SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

Wellington Independent, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3855, 12 July 1873, Page 2

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

High Watbb at Poet Nioholsoh. Morning, 6.2,; evening, 6.22. ABSITSD. Jtoy 11, "Spray, schooner, 60 tons, Clarkeon, from iytteltou. 11, Ladybird, s.s., 286 tons, Daniels, from liyttelton. Passengers : Mr and Mrs Foley, Messrs Abbott, Fisher, Donald, Fitzgerald, IFGiUivray, O'Conor, Jay, Hooper j 9 for the Worth. SAILED. 11, Nil. IMPOSTS. In the Ladybird, d Hartmann, agent— 1 box, Anderson ; 3 cases, Fife ;, 5 oaaes, Ur*rin j 1 pel, Didsbury ; 6 kilderkins, Stevenson ; 3 eases, Allan, 1 case, Lowes ; 3 bdls, 2 cases, Barraud j 1 case, 1 cask, Wileox ; 1 case, Lewis ; 1 case, Levy ; 1 case, Mulligan ; 1 case, 1 hox, Cohen ; 2 iron safes, 2 pels, National Bank ; 3 cases, Taylor and Watt ; 1 «ase, Johnston ; 71 hags, 8 sacks, Robinson ; 1 case, Bennett ; 1 case, M'Ewan ; 50 sacks, Snowies ; 8 cases, 1 qr-cask brandy, 20 oases geneva, Order. | In the Spray, Master, agent — SI tons potatoes, 52 sacks bran, 27 bales chaff, 210 sacks Vheat,2o do peas, 1 oaae hams, Order. i EXPECTED ARRIVALS. 15,"W-snganui, from the South. j 14, Albion, from Melbourne, via the South. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. ] 12, Ladybird, for Pioton, Nelson, Taranaki, . and Manukan. 15, Albion, for Melbourne, via th» West Coast. , 16, Wanganui, for Napier. To show what the shipping trade of this coloxrjr with Great Britain has reaohed, we give below the number of eMpa, and their tonnage, which arrived in New Zealand last year:—

Total, 66 ships, registering 56,006 tns. The screw steamer Omeo, which in intisaa'tely associated with the conveyance of men and material to the Northern Territory for the -overland telegraph construction . party, and also with the successful navigation of the Boper River, is about to make another trip to Port Darwin. The present venture is also under South Australian auspices, and she will I leave Melbourne immediately for Adelaide to embark passengers and ship cargo for the " Far Worth." During the last few weeks tbe Omeo has been undergoing a thorough overhaul and refit, especially aloft. Her rig will be lighter than formerly, and she will now be -able to make better headway in steaming against heavy weather. The following particulars of the wreck of the Fidelia are given in the " European Mail" : — "The steamer Fidelia, 714 tons, of London, Captain Swainston, sent from England for the mail service between New Zealand and Australia, but calling at Table Bay en route with a cargo of coal for the United Company, was totally wrecked on the night of Monday, April 7, near Gape Eecife. She discharged her coal at Table Bay, and shipped a large quantity of produce for the Australian market, Natal, and the Mauritius, with which she sailed on April 4, and after putting in at Mossel Bay, proceeded towards Port Elizabeth. In making the harbor during the sight she kept too close in shore, and ran upon a rocky bottom soon after passing the lighthouse. The passengers got ashore in safety, and a good deal of cargo wag (subsequently got out of the vessel, but most of it was in a more or leas damaged condition. A list of smacks sailing out of the port of G-rimsby has just been published. The number is now 487, and of these 117 are codmvn manned with ten hands, and 370 trawlers, maaned with five hands. This gives a float* ing population of 8020 fishermen. We have heard that the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty may possibly erect convenieut and commodious drill-sheds at Grimsby, so as to give these men an opportunfty of joining the f Beserve. If so, and the men enrol, a sum of at least £5000 will be paid annually there for , retainers. This will be a great boon to the inhabitants. A Hokitika paper says : — " Mr John M'Farlane discovered washed up on tbe beach a vessel^ rudder belonging apparently to a craft of about fifty or sixty tons. There was nothing about it to indicate by what means or for what purpose it had become detached from the ship, though the upper part had seemingly been chopped away by an axe. The stock was made of ironwood, with new iron rudder bands all complete and ooppered up to four feet. The spot where its finder discovered it was about a mile from the South Spit. On the question of going into Committee of Supply on the Navy estimates, Mr Brassey made a clear and sensible speech on the state of. the Naval Reserve, one of the late Mr Grave's questions. He expressed a general approval of Mr Goschen'a recent regulations, but urged that greater encouragement should be given to the training of boye in the merchant service, greater facilities for the instruction of officers in gunnery, and that the Naval Volunteer Force should be placed under one general command. Mr Shaw-Lefevre's excellent reply showed that the Admiralty are proceeding steadily in the organisation of the Beserve. At present there are men enough to man every ship we could send to sea, and 6000 to spare. It is curious to consider how the changes in naval warfare diminish the demand forbluejaeketß. The old three-decker Victoria carried 1100 men, and 600 of them were blue-jackets. The Devastation will be fully manned with 300, only 100 of them being blue-jackets. The modern man-of-war ie, in fact, a floating fort, garrisoned by gunners, and only navigated by sailors.

Ships. Tonnage. Ofcago 16 ... 17,034 Auckland ... ... 17 ... 13,292 Canterbury ... 12 ... 11,683 Wellington ... 13 ... 9.375 Helflon 5 ... 2,800 Napier 2 ... 1,453 Nelson and Napier 1 ... 369