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JTEBBTTAIIY. SAILED. 18, Huon Belle, ketch, 42 tons, Saunders, for Patea. . 18, Day Dawn, cutter, 24 tons, Pntchard, for Kaipoi. 18, Kate, schooner, 26 tons, Jenkins, tor Manawatu. 20th, Lord Ashley, 8.8., Androws, for tho South PASBENGEB LIST. — OITTWAEDS. Per Lord Ashley: Cabin— Ron Mr Gisborne. EXPORTS. In the Huon Belle, Master, agent— 4so telegraph posts, lease, Te'egraph Department. In the Day Dawn, Master, agent— Original cargo from Picton, 4000 feet timber, 6 empty hags. In the Rangatira, W. Bishop, agent— l case confectionery, 1 case figs, 1 case candied lemon peel, 1 bale paper bags, 3 chests tea, 8 boxes do, 2 cases mustard, 5 bags coffee, 13 tierces tobacco, 8 bags rock salt, 2 kegs skins, 2 cases, 1 box, W. Bishop ; 1 case, Pearco ; 10 cases old torn, 60 cases brandy, 10 cases whisky, 1 keg barley, 1 box blue, 2 cases groceries, 1 case perfumery, 1 case sardines, 3 casks nuts, 1 case figs, 1 case oil, 1 case mustard, 3 doz buckets, 2 crates earthenware, 1 case corn bins, 1 case sundries, 4 cases starch, 6 cases oil tins, 2 casks blacking, 2 cases sauce, 3 cases cloves, 1 case drapery, 1 pel, 5 cases sarsaparilla, W. & G-. Turnbull & Co ; 1 balo leather, 1 pkg, L. Levy ; 1 bag, 1 case, 1 pkg sundries, Turnbull, Reeves & Co ; 1 case fruit essences, C. D. Barraud; 9 bags sugar, Stokes; 30 boxes luggage, A. P. Stuart ; 1 pel, Kirkcaldie and Staines ; 1 pel, 5 cases, Armed Constabulary ; 3 pkgs luggage, Tonks. EXPECTED AUKIVALS. Gothenburg, s.s., from Melbourne, via tho South, this day. Eangitoto, b.s., from Melbourne, via Nelson and West Coaßt, 23rd. Phoebe, b.s., from Lyttelton and Dunedin, 23rd. PBOJEOTED DEPARTURES. G-othenburg, as., for Melbourne, via the West Coast, this day. Eangatira, b.s., for Napier, 23rd. Eangitoto, 8.8., for Melbourne, via the South, 23rd. . Taranaki, b.b., for the South, 27th. Phoebe, s.s., for Lyttelton, Dunedin, and the Bluff, 24th. Yesterday, tho cutter Mahia met with a Blight accident. Sho was going out to the barque Santiago with a load of wool, when ehe got ashore on tho Eangatira bank. Tho lea was breaking over tho bar at the time, and the cutter's boat w<ib washed with violence against the side of the vessel, smashing in three of her stanchions, besides doing other 'fiomage. About 30 bales of wool were completely wetted through with salt water. — Hawke'a Bay "Times," Feb. 14. We extract the following from the " New York Shipping and Commercial List :" — Those who believe, or affect to believe, that if the duties on iron and other materials which enter into the construction of a ship were removed, our shipbuilders would be able to compete successfully with those on the Clyde, ehould not overlook those important facts. There are located on the Clyde several companies owning their own premises, who take the iron oro and coal close at hand from tho earth, roll their iron- plates, forge all their iron, build a steamer complete, launch her, take their own coal on board, and steam her to the port of delivery, without going outside of their own establishments for a single article. As the builders on the Mereey and the Tyne cannot compete with the Clyde builders, what reason is there for believing that our builders could successfully competo with them under existing conditions ? There can hardly bo a doubt that we shall be enabled to compete with the Clyde builders some day; but, meanwhile, those who need iron ships should not be deprived of the right to purchase them where they may be had cheapest. We do not [ believe that such a privilege would prove a sovereign remedy for the ills which our shipping interest is heir to, but as a matter of simple justice it should be recorded. Mr Lynch has also brought forward his bill in the House for the revival of American commerce and shipbuilding. This bill is the same as that before Congress last session, with an additional section, providing that drawback or rebate on important material may be allowed only on vessels engaged in the foreign trade, and where American materials are used on vessels of 1000 tons or upwards, a bounty may bo allowed equivalent to the drawback. If vessels constructed in this way are engaged more than three months in the coastwise trade, the drawback or bounty must be rofunded. It is not probable that this measure ■will prevail, and, if it should, we fail to Bee how it would help the shipping interests to any appreciable extent. Intelligence from Nassau, N.P., of the 12th ult., states that the brig Victoria, of Barcelona, sailed from Havana about Oct. 6 (sugar) for Liverpool, and was totally wrecked on the Cay Sal Bank about Oct. 12. Of the crew only one man was saved, after being four days on a rock. He reports that seven other vessels were wrecked in the same locality about the same time, two or three of which were Spanish. An American pilot boat, which he saw near some of tho wrecks, saved, he thinks part of the crews. Four other Spanish veseels sailed in company with the Victoria, — " Shields Gazette."