admiral J. Kingcombe, flagship Sutlej, 35, 500 horse power, Captain M. Connolly, numbers 13 vessels; and that on the south-east coast of America, 11 ships, under the command of Rear-Admiral R. L. Warren, of the Forte, 39, 400 horse power. There are eight line-of batple and other ships stationed at the Cape of Good Hope, the flagofficer commanding at which station is EearAdmiral Sir B. W. Wa'ker, X.C B. Seven vessels compose the squadron in Australia, under the command of Commodore Sir W. S. Wiseman. The following vessels compose the Channel squadron, viz., the Edgar, 71, 3094 tons, 600----horse power, Capt. G. T. P. Hornby, bearing the fl .g of i-ear-Admiral S. C. Oacres, C.8.; the Warrior, 40, 6109 tons, 1250-horse power, Capt. the Hon. A. Cochrane ; the Royal Oak, 35, 4056 torn, 800 horse power, Capt. F. A. Campbell; the Black Princa, 41, 6109 tons, 1250 horse power, Capt. J. F. B. Wainwright; the Defence, 16, 3720 tons, 600-horse power, Capt. A. Phillimore; and the Trinculo, 2, 60-horse power, screw gunboat.