INTER-PROVINCIAL SHIPPING.

West Coast Times, Issue 2175, 19 September 1872, Page 2

INTER-PROVINCIAL SHIPPING.

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ARRIVED. September 17.— Nil. BAILED. September 17.— -10 p.m., Nebraska, for Napier. The ps. Lyttelton, with a cargo of coal from Greymouth, arrived in port yesterday. She "will load up with timber to-day for Westport. The b.s. Kennedy, from Nelson, via Coast ports, is due at this port to-day. She is announced to leave on her return voyage at 10 p.m. to-night. The clipper brigantine Mary is announced to leave this port to-day for Newcastle direct, taking passengers ior the new goldfields. Applications for passage tickets ' must" be made at the office of Messrs Spence Bros, and Co., Revell-street. The schooner Mavis having discharged her inward cargo, is now loading up with a cargo of timber for the Waitira River, New Plymouth. The " Commercial Herald " says : — We are realising more seriously than ever of the need of a regular and first-class steam communication with Australasia. The Alia California prints the opinion that it will be difficult "to obliterate from the minds of the Australian public the bad impression which the line now running has caused them to form of American steamers. A new line, if really well managed, Trill actually be assisted by the striking contrast which it' will present to the existing line." The Alta also editorially declares, in reference to steamers : *' England has the advantage of us in possessing cheaper iron, cheaper labor, cheaper coal, and she can and has distanced us altogether in this kind of construction. Besides, iron shipß command better freights, turning cargoes out in batter condition, and the ships themselves are much stronger than wooden ones, and are said to last twice as long. Of course our wooden ships cannot contend with them except at a disadvantage." The Sacramento Record asserts that "foreign screw steamers cost about half the price of our wooden side-wheel relics of ancient days, use leas than half the coal, save a proportionate storage room for cargo, aad make an important gain in speed, and to give subsidies to bolster up the private interests of a company of speculators who find themselves in the unpleasant predicament of owning a few shaky old Rip Van Winkle steamers, would hold up our national policy in fhis respect to the derision of the mercantile .world."