SHIPPING SUMMARY.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13206, 13 February 1905, Page 1 (Supplement)

SHIPPING SUMMARY.

This summary represents shipping events for tlio period "commencing January 23 and ending February 12, both dates inclusive: — STATISTICAL, FOIIKIGN, EIC. Since the issue of our January summary shipping business has maintained its usual average for this time of" the year. ■ Tlio total number of vessels of all classcs which have .arrived during the time represented here has been 33 With a total of 75,157 tons, while tho departures in the- same period have been 31 vessels representing a total of 62,616 tons. The total number of arrivals represented in January's summary was 39 vessels with 91,541 tons, and the departures were 41 vessels with a total of 90,624 tons. The,, arrivals from oversea ports during tlio present. period liavo been confined to two vessels with a total of 8433 tons, while the departures arc represented Jiy two vessels with 11,941 tons. In last summary wc reported five arrivals with 28,871 tons, aiid three departures representing 16,990 tons. The first arrival from overseas during tho period represented hero was that of the' Now Zealand Shipping Company's steamship Kaipara of 7506 tons, Captain Kiddle, from London, with seven saloon passengers, and a largo quantity of general cargo. She came into port on January 23, after a passage of 46 days 16 hours and 3 minutes, at a speed of 11.2 knots. Tho barquo Itata of 927 tons, Captain Balfour, from Liverpool via Wellington, arrived at Dunedin on February 10.

Tlio fust oversea departure during the period hero embraced was that of thi> Shaw, Savill, and Albion Shipping Co.'s steamship Karamea, Lieutenant Burton, R.N.R., wliioli left Port Chalmers on January 25 for London via Wellington. Her cargo from this port, consisted of 6417 bales wool. 124 do sheepskins, 494 do flax, 3 do rabbitskins, 98 casks tallow and pelts, 12,630 carcases frozen sheep and lambs, and 130 packages sundries. \

The U.S.S. Oo.'s steamship Aparima, Captain AJ'Donald, left Dunedin for Calcutta via Newcastle on January 26. INTKIttmOSIAL AXI) COASTAL.

There has been an average amount of trade transacted between the port of Otago and those of tlio federated Australian colonies. The number of arrivals has been 10 vessels with a total of 35,948 tons, and the departures 9 'vessels representing 29,2 6 tons. In last, summary we reported 7. arrivals with a total of 39,855 tons, add 11 departures with 36,295 tons.

An ordinary amount of business has been transacted between the port of Otago and those along the seaboard of the colony during the period here represented, the arrivals having been 21 vessels with 30,776 tons, and the departures 20 vessels with 21,389 tons. In January's summary the coastal arrivals were 22 vessels with '22,785 tons, and the departures 27 vessels with 37,339 tons.