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For Wood & Leggat, wholesale hardware, King St., east of Hughson: 74 bundles Iron, 6 bundles Wire and 3 casks Nails. For J. Wheatley, of Sarnia, 6 crates Merchandise. For J. Greening, of Dundas, wire-maker, 3 casks Wire. The barkentine WIRRALITE, Capt. Jones, cleared for Detroit, from which port she would return to Liverpool. She was expected to make a return voyage to the Lakes later in the summer. This evidence of trading activity and improvements to the warehousing on MacKay's Wharf was proof of Aeneas' shrewd and energetic attention to the requirements of his clients. This is specially brought to mind when one looks at the number of Insolvency Notices published in the daily press, not only in Hamilton, but all across the Province. One local firm of vessel-owners, Thomas & R. H. Rae, trading under the title of Rae Bros. & Co., fell by the wayside. The creditors were summoned to a meeting on 6 June, by Fred. M. Willson, official assignee. A prominent advertisement appeared in the Hamilton Spectator on 23 June, announcing daily steamer service between Hamilton and Toronto to be provided by the sidewheel steamer BANSHEE, Capt. Thomas Harbottle, sailing from MacKay's Wharf. This new service was to commence on 27 June, with departure at 8 a. m. for Toronto, to connect with trains of the Grand Trunk Ry, east and west. She would return in the afternoon, in time for the Great Western Ry. evening trains. The BANSHEE was built in 1855 at Portsmouth by George N. Ault and measured 173.5 x 24.6 x 9.3; her gross tonnage was 294. Her single cylinder beam engine had a bore of 40" and a stroke of 132" and was built by Ward's Eagle Foundry in Montreal. Her owner was Wm. Bowen, of Kingston. The fact that Aeneas was able to keep his schooner GARIBALDI gainfully employed, is born out by the following manifest, when she berthed at MacKay's Wharf on the 19 July, from Oswego: 54 hogsheads sugar for Brown, Gillespie & Co. 1 tierce rice for A. Robb. 500 boxes herrings for Harvey, Stuart & Co. 6 bbls. glassware for J. Winer & Co. 2 kegs balsam " " 1 bale corks " " 112 tons coal for the Great Western Railway 100 bbls, water lime for Thomas Myles 50 bbls. " " for Jas. Coleman, of Dundas 50 bbls. " " for John McDonald, of Galt 8 bbls. plaster for Adam Hope & Co., of London 15 bbls. rossin for J. Massey & Co., of Guelph On Monday, 18 September, Cunningham, Shaw & Company's barkentine THERMUTIS berthed at MacKay's Wharf with 310 tons of general cargo including rock salt, iron, steel, crockery, rice and currants, consigned to five different Hamilton firms. The THERMUTIS, Capt. Chas. Gale, had a bad crossing, having sailed from Liverpool -8-