SHIPPING SUMMARY.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 8686, 25 December 1889, Page 5 (Supplement)

SHIPPING SUMMARY.

This summary records shipping events of tbe month commencing Nuvember 25, au<t ending December, 22m1, both dates icolusive. STATISTICAL, FOnEIGN, KTO. During the month shipping matters have been fairly brisk, and aa the season for our great staple, wool, is in full swing, wo anticipate a very busy time for the next month or two. Daring tbe mouth, the numbar of vessels of all olasues which have arrived at the Port of Otago, has beeu 56, with a total of 41,010 tons register, whilo tho departures amount to 55 vessels with a total of 49,854 tons. Last month the arrivals were 68 vessels with 55,878 tone, and the departures 53 vessels, representing a total of 41,931 tons register. The arrivals lrom oversea ports this month have beeu few compared to those of the month of November, only throe vessels (all from Mauritius) with a total of 1404 tons, having reached us; while the departures during the same period have been confined to threo vessels representing a total of 5034 tons. Last month the arrivals wore nine vessels with 12,265 tons, and the departures two vessels with a total of 5390 tons.

The first vessel to arrive from au oversea port was the locally owned barque Laira, of 492 tons, Captain Hughes, with 470 tons of sugar, from the Mauritius, after a splendid passage o 3d days from anchor to anchor. She came into port on the moraiug of December 18, and was followed immediately by the barque Thurso, of 490 tons, Captain Stannard, from Mauritius, with 710 tons of sugar, after a fair passage of 48 days. The last vessel which arrived that day was tho barque Salado, of 442 tons, Captain Anderson, also from Mauritius, with 19,151 bags of sugar, after a passage of 49 days. The first vessel to leave for Home this month was the fine new steamer Nairnshire, of 3720 tons, Captain Wallace, which sailed for London on November 30, with 6800 bales of wool, flax, and leather, 150 casks of tallow, and 28,500 carcases of frozen mutton. The Nairnshire took away the largest cargo of frozen mutton which has ever left the port of Otago, and met with remarkably quick dispatch at the hands of her stevedores, Messrs J. Mill and Co., while the traffic department of the railway did everything in its power to assist in getting the ship quickly loaded and away. The barque Formosa, of 916 tons, Captain Kobinsoi), left Dunedin on December 3 for Wellington, to load for London. The locally owned barque Alcestis, of 398 tons, Captain HelgCßOu, left Duuodiu on December 0 for the Bluff, at which port she loads for London, INTEBCOLONIAL. Our trade this month with the sister colonies has been well maintained and up to the average. It has principally been performed by the splendid steamers under the Union Company's flag, which maintain their usual regularity in coming and going. During the month the arrivals have comprised 12 vessels with a total of 21,251 tons, and the departures 13 vessels representing a total of 25,744 tons. Last month there were 17 arrivals with 12,265 tons, and 9 departures with 17,049 tons register. COASTAL. The usual amount of trade has been carried on between the port of Otago and those along the seaboards of theso islands. The number of vessels which have arrived this month is 41 of all classes, with a total of 18,355 tons register, while the departures have been 39 vessels representing a total of 19,078 tons. Last month he arrivals were 42 vessels with a total of 14,549 tons, and the departures 42 vessels representing a total of 19,492 tons,