SHIPPING SUMMARY.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 1838, 20 November 1867, Page 4

SHIPPING SUMMARY.

The shipping business since tho Panama Summary on tbo 4th inst has been about the usual average. During the past fortnight tho Port Chalmers shipping, exclusive oi coasters and others that proceed direct to Dunedin from sea, were 10 arrivals and 17 departures ; tac inward tonnage being 4309, and tho outward 5709. Tho arrivals include the brig Wild Wave from the Mauritius, with sugars, on the 4th; tho three-masted schooner Rubicon from Foo-Chow-Foo, with teas, on the 9th ; and the barque Montana from Boston, with an assorted cargo of American merchandise, on the 15th. The departures include the ship Vickaburg, one of Messrs Patrick Henderson and Co.'s line of Clyde Packets, for Newcastle, N.S.W., on the 9th ; and the brig CraigeUachic, with a cargo of tbe produce of the Province, for Guam, on the IGth. Her ultimate destination is understood to bo the Mauritius. Tho other arrivals and departures are made up of the usual Intercolonial and Inter-provincial steam and sailing vessels. Tha ships now duo and to arrive are the Timaru, Ceteno, and Chile, from London. The former is out 93 and the latter two 91 days out The Robert Henderson is 87 days out from Glasgow, and tho Annie Brown and Bessie Grenfell are understood to be 98 days out »»»"■**-* with other vessels due from China, the snipping business is expected to be brisk during next month. „ -'■■■»• The Home ships in barter to load wool m port Chalmers, are the Lady Eg"*-?, pv™' teas of Kintore, and William Davie. The

Star of Tawiauia- aud Beautiful Star will probably proceed to Oamaru roadstead to load. Tb<; above ships comprise one of the finest fleets of vessels our Port ha* ever been graced with—-all of them ar«: firat-cbu-a clippers, and the fleet an a whole can only be equalled by tho eminent China anti Australian clippeirf. Two or throe of them will l>c lo.vl.Jd and ready to sail for London in January, when an exciting nice Homev.'-irdrf is contemplated. The Eehunga proceeds to Napier to load. She has been consideraoly detained in port by a portion of the Dune-din cargo having to be picked out of the Napiur goods. The. American barque Montana hits got portion of her cargo for Lyttelton, wh':i-e idle it.ill be probably taken up for wool. The brig Wild Wave, fiust from Mauritius, litis '/•eared out for Newcastle, N.S.W., in brdbst.

The passenger traffic for the liwt two weeks shows a totel arrival ol 379, of whom 192 rcuiain'in the Province ; the <lep.-Irtu.rc3 for the name time ftho'.v a toial of '250, ot whom 1772 left thi Province.

The work of building th:- floating dock at Port Chabners is being pushed ahead by the proprietors, Messrs Murray and Co. All her keels are laid, and a largo portion of the floors and side timlwrs lixed. The remaining heavy timber requisite for the work is ready, in close proximity to tho Port, and only requires. favorable weather for the waggoners to bring it in ; previous to launching, she is to be sheathed with zinc. Her dimensions will bo 171 feet long by 41 feet beam, with a corresponding depth ; when completed blio cannot but prove au acquisition to the Port.

The building for the steam dredge, lately launched at Port Chalmers, is at present alongside tho Ilattrny street Jetty, Dunedin, receiving her boUcr and machinery. The new iron clipper-steamer Wallace, which was built at the QtngoFoundry, Dunedin, for the Harbor Steam Company, was got afloat on the 12th inst., aud is now receiving her fittings for passenger traffic alongside the Stewart street Jetty. She is expected to be ready for work by the cud of the year. - Tho weather during the past fortnight has been of the most unsettl ed character; northerly winds havo prevailed north of tho Heads, while almost a succession of heavy gale* from tho S.W. and westward have prevailed to the southward. One vessel, the Daniel Watson, bound for Hobart Town, put back after lieing 29 days out, to replenish stores. The barque Lady Emma, 15 days out from Oamaru, bound for Ncwcnatlc, also put in, and filled up her water. Several vesbclb, bound to the westward, aro advi-ed of an lying at Port William, Stewart's Island, for shelter.

No casualties of note have occurred on the coast.